“…While an alarmist narrative about "population explosion" (Hartmann, 2010) dominated demographic knowledge in the early decades of post-colonial India, this shifted quickly to aging being a "problem" given the changing social (modernization, urbanization, and changing family structures) and policy contexts. It is only recently that an attention to other dimensions of growing old, such as the role of social networks (Hirve et al, 2014;Himanshu et al, 2019), role of affective cultures (Brijnath, 2012;Devi et al, 2021); time-use patterns (Tripathi and Samanta, 2023b) and biometric parameters (Arokiasamy et al, 2012), allow innovative analysis of quality of life among older Indians (Mandi and Bansod, 2022).…”