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Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India

door Anita Jain

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Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. So she's travelling to India in search of a perfect husband, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising New India.… (meer)
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Not sure why other reviewers are expecting some kind of comprehensive text about dating in India. This is a memoir. It's supposed to be about the author. The book is very well-written and funny, and I was introduced to many aspects of Indian culture that I didn't know about. ( )
  HeatherMoss | May 28, 2022 |
In this memoir, Indian-American journalist Anita Jain discusses her attempts to get married. She tries living and dating in New York City, and when that doesn't work, she decides, pretty much on a whim, to move to New Delhi and try.

My main problem with this book is that she gives her own experience a lot more weight than I think it deserves. She paints a picture of her experience as a lens for understanding the "New India," but it doesn't really carry that much weight. This is a well-written personal memoir, that sheds some light on her family story, but I didn't really see it doing more than that.

My secondary problem was that I just didn't have a lot of sympathy for her. She wants to get married, while pursuing random sexual encounters with a variety of men. She has a very casual attitude towards sleeping with just about anyone she comes across. Granted, from what I could tell, a lot of this sleeping was just that, sleeping. However, she did move into casual sexual relationships quickly and didn't seem to connect any of that with her difficulties in marrying. She also describes meeting men that she did like, and making almost no attempt to meet them halfway - over spending (in what is still a poor country), sticking her feet out the window and singing drunkenly on a first date, etc. I don't know why she thought that her behavior was going to attract someone serious about a lifelong partnership.

To be fair, she does somewhat acknowlege this, and her ambivalence about a lot of male-female interaction. As I said, it's well written, but not much more than that. ( )
  teckelvik | May 24, 2010 |
Marrying Anita is a decent read, a breezy and fun look at centuries-old tradition colliding with modernity. But ultimately it lacks depth, and the reader ends up learning more about Anita Jain’s personal hang-ups than about India, old or new.

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  ConcordiaSalus | Apr 29, 2009 |
This was a pretty cool book about one woman trying to find a life-long companion in her ancestral home of India. What makes her journey so interesting is that she is caught in between America and India. She doesn't feel like she fits in perfectly in either place, but tries to find love in India when New York doesn't pan out. Her adventures (& difficutlies) finding a home, making friends and meeting men are universal, however more exotic due to the locale. Quite enjoyable. ( )
  eenerd | Jan 26, 2009 |
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Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. So she's travelling to India in search of a perfect husband, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising New India.

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