“To live a life filled with joy is the real essence of living.”

Marriage in India is as diverse as its people. Each race, community, and caste has its unique culture, rhymes, and songs. Gujarat alone has several types of marriage songs or “Lagn geet” with distinct styles among castes belonging to arts such as mir, Barot, Charan, Gadhvi, Turi, Bhavaya, Nayak, Targada, Rabari, Adivasi, Jain, Bhudev, Thakor, Darbar, and Muslim castes. There is also diversity in Lagn geet across different regions in Gujarat, with peacock or cuckoo being a muse in every community’s marriage song.