India: Feminism, marrying trees and rituals

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A famous actress indulges in a little harmless piece of superstition that has some people in arms. Amardeep Singh explains. “Aishwarya Rai, who has been in the news lately because of her engagement to Abhishek Bachchan, has apparently been ritually married to not one but two trees before her real marriage”. Meanwhile Known Turf on five things feminism has done for the author.