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Kya Dosti Pyaar Hai?: Why I Love To Hate My Girlfriend’s Male BFF

My girlfriend’s male BFF never misses a chance to point out how he knows her better than I ever will, never laughs at my jokes and is particularly quick to write off her romantic prospects, including myself. Some days, I want to strangle the smug bastard.

Dr Mahinder May 15, 2016

POV

My Rich Friends Want Epic Weekends, I Want to Pay Rent

People like me sweat the small stuff, while my investment banker friends worry about how to make an epic weekend. Your Saturday-Sundays then become the equivalent of a Bhansali film. You look forward to having a great time but end up feeling massively ripped off and questioning your life choices.

Riddhi K May 10, 2016

POV

Work, Netflix, or Chill? How My Generation Has Lost its Battle With Eight-Hour Sleep

In our 20s, there’s no greater juggling act than trying to balance work, social life and a decent sleep cycle. If you’re managing to do alright in your career, while maintaining a semblance of a social life and despite this, are still magically getting a full eight hours of sleep every night, then teach me senpai.

Jackie Thakkar May 2, 2016

Pop Culture

The Great Millennial Fandom Will be Hashtagged

There was a time when fans built temples to their idols and stood outside their houses for hours on end. All that the millennial fan needs, though, is a broadband connection.

Poulomi Das April 27, 2016

POV

“Papa Nahin Aane Denge”: Why I Miss the Excuse that Saved Me from New Year’s Eve Disasters

I am in Mumbai without parental guidance and am expected to have a banger New Year’s scene. The only problem is that I am a Parvati who was never Poo to begin with. In fact, I am that next-level accha baccha who sits at home enthusiastically watching year-end award shows.

Abha Mehra April 26, 2016

Love and Sex

A Different Kind of Threesome: The Joy of Being a “Kabab Mein Haddi”

For some people, nothing screams single like voluntary third-wheeling, or hanging with couple friends. But, for a commitment-phobic 22-year-old, there’s nothing more convenient than living vicariously through your friends’ relationships.

Nihal Bambulkar April 21, 2016

POV

Why Many Young Women Refuse to Enter the Kitchen

My mother belonged to a time where the kitchen was a woman’s prison and her call of duty. She has spent, what seems like, an entire lifetime inside the kitchen. It’s why I seem to have spent the better part of my life running away from it. Choosing to not have a relationship with cooking, almost felt like the only way to protest.

Poulomi Das March 31, 2016

Gender

Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?

Why do so many women settle for lowball salary offers, far under the value that our experience merits? For all our idealism and outspoken feminism, when it is time to bat for ourselves in the most elementary of ways, why do we consistently fail ourselves?

Sonali Kokra March 19, 2016

Love and Sex

My Tinder Bio: Not Here to Mother 20-Somethings

As a single Indian woman in my late 30s on Tinder, I’m a rare breed. I recognise “u up” as the millennial mating call. But I draw the line at “I’m really into older women” because that’s Indian guyspeak for “Please be my substitute momma.”

Ramya Pandyan March 17, 2016

Pop Culture

Dave Chappelle’s New Netflix Special Replaces Comedy with Clickbait

It is honestly baffling to see Dave Chappelle go up on stage and attempt to rekindle what he had back in the early 2000s. The world has changed, people have changed, but he seems to expect all of us to forget that and reset to 2005.

Prthvir Solanki March 9, 2016