Jain Marriage Mixes Worlds

July 20, 1998

Source: The New York Times

On July 20, 1998, the New York Times ran an article which reported on the arranged union of a Jain native New Yorker (an investment banker) with a Jain woman of India. "In modern immigrant families -- where the bindings between new land and homeland are stronger than ever before -- the children almost inevitably find themselves pushed and pulled between the culture and values of their parents and those of the larger American society. Such ambiguities are perhaps never more acute than when a decision about marriage -- the arc of one's life -- is at ahand. But what emerges at defining moments like Vinit Sethi's wedding is the way many of these children search for, and find solace and grounding in, their connections to the world back home."