At a recent dinner party, when I was trying to evade the single-minded Indian match-making mentality, and my dear friend jumped to the rescue, if only to talk about an acquaintence’s recent engagement to a gentleman she met in university … Even since well before the explosion of the sub-continent’s famously vibrant press in the fifties, Indians were coupling up via matrimonial ads in national papers (“Match sought for Iyer girl, 21 years old, wheatish complexion,” etc