It's not the cousin issue then, but who is your cousin. I see...thanks for the best post explaining it. I too am not a fan of cousin marriages. For me the issue was how to create more drama but since this is not an avenue that works, better come up with another idea.Originally posted by: Samanalyse
Interesting plot, though I don't approve of Pintoo annulling the marriage as he was given a fair chance to walk away and chose not to in his right mind. Whatever the reasons may have been, this was a decision that he made and he should stand by it. I am not sure Krishna would want anything to do with him if he did that, nor would I want her to. If Pinky, on the other hand chose to annul the marriage, leaving Pintoo free, that is something I could like. 😊
As for Ravi and Pinky, I am sorry to say, but they simply would not be allowed to get married. In Hinduism, each person has a gothra, or a direct male lineage which traces back to sages in the ancient times. And it is pretty strictly forbidden to marry a person from the same gothra as it is inauspicious and because everyone from that gothra is considered a brother or sister. Ravi and Pinky, being from the same male lineage would automatically be from the same gothra and so would not be allowed to get married.
In the case of cousins getting married, or uncles marrying their nieces, it always involves a brother-sister relationship to begin with, where the sister's gothra changes to that of her husband's family when she gets married. Thus her brother or her brother's child would be of a different gothra and so appropriate to marry her child.
I am not condoning these practices, because I think cousins getting married is gross in any permutation or combination, but just explaining how it works.
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