Many years ago I was travelling on an overnight train.The man sitting opposite me struck up a conversation asking where I was travelling, what part of India I was from, what I did.Then he asked me: "What does your husband do?"I had not even told him that I was married.
It was not the first time I was asked this question, nor was it the last. A number of my friends complain they are often asked this by acquaintances.
So I decided to stop men on the streets of Delhi and pop this question to them: "What does your wife do?"But I was surprised by how most men were willing to answer the question.
Mohammad Mohsin, 27, smiles shyly and says he's still single. Mr Mohsin has been asked "lots of questions by lots of people" in the past, but he's "never been asked this question before".He is "not angry" when I pop the question to him, "just a little embarrassed"."Let me first get settled in my business and then I'll think about getting married," he says.
"My wife looks after the home, our land and cattle," says auto-rickshaw driver Sandeep Yadav.
Mr Yadav, 53, is from a village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and has been living and working in Delhi for the past eight years.
His wife, he says, lives in the village and "takes care of our four children, three cows, a buffalo and a calf".
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