Muzna Siddiqi has written an excellent article in Toronto Observer about how people from South Asia are finding their match online. I’m adding excerpts from that article here at edesibabes.com and thought it worth sharing with readers.

Matrimonial sites are becoming popular among South Asians

Tanvir Sarwar lived in British Columbia when her husband, Altaf Ishaq, flew in from Ottawa to propose to her on Valentine�s Day.

But that Valentine�s Day was also the first time they saw each other face-to-face.

Online matrimonial websites, are increasingly becoming popular with South Asians.

That�s because Sarwar and Ishaq didn�t initially meet the same way most couples do. They met through a South Asian matrimonial site.

Matrimonial sites cater to the South Asian population living all around the world. On their website, a person can choose what they are looking for based on religion, ethnicity, and profession. The word shaadi means �wedding� in Hindi and Urdu, the two most predominant languages in the Indian subcontinent.

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