A friend in Mumbai recently told me she had four different encounters with the same man without ever quite dating him. Here we go againA recently divorced woman in Delhi told me she downloaded a dating app earlier this year after weeks of encouragement from her friends. A consultant in Jaipur told me about attending a curated singles mixer only to discover that one of the attendees was someone she had dated briefly several years earlier. That was the reply’.”For all the technology surrounding modern dating — algorithms, curated matches and invitation-only mixers — the social networks beneath it remains stubbornly human. What you often encounter instead is a cast of familiar characters, circulating patiently through the system, waiting for their next reappearance.

Source: The Hindu March 21, 2026 14:48 UTC