Salary check, suspected affair, gay: Why families are hiring spies to screen future sons, daughters-in-laws
Elaborate Indian weddings are big business, and for some families the first step of celebration is not to call a priest or a party planner – but a private detective
From an anonymous office in a New Delhi mall, matrimonial detective Bhavna Paliwal runs the rule over prospective husbands and wives – a booming industry in India, where younger generations are increasingly choosing love matches over arranged marriage.
The tradition of partners being carefully selected by the two families remains hugely popular, but in a country where social customs are changing rapidly, more and more couples are making their own matches.
The tradition of partners being carefully selected by the two families remains hugely popular, but in a country where social customs are changing rapidly, more and more couples are making their own matches.