They strongly encouraged me to enter medicine instead, even though by then I had showed no aptitude whatsoever for biology and had even ran out of the room bawling when my teacher insisted I dissect a fetal pig. Like Rishi with his comic art, I was told that while writing was nice, it was not a career respectable Indian girls had. It was also hard for my family to understand my need for creative freedom. Like Dimple, I nearly had an apoplectic fit, which only mystified everyone else. Growing up a teenager in two different cultures didn’t make things any easier! I distinctly remember having a conversation with a well-intentioned relative in which she insisted that, as a married woman one day, I would need to cultivate the fine art of dressing up for my husband daily before he arrived home from work. I moved to the US from India when I was fifteen years old. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.Although I never did have my marriage secretly arranged by my parents (and thank goodness-I doubt they could have ever found me someone as adorable as Rishi), I’ve definitely felt the same generational/cultural clash with my family as Dimple struggles with in When Dimple Met Rishi. The Shahs and Patels didn't mean to start turning the wheels on this "suggested arrangement" so early in their children's lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?ĭimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out.
Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him-wherein he'll have to woo her-he's totally on board. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn't have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers.right? Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma's inexplicable obsession with her finding the "Ideal Indian Husband." Ugh. The inspiration for the Netflix original series Mismatched!Įveryone is talking about this New York Times bestselling rom-com that Mindy Kaling called "utterly charming!" Eleanor & Park meets Bollywood in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about two Indian-American teens whose parents conspire to arrange their marriage.ĭimple Shah has it all figured out.
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