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Riya Sardar and Rakhi Naskar married in a temple ceremony in Sundarbans’ Jalaberia.

Villagers witnessed the event peacefully, offering blessings despite social conservatism.

Same-sex marriages remain legally unrecognised in India, but the couple celebrated personal choice.

In a quiet hamlet in the Sundarbans, where rivers wind through dense mangrove forests, two young women publicly chose each other as life partners in a ceremony that blended tradition with personal choice.

According to PTI, professional dancers Riya Sardar and Rakhi Naskar, both in their early twenties, tied the knot on November 4 at the Paler Chak temple in Jalaberia in Kultali block. The wedding drew hundreds of villagers who ululated, blew conch shells and offered their blessings to the c

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