“Kavita Ramdya’s Bollywood Weddings is a masterful study rich with insights into how cultures meet, mix, and merge in our era of airplanes and the Internet… Full of surprises, not least the fact that the …
    Good friend and author Kavita Ramdya’s debut book “Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement and Marriage in Hindu America” is this year’s answer to the age-old questions, “Why do we fall in love with the people we fall in love with?†and “Why do we marry the people we choose to marry?†To answer these questions – the ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, and financial qualities – and what our choice means in terms of expressing our national identity, Kavita Ramdya does an anthropological study of Indian-American Hindus in the tri-state New York area. Do check out her website and I highly recommend the book.   Â
Kavita Ramdya’s debut book “Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement and Marriage in Hindu America” is this
year’s answer to the age-old questions, “Why do we fall in love with
the people we fall in love with?†and “Why do we marry the people we
choose to marry?†To answer these questions – the ethnic, religious,
linguistic, cultural, and financial qualities – and what our choice
means in terms of expressing our national identity, Kavita Ramdya does
an anthropological study of Indian-American Hindus in the tri-state New
York area. Do check out her website and I highly recommend the book.   Â