Inside Nari Niketan
A Nari Niketan in Saharanpur, UP, reported to the state government in writing that Muslim girls were not finding Muslim boys to marry. Hence, it wrote, Muslim girls had expressed a willingness to marry non-Muslims. But in response to a report to this effect in an Urdu paper, many Muslim young men have volunteered to marry the girls from there. It appears that after a virtual campaign by this newspaper, Hindustan Express, all the Muslim girls found suitable Muslim boys!
In an editorial on October 20, the same paper congratulates “those young men who have owned up the poor daughters of the community...”