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I learnt to become an Indian bride – one saree at a time
Like her Chinese grandmother, the writer married into an Indian family. One of them was disowned, the other embraced.
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The writer and her husband were married in a Hindu ceremony at Sri Muneeswaran Temple in Queenstown in November 2018.
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SINGAPORE - When my husband first told his mother about me, she had two questions – “Is she Indian?” and “What’s her date and time of birth?”
After my in-laws’ initial surprise that their son had chosen to bring home a Eurasian girl, they consulted a Hindu astrologer, who proclaimed that there was “no better lid for the jar”.
