Once you see the girl directly, you can easily check whether her face measures up. The figure is a different matter altogether. Women have conducted more research into packaging themselves than have been conducted on the entire US space effort. You should realize that, while you were struggling in your engineering program in undergraduate on grad school, women were learning the techniques of camouflage. By packaging herself so that she seems attractive to a non-resident Indian for about 10 minutes, she can earn all that it took the NRI 10 years of hard work to realize.
Women are extremely honest with their friends about their positive and negative points.
They are intensely aware of their flaws, and work systematically towards concealing them. So, if she seems to have a liking for loose, flowing sarees or salwar-kameez, keep your mind open to the possibility that she may be overweight. It it is wound demurely around her back, she probably has spare tires. She is probably holding her paunch in. One way to approach such a problem is the following.