India, Sept. 22 -- The race to dating and marriage moves at different, often at polar opposite paces. While dating feels like a leisurely evening stroll, discovering new lingos, from cuffing season to orbiting, marriage feels like a sprint against time, contrary to dating's spontaneous, carefree energy.

In a similar scenario, drawing attention to the rush for marriage, Rishabh Chauhan, a category manager who resides in Gurugram, shared one of his strange experiences with women in a September 22 Instagram post. He met a girl from a matrimony app, who, within 15 minutes of conversation on their first date, insisted on locking in their roka date.

Rishabh recounted the experience in his car, right after the date. He said, "So I was on a dat...