Kanyadaan is the ritual where the bride's father gifts her to the groom, with mantras asking him to accept her as a blessing. To be honest, the ceremony made me profoundly uneasy as I stood there. It felt less like receiving a blessing and more like accepting a transfer of responsibility, as if my wife was an object being handed over. That evening, cycling past the canal, I realised true partnership begins not with a *daan*, but with the mutual respect we built ourselves, yaar.
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