In the early hours of February 21, wedding celebrations were in full swing at the Kanwar house at Manai village near Jodhpur city. Sisters Shobha (25) and Vimla (23) Kanwar were to be married to two cousin brothers. “They never told us anything, not even their sisters… We are not monsters to have forcibly married them off,” says Soori. The village the cousins who were to be grooms belong to is Jaimala near Pokharan, about 3 hours from Manai. Hence, Vijay says, while one of the cousins married a woman from Khetolai in Bikaner, the other wed a woman belonging to Deria Maria in Jodhpur district.

Source: Indian Express March 04, 2026 23:17 UTC