Asha Bhosle weighs in on rising divorce cases among youth: They get bored easily

Veteran singer Asha Bhosle expressed her concern over the rise in divorce rates among the younger generation. During an interaction with spiritual leader Ravi Shankar, she asked him why so many young couples fall out of love and get bored with each other so easily these days.
Citing her own example, the 91-year-old singer mentioned that when she used to have issues with her husband, RD Burman, the most she did after getting annoyed with him was go to her mother’s house for a few days. But the thought of divorce never crossed her mind. “I never divorced my husband,” she said.
“However, nowadays, I hear about couples sending divorce papers every month. Why is this happening, Gurudev?” Asha Bhosle asked Ravi Shankar. He replied, “You kept singing and made everyone happy. You also had faith in God and the strength to tolerate and deal with troubles.” He added that today, people’s tolerance levels have diminished significantly.
Asha also noted, “I have spent most of my years in the film industry and seen many people, but earlier, they never used to take such drastic steps like the current generation does. I feel that the love between them ends very soon, and they get bored with each other quickly too. Maybe that’s one of the main reasons for the apparent increase in divorces.” Shankar agreed with her and added that attraction supersedes love in today’s time.
However, Asha Bhosle also divorced her first husband, Ganpatrao Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar’s secretary, in 1960. She had married him when she was 16, against the wishes of her family. Later, in 1980, she married music composer and singer RD Burman and stayed with him until he died in 1994.
During her interaction with Ravi Shankar, Asha Bhosle also expressed her opinion on women’s right to opt out of pregnancy if they don’t want to.
“Nowadays, women think childbearing is a burden. It’s perhaps a reality in the lower strata of society, but even in the middle and higher classes. I started working as a playback singer at the age of 10. During this time, I had three children, raised them, married them off, and now have grandchildren. I executed all the responsibilities successfully and single-handedly, without my husband. I did all this when I was a busy professional, working day and night. Yet, I looked after my children and their studies,” she said.
Ravi Shankar called her an “ideal” example for today’s women.
Asha Bhosle has sung over 12,000 songs in her career, including peppy numbers such as “Piya Tu Ab To Aaja” and “O Haseena Zulfon Wali,” to soulful ghazals like “Dil Cheez Kya Hai” and the classical “Tora Man Darpan Kehlaye.”