Apropos to your article on the NRI marriage booklet. I am saddened by the generalisation and pin-pointing metted out to NRI grooms. Not everyone is out to con the bride's parents in India. I do agree that there are a number of NRI who take advantage of their status and fool families in India but it is also true that a significantly large number of brides leave India and have a very comfortable and quality life.
Husbands not treating their wifes properly is more widespread in India itself and NRI con-grooms are a small percentage of the actual happy marriages that take place between NRI grooms and Indian brides. Moreover, a large number of girls or their families are more interested in having a NRI groom and actually advertise as such, seeeing it as a shortcut to happiness and prosperity.
I just want to put across the other side of the story. I got married in 2004 and took my wife to my country of residence. But soon found out that all she wanted from me was a lot of money to spend on herself and her parents. She basically wanted me to cut-off contact from my parents so that she could call her parents to live with me. We are divorced now. I was lucky.
