No Dating Till You're Married
Each week, debut South Asian author and presenter, Leela Rani Dua, reads you a chapter from her novel, No Dating Till You're Married, in this audiobook podcast.
No Dating Till You're Married is a cross-cultural coming of age story, set between the nostalgia of the 90s and the millennial 2020s, following first-generation Indian-American, Aria Kohli.
Everyone is getting married except Aria, and she's just fine with that. Aria Kohli, born to Indian immigrant parents and raised amongst her American peers, has led a semi-charmed kinda life. She’s got good friends, one who comes with benefits, parents who, as far as Indian parents go, are pretty chill, and a job she likes and is good at. Although she doesn't always feel like she fits in with the Indian diaspora that she is ancestrally connected to, the rest of her life is really starting to come together as long as she only goes home occasionally. But when her mother gets sick and her best friend-with-benefits wants a real relationship, she must decide which piece of each culture will define her adulthood.
Gilmore Girls meets Crazy Rich Asians.
New episodes drop weekly on Thursdays on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
No Dating Till You're Married has been shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2019.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Chapter 25: The 30-Something Gang
Lucy and Aria have been bffs forever and have been there for each other for equally as long. From the 90s through today, through parent problems, school struggles, and now adulting. This week, it's u…
Chapter 24: The Issue with Girls and Boys
Aria surprises Dylan with dinner for their rewatch of the revival of their favorite TV show from college. From the same era as Friends, the OC, the Hills, and Desperate Housewives, The Issue with Gir…
Chapter 23: Diners, Drives, and Weird Vibes
Doctor Rahul offers to drive Aria home from the hospital. She wants to call her boyfriend, Dylan, to pick her up. But when Rahul insists, she reluctantly agrees. But then Rahul and her mom conspire t…
Chapter 22: Hospital Blues
After Aria gets an emergency call that her mom is in the hospital while at lunch with Hayleigh, the girls rush to see her, only to find Rahul there, playing Doctor McDreamy in the eyes of Aria's pare…
Chapter 21: My First Loves
This week, Aria wakes up with the very first love of her life, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It's not what you think! Ok, maybe it's exactly what you think! But that poster has been there since her teenage…
Chapter 20: Dinner with Friends
The gang gets together at Hayleigh and Todd's for dinner and a catch up in which they spill all of the tea. Life updates abound. Dylan and Aria are being totally nauseatingly cute honeymoon stage cou…
Chapter 19: Double Dipping
This week we make like Marty McFly, jump in our DeLorean, and visit 1982 to spend time with Sunita and Anil before Aria is born while they're out at Walmart.
Then we're Back to the Future, well, pres…
Chapter 18: World's Best Boss
Aria and Dylan are working hard in this week's chapter!
Aria's company gets a big opportunity with a TV entertainment network. It's not quite Netflix, but it's what these social media all stars have b…
Chapter 17: The Good Doctor
In this week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married, the Kohlis face the big C, cancer, and embark on a journey through the healthcare system. You'll never guess who Sunita's doctor is and how th…
Chapter 16: All In
In this week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married, Dylan and Aria have a talk, like "the talk", while they watch The Casino episode of The Office. Do they end up like season 1 Jim and Pam or th…
Chapter 15: Old habits
In this week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married, Aria emulates Britney Spears, "Oops, I did it again!" Hayleigh confronts Aria about her will they/won't they situationship with Dylan. Hayleig…
Chapter 14: Timing is everything
In this week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married we travel to India with the Kohli family, circa 1992, to visit Nani (grandmother) and the big Indian family, aunties, uncles, cousins, oh my! F…
Chapter 13: Cake and Friendship
This week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married takes us back to college when the girls first meet Louis in the dorms. Then we're back to endless wedding prep when Aria and Lucy, inspired by th…
Chapter 12: I see your gossip & raise you mine
In this week's episode of No Dating Till You're Married, Sonia's wedding properly kicks off with the henna / mehndi ceremonies. In the words of the iconic Shah Rukh Khan in Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge…
Chapters 10 & 11: Available for Marriage
Aria is participating in wedding prep for both Hayleigh's and Sonia's weddings, all the while getting judged (and set up) for still being single. Will she find someone at the wedding festivities or w…
Chapter 9: The Boy's Family
Sonia and Vivek kick off their wedding festivities by getting engaged surrounded by their extended family at the Kohli's house, sealing the deal with a huge diamond ring and Indian sweets (mithai).
Th…
Chapter 8: Getting Girls Married Off
This week we see the stories of two Indian women as they go through the process of marriage, arranged by their families. First, Sunita meets Anil in 1980's India and then, worlds away, Sonia gets en…
Chapter 7: Lucy and Matt
It's another double ep! First, we grab Totino's pizza rolls in 1991, The we hop to the millennial 2020s for a country club lunch, in this week's audiobook podcast episode of No Dating Till You're Ma…
Chapter 6: Kohli Girls Go Out
We've got another double header for this week's installment of our audiobook podcast, No Dating Till You're Married.
First we spend some time with Aria's Mom, Sunita, in New Delhi, circa 1978. Our po…
Chapter 5: Reboots & Rom-coms
In this week's installment of our audiobook podcast, No Dating TIll You're Married, we've got a double dose of our story. We start by flashing back to 1998 for some 90s millennial high-school nostalg…