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Does GenZ Believe In Pyaar Ek Baar, Shaddi Bhi Ek Baar Concept?

The concept of committing to one person forever is being tested, questioned and turned on its head today. Why not just live together? Or simply stay single? Is marriage important to today's GenZ?

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Gunjan Pant Pande
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Three interesting events happened recently. One, Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath proclaimed “I don’t believe in marriage I don’t believe in kids. I feel like being alone we think it is a bad thing because society has convinced us that being alone is a bad thing. Your ability to evolve is probably highest in isolation.” 
Two, Times Of India reported that “scores of Karnataka farmers plan to go on a padayatra to a shrine in Mandya next month seeking divine intervention to get a bride, eight months after a similar effort by another group. The farmers say the crisis has been caused by reluctance among many women and their families to be yoked to rural life.”
And last: Shortly after the couple’s 45th wedding anniversary, a representative for Meryl Streep and Don Gummer confirmed that the couple have chosen lives apart. 
It’s the last one that got me completely. WHY? I mean after four decades together, which seems like a lifetime to me, can you still feel the need to separate? So then what is the whole point of saying I do? Why do people get married at all? Whatever happened to “till death do us part?” Quite a pertinent question as the hitching market is abuzz again with jewellery buying at its peak, designers getting overworked, luxury destinations teeming and embossed invites despatched.

Clearing my confusion, the Shahs, who have been together for the longest, let me in on the secret of their lasting relationship, “even though we don’t have kids we’re happily married because we consciously find things to do together.” A union that happened decades ago in the US when they fell in love with e

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