This article presents in-depth ethnographic evidence of women’s lived experience of arranged marriages and love marriages, their agency and constraints in a working class neighbor hood of New Delhi.

The single most important problem that India is facing now is the uncontrolled growth of population. In spite of availability of a wide range of contraceptives and mass media campaigns and IEC programs, the population control remains a distant dream to achieve.

On one of my meanderingly purposeful field trips in Govindpuri located in South Delhi, I ran into Shweta, who rents a house in a slum cluster where the word ‘re