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Jul 25, 2020, 6 tweets

First few minutes of #IndianMatchmaking on Netflix and I’m howling. “In India we don’t say arranged marriage. We have marriage and love marriage”

‘Arranged marriage’ is a bit of a misnomer to be honest. This looks more like de-risking the process as much as possible. Wonder if there are stats on the durability of ‘marriages’ compared with ‘love marriages’

“He likes the outdoors”

“I don’t like the outdoors”

Big fan of doing astrological face readings on smartphones.

Aunt Sima needs to hook up Aparna and Pradhu. They’re both unserious and will make for great content

A couple of decades ago, if someone wasn’t married past a certain age, people looked at them like there was something wrong with them. But you look at people trying to get married in this show and they’re all perfectly normal people and even quite nice.

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