Every year, Mahesh Savani, a Surat-based diamond dealer, conducts a grand mass wedding event in which hundreds of fatherless girls are married. The bride and groom’s family members are also present at the wedding.
For the past ten years, Savani has been organising such large-scale weddings. He not only does all of the arrangements, but he also provides the newlyweds gifts and furniture to help them begin their married lives.
This year, Savani paid for the weddings of over 300 girls, three of them were Muslim, one Christian, and others were Hindu. Savani blessed all the girls, regardless of religion or community, and they all see him as their father, presenting a great example of religious unity to the society.