Written by, April 23 -- Ishani Kanchan, Moitrayee Das

"Are you single?", "Do you have a special someone?", "Where's your other half?" All of these are questions that 'single' people all around the world get asked regularly. But what does it mean to be single in Indian society? According to Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani on McGraw's podcast, when one talks about someone being single in India, one means to say that they're unmarried. Dr. Chowkhani states that coupledom and cohabitation can be seen in the country, prominently in urban India. But for the most part, even though dating is empirically present in the country, it's not socially acceptable (McGraw, 2023).

Society plays a major role in dictating how one should live their lives. One way it d...