The journey down the arranged marriage aisle is fraught with meetings that range from the mundane to just plain zany, discovers a 20-something in search of the one
It was the first date of my life. He was, one could say, perfect on paper — USA-born, well-educated, handsome, with a great job and from a good family. Then he opened his mouth, and burst my ‘We’ll-live-in-bliss-forever’ bubble with the most bewildering series of questions anyone has ever posed to me. “If you’ve lived in India all your life, how come your English is so good? Followed by “What do Indians do for entertainment?” (We ride around on our elephants, looking for snakes to charm, don’t you know?), “Does the magazine you work for get printed in English too?” (No, it’s exclusively in Sanskrit) and “If you’re an independent girl, why did you agree to a meeting for an arranged marriage?” (Because I was under the impression I’d meet an intellectual, not a dodo).
Though I fought the urge to empty my glass of red wine on him and walk off, it was clear that he and I weren’t entering the throes of matrimony anytime soon.
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