The Reluctant Adventurer: Dating Diary of a 45-year-old Divorcee
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The Reluctant Adventurer: Dating Diary of a 45-year-old Divorcee

I join an online group that calls itself “A 40s friendliers group” and my inbox pings with a request from “Roy”, asking whether I would like to be connected. There’s no harm if no numbers are being exchanged, I tell myself. A massive step for a middle-class, conservative, 40-something Indian divorcee.
What the Tinder Maze Gets Right About Adulting
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What the Tinder Maze Gets Right About Adulting

In focusing on the pressure to settle and reach the destination, there’s something we end up overlooking: The beauty of the journey. A new Tinder ad reminds us of the lessons we could learn if we let the maze of life direct us.
How Rajnigandha and Choti Si Baat Gave Us Vidya Sinha, the Original Girl Next Door
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How Rajnigandha and Choti Si Baat Gave Us Vidya Sinha, the Original Girl Next Door

As I mourned the passing of Vidya Sinha last Thursday, I couldn’t help but realise that Sinha was an Everyman’s heroine. As Deepa and Prabha in Rajnigandha and Choti Si Baat, two of Basu Chatterjee's classic outings, she oozed femininity that was distinctly Indian while embodying a sort of reckless abandon that was almost postmodern in its emancipation.