#Arranged marriage

Author: Farhad Mirza / Source: Big Think In his book In Praise of Love (2009), the French communist philosopher Alain Badiou attacks the notion of ‘risk-free love’, which he sees written in the commercial language of dating services that promise their customers ‘love, without falling in love‘.

Between 2000 and 2015, at least 207,468 minors were married in the United States. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, despite an overall fall in child marriage since 2000 (25,583 to 9,247), there are still a shocking number of young children legally married in the country. Only 14 percent

When New Dehli-based Karishma Walia found out that her potential husband is not of fan of dogs and wouldn’t want one after marriage, it became clear to her that it’s going to be an issue. So she turned down the arranged marriage. “Having a dog is definitely not a temporary phase. I can’t abandon

In that small town in Northeast India, I was struggling to find a network on my Nokia phone. Shunting to and from the gate of the house in search of any tiny bit of the phone signal, I was enjoying my quiet stay far away from home. It had been two days since I'd spoken to my parents, and that must

Roy Chambers is a marijuana farmer from St. James, Jamaica and he believes that he has what it takes to woo the world’s most powerful man into offering up his daughter’s hand in marriage: lots and lots of sticky ganja. The Jamaican weed farmer has offered President Barack Obama his 10-acre