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Indian Matchmaking... Tie and Die

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Sima Taparia - The Matchmaker Indian matchmaking seems like the perfect segue to explain my absence and presence on this blog. I had last posted here on 25 th December, 2017. I could no longer write the way I was writing earlier because I felt that the good out of me was being sucked out by the people around me. I wanted to write but couldn’t write, my friend Lulu couldn’t write because she wasn’t sure if she’d stick to it once she started. That’s how Bob and Lulu was born. We decided that, that blog would be our escape; our alter egos that people weren’t aware of were highlighted there. The blog was in parts revenge and mostly our way of telling people, “ In your face!” If you read some of my posts here between 2015 to 2017 you’ll realise that there was a lot of anger and sadness in those posts and I did not want to make my safe place on the internet a diary of sad stories.   Where did all the anger and sadness come from? Simple – My relatives and society. I learnt ...