On one hand, finding a partner is getting tougher. On the other, married couples are facing endless problems, with stories of ...

Data from censuses and surveys shows that young Indians are now thinking differently about marriage. More people are getting ...

Behind the closed doors of bedrooms across India, the anachronistic opinions of a 17th Century jurist still guide the rules of sex between husband and wife. Englishman Matthew Hale famously considered ...

In India, marriage as an institution has changed as families transition from cohesive extended-family structures to more ...

India’s recent debate over dowry deaths echoes the same concerns that were supposed to have been addressed by stricter laws and criminal provisions passed in the early 1980s. After 33-year-old Twisha ...

For generations, the first question in an arranged marriage was rarely about personality, ambitions or emotional ...

A Muslim couple wed on the banks of the Tungabhadra River at Hampi, India. In the background, a Hindu man is taking his ritual bath, December 22, 2005. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Claude Renault ...

A Hindu marriage is not legally valid through registration alone if essential rituals such as saptapadi were never performed, the Gujarat High Court has ruled.

Police in Assam detain 3,000 men in month-long operation Crackdown leaves poor families without main breadwinner Campaigners say arrests wrong way to tackle child marriage RADHANAGAR, India, March 1 ...

NEW DELHI — More than 2,000 people took part in a gay pride event in New Delhi, waving rainbow flags and multicolored balloons as they celebrated sexual diversity in India but also raised concerns ...