MATRIMONIALS

Seeking Grooms

Parents of 33-year-old highly qualified Vegetarian Hindu girl working and well settled in good locality in Sydney, seeking an educated, teetotaller and good family background boy. Prefer Australian citizen or PR. Please contact ausshubham123@gmail.com

Seeking a suitable match for a 33-year-old girl, 5’6”,Melbourne based CPA working as a Consultant. The boy should be well qualified professional settled in Australia with a minimum height of 5’9”. Contact n.bhandari085@gmail.com or + 61433391881

Seeking a well settled, professional match for 28-year-old Vegetarian Punjabi girl. She is an Australian citizen. Her complexion is wheatish. She has completed a BA and BEd in Primary Education. She is soft spoken and gentle. Currently working as a Purchasing Officer in a private company. PR or Citizen only. Email: meena.khepar@hotmail.com or contact 0401 680 297 after 6pm.

Seeking a suitable match for a 29-year-old, height 5’10” girl from a well settled family. She has done B.Com., Masters in SocialWork and is working in Emirates Airways as cabin crew, Dubai UAE. Only elder sister settled in Luxembourg, parents leading retired life in Vadodara. Please contact on +91 9826836130, mehta.hemant2@gmail.com

Seeking professionally qualified settled match for Sydney based, never married Aus Citizen, Hindu, Punjabi Khatri 45, 5'3" slim, fair, attractive girl. Girl is postgraduate and not seen Barfi? Have you not seen Mary Kom? She is a wonderful actress and the only Indian entertainer to have crossed to mainstream Hollywood in recent years. Here she is, minding her own business, perfecting her craft, trying to keep everyone entertained with her talent - and bewakuf log like you and your husband come along and judge her. And what vast personal experience do you and your na samajh hubby have that you know silicon from real? Tumhare paapi man me to sub kuch silicon lag raha hoga, nah? Look, unless you yourself have entertained millions of people, and have achieved fame east and west, then you have no right to judge Priyanka. Leave her alone. And if she is on TV, YouTube, Facebook, then you need to review your own social media accessibility habits, you bud tehzeeb. Go hide in sharam in the corner for exposing your backward samajh.

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Wanted professionally qualified, well settled match for a a pretty, smart, charming B Tech (CS), 30 years old 5'7", Anshik Manglik Agarwal girl, Working with NAB in Sydney. If interested, Please contact +91 9990953751 or +91 8505911149 OR email on 1952@ gmail.com or Chatterji.anita9@gmail.com

Seeking Brides

Seeking 25-30-year-old Hindu/Punjabi girl from Australia for our 32-year-old Specialist Doctor son, 5’9", born and brought up in Sydney. Please respond: gupta_rsr@hotmail. com or ph 0414282510

Alliance invited for well educated, divorced, 5' 9", 1975-born Sikh Khatri boy. Working and self-employed earning 100k per year. Looking for compatible Sikh girl from Australia. Early marriage. Phone: 0422102242 or Email: ghai07@yahoo.com

Indian Christian Protestant parents, seeking a suitable match for their 38-year-old son, a Software Engineer, born and brought up in Australia. Seeking Protestant girl between 28-34 years. Email: sammy5073@gmail. com, Mob: 0403836360

Seeking professionally qualified settled match for Sydney based, never married Aus Citizen, Hindu, Punjabi Khatri 44, 6', athletic built boy. He is project manager with engineering background and is working in a private organisation. Please send details with photoIndsyd2016@gmail.com.

Box-ticking, or true recognition?

Dear Auntyji

My name is Jaitun Nisha and I am a data scientist working a large bank in Sydney. I am also a hijaban - which means I wear the hijab to work. Now our bank has been talking about our diversity measures, and last week, my manager advised me that I was getting a promotion and that I was being put forward for a management role. Auntyji, I have been working really hard, and at first I was really pleased with this recognition - however, I have begun to think about this and am wondering whether they are giving me a promotion because I am a token Muslim and I help make their diversity numbers look good. I don't want my colleagues to think that's the only reason I got the promotion. What should I do - should I turn down the role?

AUNTYJI SAYS

Taubatauba! What is going on in the month of February that I am getting all sorts of dimwits writing to me about crazy stuff. Well, listen to me, and listen to me real good Jaitun Nisha. While it's true that organisations want to improve their diversity measures, this must not come at the risk of tokenism. It is always going to be a meritocracy - because everyone will see through any box ticking exercise. So if your naseeb khul gayi hai and you have been offered a promotion, then masha Allah, you must give thanks for it, acknowledge the barakat that has come your way and work damn hard to ensure no one will ever think you got the role because you tick a diversity box. You yourself have said that you have worked hard - and do you know how rare it is to find good data scientists? So here you are, being smart, working hard, getting recognised and you immediately allow the shaitaan to colour your thinking? Now that's not very scientist-like, is it? In fact, if you really are a data scientist, you will also know that diversity metrics need to yield results - and if there is tokenism, very soon, the whole thing will fall apart, like a boondi laddoo in the hands of a fat little petu. So stop thinking like an unpadh ganwar and accept your recognition and show the world what Jaitun Nisha the ninja data scientist can do. Salaam.