To find the Ambani wedding distasteful

So “India loves them” but the UK has to hate our royals?
How does that work?
Fairly sure all mega wealthy people employ lots of people. Does employing people mean everyone should overlook behaviour?

Yes, marriage is like in England and the upper classes - a business transaction. These families will be stronger bonded together. They weren’t going to allow a Dalit to marry him.

I can't argue with that, though unlike in India very few people actually starve in the UK

I do wish though that people would at least take the trouble to inform themselves about some of the religious/cultural attitudes and beliefs at play here. It all reminds me of the horrifiied posts during Covid "OMG look, they're having to cremate people on bonfires outside now!!", with no understanding at all of why that happens

Yes I’m asking. Do you guys question the number folks relying on Food banks and children missing meals when you celebrate Royalty in this country??

Ambani's are private citizens and donate millions and provide employment to millions

Number three. You aren’t seriously asking that?

Confine not consume!

You're not wrong there

It is very easy to want to reduce an entire sub-continent and religion to a soundbite based on your week long trip to India- Hindus feel no human emotions- but maybe you could replace Hindu by another ethnic group and see how that sounds.

I haven't reported because people need to see why the MN sub forums were needed. Though I don't want to consume myself to them.

I reported you for your hateful speech but apparently MNHQ don’t think anti-Hindu sentiment matters. What a hideous statement to make.

The Ambani wedding was distastefully ostentatious, yes, but the outright racism on this thread is more distasteful. Pretty rich coming from the British with no acknowledgment of the resource stripping and social division brought about by colonialism. The white saviour complex (I would never give to Indian charities… why does Britain give aid to India… etc etc) is also pretty outrageous.

WTF? I am a Hindu though not a practising one. Astonishing that I apparently believe it's OK for children to live in poverty. Oops, my religion made me!

There are plenty of families in the UK who use food banks. Some on MN even. Is that because Christianity makes people not feel guilty?

Yes, this thread has tipped into full blown racism and ignorance. And white saviourism.

False.

And false.

India is in fact a welfare state.
And those pesky Hindus do actually feel human emotions like guilt, sympathy and empathy.

@mnhq how has this thread been allowed to stand with the amount of racist comments?

India doesn't have a welfare state we do.

Many Indians are Hindues. They believe it is Karmic what your life is like.
so they won't feel guilty,

There's really 3 year olds sleeping on their own? This went through my heart

I don't agree it is jealousy; rather disgust at the vulgarity of it all. I am glad that some business people made money but that is incidental, and the money never trickles down to the very poorest.

Billionaires (which this family are) are of a different order of wealth from mere millionaires....it is good to be aware of that.

What I do think though is that we are in no position to be judgmental towards the people of India, as we have our own grotesque social divisions and a monarchy that legitimises and underpins an unequal class structure.

Yes. Very pleased some wealth is finally "circulating" towards the Kardashians.

Must be great for all the people paid to work on the wedding, cater the food etc, hotels for the guests. Florists, air lines etc making money from it. Providing employment for hundreds.
Can not understand jealousy of multi millionaires having a spend up.
Politics of envy.

I was looking at the pics and had quite harsh thoughts that the groom was very lucky to be super rich to get a super rich bride (overweight and not great) seems more a marriage of two dynasties than star crossed etc

I do apologise I didn't put the zero on the end of 1.5 - my mistake

i agree - not cool......

Yes quite agree, totally vulgar . I don’t see why they wanted such a public spectacle, with all that money you would have thought they could afford a bit of dignity. I thought the Blairs looked particularly gruesome.

@CelesteCunningham ".......Rich and powerful people having an extravagant wedding in an unequal society isn't a new thing, is it ?"

No but because of media, social media, PR and perhaps more enlightened social consciences, we are more aware of it.
In a country with huge inequalities, a country that the UK, despite having social deprivation of its own, sends millions in aid to it really is disgusting flaunting wealth in this way.

I have huge admiration for Chuck Feeney, one of the founders of Duty Free Shops who gave much of his billionaire fortune away to benefit others.

Some of my dc went to a school where the religious who ran it had some of their congregation working in India.
Sometimes these people returned and raised awareness of the really difficult lives of the people they were helping.
It was heartbreaking to hear.

I love that sentence........almost Dorothy Parker worthy.
I will use it at earliest possible opportunity.
Thank you!

You are astoundingly inumerate. Scary. £1.5m is quite a bit further away from half a billion than £101m is. £1.5m wouldn’t even touch the sides of an event like this. I don’t think the number crunching has counted the jewellery which alone would easily be several millions.

It’s all in quite poor taste, from the hosts, to the arranged marriage whiff about it, to the guests participating in this spectacle.

@Hawkinsresident - they’ve done well. No doubt. Self made in a way the RF aren’t but the amount of backhanders and luck and Modi really helps.

gross wedding but if that’s what they want then brill.

(I’m that background but only ‘half’ I’m told often by the Indian pure breeds🤣🤣).

I was literally just thinking the same thing