Watching other people's wedding videos is a severe punishment, but not so this wedding season, when several Punjabi wedding videos have been going viral. The real fun of Punjabi weddings lies in the rousing bolis and tappas at sangeets, often made up on the spot, to rhyme with family members' names, to tease them with precision. Songs are replete with irrepressible insults, acerbic repartee and raunchy implications-a famous example would be, "sasadiye tere panj puttar, do aibi, do sharabi" (Mother-in-law you have five sons, two are degenerates, two are drunks). But, the apparently affectionate ribbing points to a larger truth, which will prevail following the festivities-the power structures in the domestic world, and the oppressions and authority figures to whom the woman must submit in her marital home.

Therefore, the cast of villains in these wedding songs are familiar-the bride's saas-sasur, jeth, nanand. But this year, they stand replaced. Here's one wedding video song doing the rounds: "Modi ne kanoon banaya, assi kanoon toh nayi darna/Hai Jamalo, jaake Modi no gher liye? Hai jama lo!" (Modi has made a law, but we aren't scared of it/ Let's do this/Let's go besiege Modi/ Let's do this). The farmers' protest is an honoured guest at many weddings.