WANTED BRIDEGROOM for Kannada speaking girl born Jan 1984 studied BS in USA now working in a leading investment bank in London. Willing to relocate if required Bridegroom's education, position and family background are the important considerations.
NON-SRIVATSA GROOM for my Kannada/Tamil speaking with high moral values, beautiful daughter Ashilesha. Contact with height, education and horoscope.
TRICHUR NAIR girl divorced (within a week) employed in Chennai seeks well qualified/employed boy.
Fair, Slim and Beautiful Girl from a Well Cultured Family Seeks Professionally Qualified Groom.
CHRISTIAN PROTESTANT Fair girl 29 Australia employed citizen seeks professionally Qualified, clean habits willing to settle in Australia. good family background Photo/Biodata must.
Healthy young looking very active and well settled boy having diabetes seeks good looking girl. Young widows can also apply. caste no bar.
WELL RESPECTED Hindu Family in South Delhi seeks alliance for their handsome son, Vegetarian US graduate with six years experience with a US Investment Bank. Presently engaged in creating a Financial Consultancy and Investment Banking setup in India. Looking beautiful, qualified homely girl from educated cultured family.
PARENTS OF Christian, working in a leading Co. invite proposals from a slim, fair looking, God fearing and qualified bride below 23 from an affluent family of the same community. Reply with photos.
HIGHLY REPUTED Delhi based family seeks for their tall, fair, handsome, smart son 26 Phd scholar USA visiting India from 25th May to 10th June, 2010. Cultured, beautiful, fair, well educated, tall girl with good family background.
TALL MUSLIM, 25 Software Engineer London Rich/Religious family Chennai seeks educated beautiful Very fair Bride from religious rich decent family.
HANDSOME Post Graduate Sr Manager has a birth defect of infertility can have happy married life seeks unmarried bride with same issue Caste no bar
Tamil Speaking Family Invites Proposal from Pious Poor/Avg Middle Class for sons 1) 45, 2) 38 3) 36 Girls should be Pious, Simple, Homely, Humble & Soft Spoken Family must have background known in the place where they reside. Reply with Parish/Photo
I guess I should explain that in India caste is extremely important in most cases. People who are not from the same caste cannot marry. I guess for the ads that say "caste no bar" they must be getting desperate and are willing to overlook the caste situation in order to get their kid married off. It is also very important to be "fair-skinned". In India, the lighter the skin the more attractive the person. So, while in the US we are all baking in the sun trying to get tans, in India they cover up and try to avoid getting any darker than they already are.
I ran across the article below in today's paper and while it is NOT meant to be funny, the way that they write about things here can come across in a way that can be kind of strange.
Infant dies; quack held
Nagarcoil: A quack was arrested by the police following the death of a nine-month-old child on
Saturday.
According to police sources, Kumar (45) of Kani Vilai near Eraniel, was a casual worker. His daughter Sharmi was suffering from fever and ear pain. Hence, Kumar and his relatives took her to the nearest clinic, run by one Murugesan.
After examination, he gave an injection to the child. However, the child died within a minute in front of her parents and relatives.
Complaint
Based on the complaint lodged by the parents and relatives of the deceased, the police questioned the doctor and later it came to light that he was a quack.
The police arrested him and produced him before a magistrate, who remanded him to judicial custody. During the interrogation it was known that he had completed only his standard X and was practicing as a doctor by running a private clinic at Eraniel.
I also ran across a section of the paper titled "Know Your English" where people send in questions and the questions are answered by someone who I presume has been "Westernized". Here's a few:
1. "What is the meaning of scuttlebutt"?
This is a word which comes from the world of sailing. 'Butt' means 'barrel' or 'cask' and 'scuttle' refers to the hatch on the deck on a ship. A 'scuttlebutt' was actually a barrel containing the day's supply of drinking water for the ship's crew. Since this barrel (butt) of water was placed near the hatch (scuttle), the container began to be called 'scuttlebutt'. What do you think happened when the members of the crew got together to drink water? The same thing that happens today when colleagues in an office gather around the water cooler or the coffee machine. They gossiped! The sailors drank water, and they gossiped about what was happening on the ship. In informal contexts, the expression 'scuttlebutt' is used to mean 'rumor' or 'gossip'.
Have you heard the scuttlebutt about my new neighbour?
I don't pay too much attention to the scuttlebutt around here.
2. What is the meaning of "Sweat like a pig"?
This rather strange expression is mostly used in informal contexts to mean perspire profusely or excessively.
When I met Usha for the first time, I was so nervous that I sweated like a pig.
By the end of the first set, Naresh was sweating like a pig.
This is an odd expression because pigs do not have sweat glands, and therefore do not perspire like humans do. According to some scholars, the idiom refers to the 'sweating' that a pig does when it is roasted over fire. I understand when a pig is roasted, fat oozes out, and it is this fat that is referred to in the idiom.
3. What is the meaning of "All hell broke loose"?
The expression is mostly used in informal contexts in American English. 'Hell' is usually associated with chaos; therefore, when you say "all hell broke loose", what you mean is that the situation went completely out of control. There was pandemonium; people started shouting and screaming at each other, and at times resorted to violence.
"All hell broke loose when the CEO saw the article in the magazine."
4. What is the meaning of "Fly off the handle"?
This expression of American origin is normally used in relation to a person. When you say that someone flew off the handle, you mean he lost his temper. He became extremely angry about something you said or did, and started shouting.
Another informal expression which has the same meaning is, 'to go ballistic'.
Our coach flies off the handle every time someone makes a mistake.
The CEO flew off the handle when he heard the workers were going on strike.
5. What is the meaning of "Grossed out"?
When you say that something is 'gross', what you mean is that it is disgusting: it could be the smell, the looks, the taste, etc. The medicine that my mother gave me was gross. The expression 'gross out' is mostly used in American English to mean 'to fill someone with disgust'. It is considered to be slang, and therefore should be avoided in formal contexts.
"The murder scenes in the movie were very graphic. They grossed me out".
The 'o' in 'gross' is pronounced like the 'o' in 'so', 'no' and 'go'. The main stress is on the word 'out'.
Very educational, I guess they have to learn somewhere so when they get to the US they know what they are talking about.
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