Before you start getting any funny ideas, let me make it very clear- this write up is only about establishing a Bride Rating Agency . If there is a need for credit rating agencies like S & P, Moody’s, Crisil, then it is high time we have agencies to rate the potential brides and bridegrooms also. What is more important for a middle class person—good finance or good marriage? Ideally it should be both. First and foremost, good marriage and then good finance. Such a rating agency will be a boon to the growing Indian middle class, in many ways. This will be the best way to ensure that ‘arranged marriages’ will continue to be accepted by the educated new generation. Some of the parameters for bride rating could be, inter-alia, the following, for which, suitable scores and weights can be assigned. a. Appearance---complexion, height, weight, shape, physical beauty. b. Health—D...