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How has traditional Indian matchmaking and the arranged marriage connived to keep the idea of caste well and flourishing?
As Indian Matchmaking – Netflix’s new documentary on the ever-puzzling, 'need to hate it but can’t really' arranged marriage – aired and climbed ranks, so did the backlash on social media. But do the accusations hold?
Indian Matchmaking. It's like an Ekta Kapoor serial met a Karan Johar film at a bar and conceived a baby with the nosy but kind next-door neighbor-type Sima aunty watching from the window all the time!
Netflix's Indian Matchmaking is an eight episode-long glitzy exhibition of elite Indian communities and their supposedly modern take on arranged marriages.
An arranged marriage, marital issues, sexual ignorance, and so much more - Netflix series Unorthodox tells a story many Indian women know well.
If you are old enough to marry, you're old enough to have some clarity about what you want. Even if it's an arranged marriage, here are some things we need to be mindful about.
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