Email Order Bride (and Groom)

BBC News recently published an intriguing article about the ways in which the Internet is helping the current generation of young Indian professionals to mediate between the deeply rooted tradition of arranged marriage and the modern desire for greater involvement in selecting one's own prospective mate. Young people can use a variety of Indian matrimonial sites to look for prospective mates from their communities, email each other to communicate more freely than in traditional face-to-face meetings that their parents arranged, and present parents with a selection whom they can still meet and approve.