Recently it was proved that India has entered the 21st century.

My friend Mr. Kapoor agreed to register his marriage-age daughters with any one of the Indian Matrimonial sites Iwished. It was not an easy achievement. He has an avowedly 18th century mind set. 'Come what may I will not change' was his declared stance.

I think he got desperate.

His prolonged tryst with metro to visit scores of houses to search grooms for his daughters must have tired him. All visits had failed. He discussed his troubles with me in utter despair.

'Well, the solution is simple', I said. 'Matrimonial scenario is changing in India.
Once there were scores of go-betweens to help. The family astrologer, the relatives and even the elders of the whole 'mohalla' took pride in facilitating as many marriages as possible.'

'Those were some days,' he wistfully sighed.

'Marriage was a sort of communal affair. I remember I was married to your 'Bhabhi' by a proposal brought by our family astrologer.'

'That's right my friend. But times do change. We must also adapt to remain relevant. That is why the Indians are increasingly searching marriage websites.
Let us register your daughters with any of the Indian matrimonial sites facilitating matrimony'.

'These new fangled gimmicks are merely a clutter of mute profiles?' he averred. 'The people who post details on these marriage websites could easily bloat their profiles just for hooking a marriage partner online.

You can never believe the verity of claims and when you tried, the same rigmarole of visits follows.'

'No. You are not right. There are checks and balances of all types. Hundreds of people are regularly tying the proverbial knot with the help of these marriage websites.' I said.

My friend was still wary of the idea of matrimonial sites and their services. I had to really persuade him to help. At last he acquiesced to the persuasion. The formalities were completed. The first set of proposals became available. It was then that the real troubles started.

The proposals were collected, bandied around the house and everyone opined. Some letters were posted. The responses began taking a very long period. The first set of profiles chosen by us from a list was exhausted without results. Even after help from the marriage websites it was proving an uphill task.The persons contacted were either not available or chose not to reply or were already married.

A preliminary meeting with one prospect somehow failed to click into success.

It was then that the facebook fans - Mr. Kapoor's daughters - introduced us to marryinaweek- the facebook matrimonial application. We now discovered the novel methodology of this marriage website to facilitate the users get marriage partners online.

It had hit upon wonderful basics for helping matrimony.

We found it was different. The promoters had tried to repair most of the lacunae that bogged down the other Indian matrimonial sites.

It was free to all facebook users.

It had taken care of fake details by taking data from the facebook profiles of the registering users and raised the bar of authenticity by permitting 'express interest' only to those who had 25 or more friends on facebook.

The delay in response was taken care of by making user's compatible matches available on the app for expression of interest only for a week.

The compatibility of matches came from the filtering of facebook statuses posted by users.

Above all there was genuine transparency in checking the user's claim because the facebook profiles said it all.

The users had very little chance of faking interests, status, family history and background and other relevant personal information.

It augmented its efforts of matrimonial pursuit by arranging speed dating events where the registered app users met compatible matches in a one-to one encounter.
This effort increased the chances of getting a match many fold.

This website was definitely going to help getting marriage partners online.