write a letter to the editor-Colossal wastage of food in the lavish indian weddings.

Hello,

Here are a few suggestions which can be taken into consideration to prevent wastage of food in Indian weddings:

  • We can launch awareness campaigns and distribute pamphlets for the same;

  • New forms of legislative laws should be executed against wastage of food at weddings;

  • A check should be put on the surplus expenditure which people love to spend on weddings.

  • People should be alerted by giving facts and data such as the statistical representation that tens of millions of young children are malnourished in a country like India.

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The Editor

The Pioneer

Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg

New Delhi

Sir/Madam,

Subject: Colossal wastage of food in the lavish Indian weddings.

We all talk of changing our country for betterment but how little do we do in this regard. Out of so many things that go unnoticed in our dear country, here is one issue that I wish to chalk out. It is strange how Indians spend life’s savings on their weddings.

The wedding market in India is flourishing, with approximately 1, 50, 000 crores per year. The shocking part is that all this wastage is happening when our own country, India, is a host of the biggest armies of starving people in the world. Such wastage should be censured and people should be educated against wastage of food in such a manner. In social functions and gatherings, guests should not squander food by piling up their plates excessively. The size of the servings should be limited according to the appetite. Besides, the hosts should also be responsible by giving the caterers the exact number of guests to arrive, so that the food is cooked accordingly and there is no wastage.

I cannot help but point out as to how people do not even bother to use ‘R.S.V.P.’, which means “please respond”, a French phrase, to confirm their visit on being invited. Thus, the host, not sure of the number of guests to arrive, prepares food in abundance leading to inevitable wastage. Indian marriages are not just famous for their traditions and customs but also because of their grand fiestas. I hope that the new generation understands the gravity of the situation and abandons old fashions and deals with such issues practically.

Thanking you

Yours sincerely

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 wedding in India have become more extravagant in recent years as the newly rich look to show off their wealth. The most spectacular ceremonies – such as those of the hotelier Vikram Chatwal or the daughter of the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal – have seen astonishing displays of opulence. Expensive gifts accompanying invitations, tonnes of imported flowers, top chefs flown in from New York or Tokyo and festivities spread across multiple cities have become almost commonplace.

India's booming upper middle classes have been inspired to create their own displays. No wedding is now complete without at least three different cuisines offered to guests: north or south Indian, "continental" or European and a third, selected from Mexican, Japanese and Chinese, or chinjabi, as the local version of the latter is known.

"It's true that people waste a lot because there's a huge variety of dishes and they take a bit of everything to try it. There's a limit to the amount anyone can eat though," said Neeti Bhargava, who runs Mystical Moments wedding organisers in Delhi. "You can't really control it. There are people who really don't know how to spend all the money they've got."

The ostentation goes well beyond food. One new trend is the use of helicopters instead of the traditional white horse or decorated coach for the bride and groom.

Subhash Goyal, who runs an air charter business, said: "It's mainly people like farmers around the outskirts of Delhi or other cities who have made millions simply because their land has suddenly got to be worth so much money.

"Some people want to propose on a flight. Some people want to go in a helicopter to pick up the bride instead of going on a horse."

Fees for the helicopters start at £2,000. There are currently no plans to restrict expenditure on aircraft.

The people hit hardest by the food inflation – the poor – are the core constituency of the current government, led by the centre-left Congress party. However, the ambitious food security bill aimed at eradicating hunger in India is proving difficult to draft. It would guarantee more than two-thirds of the population had enough to eat, its supporters claim. About half of India's children under five are malnourished.

Opposition politicians attacked the plan to restrict wedding expenditure as a throwback to the 1960s when India's economy was centrally planned on a Soviet socialist model. Other critics argued that tackling corruption and wastage in India's deeply inefficient subsidised food distribution system, the biggest in the world, would do more good.

However, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, a Congress MP who has previously tried to introduce a private bill curbing extravagant weddings, said he welcomed the government's move. "Extravagance in weddings should be controlled," he told the Mail Today. " It's a vulgar display of wealth."

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Thank you neenu.

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