November 15, 2004
Marriage plans foiled againNews
Damn. Unable to find love here because women simply don’t understand me, I had planned on making my next trip to India count. I had intended to find myself a bride while over there. Now it seems there will be people running a background check on me first. I got to say this is long overdue, even though a background check is sure to eliminate me. From the Times of India:
The Union ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs will appoint volunteers abroad to carry out a background check on ‘eligible’ bachelors settled in foreign countries.
At the forthcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), the ministry is planning to appoint non-resident Indian (NRI) volunteers who will represent it in foreign countries, to make discreet inquiries about bachelors who have set their sights on the Indian marriage mart. The PBD is to be held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai, from January 7 to 9.
The idea is the brainchild of Jagdish Tytler, minister of state for Overseas Indian Affairs. Speaking to TOI en route to Kenya and South Africa to promote the PBD, he said, “This is being done to prevent the exploitation of gullible girls and their families by so-called bachelors.” There are 10,000 cases in Punjab alone of NRI husbands abandoning their wives. In Gujarat about 12,000 cases have been reported, Tytler said. Figures for other states were not available with him.
abhi on November 15, 2004 01:36 PM in News · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
very insightful....
PS background is spelt incorrectly
I have a bitter taste in my mouth. This is the same Jagdish Tytler who was one of the architects of the Delhi Pogroms of 1984 that killed thousands of men, women and children. There is eyewitness testimony that accuses him of personally leading a mob. To have him cry crocodile tears over poor defrauded women is similar to the Nazi party having promoted vegetarianism in Germany.