Online lovers break the religion barrier and get married - they are now living under police protection

[I'm Gone 60]

The real test will be when they have children and what religion they will follow.

[Mirorgate 0]

The real test will be when they have children and what religion they will follow.

Why do the parents have to decide for them? take them to both growing up, and when they reach an age to choose for themselves, let them. simple.

[I'm Gone 60]

The real test will be when they have children and what religion they will follow.

Why do the parents have to decide for them? take them to both growing up, and when they reach an age to choose for themselves, let them. simple.

Yeah do both. Hey mom will you make me a ham sandwich. LOL

[chri'stina 190]

It is a tale of forbidden love that has delighted the Indian press. But a Muslim schoolgirl’s decision to flee from London to India to marry a Hindu man she met on the internet has not exactly pleased her parents.

Subia Gaur, 18, from Plaistow, East London, and Ashwani Gupta, 21, began chatting online three years ago. Such was her parents’ opposition to the romance that the teenager secretly caught a flight to Delhi and abandoned her strict religious upbringing to become a wife in Ghaziabad.

The couple emerged from hiding this week to marry in Mr Gupta’s home town, 60 miles from Delhi, in a ceremony broadcast across the subcontinent. More than 1,000 uninvited guests turned up to witness the marriage, whose star-crossed path has been likened to a Bollywood plotline.

The bride’s family had lodged a claim with local police that she had been abducted. In turn, she claimed that relatives had issued death threats against her, her husband and her father-in-law because she had married a Hindu. They are living under police protection.

The parents denied the allegations, claiming that despite their efforts to protect their daughter they had been beaten by the “evil internet”.

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Subia said: “My family have put a lot of pressure on me and I didn’t want to hurt them, but I had to be with the man I love. Religion doesn’t matter. I’m Muslim and he is Hindu. I’m not converting and he doesn’t want me to. Ashwani and his family accepted me for who I am.”

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Abdul Gaur, 46, a shop manager who arrived in Britain in 1999, made a tearful plea yesterday for his daughter to come home. “She is part of my body, my first-born child, and it is madness to say that we could harm her in any way,” he said. “She is just 18 years old and I believe she has been brainwashed. She doesn’t understand what she has done.

“She is a Muslim above all and she has married a Hindu and that is the most shocking thing about this, not that she has lied to us and married against our wishes.

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His wife, Fameeda, 37, said that they would accept Mr Gupta, who is studying to become a financial analyst, if he converted to Islam.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25...2359903,00.html

Wow another Mr Gupta in the world besides you? j/k

Well about the story, I do think she should be free to marry whoever she chose. We did not have an easy time with Sujeet's family, one of the reasons being that I am American and they think all Americans aren't serious about marriage because of our high divorce rate here. I don't really blame them for thinking that way! They trust me now because they know that I am not a flake or a "bad girl".

At least I do have a good ending to my story. I hope this couple will also one day.

and now we know what aj/gupt looks like

That is sorta-kinda what I looked like when I was 17-18... not at 21 though, by 21 I had gained a lot of weight.

I gained weight by 21 too.

and now we know what aj/gupt looks like

You got to admit Bollywood has it going on! I love Kuch Kuch Hota Hai along with so many others and Im Latin. Nothing like some nice chicken tikka masala or some butter chicken withe some rice pilaf and a nice big fat fluffy warm nan to munch while you see the flick! Thoes idian love dramas are the best. The siging and dancing is a bit too much but the movies are really nice.

Haha, I just let a friend borrow Kuch Kuch Hota Hai last night. I've bollywood-ized my friends.