{"id":3344,"date":"2003-07-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/30\/2003-07-30-cell-phone-matchmaking-in-india\/"},"modified":"2003-07-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-30-cell-phone-matchmaking-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/30\/2003-07-30-cell-phone-matchmaking-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Matchmaking in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-India-Marriage-Messaging.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BANGALORE, INDIA, July 27, 2003: The age-old tradition of arranged marriages is surviving in India, while technology strives to keep up. After using newspaper advertisements and web-sites to find a suitable partner for their son or daughter, parents can now subscribe to a text messaging service on their cell phone. Arun Sikka, vice-president for sales and marketing at RPG Cellular says, &#8220;Parents can register the profiles of their sons or daughters with us and ask for matching profiles. They just need to send a &#8216;short message service&#8217; to a specified number to do all this.&#8221; If a prospective match is found, a meeting can be arranged between the two families involved. So far Sikka&#8217;s company is not charging for this new service. Later on they will offer an exchange of photos and horoscopes as part of the service.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBANGALORE, INDIA, July 27, 2003: The age-old tradition of arranged marriages is surviving in India, while technology strives to keep,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}