Anita Moorjani

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1,282 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 May

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No, arranged marriages.

And so one of my best friends got married literally as soon as we finished high school that summer.

We were on vacation.

And then my one of my best Indian friends says to me, my parents just got me engaged.

And I was like, what?

And then, so my parents didn't push me into it that soon.

But when I was 19, my other absolutely best friend who was like a sister to me, she got engaged.

So by the time I was 21, my parents are like, okay.

You're late now.

Yes.

They get to know them after they're engaged, but then it's too late to back out.

It's forced.

You're discouraged.

They don't call it forcing, but they discourage you.

Because I did that and I was shunned by the culture and the community.

It took me a little while because I still was rebelling, but they started to try to push me towards an arranged marriage.

And at first I said, no, I'm going to find my own husband.

But then I started to get lonely because all my British friends had gone on to university and careers.

Same with my Chinese friends.

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