Bangalore, India | A rather unusual wedding took place this morning in the third most populated city in India, as a Hindu man married a female rat which he claims is a reincarnation of his first wife.
41-year old Chidhatma Basu lost his wife in a car accident in January 2017.
The father of four young children says he was completely devastated for months, until one day, he made an unusual encounter.
The Hindu priest who performed the ceremony says that Mr. Basu is extremely lucky to have found his dead wife again in her new form.
While Hindus believe that it is possible for a human being to be reincarnated in animal form, weddings between humans and animals are extremely rare.
This unusual ceremony ended up being very controversial and caused a lot of reactions in India.
Many Hindu commentators defended Mr. Basu’s religious rights and saluted his “good karma”, while others criticized the ceremony, saying it gave India a negative image as a “backward country filled with zoophiles”.
Some American and European organizations implicated in the defense of animal rights have also condemned the wedding.
In a tweet published a few hours after the ceremony, PETA called the ceremony “disgusting and barbaric” and called for Mr. Basu to be jailed.
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