Algorithms Over Altars: Tech-Driven Shift From Ritual Marriage To Live-In Unions In India
- IJLLR Journal
- 5 days ago
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Pranay R Patel, Research Scholar, Department of Law, Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Dr. Sunanda Gokhale, Assistant Professor, Government State Law College, Bhopal
ABSTRACT
In this modern era, India is also undergoing rapid development. This new development in India has changed the oldest institution of marriage. Marriage, which used to be indissoluble and considered a sacrament, is no longer indissoluble today. Thanks to the technology that alters the norms of relationships in India and transforms traditional ways of matchmaking, dating apps in particular have contributed to this trend. With the aid of the Internet and these apps, live-in relationships that would have been socially unacceptable can now be accepted as normal affairs within society. Nevertheless, the change also brings issues of privacy, data privacy, and moral policing, both online and offline. The convergence of technology, personal freedom, and constitutional morality remains the focus of the debate on the validity and viability of live-in relationships under the socio-legal system of India. This direct involvement in fragrant social practices, especially among the married state, does not violate Article 19(1)(a) and Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantee freedom of expression and protect life and personal liberty, but also can, of itself, claim to realize these two goals.
This paper examines how online dating applications are reshaping the traditional institution of marriage in India, and critically evaluates their socio-cultural implications and emerging challenges. The re-specified intimacy and partnership and the necessity of developing the legal and moral systems of relations in the digital era are also explored in this paper.
“As social norms of legitimacy change in every society, including ours, that which was formerly illegal may be lawful nowadays” - Honourable Justice A.K. Ganguly in Revanasiddappa v. Mallikarjun.
Keywords: Marriages, families, and relations, dating applications, social change and modernization, technology and society.
