Did you ask your parents?

And what is wrong in publishing about Tribals? They are very much a part of our diversity !!!!! and probably predated all the invaders who came subsequently and stole which was only theirs! George is probably a pakistani....but you being an indian saying something this callous about your fellow citizens?

Frankly, there is hardly any difference between the way things are done in India and the way things are done in Pakistan, including "arranged marriages", food, language, culture, clothing, etc. So why exactly did y'all split up? In fact, this is the case throughout most, if not all of South Asia...India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh(completely under Indian dominance)!!! Indian hegemony seesm to have engulfed the entire South Asian landscape. I have found the excisting racial prejudice to most interesting, something expressed in many different ways, ranging from street language expressions to preferences for "fair skinned" marriage partners. Please read George's question about "picture from Ghana", clearly is a reference to the skin color of the people in the picture. Perhaps y'all need to conduct some self examination, before you pass judgement on others!!

A new trend, and very desirable also, is that a boy and girl choose each other, tell their parents and they arrange the marriage.

Very interesting findings. Is it good, bad or what ?

Because its easy to get a partner from right caste or an equal caste.

Arranged marriage outlast love marriages, love marriage has high divorce rate in both west and east,regular Indians know that contrary to Bollywood insistence.Arrange marriage is marriage of two families together the ideally would provided emotional and material support to the new couple, abuse and neglect happens regardless of arrange or love marriage or boy/girlfriends.

Ndtv will not publish it. Am sure they would have loved if the result would have the other way around. Am sure they will not even hesitate to manipulate this report and will say, some think like "all Hindus would only love to marry a Muslim", then all over India they will conduct heated debate about that nonsense. Please distance your self from NDTV. You're far better than that.Sincerely DAWN you are one of the best media house in the world. You are always well balanced . In India "The Hindu" and "The times of the India" are also comparable to you. As i always request. Please start your Indian edition without any any farther dely .Most of the Indian news channels are corrupt and affiliated to one party or the other. Most of the reporting in India are biased and one sided. Dear Dawn please always maintain your un-biased reporting.

Arranged marriage makes sure that the bride and the groom are not related. That way inbreeding is avoided.

really a good social trend. i think other countries should also follow suit

george ur totaly correct some time i feel dawn also published biased reports against india as the dawn publish a one off tribes marriage ceramany photos just to correlate with indian marriage

Why you have picture from Ghana on an article on India?

But what percentage were women who said they preferred this?

I'm sorry to read your life story. Many tragedies happens both in arraned and love marriages. May good people, encounter good life partners, regardless ethnic or religious background, Humanity first.

It's an old tactic, known as love arranged marriage. People have married by own choice but instead of dating, they involved families right away and full acceptance. And why be transparent about it, when majority of desi ppl look down upon love marriage? Love marriage, the pre stage is nothing but on going tests. Desi male only treat their bloodrelative with respect, espcially cousins! Mothers always find their own brother or sister's daughter to their prize gold mummy daddy boy, though there is no compatibility at all. Why should some none relative enjoy the frutis of great income of their golden boy?

My marriage was also an arranged one,yet it resulted indivorce. I had to fight an eight-year Botter divorce battle - seven years in the family court,and one year in the high court. This was for the first time in my life that I witnessed courts' proceedings,and this has made me an ardent supporter of judicial reforms. I never went on dating,as I was an alien to the concept of dating. The marriage was with much fanfare. Can anyone imagine it was my wife who took me to Shanishingarpur temple near Shirdi ,Maharashtra ,in India. She told me that Lord Saturn was heavy on me. And who gave me trouble - not a third person,but my dearest wife. What can I say - quirk of fate. I was to go for right eye cataract surgery, (I was already blind in the left eye) and my wife deserted me just 17 days prior to my surgery,and also took our only child ,my toddler daughter along. On top of it,she filed a divorce case on the ground of cruelty . Who was cruel,a wife leaving her husband or the husband? Yet,the family court granted her divorce on theground of cruelty. Later,I came to know that the judge was bribed,and the judge was transferred from the Sessions Court to the Family Court - a demotion. Marriage is the most dangerous institution in the world - it not only takes one to thebedroom,but also to jail. Marital laws are loaded in favour of women. A wife can make the life of husband and her in-laws a living hell,by filing false police complaints ,and court cases. Myself being a journalist,my wife's lawyer threatened to go the press council,but he never went. Her lawyer also filed a complaint with the Bar Council against my advocate. My wife was not even present in the family court, on the day of the judgement,yet in the court's Roznama ,it was written she was present in the court.

Marrying relatives can lead to many genetic problems, and should not be encouraged.

That is funny.

What one person considers to be good, another person might consider to be bad - different people have different perspectives.