Indian spinsters - 'a cause for despair'

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An excerpt from a Reuters report on Liz Hurley, filed by one Jonathan Allen: "Indian women are commonly married off in their teens to a man of their parents' choosing, and are a cause of despair if they are still a spinster at 30. Even the humblest family will save up to make sure their children are paraded regally around the neighbourhood by lantern-bearers and a brass band." An apt read for International Women's Day. What appalling, mindless bracketing, myopic stereotyping, West-side perspective and the inability to look beyond and rise above the "elephant-sadhu-snake-charmer" state of being! Anyway, no fuming. Dear Jonathan, this is for you. Please take note and do consider this a helpful "template" for all your West trend stories. Anyway, your generalisations are tantamount to saying the understated: "In United States (or whatever country you come from), the concept of....