The market for on-line matchmaking services is booming for Indians at home and abroad. Neeta Lal at Asia Sentinel:
Neha Kapur, 30, is a type 1 diabetic and that fact alone made it tough to find a marriage partner. For three years, Kapur’s parents searched to no avail for a prospective groom willing to risk a life with their only daughter. But finally the family was directed to diabeticmatrimony.com, a Web site that helped the Kapurs access a databank of eligible diabetic Indian bachelors around the world. Within two months, Kapur whittled down her choice to a London-based software designer to whom she is now happily married.
Unlike the days when an elderly aunt might be called in to solve such problems by using family networks, 9.5 million Indians are doing what Neha did and scouting for spouses in cyberspace this year, up from 5.5 million in 2006, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India. The figures are hardly surprising considering that India already hosts the fourth largest Internet population in the world – expected to reach 120 million users this year.
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