my fake husband

I’ve mentioned before that pretty much everyone here gets married. It is safe to assume that every Indian person I meet over the age of 30 is married. As such I’m a bit of an anomaly. In my 30s, not married and don’t have any plans to do so. Now I know perfectly well that there are plenty of people back in the US that judge me for being single, but no one would ever make a comment to me. Here I will have complete strangers ask me if I’m married. Once I say that I’m living here in Delhi the conversation usually goes like this:
Stranger: are you here with your family?
Me: no, I’m here on my own working
S: are you married?
Me: no
S: why not? You should be married.
This is where I reply one of two ways depending on my mood. Either I simply say that I’m just not and leave it at that, or I will explain to them that in America people don’t have to get married, it is considered perfectly acceptable for a woman to be single and living on her own. This usually causes the person to just stare blankly at me, or they just reply that I really should get a husband.
I’ve had this same conversation with people in my office, a person sitting next to me on a plane, my dry cleaner, and several random shop keepers.
Since this seems to be the favorite topic of conversation I’m contemplating coming up with a fake husband so that I just say yes and leave it at that. Indians don’t wear wedding rings so it isn’t like anyone would question that. I’m thinking my fake husband will work “at the embassy”, a generic ex-pat job that doesn’t require any further explanation…definitely something very top secret.
Of course I doubt I would ever have the courage to actually lie about this, but if anyone has any suggestions for my fake husband’s name, let me know and maybe I’ll try it out if I’m in the right mood.