Awww.
In a lovely story that shows love will always trump hate, 2015 IAS toppers Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan and Tina Dabi on Saturday solemnised their relationship in the Valley. The couple chose one of Kashmir’s most famous tourist destinations – Pahalgam – as their wedding venue.
The couple tied the knot on Saturday at Pahlgam Club on Saturday. Dabi, along with her parents and relatives, arrived in Pahalgam on Friday.
After the wedding ceremony, the guests and the couple drove to Devepora Mattan – Khan’s ancestral village in South Kashmir’s Anantnag.
While Dabi is from Delhi, Khan is from Jammu and Kashmir. The couple fell in love when the two had reportedly met at the department of personnel and training office in Delhi for the felicitation function on May 11, 2015.
Check out pics and video of their wedding below:
Their engagement pics:
How cupid struck this lovely couple
But it was the love story between Dabi and Khan that made the two a dream couple.
Many said that though Khan lost out to Dabi in the UPSC race, but at the end he won her heart.
‘Uske liye pehli nazar mein pyaar ho gaya (For him, it was love at first sight),’ Dabi had said about Khan soon after they announced their marriage plans.
The two met during the 2016 felicitation ceremony in North Block’s DoPT office and by the evening he was knocking at her door.
Dabi had said that she was floored by his wit and charm, and added: “I thank Aamir every day for his perseverance. He is a wonderful person. We would be tying the knot very soon.”
However, the couple also faced some criticism from those who thought that they shouldn’t get married as they both belong to different religion.
‘I must admit that I get very disturbed when I read stuff about us. We have stopped googling our names and reading news about ourselves. I think it is a small price to pay for being in the public eye,’ Dabi had said during a media interaction in 2016.
When she was asked about her relationship, she had said: “As any freethinking independent woman I am entitled to certain choices. I am very happy with my choice and so is Aamir. Our parents are happy too. But there will always be those elements, that small minority who will always pass negative comments about dating someone from another religion. It is just that 5%. The majority are very happy. You would have seen in my Facebook timeline that most of the comments are encouraging. In fact, I am overwhelmed by the support and congratulatory messages. I thought ‘yeh to achcha hai” (this is good.).”
When asked how she felt about being an icon for Dalits, she said: “I don't think I can be an icon yet because I am yet to do something concrete. By hard work, God's grace and some luck, I managed to top an exam. But at the end of the day it is just an exam and I still have a long way to go. I still have to go on the field and do something. I still have to prove myself. I know that there is so much social stigma attached to being a Dalit that it is unthinkable for many Dalit students that they can ever top the exam. So if I can encourage any student to do better, I think it is wonderful.”
With inputs from PTI
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