Comments on: Calling All Wedding Detectives

By: Harbeer

Harbeer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:47:22 +0000

33 Â· Perplexed said

I have to go to this somekind of "padlock and key" kinda party

By: Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:48:06 +0000

54 Â· Rahul said

portmanteau, why to be paying rupees to shaadi.com yaar? i am looking for vgl woman for nsa encounters, caste no bar, age no bar, sex bar bar. have i peaked your interest yet? (yes, that is what the kids are calling it these days).

Rahul you forgot one more – Language no bar

By: fbstalker

fbstalker — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:46:17 +0000

with all of these social networking sites past and present, it’s pretty easy to find out a little dirt behind marriage potentials. who needs a detective when you have google and myspace/friendster/fbook/etc? usually a guy or girl has signed up for at least one of these accounts even if their account is outdated. and if they’re not on any site – well, an internet junkie like me probably wouldnt get along with them anyway!

By: HMF

HMF — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:56:24 +0000

Absolutely true. Why did the tell they use maids. Now no maids are going to any info to these people

Good point, but unless they're getting handsomly paid for it.

By: bess

bess — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:37:52 +0000

Any opinions on e-harmony.com? I love their commercials and even thought of checking it out only for FYI purposes, of course, but I think one's keystrokes can be traced, can't it? And Auntie-ji can get a little suspicious at times.

Fellow Floridian, maybe you're safer reading about what kind of testing is used to make matches on sites like eharmony and chemistry dot com. Here's an O article on relationship personality types and the test, it's by anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher- she's involved with the chemistry dating service. Hopefully Auntie-ji won't mind your reading Oprah articles ; ). She may find it interesting too.

By: SP

SP — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:05:05 +0000

Portmanteau, EXCELLENT impression of annoying young wannabe desi brides Particularly the “perfect blend of east and west values.”

Accidental Enlightenment said: “I wonder if a minor side effect of all this sleuthing could be recognitino of the Western-style behavior young people engage in… meaning drinking, partying, illicit relations”

Could be, but I’m guessing that the folks who drink and party and have illicit relations on a regular basis are less likely to use detective services or send out matrimonial feelers to people who are clearly from a more conservative background. I think a partying youngster would recognize another partying youngster. It’s just the ones who are under family pressure to be goody-goodies, or who have double standards themselves (drinking, partying, but asking mummy-daddy to look for a nice virginal convented bride)who get caught up in these messes.

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:35:06 +0000

54 Â· Rahul said

have i peaked your interest yet?

uh, there is jagran in my salwar, and you're invited :P

i am looking for vgl woman for nsa encounters

nsa? vot nsa you are saying about? an entanglement with a hindu girl lasts for seven lives.

By: melbourne desi

melbourne desi — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:02:02 +0000

I’d wager that a good part of India’s population are living on day to day wages…. U don’t work today, u don’t eat today….

thank you. ‘India is Shining’ but this reality must not be forgotten. Hunger is an ever present reality for many.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:36:46 +0000

36 Â· portmanteau said

Rahul, please be sending me a link to your shaadi.com profile. after consulting astrologer, my family can be calling your family.

portmanteau, why to be paying rupees to shaadi.com yaar? i am looking for vgl woman for nsa encounters, caste no bar, age no bar, sex bar bar. have i peaked your interest yet? (yes, that is what the kids are calling it these days).

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:31:04 +0000

“I’m not disagreeing with anything you’re saying JJ, but it is a bit chilling to hear you so obviously channel the “Malthusian trap” type of argument (particularly in the assumption that the maid has “no choice”–i.e., finding alternative employment is quite difficult)–I take that as some evidence that the Malthusian trap is perhaps not as over-hyped as I might have thought.”

I’d wager that a good part of India’s population are living on day to day wages…. U don’t work today, u don’t eat today…. India simply has too many mouths to feed and too few good jobs to go around…. So people on the lower end of the economic ladder gotta do what they gotta do to get by…. Honestly, life in India is real difficult if you are poor….. Heck even in america there are girls and boys that take up prostitution just to put food in their mouths…. This happens everywhere in the world….

I don’t blame people that have no choice for doing what it takes to survive. My problem is with people that abuse their wealth and privilege to exploit those below them in the society….