In the seventh episode, I speak to Sidharthan Maunaguru, Associate Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore on his recent book - Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War published by University of Washington Press in March 2019. Through the book, Maunaguru demonstrates how marriage has emerged as a process or an 'in-between' space where dispersed segments of the Sri Lankan Tamil community reunite across borders. Maunaguru's book enables us to see how this fragmented community rekindles connections and kinship through the marriage process and those places, figures, documents and artefacts that constitute it. The conversation begins by asking how Maunaguru got interested in anthropology and studying transnational marriage before probing why the everyday was so important to unpack in his research. Then we tackle what the 'in-between' space means and how that conceptualisation lends itself to explain how SL tamils get married across borders before moving to understand why wedding photos are so vital in this process and what they mean for couples and their families, both present and not. The conversation ends by thinking through the futures of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriages since the war's end and what markers could define its future going ahead.  Sidharthan Maunaguru - Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295745411/marrying-for-a-future/