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The receiver of text is Western people in her age, who does not know much about Indian culture, she explains that a girl in India has three words to start her life with "Mamma, Pappa and marriage". P.142 L 29. She tells us a little more about the differences between western and traditional marriage on page 146 paragraf 10-15 and last paragraph in the text 23-28.

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She wanted more freedom when she was younger.

"dating for dating's sake" - is a thing western people do, and she is not that into.

She likes that indian men know what they want, because she gets older and wants someone she can settle down with.

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Anita Jain starts her article, where she tells us about how her father and his traditions, and view on how marriage is suppose to be. It starts with an email she gets to her father from a boys father, so this tells us that it's from a dating website. It's a confusing opening because we don't get a presentation of the characters and what the article really is about, thats why it's not a good opening.

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The purpose of the text is firstly to inform about her own culture and how it is to date indian men and westerne men. Secondly to entertain by seeing the funny side her dating life and of her parents expectations.
examples:
' my mother herself- like to say of arranged marriage," it's not that there isn't love. It's just that it comes after the marriage".  -p.146.
my parents believe there are only two legitimate professions: doctor and engineer( not medicine and engineering, but doctor and engineer). p.143.
'It's a common online-dating complaint that people are noting like their profiles. ..... p.145 l.10- 18.

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Anita Jain is raised in an culture were marriage is extremely important due to an old view on gender roles. The parents goal is to find her a suitable husband who can provide her with security and happiness.
She is 32 years and has crossed the unmarriageable threshold for an average Indian woman.
pp 142 l 39 Age and pressure.
pp 141 l 14 Age and parents.
pp 142 l 30 Culture
pp146 l 23 Culture

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Give examples of the way Jain uses humour when she describes

Her parents' attitude to marriage:
important for them that she gets married ASAP because she is 32, and the parents see her as 'expired'
example on p. 141 ll. 13-16 "...having crossed the unmarriageable threshold for an Indian woman, 30, two years ago. My parents, in a very earnest bid to secure my eternal happiness, have been trying to marry me off to, well, just about anyone lately."

the westerners she has dated:
She mentions on p. 144 ll. 10-17 that the western men are unstable, and that she goes on a date with them late at night so sometimes she falls asleep in the middle of the date.

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On page 146, ll. 25-28, she shares that arranged marriage could be a possibility, because she seems tired of the whole dating circus. It makes sense, because she is getting older and she wants to settle down. She doesn't say outright that she wants to get married, but she insinuates it.