Women's Feature Service, November 14th, 2007
Bhopal (Women's Feature Service) - Bhopal, the City of Begums, recently witnessed a 'nikah' (Muslim marriage ceremony) that took many by surprise and broke some myths.
The resplendent bride, Sadaf, 21, a law student, had travelled all the way from her home in England to marry Syed Amir-ul-Hasan Naqvi, 24, a software engineer. The venue for the ceremony was the historic Taj-ul-Masajid (crown among mosques), one of Asia's largest mosques, built by Nawab Sultanjahan Begum, a queen, poet and writer. (Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh in central India, is famous for its progressive queens - th...
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