Marriage is near universal in India. For women, like it or not, marriage and motherhood become their career ‘choices’. Families, society, peer groups, young girls, themselves, are so conditioned as to make the inevitability of marriage, the desirable norm. But is this beginning to change? The Census of 2011 reported that there were 25 million never-married women in India, an increase of approximately 35 per cent from the turn of this century. The 13 happily unmarried women in this anthology have arrived at their singledom from a variety of perspectives and experiences, but have one critical factor in common—none of them needs the social sanction of marriage, and all of them cherish their independence. Their accounts are insightful, often amusing, sometimes poignant, and always courageous, indicating that what we may well be witnessing here is a transformation of the Great Indian Marriage.