{"id":38,"date":"2026-09-30T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:59:48","slug":"rakhi-and-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Rakhi and Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:221px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tying-Rakhi-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A 20-year-old woman in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, married a 22-year-old man whom she had tied a Rakhi to as a brother for 15 years, prompting her outraged father to disown her and perform symbolic funeral rites. While her family condemned the union as a violation of traditional bonds and alleged mistreatment, the couple defended their consensual marriage and claimed the bride faced prior harassment at home. Read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old woman in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, married a 22-year-old man whom she had tied a Rakhi to as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbag.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}