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What The Papers Say...
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'A traditional way to arrange a wedding,
marriage bureaus are an ideal way to find a partner without
meddling family members. By registering your details the
bureau takes on the responsibility of finding you a match
and arranging a meeting. Suman Marriage Bureau, the largest
organisation in the UK began in 1972. Owner, Parag Bhargava
says: "We lay the foundation for a couple and they
take it from there without the hassle of family obligations".'
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Eastern Eye, 3 December 2004
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'Parag Bhargava is co-owner of Suman Marriage
Bureau International, the oldest Asian introductions agency
in Britian, which has helped to arrange 7,000 marriages
in 32 years.'
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The Times, 17 January 2004
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'The Suman Marriage Bureau, in the heart
of the Asian community in Southall, Middlesex, was founded
in the UK in 1972....' '...They arrange and facilitate marital
matches for Hindus and muslims from all over the globe.'
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Men's Health Magazine, March
2002
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'The problem for Asian women is not that
they are being forced to marry but that a growing number
of them are not marrying at all, the owner of a marriage
bureau said yesterday. Suman Bhargava, who set up the Suman
Marriage Bureau in Southall, west London, 29 years ago and
is familiar with Asian social trends, was commenting on
David Blunkett's remark that "we don't tolerate the
intolerable under the guise of cultural difference".'
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The Daily Telegraph, 12 December
2001
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'Mr and Mrs Bhargava , who were honoured
with prestigious Indian awards for their achievements in
promoting the role of marriage in society, have helped arrange
some mixed-race and non-Asian matches as well as thousands
of traditional Indian weddings.'
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The Ealing Leader, The Ealing
Gazette & The Southall Gazette, 11 May 2001
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'The Suman Marriage Bureau, the first-ever
"marriage agency" in London, is still doing bustling
business.''
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The Asian Age, 25 July 1998
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'Suman and Ramesh Bhargava have the distinction
of being a couple who, having found each other, have devoted
their lives to playing Cupid to the world.'.....'The Suman
Marriage Bureau, which made headlines as the first bureau
of its kind in the UK to institutionalise the hitherto family
business of "arranging" marriages for Asians, opened on
December 9, 1972.'
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The Asian Age, 24 January
1998
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'So well served are majority tastes, specialist
agencies have been formed, serving..' 'and Asians (the Suman
Marriage Bureau).'
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Sunday Times, 5 March 1995
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'his marriage bureau is proving very popular
with Asians for whom arranged marriages are still a moral
duty, despite their western lifestyle.'
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You & Your Family Magazine
- Telegraph Supplement, 19 November 1993
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'to bring together parents and young
people of similar caste, religious and class background,
Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists etc.'
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Asian Times, 24 August 1993
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'Some marriages are made in heaven and
some are made in Southall, a western outpost of London noted
for its high proportion of immigrants from the Indian sub-continent.'......'Hundreds
of wedding photographs plaster the walls'
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Financial Times, 11 February
1989
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'The Suman bureau in Southall is cutting
across cultural and religious barriers by matching Asian
women with eligible, white Britons'
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The Times of India, 13 December
1987
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'Successful matchmaking has to be honest.
Prospective brides and grooms are listed with scrupulous
accuracy'
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The Sunday Telegraph, 12 December
1982
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'Some marriages are made in heaven, but
a lot more are made right here on earth, and many of them
by arrangement'....'arranging the marriages of others has
become...a valuable function in London's Asian immigrant
community. The idea that boy meets girl, they fall in love
and marry is a Western notion that does not accord with
the Asian custom that family meets family, and if they agree,
boy and girl are allowed to marry.'
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The Sun, 19 September 1982
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'Happy marriages may be made in heaven,
but the aspiring husbands are putting their faith in the
strict and earthy practicalities of the arranged marriage
to find themselves a life time partner.'....'Most people
cross their fingers and hope they will be lucky in love.
But in West London there is a marriage bureau where the
organisers believe love comes a long way down the list of
priorities in choosing a lifetime partner.'....'In Britain
there is no such grapevine, and that is where the Suman
Marriage bureau comes in. Families get in touch with them
and they match them up with another family whose qualifications
are right for marriage purposes.'
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Evening Mail, 13 February
1980
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'the Suman Bureau will arrange as many
introductions as necessary. Many people marry the second
or third person they meet'
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Daily Mail, 7 November 1979
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