idontwantdowry.com is reportedly the only matrimonial website in India, for brides and grooms who want to tie the knot without
dowry.
Dowry is one of the problems that modern India is still struggling to overcome. It is reported that The National Crime Records Bureau reported 7618 ‘dowry deaths’ in 2006. Greedy consumerism has aggravated the dowry problem.
Satya Naresh, the 38 year old CEO and founder of idontwantdowry.com has successfully conducted three matrimonial ‘meets’ or ‘Swayamvaram’s, as it used to be called in ancient India for such like minded couples.
Swayamvaram , incidentally, used to be a
congregation of ‘eligible’ bachelors, mostly princes or kings who vied with one another for the ‘hand’ of some beautiful princess. The noteworthy point here is that it is the lady who chose her life partner out of the hopefuls, usually by garlanding him!
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