DesiPundit

Sharanya Manivannan says there are issues that are far bigger and more important than Aishwarya Rai’s “ritual marriage” to inanimate objects:

In the sum of things, what, really, is worse: a pretend-marriage to a tree or inanimate object as insurance against tragedy or, to quote from the Vikram Seth-spearheaded campaign to overturn Section 377, leaving in place a law that “has on several recent occasions been used by homophobic officials to suppress the work of legitimate HIV-prevention groups, leaving gay and bisexual men in India even more defenseless against HIV infection�, among other atrocities? Is taking up arms against a harmless old tradition more important than taking up arms against a contemporary tool of persecution? I know this much: traditions, we need to keep some of, whether for posterity, for nostalgia, for belief, or for identity. Violent, life-threatening or rights-denying discrimination? That, we need no more of.