In Indiaโ€™s fast-growing digital dating culture, a new form of deception is quietly taking holdโ€”โ€˜bio-baitingโ€™. Itโ€™s not quite catfishing, not quite lying, but it lives in the grey area between truth and performance.

Bio-baiting happens when people tweak, embellish or strategically curate their dating app bios to appear more appealingโ€”the software engineer who writes โ€˜mountain loverโ€™ after one trek or the woman who claims to be โ€˜spiritual but not religiousโ€™ because it sounds more open

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