Indian Matchmaking: Netting A Mate
Arranged marriages are still common among Indians, but many are turning to the Internet to search for potential spouses. By VIDISHA PRIYANKA vpriyanka@tbo.com TAMPA - Deepa Sitaraman is tall, pretty and well-educated and comes from a respected family in India.That's how her profile read on an Internet site that places "matrimonial ads" seeking to link Indian brides with grooms.It took almost two years for Sitaraman, 31, who is...
Indian Matchmaking: Bollywood Bride meets Jane Austen,
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BRIDE & PREJUDICE Rated: PG Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Naveen Andrews.Critic's warning: Occasional language, adult themes.Critic's rating: 7/10 IN "hicksville" India, visiting American hotelier Darcy (Henderson) is offended by the energetic matchmaking of local lady Mrs Bakshi. But, as a mother with four daughters to marry off, the lady does not care. She busily tries to set up her oldest (Indira...
Indian Matchmaking: CHANGING INDIA, WEDDED TO TRADITION
ARRANGED MARRIAGES PERSIST WITH '90S TWISTS
For private detective Subhash Wadhawan, it began as an elementary pre-matrimonial investigation: A New Delhi family hired him to check the credentials of a New York hotel manager they'd chosen to marry their daughter through a classified advertisement in an Indian newspaper Wadhawan flew to New York, checked into the hotel and asked for the prospective groom. When the investigator answered the knock at his door a few minutes later, a smiling Indian bellboy stood before him....
Indian Matchmaking: World Week
Pilot, take me to Madrid -- now Fidel Castro is expecting you for dinner, but you and your wife are running late for the connecting flight from Spain to Cuba. What to do?What Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe did last week, according to The Daily News in Harare, was hop the Air Zimbabwe flight bound for London and order it to fly to Madrid instead. The 200-plus other passengers aboard Flight UM9726 were not thrilled. "They said we were going to Madrid, almost...
Indian Matchmaking: Seeking culturally compatible love,
Dating services help Parents a factor
Love is not colour-blind for Raji Sidhu. While sipping her morning coffee in one of downtown Vancouver's many Starbucks cafes, the Indo-Canadian pharmacist completes a personal information profile for an Internet dating service intended for South Asians.Sitting in an Italian coffee bar, Mark Fong, also a pharmacist, awaits a more authentic espresso- and his blind date. He is meeting her though the Vancouver branch of Asian Matchmakers, a Winnipeg-based introduction network for...
