With billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani marrying Radhika Merchant, daughter of Viren Merchant, CEO of Encore Healthcare, the spotlight is back on big-fat Indian weddings. Despite the trend of lavish celebrity weddings in recent decades, the marriage of Bollywood’s Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan to legendary actor Jaya Bhaduri was notably a subdued affair. In his autobiography, In the Afternoon of Time, Amitabh’s father, renowned poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, beautifully narrated the events leading up to the wedding and explained why all the ceremonies were held in a low-key manner. Assuming…