Safaris start with a lot of excitement and end up in complete disappointment. At the end of it all, you emerge dustier than Gurgaon in peak summer. And all you spot is tiger poop, pug marks, and indifferent deer.

Sneaking into your girlfriend’s room in the middle of the night may not always require a ladder or a C-O-O-L necklace, but it’ll always require industrial-size gonads. Depending on whether your parents are KJO cool or Sairat savage, consequences for getting caught can range from being disowned to being disembowelled.

Make the ultimate desi-Chinese fusion food, Wai Wai Chinese Bhel and send your tastebuds on a one way trip to flavourtown.

At some point during our undefined courtship, my friend’s attentions went from playful to predatory. I was touched in places I didn’t want to be touched. All the behaviour that would earn a male friend several swift kicks in the nads, possibly even a police complaint. But in the absence of a penis poking my anatomy, I didn’t know how to qualify my experiences as violations.

When I moved to Mumbai, I joined a book club to find my tribe. Instead, I encountered a bunch of privileged men and women who scoffed at everyone’s reading choices. I realised in time that this collective was not about books at all, but about parading one’s wit, sharpening one’s sarcasm, and showing off one’s superior literary tastes.

To get the attention of your employer make sure your résumé stands out like Ranveer Singh at an award show. And if you graduated from a Lovely University it’s best to mention LP University on your CV. Ambiguity, they say, is better than embarrassment.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, a man accused of sexual assault killed the woman’s father because he refused to withdraw the case. How is it that we continue to fail to protect survivors and their families?

I’m one of the millions of people who got infected with coronavirus. I’ve recovered but I also realise that the post-Covid world will never be the same again. With exactly a year to the beginning of the pandemic approaching, I am feeling what many of us might be feeling right now – fear, distress, anxiety, and sadness.

Solo meals can be a source of warmth. For one, it’s refreshingly satisfying to interact with every bite in its glory. What people see as a lonely endeavour, I see as solitude.

Research suggests that sex once a week is optimal for a couple’s happiness. But the “how much” lobby always leaves out the all-important quantity vs quality question, displaying, once again, modern romance's fetishising of numbers.