{"id":5461,"date":"2008-10-12T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5461"},"modified":"2008-10-12T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T19:59:58","slug":"nyt_vows_specia_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/nyt_vows_specia_1\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Vows, Special Desi Unit. Episode 420, “Matrimonials Hijinks”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nyt<\/center><\/a>\nSometimes the Desi couples in the New York Times “Vows” pages make one cringe. But the latest entrants<\/a> in the reality show known as “I am so stylin’, I invited the damn New York Times<\/em> to observe my wedding!” actually seem pretty cool. For one thing, they seem pretty normal, and Rahul Siddharth in particular seems to have a way with words:<\/p>\n\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unlike in Bollywood movies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Siddharth said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we fight. We are totally opposite, but she is mine.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d

\n\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153New York can be a very cruel city,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are days when it can eat you up and spit you out. Sapna is my private escape. I always love to come home to her knowing that she brings peace to my chaos.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (link<\/a>)<\/blockquote>\n\n

(Unless I am mistaken, this is where some readers might swoon a little. Others may find it all too cheesy. To each, her own.)<\/p>\n\n

The part I personally liked the best had to do with the way they met, twice, online:<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Chaudhary, a specialist in family medicine in New York, had posted her profile online at an Indian introductions site. She first heard from Mr. Siddharth, an advertising executive and stand-up comedian, in June 2005, in a response that was impressively lively. But after she replied, he seemed to vanish. That is, until September, when Mr. Siddharth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second e-mail message, nearly identical to the first, landed.

\n\nTo that one, she replied: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe you should try and keep better track \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or maybe you were just so overwhelmed by my beauty that you had some short term memory loss.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (link<\/a>)<\/blockquote>\n\n

Let’s get this straight. Guy sees picture of a lady on Shaadi.com and thinks, “Me likee.” He shoots off his generic self-introduction, which in this case is pretty good, because homeboy has, as we’ve already established, the gift of gab. She replies encouragingly, but now (presumably) he’s already preoccupied emailing someone else<\/em>, and as a result he blows her off. The other thing doesn’t pan out, and three months later he sees the first profile again without realizing it (her new pictures are “sexier”), and shoots off the same generic self-introduction<\/em>, albeit a little puzzled that Gmail already seemed to know her email address.<\/p>\n\n

And three years later, they’re getting married in style<\/a> (seriously, check out those pictures), and bragging about it in the Times.<\/p>\n\n

One quick side note — I like that the Times reporter describes the site through which they met as an “Introductions” website, not a “Matrimonials” site. It seems to me that “Introductions” is a better fit than “Matrimonials,” a descriptor that would require an obligatory reference to the “exotic” Indian practice known as “Arranged Marriage” ™.)<\/p>\n\n

Anyone else have interesting Matrimonials\/Introductions website correspondence snafus?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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