Ground Report

P.SelvaKumar from southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to ward off the curse he got from the killing of two stray dogs, a Tamil newspaper reported yesterday. He married the sari-draped former stray named Selvi, chosen by family members and then bathed and clothed for the ceremony Sunday at a Hindu temple in the Tamil Nadu state. Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago."After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," he said in the report. The paper said an astrologer had told Selvakumar the wedding was the only way he could cure the maladies. The paper added that after the official ceremony got over in the temple, the groom’s family had a grand feast while the bride was given a bun!