Steven Tyler wrote a song about this

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The last time I asked Ennis how his personal lowe story was going, he just looked at me woefully and shook his head. Thanks to Eastern Eye, I’ve now figured out what happened:

Ravi Arora, 39, from east London, flew 5,000 miles [to Delhi] to meet a potential bride he had met through shaadi.com… only to find out that she was not born a woman… “I was in front of a girl who no longer looked like one and sounded very different from the Manisha I had been spending two to three hours every week speaking to… The photos were of her cousin, the phone calls had been made by her sister and she had been operated on to become a woman.”

Lest we think Arora is prejudiced, he hastens to add:

“She has a right to express her sexuality as she wants, but by lying about herself, a seed of doubt about all the other profiles on shaadi.com have been placed in my mind.”

I don’t know what’s harder to believe: Arora’s incredible story, or that he actually trusted the profiles on dating sites.

8 thoughts on “Steven Tyler wrote a song about this”

  1. Ah, but hope springs eternal:

    Ravi has once again logged on and is now meeting other prospective partners. “At the end of the day, I just want to meet the girl of my dreams, and I hope this time it will be her,” he said.

    -D

  2. Which Aerosmith song are you talking about, Manish? The one that goes “God, I love the sweet taste of India” or “Cuz the girl keeps coming apart?” Just joking …

  4. Wonder if Bollywood will ever steal the plot and make a desi version of “The Crying Game”…

  6. Hah! Poor Ravi Arora..

    Speaking of online profiles: Don’t they all sound so similar (or is it just me?)

    The opening line “Never thought I’d be doing this but…” +

    A homily about the blend of East-West cultures +

    A short segue about their multiple persona ie, love to party but also love to curl up on a couch in PJs with their favorite book/ TV show

    The ending is the clincher — the travel bug! Every desi woman on these friggin’ sites has traveled enough to give Thor Heyerdahl a complex.

    How come they aren’t all lining up to marry pilots or airplane stewards?

  7. It’s pretty irresponsible that the writer of the story made no effort to contact the woman involved (which I assume, given that they didn’t tell us that they did, as is standard).

    I thought Ravi’s response was pretty fair given the circumstances. It really is the coverup that’s unfair to him, not that she’s transgender.