Thursday, April 12, 2007
Hurley again
Forbes says: The judge could also slap a fine on Hurley, eating into her tidy earnings from 'Hello'.
And it looks like Tourism Minister Ambika Soni may have to alter her pitch. At a travel promotional event in Berlin last month, she sold India as a destination for wedding tourism, highlighting the much-publicized Hurley-Nayar nuptials. But, the Minister could not be expected to assume argumentative drunkenness or sacrilege, as these thing are not the norm in decent Hindu society. You only have to look outside provincal UK pubs late at night to see plenty of those things in the corrupt decadent UK. And that is not tolerance, it is practically tantamount to civil unrest and frequently leads to essential prosecution, hence one reason for the high UK crime rate.
IMO: As a frequent resident of Mumbai it is my view that there is no good reason why sacred Hindu customs should be defiled for the sake of filthy lucre. Why does Hurley want this illegal marriage anyway, she already has had a Christian marriage and a further Hindu marriage is illegal anyway. I did not trouble to look it up in the law book but if already married, such a marriage for Hurley is illegal and null and void. OTOH Hindus are decent, humane people and there seems no reason why wedding tourism could not be popular in India if local customs are fulfilled. Also there is no reason, AFAIK, why a proper Christian marriage should not subsequently be blessed by a Hindu pundit as long as bride and groom are both properly behaved, e.g. don't drink alcohol and do take off their shoes in the temple. These protocols can easily be explained and respected. FOR PRACTICAL CEREMONIAL PURPOSES this should seem about the same as what Ambika Soni offered to wedding tourists, especially if they are foreigners. The net result if properly worked out could well be much like RC marriages used to be in the old days in the UK. where there was a RC ceremony but but there had to be formal registration, unlike in the C. of E. Another nice place to get married is Bali in Indonesia, also largely Hindu.
And it looks like Tourism Minister Ambika Soni may have to alter her pitch. At a travel promotional event in Berlin last month, she sold India as a destination for wedding tourism, highlighting the much-publicized Hurley-Nayar nuptials. But, the Minister could not be expected to assume argumentative drunkenness or sacrilege, as these thing are not the norm in decent Hindu society. You only have to look outside provincal UK pubs late at night to see plenty of those things in the corrupt decadent UK. And that is not tolerance, it is practically tantamount to civil unrest and frequently leads to essential prosecution, hence one reason for the high UK crime rate.
IMO: As a frequent resident of Mumbai it is my view that there is no good reason why sacred Hindu customs should be defiled for the sake of filthy lucre. Why does Hurley want this illegal marriage anyway, she already has had a Christian marriage and a further Hindu marriage is illegal anyway. I did not trouble to look it up in the law book but if already married, such a marriage for Hurley is illegal and null and void. OTOH Hindus are decent, humane people and there seems no reason why wedding tourism could not be popular in India if local customs are fulfilled. Also there is no reason, AFAIK, why a proper Christian marriage should not subsequently be blessed by a Hindu pundit as long as bride and groom are both properly behaved, e.g. don't drink alcohol and do take off their shoes in the temple. These protocols can easily be explained and respected. FOR PRACTICAL CEREMONIAL PURPOSES this should seem about the same as what Ambika Soni offered to wedding tourists, especially if they are foreigners. The net result if properly worked out could well be much like RC marriages used to be in the old days in the UK. where there was a RC ceremony but but there had to be formal registration, unlike in the C. of E. Another nice place to get married is Bali in Indonesia, also largely Hindu.
# posted by uv : 3:18 AM
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