{"id":4627,"date":"2008-08-13T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2008-08-13T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:43:00","slug":"follow-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/follow-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTF quote of the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/a-marriage-made-in-india-built-to-last\/71065-3-single.html\" title=\"A marriage made in India, built to last\">comes from Pavan K Varma<\/a> (no relative of mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marriage is an institution which is there to stay in any society. India needs to stand by the values. There is something called sanskar (values) and it is still alive in India though it may have been lost in the metropolises. All gods, at least in Hindu mythology, have consorts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re stuck in a bad marriage, hang in there for the sake of your sanskar. If your gods adjusted, so must you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier, some blasphemy<\/b> committed by me: <a href=\"\/we-should-celebrate-rising-divorce-rates\/\" title=\"We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates\">We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Arun John.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTF quote of the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/a-marriage-made-in-india-built-to-last\/71065-3-single.html\" title=\"A marriage made in India, built to last\">comes from Pavan K Varma<\/a> (no relative of mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marriage is an institution which is there to stay in any society. India needs to stand by the values. There is something called sanskar (values) and it is still alive in India though it may have been lost in the metropolises. All gods, at least in Hindu mythology, have consorts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re stuck in a bad marriage, hang in there for the sake of your sanskar. If your gods adjusted, so must you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier, some blasphemy<\/b> committed by me: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/we-should-celebrate-rising-divorce-rates\/\" title=\"We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates\">We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Arun John.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Follow The Gods - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/follow-the-gods\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Follow The Gods - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The WTF quote of the day comes from Pavan K Varma (no relative of mine): Marriage is an institution which is there to stay in any society. 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