Marriage, as a social institution, has undergone numerous transformations across the world, and India is no exception. In ...

Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council who first pitched the idea of a stitched ship, ...

Instead, I delve into what our literary texts can tell us about how ancient Indian society treated unions of all kinds. Raja Ravi Varma’s painting of King Dushyanta proposing marriage to Shakuntala.

That’s where ancient sages came up with ... another community because most marriages in India are arranged. But because my father had a love marriage, my mother belonged to a different community.

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