{"id":20830,"date":"2020-07-22T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/22\/top-tips-from-indian-matchmaking-sima-taparia"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:18:48","slug":"you-need-to-lower-your-expectations-top-tips-from-indian-matchmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20830","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You need to lower your expectations&#8217;: top tips from Indian Matchmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sima Taparia has arranged scores of marriages for wealthy singletons. Now she\u2019s the subject of a Netflix reality show<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompromise and adjustment is what I tell all my clients \u2013 you need to lower your expectations,\u201d says Sima Taparia. Speaking over video call from Mumbai, one of India\u2019s most well-known matchmakers is telling me what I, apparently, need to hear if I am to find a wife.<\/p>\n<p>Taparia has been matchmaking wealthy Indian singletons for the past 15 years across the globe, counting some 800 families in her database and resulting in more than 125 marriages. Hers is an arranged marriage service, harnessing<strong> <\/strong>the practice of parents pairing their adult offspring with those of other, vetted families usually of a similar class and caste. Her process is thorough: she visits her clients at home, interviewing them on their requirements and lifestyle, as well as speaking to their parents before consulting an astrologer on their horoscopes and then feeding this information into her database to find a potential match. Taparia has essentially commercialised the practices of south Asian aunties and grandparents around the world, forever touting their eligible young relatives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/22\/top-tips-from-indian-matchmaking-sima-taparia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sima Taparia has arranged scores of marriages for wealthy singletons. Now she\u2019s the subject of a Netflix reality show\u201cCompromise and adjustment is what I tell all my clients \u2013 you need to lower your expectations,\u201d says Sima Taparia. Speaking over video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1580,1582,62,78,1581,61,520,519,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-documentary","category-factual-tv","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-relationships","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-television-radio","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions\/20831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}