In their most recent episode of Love Lingo Podcasts, hosts Arsala Qureishi and Jas Sagu sit down with one of India’s youngest female detectives Tanya Puri, CEO and founder of Lady Detectives India, as she gives an insight into her work, the intricate mechanisms of cheating and also reveals the murky underbelly festering beneath the surface of most marriages.
She begins by painting a picture of modern relationships against the backdrop of a digital landscape. Social media, she says, makes cheating more accessible by allowing users to create elaborate personas. When asked about the vices that drive an individual’s urge to cheat, she delves into greed, power dynamics and emotional discontent in relationships as common motivators. What is refreshing about the conversation is that over its course, Puri addresses stereotypes related to cheating and simultaneously dismantles them by confronting the common notion that cheating is reserved to a particular socio-economic class, age or gender.
Tanya Puri
The conversation is livened up with anecdotes of shell-shocking cases highlighting the multifaceted nature of cheating while also letting her audience in on some red flags to look out for in their own relationships.
Her journey with the profession is also an intriguing one. Her entry was facilitated by her father, a private investigator himself, who recognised his daughter’s ability to sniff people out. She shares the challenges she faced as a 15-year-old stepping into the world of pre and post marital investigation, and difficulties with detaching herself from the cases. According to Puri, her job is all about bringing the mind to matters of the heart. Emphasising upon her duties, she notes empathy and observation as the only requirements for being a good investigator.
As the episode closes, it takes a softer turn. Puri talks to her dad as part of the podcast’s intimate Phone a Feeling segment, giving us a break from the whirlwind tales. When asked about her idea of love, courtesy of the years spent assessing strangers’ love lives, she reveals that love is about communication. She explains how she applies this cliche yet uncommon practice in her own marriage and preaches it to her listeners as the medicament for a dishonesty-free relationship.
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