NSTworld: “We don’t know who the people behind the violence are, but they are not my neighbours. There is no enmity between Hindus and Muslims here.” India NewDehli
Dressed in her wedding finery, her hands laced maroon with henna and her skin cleansed with turmeric, 23-year-old Savitri Prasad said she was weeping in her home as violent mobs battled outside on Tuesday, which was to have been her wedding day.
“My Muslim brothers are protecting me today,” Savitri told a Reuters team that visited the house on the day of the ceremony, breaking down again as her family and neighbours comforted her. “We went to the terrace and just saw smoke and more smoke,” Bhoday Prasad, Savitri’s father, said of the scene on Monday and Tuesday. “It is terrifying. We just want peace.”Savitri Prasad, a 23-year-old bride, takes her wedding vows inside her parents' house in a riot affected area following clashes between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India.
“We could hear a lot of commotion outside, but I had the henna applied, hoping things would be better next day,” she said. Instead, they got worse.“Our heart pains for her, who would want their daughter to be sitting home crying when she is supposed to be happy?” said Sameena Begum, one of the Muslim neighbours.
“Hindu or Muslim, we are all humans and we are all terrified of the violence,” said Savitri’s cousin Pooja, as she helped the bride dress for the ceremony. “This fight was not about religion, but it has been made so.”
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