Sleep Divorce: A New Emerging Trend Among Present Generation – An Analysis

India has always been recognised as peace loving and relation caring nation wherein there is no space forhate. Being Hindu majority country, the Hindu culture and history has always recognised marriage asmatching of souls promoting not only physical and sexual interaction but bonding of two souls based onlove, affection and sharing along with caring of emotions. In Hindu culture marriage is bonding not onlyfor this birth but we commit to live together for next seven births to follow. Indian culture does notrecognised divorce at all. But, with the globalization of economy and interaction with different religiousgroups, of late cases of divorce and separation are on high, and Hindus are also not spared of this changingculture. Today we live in an era of live-in relationship, people becoming intolerable and giving divorce orbeing separated even on pity issues. Apart from it a new concept has emerged in the so-called advancedeconomy, which is called as sleep-divorce, and this is gaining popularity in India too. The paper tries tounderstand the concept of Sleep-divorce, reasons for its emergence along with merits and demerits of thisnew concept. The paper is based on secondary source of information based on articles, news and othermaterial available in electronic form.