A match made in heaven - “Indian matchmaking” in contemporary times

dc.contributor.authorGhosh, Debjyoti
dc.contributor.emaildebjyoti.ghosh@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T04:58:43Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T04:58:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-02
dc.description.abstractThe Indian subcontinent is ubiquitous with some social factors such as caste, gender (discrimination), poverty. One particular factor that has taken up the imaginations of the Netflix-watching audience of late is the practice of arranged marriages. A series called Indian Matchmaking catapulted the notion of arranged marriages into the drawing rooms of both people who are highly aware of the notion (probably having been through it themselves), as well as people who have a very vague idea about it. Nevertheless, it has become a highly talked about television show across the Anglophone world. A little before its release, another English-language reality show, What the Love! with Karan Johar was released by Netflix. This explores the world of romantic connections with a few chosen people from India. While placing itself on the opposite side of the spectrum when compared to Indian Matchmaking, in many ways, it lends itself to similar tropes, albeit under a progressive garb. This paper delves into the portrayal of people from India or of Indian origin in the reality shows Indian Matchmaking and What the Love! with Karan Johar. I examine the two shows through the lens of postfeminism and how, while raising several social issues that plague Indian society, both citizens and the diaspora, they inadvertently propagate a certain self-policing and conservatism that people, particularly women, are expected to adhere to.en_US
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.librariandm2022en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociologyen_US
dc.identifier.citationGhosh. D, (2022) A match made in heaven - “Indian matchmaking” in contemporary times. Frontiers in Sociology 7:684994. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.684994.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2297-7775 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3389/fsoc.2022.684994
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87911
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.en_US
dc.rights© 2022 Ghosh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).en_US
dc.subjectPostfeminismen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectSubcontinenten_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectFemininityen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectMatchmakingen_US
dc.titleA match made in heaven - “Indian matchmaking” in contemporary timesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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