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Aditya - who has written 3 posts on Gori Girl.


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Forums are back!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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Hi Folks, Just letting you know that the Gori Girl forums are now back online. All previous posts on the forums have been restored, and we are now open for posting! ~A

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The blog is back up!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Phew! As you may have noticed, the gorigirl.com site has been down intermittently for a few weeks. In case you were wondering… While GG & I were vacationing in India, the blog got hacked, and some malicious javascript code was installed by the hacker to redirect traffic to a malware site. GG & I have [...]

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Arranged Marriages and Intercultural Relationships

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Arranged Marriages and Intercultural Relationships

Aditya, my husband, shares a few thoughts about – in his words – “Indian men being ‘forced’ into arranged marriages” in his inaugural guest post.

Having grown up in a relatively conservative family in India, I can understand the friction that can occur often between “the younger generation” and “traditional family”… and I especially sympathize with nice people like some of the readers here – or their partners – who suffer from the drudgery that often characterizes communications between these two groups.

However, for the most part I think the blame for the difficult relations between Indian parents and their adult children lies squarely on the “younger generation” -of which I am a part. I think that most issues root from a tendency amongst Indian men and women (but I’m speaking to the guys mainly, since I am one) to refuse to engage their parents in a responsible and adult manner.

I’ve been reading over Gori’s shoulder as she delves back into the intercultural blogosphere, and some of the posts out there – such as The ties that bind by Elizabeth or the responding comment by Jessica, author of the blog Coffee and Tea, and, frankly, I cannot fathom how Elizabeth or Jessica’s partners can, with a clear conscience, claim that an arranged marriage situation is somehow out of their control.

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