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Category: Indian marriages

August 31, 2019 Arranged marriages / Culture / Essay / Indian marriages / Marriage / Musings

Essay: Arranged Marriage

This essay appeared in Centered: The magazine of personal stories in 2019. It is an excerpt from my work in

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June 9, 2019 Anniversary / Arranged marriages / Indian marriages / Love / Marriage / Musings

Building A Sonata

Earlier this week, a friend shared this letterĀ (excerpt 3). Words that have stuck with me for over two decades now

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December 4, 2017 India life / Indian marriages / Musings / South Indian / Wedding

#ShaluNalShaadi #Delhi #PaneerMasalaOnBananaLeaf

I am at my desk flipping through pictures from the wedding on my phone. In what can only be termed

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November 20, 2016 Arranged marriages / Indian marriages / Marriage / Musings / Relationships / Saathi

Love In The In-Between Spaces

I sat across my friend at the local Indian restaurant. Our plates full and the tables too close together. I

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September 12, 2015 Arranged marriages / Indian marriages / Love marriages / Marriage / Musings / Rant / Vent / Wedding

On marriages, love and excuses

Seated across the office at the children’s school for a small talk on adoption (a whole another post altogether) being

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