Right To ChooseInter‑Caste Marriages Could Help Ease Communal Tensions, Supreme Court Says Consent of the family, community, or clan is not necessary for two consenting adults to get married, SC adds. By Devrupa Rakshit
Marriage Is A Private AffairCouples Marrying Under the Special Marriage Act Need Not Post Public Notice of Their Intent to Marry: Allahabad HC The ruling was in response to an interfaith couple's plea that the public notice period would enable interference and harassment. By Aditi Murti
State-Sanctioned CasteismKarnataka Plans to Pay Low‑Income Brahmin Women to Marry Within Their Caste Framed as economic empowerment initiatives, the schemes just happen to ensure the 'purity' of the upper-caste gene pool. By Satviki Sanjay
Some Omissions ApplyWoe Is Me! “My Husband‑to‑Be Lied About His Health Issues. Should I Still Marry Him?” A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore. By The Swaddle Team
Casting A Wide NetIndia’s Dowry Laws Are Ineffective, Easily Exploited, and Women Are Paying the Price The misuse of dowry laws has led to an alarming number of innocent women getting caught up in the criminal justice system. By Ntasha Bhardwaj
Freedom of CritiqueFIR Filed Against Goa Professor Who Critiqued Mangalsutra as Symbol of Oppression In a six-month-old Facebook post, the professor had compared mangalsutra-wearing women to "chained dogs." By Aditi Murti
Love Is PoliticalTell Me More: Talking Caste and Marriage With Jyotsna Siddarth, Founder of Project Anti‑Caste Love "If a Brahmin family says 'caste no bar,' they're not looking for someone from a lower caste community. They could probably go a sub-caste lower or within the sub-caste." By Aditi Murti
Not Taking Any QuestionsWoe Is Me! “I’m 30 and Unmarried. Why Won’t People Leave Me Alone?” A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you’ll probably ignore. By The Swaddle Team
Band-Aid SolutionChinese City to Let People Search Their Partner’s Domestic Violence History Before Marriage The policy is a more a knee-jerk response to the domestic violence problem under lockdown than a viable long-term solution. By Rajvi Desai
An Unsuitable GirlWoe Is Me! “My Parents Want Me to Marry Soon, But I’m Just Not Ready” A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore. By The Swaddle Team
Limitless LoveWhat Queerness Can Teach Us About Reimagining Relationships Beyond Rigid Conventions, Marriage Through a constant perpetuation of what an ideal relationship looks like, society has decreed other forms of love less valuable. By Farah Maneckshaw
Close To The Finish LineCosta Rica Is Supposed to Legalize Same‑Sex Marriage This Month. Lawmakers Want to Delay It. If all goes to plan, Costa Rica is set to become the first Central American country to legalize gay marriage. By Rajvi Desai
Rethinking The LawWhy India Needs a Separate Law for Honor Killings Because honor killings take place at an intersection of motives -- caste, religion, ethnicity, class -- there must be a separate law that addresses the common link between them. By Anugraha Sundaravelu
Rape is Rape is RapeWhy It’s Still Legal For Indian Men to Rape Their Wives The government prioritizes keeping even violent marriages intact over holding men who rape their wives accountable. By Pallavi Prasad
My Money ValentineWhy Do People Lie About Money in Marriages? A Couples Therapist Weighs In "Financial infidelity is a lot like sexual infidelity, in the sense that both include lies, deceit, and secrets." By Priyanka Varma
Bringing Home The BaconMen More Stressed by Higher‑Paid Wives Than by Being Sole Breadwinner, Study Finds Gender stereotypes of men being breadwinners make it hard for them to cope when women contribute equally or more to household income. By Liesl Goecker
More To TangoHow to Suggest an Open Relationship to Your Partner Shifting a relationship from monogamy to something else takes a lot of discussion. By Liesl Goecker
Out Of His LeagueStudy: Women in Top Leadership Roles Face Higher Divorce Rates Even in a progressive country like Sweden, men feel insecure when their female partners attain positions of power. By Aditi Murti