Posted inModern Family
Mohabbat ke Dushman: When Fathers Were Like DDLJ’s Amrish Puri
Younger millennials will never understand that we once lived in a world where fathers were milder, yet authentic, replicas of Amrish Puri in DDLJ.
Posted inPop Culture
25 Years of Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Valentine’s Day Date for All the Single Women in their 30s
Bridget Jones and I have been each other’s Valentine’s Day date for several years now, no matter who we’re dating or doing. But I’ve only come to truly appreciate the books and the movies in the last five years, as have several other friends who found themselves unexpectedly single in their 30s. She’s the unlikely single-girl role model I didn’t know I needed.
Posted inPeople
Love Letters for Sale
In the age of left and right swipes and insta-love on a menu card, a handwritten love letter is an anomaly. But several young people are embracing the old-fashioned romantic note.
Posted inPop Culture
The Sad Demise of the Greeting Card
The greeting card’s contemporaries, like Phantom cigarettes and board games have been canonised as priceless relics of our past. But the humble card has unfortunately missed its spot in listicles that “Only ’90s Kids Will Get!”
Posted inLove and Sex
Pyaar, Ishq, Mohabbat, and V-Day for the Middle-Aged Woman
Nobody deserves to celebrate Valentine’s Day more than the middle-class, middle-aged, muddle-headed woman. She got her everlasting love and parental approval, but sadly, all her ideas of romance are rooted in Bollywood from the ’90s.
