The marriage ceremony between Shardul Kadam and Tanuja broke the old rituals and traditions of our culture and in no time the couple became the target of internet trolls. Shardul had dared to break the patriarchy and so it was not a surprise that he had to face the brunt of the people.
On his wedding day, after the pheras Tanuja and Shardul had tied the mangalsutra around each other’s neck. “I was so happy,” recalls Shardul, who spoke to Humans of Bombay about why he chose to wear a mangalsutra.
But when a digital newspaper picked up their story a day later, both had to face ‘terrible backlash’ on social media. However on the other hand, Shardul and Tanuja’s story has struck a chord with the internet, garnering more than 82,000 ‘likes’ on Instagram and thousands more on Facebook.
‘Jab they Met’
Shardul and Tanuja met in college, although their love story began four years after they graduated. “We reconnected in the most unexpected way. She’d shared a Himesh…