How do people around the world get to know each other? To whom do they give their hearts? He explored that star in his new series “Loving Others.” In this episode, Indian dating broker Radhika Mohta explains why young people are signing up with her and why Netflix shows are triggering this.
In Israel, singles are looking for someone to take into the bunker with; in Sweden, dating apps are very successful. The way people get to know each other varies from country to country. In the series “Loving Another,” Stern explores the question of how people around the world forgive in their hearts. And how things change between tradition and modernity. In this episode the dating atlas takes you to India, the place matchmaker Radhika Mohta (37) from Bengaluru wants to translate arranged marriages to modern times.
Mrs. Mohta, is it normal for Indian singles to look for partners through matchmakers like you?
This is quite common, there are several matchmakers, more traditional or modern like me. But most often couples know each other through their families or by attending the same temple, university, or school. Also the caste system India still plays a role in determining who exactly is considered a partner. But the target group I serve is very different from the majority of Indian society.
Radhika Mohta is a Kupperlin and fosters the younger generation who are looking for partners in seminars
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Who signed up with you?
Most of those who contact me are in their thirties, but the range is between 25 and 45 – and they want to get married. They have a lot of other things in their lives organized: careers, housing, finances. And now they want to focus on them partner look for. The people who come to me definitely belong to a certain socio-economic group who are not dependent on family and earn their own money. They are bound by less strict rules than people from conservative groups.
Do you also consider family background and caste while pairing someone?
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