The bachelor enrolled in the four month call center training course at Orion Edutech after hearing about it from a friend in Bangalore, and hisparentsagreed to heft the 45, 000 rupee bill (900 dollars).
When asked if he thought he was vulnerable, he agreed, and said hisparents tried to stop him going out "because when I go out people try to stitch me up".
His words shut off the alarm bells in my head and I agreed to follow him into the racially slurred forest where we would attempt to change what hisparents, and so many, say in private to their kids about a mixed-race marriage.