Talk:Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Tali-kettu kalyanam

Painfully racist, colonist wording.

Such writing cannot surely be still circulated. It simply perpetuates painful and abusive narratives that are openly racist and colonial. I cannot read it without cringing. I humbly request those to whose community and ancestry this ceremony belongs to please update this entry. 2601:602:8702:D9D2:7D71:C016:EC88:8EA5 16:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

This is the work as it was published at the time, and we reproduce it as it was without commentary. All works are always a product of their time, then or now. Commentary on a book would belong elsewhere, rather than through a 2023 opinion added to a work reflecting our own opinions of whichever race, nationality, gender, sexuality, etc. we individually profess today. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:08, 5 November 2023 (UTC)