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She frequently talks about the problems of minority groups in developing countries and projects that are undertaken to solve them. Mridu has worked with TIME, Marie Claire, Ms., ELLE, Parade.com, Women's eNews, The World & I, and East West Magazine. She also contributes to US Airways, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Spirituality & Health, Asian Woman, Writer's Digest, and Girls' Life, among others.She has been quoted in or interviewed by several media outlets including NPR.
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Venue? Check. Lehnga? Check. Jewellery? Check. Wedding cards? Check. Flower arrangements? Check. Detectives? Check that, too. AW investigates the latest trend in Indian Weddings. 
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The ladies-only train is a unique space. It is a market and a restaurant. It is the counselor's leather sofa. It is the movie without the ticket, the therapy without the bill. Women from all walks of life--rich and poor, religious and athiest, the burkha-clad housewife and the skirt-wearing college student-- share the feeling of security in this women-only space.
It's the same instinct of "feeling right" that drove Line, 48, to get up one September morning last year, dress in black jeans and a blue jumper, strap on her bags, and leave her home in Norway on a bicycle, to start a soul-searching journey through Europe and Asia.
Even in a rapidly developing India, arranged marriages remain popular. These days, brides and grooms often match up online and the first people in the screening process may be professional detectives, not parents.
Earning little more than Rs. 100 per show, they perform in small theatres, villages, local parks, even on the roadside. Their movements are perfectly coordinated, their dramatically delivered dialogues impressive. And it's only when you see the ropes placed strategically around the stage to demarcate the boundaries that you begin to question, that you look closer and realize-- almost all the performers in the troupe of Anyadesh are blind. 
Indian women often lose social standing and ties when their husbands die. But if widows are HIV-positive the stigma and isolation can be extreme. For the past few years, however, a marriage bureau in Gujarat helps some find new spouses.