What is the unique ritual of milk feeding in Rajasthan? Seeing the groom doing this, people made fun of him on social media.

What is the unique ritual of milk feeding in Rajasthan? Seeing the groom doing this, people made fun of him on social media.

In Rajasthan, marriages are held with great pomp and show, as if that of a Maharaja is no less. But these days a very old ritual is being discussed a lot on social media. Its name is ‘milking’. In this ritual, just before the marriage, the mother breastfeeds her grown son (i.e. the groom). Meaning, milk is not actually fed, just as a custom, the mother places the son’s head inside her pallu and the groom puts his mouth on it like a child. Recent…