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17-May-2020 11:49

I grew up with movies like “Dil To Pagal Hai” and like any 90s Bollywood movie you see the following: Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they smile, they know with a glance that they’re into each other, a few conversations and a very awkward, long hug later the hero and heroine are professing their love to each other.

Now this is all well and good while you’re growing up, but then you get older and start watching American rom-coms.

Talk to your parents about what it means to be in a relationship, and convince them that you are mature enough to do what they never had to do: dating in America as an Indian-American.

I have met too many guys afraid of commitment, too many girls afraid to admit that they just want to date around, too many of us who have no idea what to do because we don’t share the same reality as our parents.

Not only does our culture look down upon the concept of dating, but most Indians focus on the end goal and not the journey.

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Yet, there I was, feet dipped in clear water, staring into the horizon, trying to convince two middle-aged women whom I did not know that the man I was with was indeed my husband.“My husband,” I replied after a while, snapping out of savouring my first-ever snorkelling session.