Do you take this man? Arranged marriage in South Asia
Arranged marriage is a notoriously controversial issue. In the West, some people are scathing about the practice (erring, to my mind, towards the grey area of ‘the white man’s burden’) but I must be wholly honest and confess that the notion of marriage in this part of the world, whether love or arranged, has always flummoxed me because each person’s information has contradicted the next. Yet talking to an Indian friend recently has thrown some light on the topic; she suggest