boyfriend Archives

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

Until Marriage Do Us Part

For a people big on weddings, the “no-frills, no-fuss” of live-in relationships takes some getting used to. We’d better. Living in sin is in.

Meenakshi Reddy July 7, 2016

Love and Sex

Do People Really Have As Much Sex As They Claim?

Going by the stories I hear, I'd imagine the world is having more sex than two hamsters with an average life expectancy of seven days. How do they find the time?

Aditya Bhalla June 25, 2016

Love and Sex

Kya Dosti Pyaar Hai?: Why I Love To Hate My Girlfriend’s Male BFF

My girlfriend’s male BFF never misses a chance to point out how he knows her better than I ever will, never laughs at my jokes and is particularly quick to write off her romantic prospects, including myself. Some days, I want to strangle the smug bastard.

Dr Mahinder May 15, 2016

Love and Sex

Heartbreak from Hell: When Your Boyfriend Cheats on You… with Your Best Friend

When your boyfriend cheats on you, you feel humiliated and worthless. But when a best friend cheats on you, it knocks the wind out of you. No one makes a friend thinking that they might some day jump into bed with your partner, knowing better than almost anyone else, what that betrayal would do to you.

Sonali Kokra May 8, 2016

Love and Sex

What is Love? The Right Person or the Right Time?

Is love even a person or is it just a time in life? The specificity of the timing of our great loves is the most definitive metric of whether it works long-term or not.

Aryan Malhotra May 5, 2016

Love and Sex

Bill De Ke Dekho: The Definitive Guide to Picking the Tab on a Date

In the good ol’ days of dating, you could sass the guy simply with your amazing alcohol retention abilities. But now it’s no longer about you handling your malt like a pro. Can you handle the cheque like a pro?

Alka Shukla May 5, 2016

Pop Culture

What Watching Black Mirror with My Boyfriend Taught Me About Love

I wondered if watching Black Mirror with my boyfriend was creating a real trust deficit between the two of us. There’s honestly just too much relating with the characters. They are us and we are them in so many ways.

Alisha Sachdev April 24, 2016

Bollywood

Bulbul Can Sing Reminds Us of the Price Girls Pay to Experience Adolescence

When boys come of age, they enjoy the freedom that permits them to make mistakes. But patriarchy doesn’t afford the same luxury to young girls. Rima Das’s Bulbul Can Sing argues that when girls come of age there is some trauma attached to it.

Poulomi Das April 20, 2016