Marzec 2019

The Amazon Prime Video series, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, follows a pair of wedding organisers and their clients. Tara Khanna (Sobhita Dhulipala), the ambitious wife of businessman Adil Khanna (Jim Sarbh), and Karan Mehra (Arjun Mathur), an industrious young man with a bad run at entrepreneurship, are partners in Made in Heaven. The start-up is giving the bigger players in the wedding business a run for their money. The series is set in New Delhi, which offers up particular and peculiar idiosyncrasies and complexities. Season 2 of the series is going to be released in the first half of 2023.

Sierpień 2021

Contemporary Indian romance, intimacies, and marriages are far more complex than surveys, reality TV shows, or social institutions make them out to be

Wrzesień 2021

Analysis of NCRB data reveals that romantic relationships, including extra marital, account for more than ten per cent of all murders in the country.

Październik 2021

Indians consider compatibility, mutual interest as factors when looking for a life partner, survey finds

Listopad 2021

A recent survey has found that Indians still consider the appearance of a person when deciding on them while choosing their matrimony profile. Done by Betterhalf.ai, the survey findings state 43 percent of single Indians, out of 286 respondents, consider ‘looks’ as the foremost criteria on a matrimonial profile.

Grudzień 2021

The government of India wants to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. The idea is presented as empowering women, acting for their protection, education opportunities, and also in the name of gender equality. It is supposed to limit the marriage of children and adolescents. A special committee, the Jaya Jaitly committee, was set up which, after examining the data and receiving feedback from 16 universities and 15 NGOs, recommended increasing the age, increasing girls’ access to education, and introducing sex education into schools.

Styczeń 2022

In Telangana, the first wedding of a homosexual couple in this state took place. Love was pledged by Abhay Dange and Supriya Chakraborty. Officially, the ceremony was not legally binding – same-sex marriage is illegal all over India. However, the couple decided to exchange rings with a ‘promising ceremony’. You can find their love story here and here.

Luty 2022

The theme of the month (#MoodOfTheMonth) of Feminism in India is Redefining Love. Throughout the month, you can read articles that show different aspects of love. For details, check not only the link below, but also read more here and here. 

Marzec 2022

In these divisive times, love remains a mere blip — not the central character it once was — in most Hindi films.

Kwiecień 2022

Another advertising controversy. A screenshot taken from the website of clothing brand ‘Karagiri’, which shows a couple, has been shared with a message that says the brand is promoting ‘love jihad’. The reason for this accusation was the cap on the men’s head – it was assessed as an Islamic cap, however, it turned out to be a Maharashtrian cap.

Maj 2022

Modern Love is an American romantic comedy anthology streaming television series based on the weekly column of the same name published in The New York Times. It also has its local variations, and the Indian one has just been released. Modern Love Mumbai consists of six love stories with different themes and issues – from woman empowerment after divorce to homosexual relations.

Maj 2022

The Indian English-language series Decoupled is a sitcom story of a divorcing middle-class couple. The main characters try to end their marriage without hurting their family and friends. The series was accused of reproducing negative stereotypes, sexism, and misogyny. Read more on international media here. For Indian media, check the the link below. 

Czerwiec 2022

India saw its first 'sologamy' as Gujarat woman Kshama Bindu married herself, with all the wedding rituals of 'mehendi' and 'haldi'. 

Lipiec 2022

The second season of the Masaba Masaba series which tells the life of Masaba Gupta (played by herself), an enterprising fashion designer, and daughter of Neena Gupta (also played by herself) has just been released. The series begins with the announcement of the divorce of Masaba and her husband, and during both seasons, you can follow the attempts to establish a romantic relationship between the main character, who goes through various stages in her love life – from a desperate search for love to stopping dating at all.

Lipiec 2022

Indian Matchmaking is a Netflix reality show featuring Sima Taparia, a Mumbai-based matchmaker. Its services are used by the heroes and heroines of the show – residents of big cities, mainly in the United States, who are looking for romantic relationships. The second season of the show has just premiered.

Sierpień 2022

In an annual event in Madhubani district, grooms stand in public display and male guardians of the brides select them for marriage.

Wrzesień 2022

How food brings inter-caste, inter-faith couples and their families closer, resolves differences in India.

Październik 2022

Jharkhand, West Bengal top in worst state list in terms of child marriages: MHA. Around 54.9% of girls are married in West Bengal before attaining the age of 21 years, the figure for Jharkhand is 54.6% as against the national average of 29.5%, said the survey.

Listopad 2022

Mahendran and Deepa were strangers when they met at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in the southern Indian city of Chennai in 2020. But over months, they got to know each other better and fell in love. 

Wrzesień 2022

The cross-cultural romance is the newest in a long series of titles to explore the intricacies of the South Asian matrimonial process—or attempt to do so anyway.

Grudzień 2022

Maharashtra has set up a panel, named “Intercaste/ Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state level)”, to gather detailed information about couples in such marriages, and the maternal families of the women involved if they are estranged. The Eknath Shinde government claims the decision was prompted by the gruesome murder of 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar, allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in May. Walkar, who hailed from Vasai near Mumbai, was killed in Delhi.

Styczeń 2023

All interfaith marriages conducted according to Hindu rites under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 are void.

Luty 2023

The theme of the month (#MoodOfTheMonth) of Feminism in India in February 2023 is Love in Post Modern India.

As the editors claim: “Love in today’s post-modern and uber-cosmopolitan spaces exists because we have evolved our logic and understanding towards it as we have discarded the notions that power structure thrust on it particularly and essentially in the multicultural and multi-consumerist state of India.” Read also how pandemic caused a shift in intimate relationships and love in arranged marriages. 

Marzec 2023

“My parents recently found out about my serious relationship, and are now threatening to disown me. They fear I will marry for love, rather than going down the more “acceptable” route of arranged marriages. Why is dating still not accepted by Indian parents?”

Kwiecień 2023

In the third season of the reality show “Indian Matchmaking” Sima Taparia, a matchmaker from Mumbai moves to London to support her clients in the search for the perfect candidate for husband and wife.

The Netflix dating show claims that tradition can find love where modernity has failed. But all it does is reinforce age-old prejudices.

Read more in Outlook India, Indian Express and Times of India. 

Maj 2023

The Supreme Court of India has asserted that lover marriages were the leading cause of most divorces in the country.

Czerwiec 2023

Pride month (May) was celebrated in many places in India.

Lipiec 2023

The story of Seema Haider has become a pretext for recalling other stories of women who took risks to meet their loved ones.

Sierpień 2023

New season of "Made in Heaven". 

Wrzesień 2023

Gujarat Family Attempts Mass Suicide Over Daughter's Love Marriage

Październik 2023

20 Years Of ‘Shubho Mahurat’: The Politics Of Love, Gender And Class

Listopad 2023

Indian pacer Navdeep Saini weds longtime love Swati Asthana.

Grudzień 2023

Amidst the whispers and doubts, some choose to rewrite their stories, defying expectations and embracing love once again. Here are the confessions of five Indian divorcees...

Styczeń 2024

The film was even certified by the CBFC, which has been made compulsory for OTT platforms. Yet complaints from Hindutva groups were enough to make Netflix take the movie down.

Luty 2024

Moving in with your partner in India's picturesque Himalayan state of Uttarakhand will soon require informing authorities and complying with a new law regulating "live-in" relationships.

Marzec 2024

An elderly couple who have been married for 60 years is winning hearts after their grandson shared their story on Instagram. 

Kwiecień 2024

On a range of issues, there has been improvement, but the heavy burden of domestic chores and care work on women needs to change

Maj 2024

Legal challenges for LGBTQ+ couples 

Czerwiec 2024

The idea that one can rebel forcefully by fighting for the right to choose whom to love is articulated in the godna song. 

Lipiec 2021

A Pew Research Center study found that most Indians are opposed to anyone, but particularly women, marrying outside their religion. The majority of Indian marriages — four out of five — are arranged.

The backlash against interfaith marriages is so widespread that in 2018, India’s Supreme Court ordered state authorities to provide security and safe houses to those who wed against the will of their communities.

Lipiec 2024

Dilemma of criminalising false promise to marry.