Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist?
Hear Anita Jain and Sandeep Jauhar read at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Thursday August 7 at 7 pm.
16 West 32nd Street (between Broadway & 5th Avenue)
10th Floor
New York City
$5 suggested donation; open to public
Memoir night. In Marrying Anita: Quest for Love in New India (Bloomsbury, 2008), Anita Jain, a thirty-something New Yorker frustrated with Western dating norms, travels to Delhi with the goal of finding a husband using a somewhat more traditional method only to stumble upon a New India—a vibrant cosmopolitan place where she finds herself among a generation that enjoys bar-hopping, not to mention bed-hopping and all the other accoutrements of Westernized dating. Residency—and especially its first year, called “internship” is an apprenticeship legendary for its brutality. Intern: A Doctor’s Intitation (FSG, 2008) is Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a prominent teaching hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his assumptions about doctors and medicine.
Anita Jain has worked as a financial journalist in Mexico City, Singapore, London, New York and Delhi, where she currently lives. Publishers’ Weekly praises the “world weary yet earnest voice” within Jain’s debut, Marrying Anita. Prior to the publication of Marrying Anita, Jain wrote about her state-side dating experience in her 2005 New York Magazine piece, “Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist?”
Sandeep Jauhar is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Intern chronicles Jauhar’s first eighteen months in medicine, as a resident. Time magazine describes Intern as a “wise memoir [that] takes the readers to the heart of every young physician’s hardest test: to become a doctor yet remain a human being.” He writes regularly for and The New York TimesThe New England Journal of Medicine.
At the AAWW