00:00This video of a couple getting married 64 years after eloping in the 1960s became an
00:12overnight sensation.
00:14Marriages across religion and caste have always been met with taboo.
00:18According to the India Human Development Survey, only about 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste.
00:24Harshad and Mridu, who first met in school in the 1960s, met with the same fate.
00:29Their love grew through handwritten letters.
00:31Harshad, a Jain and Mridu, a Brahmin, faced rejection from their families because of their
00:36bond.
00:37Madly in love, Mridu left behind a letter that read, I am not coming back.
00:41Since then, they have built a life together.
00:48Now 64 years later, their grandchildren got them married again, this time in a beautiful
00:52ceremony.
00:57Like Harshad and Mridu, many have defied society for love, some even paid with their lives.
01:01In 2019, Ravindra Adalit, man who married Shilpa, an upper-caste Rajput woman he met
01:06on Facebook, described how inter-caste couples are often seen as aliens or rebels in society.
01:12Pranay Adalit married Amrita, an upper-caste in 2018.
01:16Pranay was then murdered allegedly on the orders of Amrita's father.
01:20But that was not the case for Harshad and Mridu.
01:23It was their grandchildren, beaming in joy, who brought the grand ceremony to life with
01:26the help of Kanku Thapa, the wedding planner and designer.
01:30As Mridu cullinated Harshad after 64 years, entire internet melted at their love story.
01:35Many shared their struggle of inter-caste marriages.
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