Indian women tend to be more educated than their spouses. Why are they settling for less?

Gender roles, caste constraints and low labour-force participation are some leading causes.

Shreya Khaitan, IndiaSpend.com

· Mar 18, 2020 · 01:30 pm

What their big fat Auli wedding revealed about the Gupta family – and India’s elites

The choice of destination for a wedding could indicate a sense of identity, uniqueness and values with which the elites would like to be associated.

Parul Bhandari

· Jun 30, 2019 · 06:30 am

The British royal wedding: Here’s what one of the world’s greatest novels teaches us about marriage

In their coverage of Meghan and Harry, the media are focusing on all of the wrong things. Thankfully, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy had sharper insights.

Richard Gunderman, The Conversation

· May 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Clear breach of international standards’: Experts debate the ban on Bangladeshis marrying Rohingya

The government claims the prohibition is intended to prevent refugees from using their marriage certificates to obtain Bangladeshi citizenship.

Afrose Jahan Chaity

· Jan 03, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Child marriage, especially of girls, is on the rise in urban India but declining in rural areas

The legal age for marriage in India is 18 for women and 21 for men.

Vipul Vivek, Indiaspend.com

· Jun 11, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Bangladesh’s new child marriage law allows minors to marry under 'special circumstances'

The legislation is meant to replace a dated one, but this loophole could have consequences, fear activists.

M Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj, The Conversation

· Mar 10, 2017 · 09:30 pm

China’s 'bare branches’: Unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism

The bitter fruit of the One Child Policy and the preference for sons is a female deficit of 20 million people in the coming decades for men of marrying age.

Xuan Li, The Conversation

· Jan 29, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Inspired by ‘Sairat’, an NGO asks young Maharashtrians to take another look at marriage norms

Narendra Dabholkar’s organisation is arranging public interactions, asking young and old to shun caste endogamy and expensive rituals.

Poorvi Kulkarni, IndiaSpend.com

· Oct 15, 2016 · 11:30 am

Despite Punjab's honour killings, 22 per cent of marriages in state are across caste lines

But across the country, only ten per cent of marriages are inter-caste.

Scroll Staff

· May 01, 2014 · 06:55 am