ST Picks: Learning to become an Indian bride, one saree at a time

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The writer and her husband were married in a Hindu ceremony at Sri Muneeswaran Temple in Queenstown in November 2018. SINGAPORE - When my husband first told his mother about me, she had two questions: “Is she Indian?” and “What’s her date and time of birth?” After my mother- and father-in-law’s initial surprise that their son had chosen to bring home a Eurasian girl, they consulted a Hindu astrologer, who proclaimed that there was “no better lid for the jar”. Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.

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