In India, marriage is, by and large, socially compulsory. A website created six months ago : www.secondshaadi.com ( "shaadi" being the Hindi word for marriage), already has a data base of 25,000 clients.
Even conventional marriage portals are beginning to see listings from people who want to tie the knot a second time. Once, such a notion would have been anathema in middle-class India.
The society is in a transitional period, gingerly embracing new habits but still deeply traditional in matters of marriage.
Generally, people are OK with divorce. But the attitude towards divorcees is still the same. They are outcasts. They tend to think divorce won't happen if the person is a good person. I think such thinking will slowly change to accept the circumstances and decision of the affected parties.
