{"id":8461,"date":"2009-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/17\/the-dream-of-bollywood-like-marriages\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"the-dream-of-bollywood-like-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/17\/the-dream-of-bollywood-like-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of Bollywood-like Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollywood-weddings.com\/Home.html\">www.bollywood-weddings.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, November 19, 2009: Kavita Ramdya&#8217;s debut book, Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement And Marriage In Hindu America (Lexington Books), tries to answer the age-old questions, &#8220;Why do we fall in love with the people we fall in love with?&#8221; and &#8220;Why do we marry the people we choose to marry?&#8221; To answer these questions &#8211; the ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, and financial qualities &#8211; and what our choice means in terms of expressing our national identity, Kavita Ramdya does an anthropological study of Indian-American Hindus in the tri-state New York area. <\/p>\n<p>Kavita finds that Bollywood emerges as a significant force in formulating conceptions of love and identity. Bollywood culture &#8211; it&#8217;s fashionable aesthetic and symbolic representation of a modernized India &#8211; becomes the method by which American-raised Indian Hindus negotiate two diametrically-opposed value sets: that of pre-modern India and mainstream America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.bollywood-weddings.com UNITED STATES, November 19, 2009: Kavita Ramdya&#8217;s debut book, Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement And Marriage In Hindu America,&#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-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","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=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}