Sounds familiar –
Alliance invited for very well settled, handsome, cultured, brahmin boy, 1988,5.7′,72 kg, CA staying in a bungalow in a posh area of xxxxx from beautiful, unmarried, highly educated qualified, all upper caste girls born after 1991.
Welcome to the big fat Indian wedding, above is the prelude to the actual happy matrimonial life.
The matrimonial advertisements are what caught my attention this time. They are divided into different sections based on caste, language, religion, profession, general , and community. Let’s get to understand this business of finding a soulmate.
By Profession –
DM/MCH ,MD, MS for fair beautiful MD(Specialization) ,32, working in a premier institute.
Well settled MD Dr 34,5.8′ ,fair ,smart, issueless divorcee, a brahmin boy from renowned and reputed doctors family wants beautiful ,MD, Dr Girl
Certainly, all the stakeholders here are looking for the same profession, fair , beautiful, and smart life partners perhaps the same caste and same kind of reputed renowned family with no history of divorces purely my assumption. Just wondering what would happen if a doctor married a lawyer or soulmate from another profession.
By Caste-
Alliance invited for very well settled, handsome, cultured brahmin boy, 1988,5.7′, 72 kg, CA staying in a bungalow in a posh area of xxxxx from beautiful, unmarried highly educated qualified all upper caste girls born after 1991 whew!
Here the cultured boy has a posh bungalow and wants beautiful ,unmarried ,qualified ,upper caste girl the list is indeed long !!!
By Community –
Rajput
IIT, IIM, MNC,5,10′ JULY 82, never married, no dowry seeks all upper caste, working, non-working girl.
The qualifications and the education impressive seeking upper caste girl not sure where that leads to.
By Religion
Sikh
Jatt Sikh, 96,5.11 , B.tech, working in MNC, package XYZ lakh good properties in Mumbai and Punjab
Honey we are talking about money here rest doesn’t matter !
General
Seeking beautiful, slim girls, well educated girls ,born from 1980 to 1999, from high status families .
The expectations are huge ….seems like age no bar as long as you are slim ,beautiful and educated and from high status.
Disabled /handicapped
Looking for suitable bride for my hearing impaired, very handsome son aged 29 years having govt job and business .
Second Marriage
5.6 ‘,Smart, Handsome, Agrawal, Mtech, company owner, jovial ,teetotaler ,non smoker, affluent ,separated seeks like minded people.
It does not mention divorced pretty jovial fella !!
By Language
Bengali
Not fair, grad boy ,oct 91, 5.6′ pvt job, salary XXXXX, well settled family, Girl should be 5.2′, height Cheerful nature .
Not fair at all ! something to be cheerful about finally !!!
I did see an elite section of matrimony where the grooms and brides were seeking likeminded and educated life partners where families have good net worth. Point taken !
Sadly the business of finding your soulmate deluded me . The appearance and status seemed more important from the advertisements and behind them are the many pride and prejudices we as Indians nurture since the moment we are born . Gender expectations …..the girl cant be dark or fat , has to be beautiful , damsel in distress if i may say so ! The hero has all the makings of a horror movie! I don’t know about soulmates just wondering if one were to switch these expectations, break the stereotypes what would happen. A perfect match I say.
Reflections 