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Prejudice and Profession

Desi Cupid aka Rishta Aunty
If there is any profession where inbred racism, ethnic divide, color, creed and caste means everything, it's the profession of match-making.
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by News Desk

Although the concept of match making is alien to western world, but to the eastern society it goes back to the days when there was no civilization anywhere. In other parts of society people meet through their friends, they date, they get to know each other and then marry, in our part of the world it's the 'aunty' which will not form a match between guy and girl, but form a match between family based on ethnicity, race, religion, sect, caste and color. You may have heard the term 'khobsorat dhulan', referring to a beautiful bride. How did you come about hearing about such a marvelous thing? I'm sure you'll say that it's from your cousin or sister or aunt - and somewhere, between the toothpaste ads on TV and movie tickets, there lies the truth in our marriages. Marriages are work, they've been talked about in countless Bollywood songs and stories, but how much do we actually know about them? This video focuses on marriage business - not on how to find your spouse, but rather how to implement things in order to be one of the chosen ones. But who are we to say anything, when there's a demand there will always be someone capitalizing it.


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