The wedding season is on and our social media feeds are filled with newlyweds sharing their photos. Indian weddings are known for being grand, full of decorations and rituals. Amidst the viral videos from celebrity weddings, pre-wedding shoots and grand feasts, a woman from West Bengal has become a celebrity for distributing all the leftover food from a wedding to the underprivileged and needy.
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Dressed in all her finery, the woman was sitting with big metal buckets and containers filled with food from the grand wedding feast. She is happily serving the food to the needy on paper plates herself.
Photographer Nilanjan Mondal, who caught the moment at Ranaghat station at around 1 am, took to Facebook to identify the woman as Papiya Kar.
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Mondal shared a few images on a Facebook wedding photographers’ group, he said that Papiya brought the leftover food from her brother’s wedding reception that evening and served it to needy people near the Ranaghat station area.
As the images went viral, people close to Papiya revealed in the comments that this was not a lone incident, and she was known to feed the unprivileged and needy.
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Internet users were impressed by her gesture and applauded her efforts. Many appreciated her for her efforts in highlighting the wastage of food at such big celebrations. Many said her act of kindness inspired them to do the same.
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In another recent incident, at a wedding in Rajasthan’s Sikar district, people witnessed the rare scene of a bride riding a horse to mark a pre-wedding ritual of ‘Bandori’. The bride identified as Kritika Saini conducted her Bandori ritual like a groom in an attempt to convey the message of gender equality. According to a Dainik Bhaskar’s report, Kritika had stitched the sherwani herself. Her father Mahavir Saini said he had raised his daughter like a son and always wished to take out her wedding procession in this way.
