A story of two people in love is always a nice one. When two people happen to be from different backgrounds - religious, social, cultural, whatever - greater their differences, greater is the appreciation of their love. For in their case, in the absence of 'compatible background factors' to establish a common ground to tread on, they might have had to rely more on discovering and connecting with the 'core' of the other person. And if that requires dating, well, datred is better than hatred.

To an extent, I can understand the anger some community members might be experiencing at Sona's decision to marry a non-Sikh. The Sikh community does have higher expectations from Amrtidharis than from non-Amrtidharis and they have reasons for it.

However, I agree with PrincessKaur that we are jumping the gun by assuming Sona is an Amrtidhari. "I am Sona Rai," says Sona in the video. It would be hard to think of Amritdharis leaving out the Kaur / Singhs from their middle name (if not ideally the last name).

Rather than snorting and stamping the ground and shaking our finger and fuming "how dare she?", let us welcome them and wish them a happy married life, and to our sister Sona we wish a journey of learning and being such that, hopefully in the next video we might get to hear her say, "I am Sona Kaur ...."

Give Jodha a break. Don't determine for him or her what he or she should write on this blog. If you passionately care about some issue and believe it deserves more attention than this story, then you are free to write about that issue, either on this blog as a guest writer, or on your own blog that you can create for free in just a few seconds. All ye who dictate us bloggers (yes, I am one too) what we should write and not write about on our blogs, I say, go take a walk, it is good for health.

Love. We need more of it. More videos and stories about it. Even if it happens to be 'just a nice story'. There is too much hatred spewing in the world, in the comments sections of many blogs, and in relationships.

If one can't shower blessings on a young couple, the least one can do is not shower brickbats on them either.