India, July 12 -- Musician Raghu Dixit laughs and says he can go on and on in his wife, Grammy-nominated singer and flautist Varijashree Venugopal's praise, when I ask him about her. It'll be one year this October since he married her, and the love between them only seems to have gotten stronger. Talking to Hindustan Times, he discusses what makes their marriage tick and the chatter surrounding the 16-year age gap between them.

Raghu and Varijashree married last October, and the musician remarks that married life has been surprisingly simple. "We laugh a lot, we make music, we travel, and we give each other space to be ourselves. That's something I value enormously," he says, adding, "We understand each other's lives because we both live...