Live-in relationships in India: Is marriage still the endgame? - Is living together a sensible test-drive for marriage, or the perfect arrangement for those who’d rather not commit?/for print: For some, a live-in is a step towards marriage. For others, it is a way to avoid it

Channel
The Hindu Opinion
@The_Hindu_Editorial_News
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
50,333subscribers
-1,434 since we began measuring on 10 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001878439408 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @The_Hindu_Editorial_News |
| Description | Official The Hindu Telegram Channel for Exclusive Editorial News Updates from The Hindu Editorial Desk |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 55 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/The_Hindu_Editorial_News |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 92% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov 2026, 13:46 | 50,333 | -24 |
| 6 Nov 2026, 13:20 | 50,357 | -33 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 10:59 | 50,390 | -26 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 10:21 | 50,416 | -21 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 10:59 | 50,437 | -8 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 11:34 | 50,445 | -3 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 12:26 | 50,448 | -21 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 10:54 | 50,469 | -13 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 08:34 | 50,482 | -33 |
| 29 Oct 2026, 09:38 | 50,515 | -14 |
| 28 Oct 2026, 07:49 | 50,529 | -25 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 05:46 | 50,554 | -3 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 08:30 | 50,557 | -11 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 05:37 | 50,568 | -19 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 04:30 | 50,587 | -32 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 01:28 | 50,619 | -11 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 20:51 | 50,630 | -11 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 17:50 | 50,641 | -31 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 15:06 | 50,672 | -14 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 11:40 | 50,686 | first reading |
Engagement
515 posts held, back to 7 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 177 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 2.71%
- avg views ÷ 50,333 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1,360
- 179 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.121%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 179
- of 515 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 98 of 179 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 8 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 515 (7 August 2026 – 8 November 2026) |
| Views total | 243,953 |
| Reactions total | 181 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 8 Nov 2026, 12:26 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈1
- Links
- ≈6,810
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
713 reactions across 310 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 63.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 455 | 63.8% | |
| 👍 | 85 | 11.9% | |
| 🤔 | 53 | 7.43% | |
| 👎 | 29 | 4.07% | |
| 👏 | 28 | 3.93% | |
| 🔥 | 20 | 2.81% | |
| 🤨 | 11 | 1.54% | |
| 🤯 | 11 | 1.54% | |
| 😢 | 7 | 0.982% | |
| 😨 | 6 | 0.842% | |
| 😐 | 4 | 0.561% | |
| 🙏 | 4 | 0.561% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 332 of the 515 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 713 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 515 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 8 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 179 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
Live-in relationships in India: Is marriage still the endgame? - Is living together a sensible test-drive for marriage, or the perfect arrangement for those who’d rather not commit?/for print: For some, a live-in is a step towards marriage. For others, it is a way to avoid it
😢3
Live-in relationships in India: Is marriage still the endgame? - Is living together a sensible test-drive for marriage, or the perfect arrangement for those who’d rather not commit?/for print: For some, a live-in is a step towards marriage. For others, it is a way to avoid it
Sonia Gandhi interview: ‘Great damage done to the fabric of India by BJP’ - Ahead of the launch of her book, Sonia Gandhi speaks to The Hindu, answering a number of questions — personal and political
👎5
Live-in relationships in India: Is marriage still the endgame? - Is living together a sensible test-drive for marriage, or the perfect arrangement for those who’d rather not commit?/for print: For some, a live-in is a step towards marriage. For others, it is a way to avoid it
The struggle for justice is indivisible - From Panna to Delhi, the fight against displacement and disenfranchisement has a common thread — a struggle against state repression and the systematic erosion of a citizen’s constitutional rights
🤔1
Demonetisation and the health costs of cash shortages - Research shows the hidden public health costs of India’s demonetisation and the importance of liquidity
Epic failures: on electoral roll, welfare - The electoral roll cannot be used to determine welfare beneficiaries
Sonia Gandhi interview: ‘Great damage done to the fabric of India by BJP’ - Ahead of the launch of her book, Sonia Gandhi speaks to The Hindu, answering a number of questions — personal and political
The struggle for justice is indivisible - From Panna to Delhi, the fight against displacement and disenfranchisement has a common thread — a struggle against state repression and the systematic erosion of a citizen’s constitutional rights
Demonetisation and the health costs of cash shortages - Research shows the hidden public health costs of India’s demonetisation and the importance of liquidity
Demonetisation and the health costs of cash shortages - Research shows the hidden public health costs of India’s demonetisation and the importance of liquidity
Showing the 12 most recent of 515 posts we hold for @The_Hindu_Editorial_News. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
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Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 59 here — alongside 58 others — read 16 August 2026
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Hindu Opinion” (@The_Hindu_Editorial_News), 50,333 subscribers as measured 7 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/The_Hindu_Editorial_News.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.