relationship Archives

Is 25 the Deadline to Make New Friends?

I have become reluctant to forge new friendships. Like everything else in this age, my emotions can be summed up in one catchy hashtag: #NoNewFriends. Is this all part of growing up, being on the other side of 25?

Dushyant Shekhawat April 22, 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

My Love-Hate Relationship with Influencers

Some days I want to burn a gazillion calories and get a six-pack and on other days I want to cook my favourite meals, be a glutton and accept myself as I am. The problem is there are an equal number of people on social media giving ‘gyaan’ on both, and I tend to endlessly switch between the two.

Jagruti Verma April 21, 2016

Love and Sex

Five Stages of the Modern-Day Break Up

I got dumped by my girlfriend of five years recently. Over Whatsapp. Here’s a point by point breakdown of my mourning period.

Heartbreak Rehab April 17, 2016

Pop Culture

The Favourite Shows Us What Dark Desires Can Do to Ambitious Women

What makes The Favourite delightful and devastating is how director Yorgos Lanthimos subverts the expectations from men and women to bring to life a comedic masterpiece. So often, cinematic descriptions of royalty overlook the relationship royal women share with power.

Arré Bench April 14, 2016

Coronavirus

Love Lockdown: You May Survive Coronavirus But Can Your Relationship?

The coronavirus outbreak will have unpredictable social outcomes, but the strain this epidemic will put on couples is all too real. Already, the divorce rate in China has spiked. Irrespective of what we learn about this novel virus, we’ll learn a whole lot about the people we live with. And not all of it will be good.

Manik Sharma April 14, 2016

Love and Sex

The Toughest Part of Breaking Up is Learning to Live with Yourself, Just for Yourself

For five years I was suffocated in a relationship of co-dependence. We were always together. But I was never present. It took me a while, but this year, I realised that I cared about my erstwhile partner a lot, but when I was with him, I had forgotten how to love myself.

Manjiri Indurkar April 9, 2016

Love and Sex

The Space Between Us: Finding the Beauty & the Balance in a Long-Distance Marriage

As my husband and I sleep in separate beds, miles apart, thrust into our own individual struggles, loneliness overpowers us. Phone calls and Skype can only achieve so much. We’ve been wrung out of patience, yes, but this has been our most courageous effort as a couple.

Sangeetha Bhaskaran April 2, 2016

Pop Culture

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Review: A Tale about Abuse and Marital Rape that Becomes Predictable

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors feels like a tired attempt at resuscitating characters and a world that frankly needed more than just the injection of precious ideas like domestic abuse, marital rape, and consent. Even Pankaj Tripathi and his mastery of the OTT space cannot elevate the second season.

Manik Sharma March 31, 2016

Gender

How Do You Deal With a Breach of Consent When It Comes from a Same-Sex Friend?

At some point during our undefined courtship, my friend’s attentions went from playful to predatory. I was touched in places I didn’t want to be touched. All the behaviour that would earn a male friend several swift kicks in the nads, possibly even a police complaint. But in the absence of a penis poking my anatomy, I didn’t know how to qualify my experiences as violations.

Anonymous March 29, 2016