Love once meant merging lives until the lines blurred. Today, it’s about standing strong side by side, not tangled together. Emotional independence has quietly become the new relationship status rooted in balance, not need. And no, singles day is not a cheeky antidote to Valentine’s or a commercial rebellion where single people celebrate themselves with shopping sprees and self-love slogans. It is infact a joke that redefined what intimacy means, morphing this day into something more thought provoking- a mirror for how we relate to ourselves and to others.

What began as a playful “anti-couples" holiday in China is now resonating with a global generation who are not anti-love but are redefining what it means to be in love. Across cities, from Delhi to New York, people are rejecting cou

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