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Slough Express
Cupid Crosses Racial Divide |
SLOUGH EXPRESS - Friday, January 10, 1992
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MIXED race marriages are on the increase thanks to a unique dating agency.
For the Laj marriage bureau from Goodman Park, Slough, specialises in playing cupid
between Asian women and white men ... Although it also arranges marriages between Asians.
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Company boss, Mr Sushil Kumar Verma, said: "The Asian ladies are trying to escape the male domination where
they are always given orders."
The trend first started about three years ago when the women coming forward were mainly divorced in their 30s,
often with young children. Such women would find it difficult to remarry men from their own community.
But now the girls are often young and single, unable for cultural reasons to meet partners at parties or in pubs.
"The white men are coming because they reckon the Asian women will stay for longer and be more faithful,"
said Mr Verma.
"It wouldn't have been possible 10 to 15 years ago, but in another 10 years it will be completely acceptable."
"Over the 12 years I've been doing it hundreds and hundreds of couples have got married. It really is a very
large number, I even get letters from people in America."
Mr Verma has given three examples of marriages he has arranged.
- The Englishman married the East African woman after a six week courtship.
Her parents were separated which made her less acceptable to the families of prospective Hindu bridegrooms.
- A 31 year old Roman Catholic sales rep travelled from the Midlands to Scotland to meet the 27 year old Christian
from Pakistan
"I am looking for an Asian lady to cook me Asian food," he had joked.
- A school teacher married a divorced Sikh woman who had been cheated on by her first husband, also a Sikh.
They had married in India but he had not told her he already had two children by a wife in Britain.
She only discovered this when she arrived unexpectedly in London six years later.
After the marriage the man wrote to Mr Verma: "You really did provide the perfect match."
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