Knotty Affair
A growing number of young couples in Bihar are eloping. It's a sign that inter-caste marriage is on the rise and still shrouded by prejudice and the threat of violence.
Papa, dekhiye hum shaadi kar liye hain. Yeh sab dikhawati nahin hai (Papa, I got married. This is for real), says Kirti in a video shot at an undisclosed location and posted on YouTube. A streak of vermilion in the parting of her hair, the woman from Bihar's West Champaran district urges her parents to let her and husband Nitesh Yadav, with whom she eloped, live peacefully. She even warns them against harassing her in-laws. You will be held responsible if anything untoward happens. You have already threatened my husband's family. We will not tolerate this anymore, she declares. Nitesh, too, makes an appeal to his father-in-law: Please stop harassing us, or we'll have to
