Short read: To marry or not to marry: What’s stopping young urban Indians from saying ‘I do’

The opening lines of this insightful piece from Rinku Ghosh has one of the central characters featured in the story saying, ““Marriage today has become a complex challenge. Everybody has their individual goals and pressures to deal with. And aligning them or accommodating each other without acrimony and regret is the toughest task. No one partner has to subduct the other. That stasis may take time and more importantly, the intent to find. If I find an equal companionship, I will honour it. But you do not need to marry to do so,” he says.””

At that point we thought that this story is one of social change in India i.e. young Indians – prosperous and free – choosing not be bound by the chains of marriage. But we were WRONG.

Ms Ghosh’s story goes on to explain that financial and career-related pressures are playing havoc with Indians. So much so that 1 in 4 young Indians now say that they don’t want to get married (up from 1 in 6 a decade ago). And over the past five years, India’s divorce rate is up by a THIRD. As automation and AI make it easier for Indian employers to dispense with their well-educated employees, these pressures are likely to get worse before they get better.

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