First published in The Guardian, Saturday 11 September 2010
Priya Basil was told from a young age that she would only ever be able to marry a fellow Sikh First published in The Guardian, Saturday 11 September 2010 Priya Basil with her sister'You can marry any man you want – as long as he's Sikh." This warning was issued to me and my sister, by our parents, at an early age. Most children accept such nonsense without question. I'm ashamed to say I did, too, even though I was struck by the dissonance between the parental caution and the fact that nothing about us was especially Sikh. From our short hair, to our penchant for beefburgers, to our inability to name the Ten Gurus of Sikh history, we probably would have been found unacceptable by any truly Sikh family. Nevertheless, I didn't expect I would ever have cause to go against my parents' wishes because, in those days, I didn't like boys.
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