Chapter 15

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:05:55 +0000

As the couples descended the mandap after the wedding, Radhika and Shraddha put on their slippers, but the grooms were still waiting for theirs. The grooms’ younger brother had enlisted Avinash and Raghuveer to help him and his cousins in protecting the grooms’ shoes in the jootha chupai rasm (shoe hiding ritual). They pulled out two bags, smiling widely at their success, but as they pulled the shoes out of the bags, their mouths dropped open and everyone began laughing. In each pair of shoes, there was one of the groom’s shoes, but the other was a fluffy, glittery, pink slipper with ‘Bride’s husband’ written on the soles and front.