Dr. Tannistha Samanta is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research broadly lies at the interdisciplinary crossroads of family sociology and gerontology where she focuses on living arrangements, social capital and health, older adult sexualities and theory development in ageing studies. You can find her on Twitter at @tannistha14, and check out her research on her Google Scholar page. 

In this episode, we discuss her publication: Living Solo at Midlife: Can the Pandemic de stigmatise living alone in India?, which explores how single middle-aged Indian women navigate their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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