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Bantwal: Fourteen Couples enter Wedlock at Mass Wedding Ceremony

  •   Tue, May 12 2009 07:17:33 AM

Bantwal: Fourteen Couples enter Wedlock at Mass Wedding Ceremony
 
Report and Pics by Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network- Bantwal (RD/SP)
 
Bantwal, May 12: Fourteen couples were solemnized in marriage, at the mass wedding ceremony held at Geetanjali Kalyana Mantap, B C Road, here on Sunday May 10.  The mass wedding ceremony was jointly organized by Nava Chetana Seva Trust and Dakshina Kannada unit of Karnataka Dalit Mahasabha, as part of the 119th birth anniversary of Bharata Ratna Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar. 
 
The wedding rituals were held in the presence of Sri Basavalingamurti Swami of Muruga Rajendra Mutt, Sri Guru Devanand Swami of Guru Devadatta Mutt and Abdul Aziz Darimi of Kallega Jumma Masjid, Puttur. The ceremony was also attended by a large number of relatives, well wishers of brides and bridegrooms.
 


Odiyoor Sri Guru Devanand Swami, in his message to the gathering, said that simple marriages are ideal to the society, members of which were burdened with financial problems.  He called upon the people to work to remove the differences that exists between people belonging to different castes.
 
Entrepreneur Sesappa Kotian inaugurated the mass wedding ceremony. 
 
Jan Seva Trust president Honnappa Kundar presided over the programme.
 
Former MP Janardhan Poojary, MLA B Ramanath Rai, Billava Maha Mandal spokesperson Harikrishna Bantwal, taluk panchayat president Chandrahas Shetty Bolantoor, municipal councilor B Yashoda, entrepreneur Jayanand Acharya, district Dalit Seva Samiti (DSS) president B K Sesappa, Satya Souramani Seva Samiti president Srinivas Arbigudde, Ambedkar Samaj Seva Sangh taluk president Satish Arala, Dalit Maha Sabha Mangalore taluk president Vishwanath Pakaje and others were present.
 
Fourteen couples from the taluks of Puttur, Bantwal, Beltangady, Mangalore, Hassan and others, entered into wedlock, at the mass wedding ceremony held here.     
  

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  • Francis Braganza, Allipade

    Thu, May 14 2009

    Dear Mr. Thomas Baretto, I admire your humility. You are certainly free to express your views, as I am, mine. It certainly is OK sir. Now go and enjoy some freshly brewed coffee in a nice cosy little Vienna cafe (It is a beautiful city but I prefer Salzburg). - Francis Braganza, Allipade

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  • Thomas Baretto, Navilur/Austria

    Wed, May 13 2009

    Dear Mr. Francis Braganza! I am very sorry if you are hurt through the expression of my view on the subject. I think you are a good preacher. First of all I congratulate you for it. As far as the wedding is concerned - I am well aware of the efforts put together by many and also the huge expenditure behind it for such events. Hearty congratulations to all who did it. Such weddings are praiseworthy. This is one way of putting things forward. This does not mean that there is only one way of doing things. One can also see the reality from another point of view. Am I not free to do it? These are only short comments and I did not mean to write a long article, touching all different aspects of it. Is it ok sir?

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  • EDMOND GEORGE NORONHA, Kirem/Sharjah

    Wed, May 13 2009

    I fully agree with Thomas Baretto, who really studied the photographs and the scenario from even from distant land, Austria. By just remarking there was no smiles with the couples, does not mean that there was no joy. It is not our Catholic marriages. Baretto has every right to comment what he felt with the coverage and NOT with the event. I believe Francis Braganza understands it.

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  • Francis Braganza, Allipade

    Tue, May 12 2009

    Dear Mr. Thomas Baretto, Wake up and look around you. Breathe some fresh air. Enjoy the sun and the moon. Try to love and appreciate what you see around you. Do you realize the troubles the organizers of this grand wedding ceremony might have taken to conduct such a noble ceremony that is cost effective and only way for many of the couples who got married? Don’t try to find fault in everything. If you cannot appreciate something that really deserves our sincere appreciation, then, please for heavens’ sake, don’t be a killjoy and pour out the venom. May God grant you the wisdom to know the right from the wrong. -Francis Braganza, Allipade

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  • UDAYA SHETTY, KATEEL

    Tue, May 12 2009

    NAVA CHETHANA TRUST CONDUCTED VERY GOOD PROGRAMME, KEEP IT UP. THANKS ORGANISER & ALL MEMBERS OF TRUST.

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  • anis, mangalore/dubai

    Tue, May 12 2009

    what a nice coverage from daiji.thanks to organizer god bless u

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  • Thomas Baretto, Navilur/Austria

    Tue, May 12 2009

    It is a mass wedding ceremony in the presence of Swamis, politicians, donors, relatives and friends. Marriage is and should be one of the happiest events of life for the people, especially for those who get married. My intention is not to hurt anybody''s feelings but when I saw the pictures of this mass wedding ceremoney I ask myself: Are these wedding couples and the people gathered here really happy? Kindly look at the photos if anyone wants to understand my comments! Who has killed the joy of a wedding pendal? I see only one face in the first photo with a smile. I get a very sad impression when I look at these pictures. Not even in a prison or at the graveyard do I expect such atmosphere. Anyhow I stongly feel that the wedding couples are just standing there in fear and trembling. Are we really helping the couples to get married in a free and joyful atmosphere or trying to please ourselves with the affirmation that we free the people from their finacial burden? In this way do we really mean to remove the differences existing between different castes? I doubt.

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  • Shirish Kumar Hosabettu, Muscat, Suratkal / Muscat

    Mon, May 11 2009

    May The Almighty bless with all the happiness in the world to all the newly wedded couples & the members of all the person who helped directly and indirectly for the success of this valuable function. Each & every Political Leaders, Celebrities & Industrialists should realise the importance of this type of Mass wedding arrangements for the people of all the villages & help them. Even the people who are spending in lakhs or crores for their wedding should donate some money to this type of funtions. So,that they really get the blessings from the people. Secondly I just want to say that in our society people will donate the money in the name of God but if a really needy person requests, they blindly refuses to give. My friends please my request is don''t spend too much to modernize the praying places decorating with gold & gems but just look after the maintenance of the same. And the excess money you spend on this type of charitable really worth functions. "Janatha Seveye Janardhana Seve"

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