In this piece I argue that the pandemic with its emphasis on social distancing as a desirable civic norm can reconfigure popular understanding of mature female singlehood in India- a condition that is often described in the language of lacks and social failures. The pandemic, I argue, has reaffirmed the everyday practices of upper middle-class professional women (ages 50–60 years) lending them as positive agentic subjects who are invested in self-actualization and an appreciation of intimate solitude. Overall, by specifically focusing on subjectivities and social aspirations of my interlocutors during the pandemic, I illuminate ways in which middle aged selfhood is lived in all its fragility, ambivalence and emergent possibilities.

在这篇文章中，我认为，这种流行病强调将社会隔离作为一种理想的公民规范，可以重新构造对印度成熟女性单身的普遍理解，这种情况通常用缺乏和社会失败的语言来描述。我认为，这种流行病重申了上层中产阶级职业妇女（50至60岁）的日常习俗，使她们成为积极的中介主体，他们致力于自我实现和对亲密孤独的欣赏。总体而言，通过重点关注我的对话者在大流行期间的主观性和社会志向，我阐明了中年人的自我生存，脆弱性，矛盾性和出现可能性的方式。