In the Newspapers (again)

Here are some interesting snippets from the Indian newspapers.

China

There was comment that Chinese generally mistrust India.  There are two apparent reasons:

• Chinese children are taught in their school history lessons that India was aggressive in how they secured the lands (Tibet-like areas in the North East) near China.  They aren't taught about Tibet in a very different perspective though.
• Chinese have an inferiority-complex when they view themselves against Indians.  This is due to the richness India's culture and besides India gave them Buddha.  Hhmmm ... I don't quite buy this one.

Matrimonials

Arranged marriages are still the norm in India.  Looking a the Matrimonials (ie. Personals) ads in the newspaper, I couldn't help noticing that most of the responses were to be directed to Mrs X (presumably the mother of the seeking party).  It is very competitive and attributes boasted or sought include::

• qualifications (MBA, IT ... even for girls, and convent-educated ... for girls only I guess),
• caste (if Hindu, presumably),
• religion (Sikh, Syrian Catholic, born-again Christian, Shite, Sunni etc),
• language (Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam etc)
• other features (Australian PR, USA H1 Visa).