At the event, there were around five women to every man. Well-turned-out women sat around dejected, twiddling their thumbs, waiting to speak to the select few.
Sadly, it's not an isolated example. Up and down the country, hundreds of women in their 30s and 40s within the Asian Muslim community are struggling to find a marriage partner.
[A COMMENT] As a white male, if my essential criteria for marrying someone was that they be white and of the same religion then the Guardian would consider me something of a bigot would it not?
When people from the Indian subcontinent consider that only a partner from the same part of the sub-continent with the same religion is appropriate, they get a sympathetic article like this one. Why? [Guardian Cif] Read more
