| Reuters news agency reported on March
19, 2004 that a 25-year-old Indian man had married his 80-year-old
grandmother because he wanted to take care of her. "I felt she needed extra
care as she is old. I can look after her better as a husband than as a
grandson," Narayan Biswas told Reuters. "As a husband, I am with her
all the time, to care for her," said the high school graduate, who farms
rice fields and also works as a tutor. The grandmother, her back bent with age,
says she is "happy" with her young husband whom she married in a
traditional Hindu ceremony near Panchpara, a village 100 miles west of Calcutta.
Her first husband died more than 30 years ago. "I helped bring him up with
my own hands and now he looks after me. He is a good husband and ensures I get
my meals on time," said Premodas Biswas, a red vermilion streak on her
forehead, the mark of a married Hindu woman. Local officials say marrying a
blood relation is illegal under the Hindu Marriage Act, but they have no plans
to take action against the couple. "There has been no complaint against
them and they are living as husband and wife after a temple ceremony. Their own
family has accepted them so we have no plans to act as of now," Dilip Das,
a local government official, told Reuters.
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