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The big fat IPS wedding people just can’t stop talking about

IPS KK Bishnoi and IPS Anshika Verma’s palatial Jodhpur wedding missed a key truth—power complicates tradition and personal joy.

It was always billed as the mother of all weddings in the IPS world. But it still surprised many. If the Ambanis gave us a masterclass in choreographed excess, UP cadre officers KK Bishnoi and Anshika Verma’s Jodhpur wedding tried hard to keep up. Videos from the grand affair just kept coming: rituals, Reels, rules, carefully staged moments, and then some not-so-carefully staged ones.

The clips were just teasers—the full Bollywood production was playing out at a Rajasthan palace. Days-long celebrations, dreamy photographs, and designer clothes dominated feeds for days.

And this wasn’t just any wedding. It was a power couple spectacle: Two IPS officers, the groom a Yogi Adityanath favourite, a guest list thick with the uniformed elite, and a buzz that had been building for weeks. If you mattered in the IPS cadre, you were there. By the time it began, the wedding had already outgrown itself: it had become an event where everything was designed to be seen.

Such a display of........

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