Single ladies, stop listening to ‘Rishta Auntie’
SLOUGH, ENGLAND: Last week I happened to visit two friends locally on a Tuesday afternoon. They texted at 19:00 to ask if they could turn up, got on the train at 19:15 and were at my door at 20:02. Normally, if someone tipped me off to an unscheduled dinnertime pop-in, I’d do the sensible thing by concocting a previous engagement. However, fake evening plans were not necessary in this case, because these two friends – a scientist and a dentist, respectively – occupy the tiny center point of the Venn diagram that includes the following categories: Pakistani, single, successful, female
