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In India, marriage has always been treated as a union not just between a man and a woman but also their families.
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NEW DELHI - Weddings in north India are incomplete without the usual pomp and show of a brass band that leads the groom, his family and friends in their festive procession to the bride’s house on the wedding day.
But when a few wedding drummers were playing outside Mr Anil Kumar’s house in Kanpur, a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, on April 28, there was no groom in sight.
