



Being a close relation she had come.įrankly speaking the bride was not so beautiful compared to our badaga gals. But the hatti decided not to support or encourage such inter caste marriages and they did not make to the fuction. It seems that the day earlier the grooms family arranged a function in the hatti. She told, she is the aunt of grooms father. She starting blessing me in the badaga way ( boointhu bokki, kointhu korichi.) and started crying. I helped her getting some biscuits and tea. An old badaga ethai was sitting near to me. Obviously we went and sat in the badaga group. you can make out the perfect boundary lines without any fence. It was a dejavu for me as I was thinking the same a day earlier.

Only few badaga folks and some brides relative sitting in either side of the mandap. The day came and we were at the mandap around 8 in the morning. I was wondering and started thinking about different issues like mingling of people from different cultures, the rituals performed during the marriage. Its a arranged love marriage was her reply. I gazed at my mom sitting opposite to me with her mug. She was a literate tamil girl somewhere from south of TamilNadu. But I was literally in a shock after reading brides peigree chart (coz you come to know about the names of grand grand parents sometimes.). The grooms mother was a great friend of my mom. While sipping my moring coffee I took notice of an elegant marriage invitation on the drawing table. Recently I had been to my hometown and my mom asked me to accompany her to a marriage in Ooty. So I try to attend marriages in different seemais to know the traditions they follow. But the traditional way of performing badaga marriages vary from one seemai to another. Nobody can miss such a gathering.Buzzing friends and relatives, yennaiittu, avrai uthukka, badaga dance and some nuisance created by boozed people are few to reminisce. Boon or curse?īadaga marriages are full of fun and frolic. Badaga Community :: View topic - Rising inter-caste marriages in Badagas.
