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Shaadi Ke Pehle PR: The Making of #DeepVeer Ki Shaadi

A celebrity wedding is as much an entertainment commodity as a big-banner film. Ranveer and Deepika have coordinated everything from their Instagram wedding announcement, to Koffee With Karan’s opening episode which was designed only to get us hyped about the shaadi.

Poulomi Das March 10, 2016

Bollywood

Griha Pravesh and the Dignity in a Love Triangle

Basu Bhattacharya’s 1979 film Griha Pravesh offers a graceful take on the fact that love does not always transpire only between two people. It teaches us to view attraction outside of a wedlock as a human experience – not the original sin.

Bapu Deedwania March 9, 2016

Love and Sex

Why You Should Swipe Right on Promiscuity Before Marriage

“Sowing your wild oats” is an age-old, regressive idea ascribed to young men before the “settle down” phase. I’ve never set store by it, but watching my young friends seek sex outside marriage, I wonder if there is something to the theory. If we don’t play the field enough before shaadi, will we experience FOMO?

Jackie Thakkar March 5, 2016

POV

30, 40, or 50? At What Age Should I Stop Planning for the Future, and Live in the Present?

Well into our 30s, my husband and I talk about money and “saving for the future” a lot these days. Though we have a decent monthly income, I resort to a stinginess that kills all spontaneous instincts. But is this mad chase for a “secure future” worth it? Where does it begin and when does it end?

Sangeetha Bhaskaran March 3, 2016

Gender

Ties that Bind: How the Nose Ring that Enslaved My Mother Liberated Me

My mother refused to wear a nose ring, viewing it as yet another marker of marital status that found its way onto a woman’s body. By the time I was a teen, piercings signified a way for women to exercise their right over their bodies. I embraced this piece of jewellery as instantly as my mother had rejected it.

Anuradha Ganapathy March 2, 2016