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Women dance wearing sarees and masks while a man does a strange moon walk inspired Uttar Pradesh improvised jerky movement dance which leaves us rather uninspired. Weddings in Covid times have taken on a sober even sombre air to them. This sangeet ceremony thus takes place in a rather muted and modestly loud and boisterous fashion, in Uttar Pradesh. Some strange movements are emulated and we can only put this down to the Bollywood influence, which allows perfectly decent human beings to start gyrating and behaving strangely, almost as if a fit were in the works... How the big fat Hindu wedding has changed in the times of Covid. Not only are the numbers of family and guests down, but the extra worry about the virus, the occasional mask and the additional required precautions (whether practi
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