Vegetarian men only please
• Gender Studies
But if he makes over $200,000 a year eating meat is acceptable.
A single young Indian woman doesn't want an arranged marriage or for her parents searching for a husband for her online. But that doesn't stop them.
I’ve been fielding such messages—or, rather, my father has—more and more these days, having crossed the unmarriageable threshold for an Indian woman, 30, two years ago. My parents, in a very earnest bid to secure my eternal happiness, have been trying to marry me off to, well, just about anyone lately. In my childhood home near Sacramento, my father is up at night on arranged-marriage Websites. And the result—strange e-mails from boys’ fathers and stranger dates with those boys themselves—has become so much a part of my dating life that I’ve lost sight of how bizarre it once seemed.