Author: Barsha Nag Bhowmick

‘We Are Married, But We Date Other People’: Inside the New Rules of Marriage in Urban India Most evenings end with a phone call. Vidhi (name changed), a 35-year-old IT professional in Mumbai, catches up with her husband, Ankit (name changed), who is based in Bengaluru. They talk about work, family, and plans for the weekend. Now and then, the conversation turns to something most married couples would never discuss: the people they are dating. Married for eight years, their relationship looks very different from what most people would consider conventional. They are in an open marriage, an arrangement in…