{"id":20949,"date":"2020-07-24T22:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/jul\/24\/indian-matchmaking-netflix-divisive-dating-show-causes-storm"},"modified":"2020-07-24T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:02:19","slug":"indian-matchmaking-netflixs-divisive-dating-show-causes-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20949","title":{"rendered":"Indian Matchmaking: Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;divisive&#8217; dating show causes storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Series following contestants hoping to be chosen for arranged marriage has divided opinion in India<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRicha has beauty, she has smile, she\u2019s tall, slim, trim, educated, from a good family. I can give her, I think, 95 marks out of 100.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments, made by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/22\/top-tips-from-indian-matchmaking-sima-taparia\"> Sima Taparia,<\/a> the woman dubbed Mumbai\u2019s top matchmaker and the star of the new Netflix reality series Indian Matchmaking, epitomise just why the show has sharply divided opinion in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/jul\/24\/indian-matchmaking-netflix-divisive-dating-show-causes-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series following contestants hoping to be chosen for arranged marriage has divided opinion in India\u201cRicha has beauty, she has smile, she\u2019s tall, slim, trim, educated, from a good family. I can give her, I think, 95 marks out of 100.\u201dThe comments, made &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[71,77,646,62,76,238,509,61,520,519,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family","category-gender","category-india","category-marriage","category-media","category-netflix","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\/20949","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions\/20950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}