1 + 1 ≠ 3, or 2 Even

An Indian bride walked out of the wedding when her husband-to-be couldn't perform a simple addition.

the bride posed the following math problem to the man she was due to wed: 15 + 6 = ?

The groom answered 17, and the bride fled. The groom’s family tried to get her back, but she refused to marry someone who couldn’t add.

A cascade of calumnies has rained upon the ditched groom by a lazy media that accepts this story at face value. There are alternative explanations:

"I use a computer for all calculations, that is, unless you want me to do the taxes by hand."

"In my family questions are given in base 10 and answers are given in base 14."

"How do I get out of marrying someone who gives a math test before her wedding?"

"You're bringing 15 people to live with the 6 of us?"

In the United States half the math PhD's are Indian and the other half are Chinese. An Indian guy who can't do arithmetic? C'mon!!

But seriously, math provides a reason for the recent pickiness exhibited by Indian brides:

India has 37 million more men than women....As of 2011, there were 940 Indian women for every 1,000 men.