LIVE MINT - Apr 8 - There are 74.1M single women in India. Thats ~12% of Indian female population. Between 2001 and 2011, there was a 39% increase in the number of single women, according to Census data. The lives of single women vary dramatically depending on their socioeconomic status and where they live. For instance, widows and abandoned wives in rural India might be labelled as dayans (witches). In urban India, unmarried women could be seen as fast and loose. "There is an attitude that a woman is incomplete without marriage," says Binita Parikh, an independent communications professional. Parikh, who has never married, is writing a book on being a single woman in India.
by Namita Bhandare
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