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You are too fat!

As yet another of my gazillion cousins sets out on this arranged marriage journey I feel a twinge of pain. For all those pictures that will get tossed aside because “(s)he is fat!”. For all those ponnu parkals that will end in a day of agony when the call comes through saying “We liked everything […]

What do they want actually?

My experiences for the past years in the field of groom hunting have needled me into writing this short essay on my observations and reflections on the entire process. This is not to draw any conclusions or make any judgment but just a record of feelings, traumatic experiences and expectations that are part of this […]