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My Didi, My Keeper: Did My Illness Steal My Sister’s Childhood?

When I was nine and my sister 13, I was diagnosed with leukaemia. Suddenly, my family’s plans changed overnight. My father gave up a job offer, my mother became my full-time carer. And my sister, always the mature, responsible one who never needed supervision, was left to her own devices.

Kahini Iyer June 20, 2016

POV

I’m a Copywriter, Teacher, Stand-Up Comic, Guitarist, Cook. And You?

In a time when even your phone doubles up as your camera, your assistant, a pastime, a distraction, a recorder, and an addiction, can people get away by doing just one job? Multi-tasking is the only thing worth pursuing. You can’t be a single-function watch anymore.

Ramjaane June 19, 2016

Love and Sex

How Instagram Stories Dictate the New Rules of Love

Adding grief to the ambiguity of new-age dating rituals are Instagram Stories. Yep, that beautifully annoying way of keeping up with someone’s life, without really going through the motions of actually keeping up. It’s ironic how an invention so perfect for the low millennial attention span is also the cause of our sleepless nights.

Alisha Sachdev June 18, 2016

Modern Family

Call Me By Maa’s Name: Why I Dropped My Father’s Last Name as a Tribute to My Mother

I inherited my surname from my father, a man who left my mother and me when I was 12. By changing my last name to my maa’s name, I have chosen to pay tribute to her. It’s an act of defiance against social norms, which insist we carry our father’s family name into the future.

Aakash Ranison June 17, 2016

Love and Sex

Why the Dancing Tinder Girl Should Be All of Us

In our desperation to look for tangible happy endings wherever possible, we forgot to look at dating and relationships as distinct facets of romance. Tinder reminded us that dating is an evocative dance.

Ananya N June 15, 2016

Gender

Why the World Can’t Handle a Bald Woman

Once I decided to shave my head, there was an almost unanimous show of “what the hell happened”. Relatives were concerned about my mental health and complete strangers asked me if I was suffering from a terminal disease.

Anam Naqvi June 14, 2016

POV

“Paani Chala Gaya”: Why India Will Never Have its The Shape of Water

Would the creature from The Shape of Water, who needs to stay hydrated all the time, fall in love in India, staring at its own version of the water crisis? He might be an anti-hero instead, avenging the loss of his habitat from the worst of us.

Runa Mukherjee June 7, 2016

Love and Sex

How Do You Know He’s Mr Right? He Accepts Your Romantic Past

When you’re in the throes of a new love, it’s easier to pretend that your past never existed than to risk retracing its thorny, sometimes painful trajectory with a new partner. But our pasts aren’t cautionary tales for our older selves — they are tomes that chronicle our rich emotional histories.

Sonali Kokra June 5, 2016

Love and Sex

Dating Resolutions: How Not to Suck at Romance in 2019

For 2019, the year of years, the best year ever until the end of this year, let us resolve not to suck at dating. This year, change how you meet people.

Parthshri Arora June 4, 2016

Love and Sex

My Ex-Box Dilemma: What Should We Do with Gifts from Girlfriends Past?

I stumbled upon my “break-up box” and hidden in it were a few love letters and all the memories of my high-school romance. I wondered if I should still keep the mementos? Or try to send them off on their way, “Mera kuch saaman” style?

Anahad Madhav June 3, 2016