13/08/2026
Four out of every five people who approach me as an astrologer come with questions about love and relationships.
As an astrologer, I witness these concerns one person at a time.
As a researcher, I listen at a much larger scale through my How India Thinks Study.
The findings confirm that this is not merely anecdotal: 72% of respondents said they consult an astrologer to navigate relationship-related concerns.
India is not simply facing a relationship crisis.
We are living with the consequences of forgetting our own tradition of conscious relationships.
From Vātsyāyana to Vidyāpati, India developed a sophisticated body of knowledge around attraction, courtship, emotional expression, intimacy, marriage, conflict and conscious partnership.
But somewhere along the way, two distorted narratives took over.
First, the Kāmasūtra was reduced to a book of sexual fantasy—even though physical intimacy forms only one part of its much wider exploration of love, relationships and cultured living.
Second, the many thinkers who developed this knowledge before and after Vātsyāyana were gradually forgotten.
We retained the name of one book but lost the larger intellectual tradition behind it.
As a result, people now enter relationships with expectations but without adequate relationship education. We know how to find a partner, but not always how to understand one. We celebrate weddings, but rarely teach communication, emotional safety, intimacy, conflict resolution or the conscious maintenance of love.
My work is focused on reviving this lost Kāmaśāstra tradition and bringing it back into mainstream relationship discourse.
This is not about blindly glorifying the past or reproducing outdated social structures. It is about researching, reinterpreting and presenting Indic relationship wisdom through a modern ethical lens centred on consent, equality, emotional safety, mutual fulfilment and individual dignity.
The modern relationship crisis is not caused by an absence of love.
It is caused by the absence of relationship wisdom.
We do not need to import every answer. Some answers need to be recovered, researched and responsibly reintroduced.
This is the beginning of the Kāmaśāstra Renaissance.