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Bae-less in Bombay: When Mr Narcissist Meets Cool Girl

Mr Narcissist and Cool Girl ditch the dinner date and meet for coffee. They indulge in mental masturbation and everything seems perfect. After three months of “hanging out”, he hands her The Legal Handbook to Dating that says, “We were never exclusive”.

Rini Bankhwal July 29, 2016

Love and Sex

You Will End Up with the Wrong Partner. Here’s Why

The idea of a special someone is, in many ways, an impossible thing. It makes you pine for a love so perfect that it almost seems made up. This irrational, pampered idea of love is the nemesis of every steady relationship.

Poulomi Das July 23, 2016

Love and Sex

Will We Ever Find Love Like Our Parents Did?

My parents have been together for over three decades, while my relationship seems to come with a shelf-life of about three months. How were my parents so happy spending their lives together, while my generation runs away from commitment as if it were a jail sentence?

Nihal Bambulkar July 21, 2016

Love and Sex

“Did You Had Dinner?” Why We Shouldn’t Judge Romantic Prospects By the Way They Text

To reach a point of actual socialising via any dating app, requires large doses of that most annoying of modern-day pastimes – texting. It is never two people who match on these apps, it is their textual alter egos that do.

Madam Sanskari July 16, 2016

Love and Sex

Why I Choose to Be a Reluctant Monogamist in An Age of Right Swipes

Monogamy today has become as outdated as hair scrunchies and tamagotchis. After all, how are you supposed to experience all that life has to offer if you’re stuck with one person? Yet, I find it difficult to commit myself to not committing.

Kahini Iyer July 15, 2016

Love and Sex

What’s Stopping Millennials from Dating Someone with the Same Cultural Upbringing?

Three months ago, I met and spent time getting to know someone who spoke the same mother tongue as me. At first, it felt like discovering a whole new part of myself. But soon, the sameness started feeling suffocating. I felt like I knew him too well, too soon, and that his red flags could never have the luxury of just being flags.

Poulomi Das July 15, 2016

Love and Sex

A Guide to Dating in Your 40s: The Divorcee Edition

Most divorced men in their 40s haven’t got the memo that the relationship economy has changed. When they got married in their 20s or 30s, their main role was that of a provider. Which meant that they didn’t have to develop personalities or attempt to be fun.

Unsanskari Stree July 13, 2016

Love and Sex

Love in the Time of Uber Ratings

You have to give it up for millennials. We’re ready to ignore our instincts and let one feature of a transportation app decide who we go on a date with.

Arré Bench July 7, 2016

Love and Sex

Truth and Dare: What Happens When You Stop Faking It on Tinder

Being honest on Tinder and Hinge is like sitting down for the national anthem in the cinema hall: No one expects it, and when they see it for the first time, they usually lose their shit.

Farishte Irani July 6, 2016

Love and Sex

To All the “Misunderstood” Dev.Ds We’ve Loved Before

Dear Dev.Ds, we fell for you; we wanted to be the ones who changed you. We wanted to make your darkness evaporate. But we should have known better. You were never going to change, and we would end up losing ourselves.

Sonali Kokra July 5, 2016