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Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India
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After three years of dating, Anita Jain finally got fed up with the New York singles scene. As her Indian parents continued to pressure her to find a mate, Jain couldn't help asking herself the question: is arranged marriage really any worse than Craigslist? Full of romantic chance encounters, nosy relatives, and dozens of potential husbands, Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at our own expectations and the modern search for the perfect mate.
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Anita Jain. (2010). Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Anita Jain. 2010. Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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        , she had ribbed her father for writing her profiles on Indian matchmaking Web sites. In a radical return to tradition, she decides to move to her native India in search of a husband. Pondering the foibles of American dating strengthens her resolve to embrace life in Delhi, even as she adjusts to its new cosmopolitan energy and Western attitudes. Jain struggles to negotiate the security of tradition with the allure of modernity. She is flummoxed by the caste system as well as the stigmas attached to single women. Torn between “old-world” suitors and the confident, latter-day Indian male, she concedes, “Dating in Delhi is no less complicated, perplexing and ego-deflating than in New York.” Even the ad her father places in the Times of India
        matrimonial pages (“thirty-three years old, Harvard graduate... looking for broad-minded groom”) fails to arouse much interest. With her world-weary yet earnest voice that finds humor in humiliation, Jain is sure to delight readers.

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