Nihal Bambulkar, Author at Arré

Campus Ka King Kaun? College Watchmen

From confiscating phones, threatening to tattle on people smoking outside the campus, refusing entry to students, and making up rules on the fly, the college watchman is more powerful than the principal.

Nihal Bambulkar June 6, 2016

Culture

Open House Day: When Teachers Turn Into Monsters

For students who’ve just got their results, Open House Day or the final PTA meeting is that time of the year when the teachers snitch on the students. This dreaded occasion goes by many names, such as Dard-e-Diwas, Yellallympics, or, as Terminator fans would say, Judgement Day.

Nihal Bambulkar June 4, 2016

People

Kleptomania: A Rich Man’s Disease? Or Poor Man’s Chori

I played wingman to a kleptomaniac friend. I distracted a bar waiter, as my buddy Pranay lifted a couple of beers. Unlike him, I was filled with guilt, making me wonder if it was his affluent upbringing that absolved him of regret.

Nihal Bambulkar June 4, 2016

Love and Sex

There’s No Love Like Puppy Love

Where are the days of puppy love? In a horribly adult age when most relationships are easily labelled “complicated”, I long for the kind of love driven by impulses, immature promises, and the constant blip of hormones.

Nihal Bambulkar May 20, 2016

Pop Culture

Snapchat is Dead. Long Live Snapchat

It was only in 2014, when all of India was talking about the saffron wave, India’s millennials were lost in Snapchat’s simple world of disappearing pictures. Four years on, after Kylie Jenner’s deadly tweet and a much derided interface update, it is finally time to bid the app farewell.

Nihal Bambulkar May 12, 2016

Love and Sex

Doggie Break-Ups Are a Bitch: How I Pined For My Ex-Girlfriend’s Pet

I was 16 years old when my first girlfriend, Tanya, believed I had been neglecting her, and lavishing all my love and attention towards Rosie… not another girl, it was her pet Labrador. In hindsight, Tanya was probably right.

Nihal Bambulkar May 10, 2016

Modern Family

Like Father, Unlike Son: Why We Want to Be Nothing Like Our Parents

We millennials bore witness to the lives of our parents and the evaporated dreams they once had. Somewhere between sprouting our first pimple to driving our first car, we went from respecting them for their choices to deciding that that would not be the life we would be living.

Nihal Bambulkar May 7, 2016

POV

Dine and Dash: The Final Frontier Before Adulting

The idea of dining and dashing seems dangerous, yet everyone I know has tried it once. This wholly needless but adrenaline-boosting stunt is a rite of passage before you get your act straightened out.

Nihal Bambulkar May 4, 2016

Modern Family

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Only Older Siblings Will Get This!

Ever since my little sister was born, it feels like she’s strolling down a path I’ve had to gruellingly blaze with my blood, sweat, and tears. My younger sibling’s arrival was bad news, as I was going to be held up as a role model whether I liked it or not.

Nihal Bambulkar May 3, 2016

Love and Sex

A Different Kind of Threesome: The Joy of Being a “Kabab Mein Haddi”

For some people, nothing screams single like voluntary third-wheeling, or hanging with couple friends. But, for a commitment-phobic 22-year-old, there’s nothing more convenient than living vicariously through your friends’ relationships.

Nihal Bambulkar April 21, 2016