You are in front of the altar, ready to say I do, to your
loved one, then she asks you a simple question, what is 15+6? You give a wrong answer,
then she tells you I am out of here, you are dumped, and walks out of the wedding
ceremony. What would you do? This is what happened in the village of Rasoolabad,
close to Kanpur city, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
An Indian bride dumped her groom right in front of the altar,
in the middle of the wedding ceremony when he failed a simple maths test. The
bride walked out of the ceremony when the groom gave a wrong answer. The math test
15+6 is not hard to solve mentally if you are an educated guy, but the groom
gave a wrong answer 17.
According to Mohar Singh, the father of the girl, the groom
was not forthcoming with his level of education, he had tried to hide his lack
of education from the bride’s family.Mr Mohar Singh added that the maths test
that was given to the groom by her daughter is a very simple question that can
be answered correctly by a grade 1 student.
The relatives and family of the groom tried to persuade the
bride to change her mind and come back but she didn’t want to go back. She had
made up her mind. Her would-be husband was not educated as he claimed.
When it became apparent that the bride was not going to get
married to the groom, police were called to mediate the dispute.Rakesh Kumar,
the policeman who mediated the dispute said the parties agreed to return the
gifts they had given to each other, this includes the jewelry that was
exchanged between the families.
India is a place where arranged marriages are a historical
and cultural tradition of the people. Marriage arrangements are still practiced
today and it is a taboo for a bride or groom to choose their own partner
without the approval of parents. Parents are actively involved in choosing
partners for their sons and daughters. Discussions are usually made between parents,
and the bride or groom has no choice but to marry the person that has been
chosen for them.
Brides and grooms are selected and paired by the parents from
a very young age, as young as 12 years. However, the couples grow up rarely
knowing each other, and in most cases they are married to people they have
never met in their life.
In another incident, in the same region of Uttar Pradesh, a
bride decided to marry a wedding guest after the groom fell victim to an epileptic
seizure. The groom’s family had not disclosed the condition to the bride’s
family.
Source – USAToday
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