India

To improve your marriage prospects in some communities in India, you must be considered to have an impeccable reputation, and with 90 per cent of Indian marriages still being arranged, most brides and grooms do not know each other very well before their wedding day. To bridge this information gap, private detectives, including India’s first female detective, Rajani Pandit, have the job of getting the low-down on the character of potential spouses to determine if they are suitable to enter into marriage. Rules of marriage in some parts of India can include a preference of not marrying outside your caste or religion. To step outside these boundaries often leads to couples being subjected to the wrath and sometimes lethal vengeance of their own families. This leads to multi-caste couples running away and turning to “The Love Commandos”, an organisation that shelters and protects just such couples.