Marriage Market
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Sexual selection by Indian Society and its implications
Nachiketa starts from Darwin’s puzzle of the peacock’s tail to argue that in India sexual selection is a task for the whole family and society, with arranged-marriage middlemen able to…
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Dark Skin & Getting Married | Stand Up Comedy by Saikiran
Praising comic Saikiran’s stand-up on dark skin and marriage as a challenge to ‘Casteocracy’, the author sees a turn towards cultural authenticity in Modi’s India, though the comic must still…
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Browncast Ep 39: Carl Zha, Pakistan, and China’s demographic crisis
On Browncast Episode 39, returning guest Carl Zha joins the hosts to discuss the controversy over Pakistani brides in China and wider demographic concerns in Chinese society, with the host…
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China’s demographic disaster impacts Pakistan
Discussing an AP report on Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides, the author says China’s male surplus drives bride imports, that poor Christian women are easier targets, and…
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What’s wrong with fetishisizing white men?
Replying to a commenter’s warning that Desi men could be pushed out of the marriage market as East Asian men were, the author welcomes more Pakistani, Muslim and Baha’i women…
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South Asia is Latin America minus 2,000years
The author argues that Latin America’s racial hierarchy of Europeans, mestizos and Indians is the best analogy for caste, claiming genetic evidence links Aryan-related ancestry to caste rank and that…
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Indian culture started when the British arrived: tales of shadology
Citing a study of skin-colour bias in arranged Indian marriages, the author notes fair-skinned candidates were preferred and found no sex difference, and turns to the paper’s framing of colour…
