![]() ![]() “He can be Indian or non-Indian … and I would love to know the families and I do not see that as a wrong thing,” he says. Looking to his daughters, Raj Naja would like to keep some of the more casual aspects of the approved match system, mainly that he knows who the man is. “It makes sure that 87 percent of the process is already taken care of.” “It’s arranging to see if there’s something there, and then the parents take a back seat,” he explains. However, Raj Naha says, this process is community driven and non-binding. Typically, these marriages would occur within a specific area, so there are similar behaviors with respect to religion and food-and these hold the strongest power in a match. “Within the very specific caste, it revolves around an expectation of different milestones in your life.” One of these, he says, was marriage. ![]() “ is traditionally based on who you are, and what your social practice or profession is,” Raj Naha says. , The World’s No.1 Matchmaking Service prides itself on addressing the ways find people happiness, and redefining how Indian brides and grooms meet for marriage, Click on the photo to go to the website. Raj Naha*, her father, sees a greater mobility in the arrangement process now than there was in his time-especially through India’s centuries-old caste system. “My aunt, even after twenty-plus years, still hates her husband only because she believes she was forced into the marriage.” “The stigma makes sense-it’s an uncomfortable thing to do,” Naha says. all their lives, and are keenly aware of the cultural differences in having parents married in what has become to them an unconventional way. She and her nine-year-old sister have lived in the U.S. Her parents, from Andhra Pradesh, India, immigrated to the United States more than twenty years ago. “They pretty much said they would be good with marrying each other after two to three months of getting to know each other,” Naha says. ![]() Karishma Naha*, a sophomore at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, respects her parents’ story. Most American kids don’t want their parents to have any hand in their love lives. By Allyna Mota Melville, Medill, Immigrant Connect ![]()
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