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There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.