Pati, Patni aur Woh

Abstract

This paper identifies a peculiar observation that top Google search queries about any famous personality nearly always include a query related to their spouse. The paper uses data (from Google Trends) to highlight findings about this phenomenon Worldwide, and specifically in India. The paper then analyses why people search for these terms using various theoretical frameworks. The paper concludes that the principle of Literary Darwinism, coupled with the theory of role models and anti-role models holds, and leads us to search for people’s partners for an illusion of intimacy.