Young Jain Singles Gather to Mingle in California

June 21, 2002

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

On June 21, 2002 The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on the Jain Forum for Friendship in California where "more than 150 eligible men and women - all followers of Jainism, an Indian religion with strict interpretations of pacifism, ecological awareness, and vegetarianism - came to mix and mingle in Long Beach on a recent weekend at the first Jains singles conference... 'This is for our generation, which is caught between cultures,' said Komal Shah, 28, co-chair of the Jain Forum for Friendship... The meeting was designed to fuse the efficiencies of Indian arranged introductions with the free-spirited style of dating in the West."