“Looks like she’s not photogenic, but she’s smart and she carries well.”“She’s tall, slim, trim, educated, and from a good family.
I can give her...95 marks out of 100.”These are just a few of the staggering lines audiences around the world heard while watching Netflix’s latest reality dating show, Indian Matchmaking.For South Asians and the South Asian diaspora, Indian Matchmaking is a mirror held before us.
It is reflective, sometimes painfully, of a custom with which we are all too familiar: arranged marriages. For desis, either your parents were arranged, or you know a couple that was.
In many Indian cultures, arranged marriages are simply the norm while organic relationships or “love marriages” are an idiosyncrasy.
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