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fromwww.aljazeera.com
7 hours agoGold is unaffordable so South Asian brides turn to one gram substitutes
Record gold prices are forcing families in South Asia to choose imitation jewellery over pure gold for weddings.
Kiran's* husband was more than 10,000km away from the home she shared with her in-laws in a village in northern India. But despite the vast distance, he watched her constantly through cameras which beamed into a screen in his Brisbane home. He would say: I can always see what you do', she recalls through an interpreter. While her husband was visiting his family home in India in 2017, the cameras were installed in the house