how i met your mother Archives

14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney

Despite Barney Stinson’s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?

Bhaskar Chawla July 1, 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

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

Dating in Your 30s With the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

The beginning of every new romance is laden with the prospect of a different kind of “ghosting” – where the thoughts, memories, and spirits of our past partners haunt our present affairs.

Vikram Poddar March 4, 2016

Modern Family

Channel Change Karo! Why Indian Parents Reach for the Remote When There’s a Kissing Scene

Desi parents are some of the most vigilant gatekeepers of “objectionable” content in the world. To ensure that their children turn out to be as sanskari as Tulsi Virani, they turn to the remote control – skip, fast forward, change the channel. But in the age of the internet, is it possible to restrict what their children watch?

Akanksha Dhyani March 2, 2016