On marriage, the rites of Kerala, wedding customs, and the search for a life partner.
Couples who pray together before the wedding find it natural afterwards. A simple pattern that works for engaged couples...
Life abroadBengaluru holds one of the largest Malayali Catholic populations outside Kerala. How families there search for a match w...
Using the serviceMatrimonial fraud is real and follows a small number of patterns. How to recognise them, what a genuine profile looks li...
Marriage preparationThe pennu kaanal is often polite, short and tells nobody very much. A set of questions — for the couple and for the pare...
Faith & devotionA marriage built on prayer is a marriage built to last. What Scripture says about praying together, and three simple hab...
Using the serviceMost matrimonial profiles say the same six things. What to write instead, what to leave out, and why one clear photograp...
Marriage preparationMarriages between Kerala's Catholic rites are common and entirely permitted. What actually changes — whose church, whose...
Faith & devotionHoroscope matching is common in Kerala, including among Christian families. What the Church teaches about astrology, and...
Faith & devotionDowry is illegal in India and rejected by the Church, yet the practice persists under other names. What the bishops have...
Life abroadWhen one side lives in the Gulf, Europe or North America, the marriage runs on two clocks — the family's and the immigra...
Life abroadKerala has sent nurses to the Gulf, Britain, Ireland and beyond for seventy years. When the bride is the one with the vi...
Weddings & customsThe Syro-Malankara Catholic Church celebrates marriage in the West Syriac tradition — the crowning, the blessing of the...