lovers Archives

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

Pop Culture

How Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe Balances Ambition with Romance

Nahnatchka Khan’s Always Be My Maybe isn’t perfect but it is that rare rom-com that comes the closest to responding to the modern times by making its lead actress’s professional identity the sexiest thing about her. In the movie, love involves compromise, just not that of a woman’s career.

Poulomi Das June 1, 2016

Love and Sex

“Almost Lovers”: The Ones Who Make Heartbreak Bearable

When you decide not to turn back after a break-up, you must find yourself anchors so you sail smoothly. These almost lovers, these could-have-beens, matter to me the way love does. Without them, we would be lonelier than what imagination permits.

Manjiri Indurkar May 29, 2016

Love and Sex

You Are My Fire: Do We Really Need “the Spark” to Make Love Last?

Like everyone else, I grew up watching films, reading books, and listening to stories that eulogised the “spark”, the firsts of love. “First meeting”, “first eye-contact”, “first kiss” and so on. How often to we give up on relationships because the elusive spark seems to be missing?

Manik Sharma May 17, 2016