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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.

Ananya N April 10, 2016

Love and Sex

The Fine Art of Small Talk

In a world of texting and updating, opinionating, and standing up, we’ve forgotten the pleasures of small talk.

Parthshri Arora April 8, 2016

Love and Sex

The Lure of Vicarious Dating for Committed Couples

Vicarious dating operates on many levels, from swiping through a friend’s Tinder to replying to texts on their behalf. It’s the act of flexing long unused seduction muscles to find a mate not for yourself, but somebody else.

Aditya Bhalla March 23, 2016

Love and Sex

The Secret Pleasures of a Boring Relationship

Pop culture conditions us to see spontaneity as the true sign of romance. Except the pressure to be cool, and with it, and switched on all the friggin’ time is impossibly exhausting.

Aditya Bhalla March 18, 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

Technology

You Used to Call Me on My Landline: Remembering Hotline Bling of the ’90s

Twenty years ago in India, there was one box-like device with numbers on it that bonded families together like a viewing of Hum Saath Saath Hain. The landline had a wire that kept you rooted – but it could also set you free if you chose to be unavailable.

Yash Pawaskar March 14, 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

Love and Sex

Confessions of an Asexual Man

I read somewhere that men thought about sex every seven seconds. How was I so different?

Author||ila ananya March 3, 2016

Gender

It’s Time For the Shy, “Sensitive” Men to Speak Up

A lot of the inappropriate behaviour we are seeing in this #MeToo era was dismissed as “boys being boys” when we were growing up. For years, “sissy/sensitive” guys cringed, but kept shut not wanting to be bullied or left out. Now is the time for them to speak up.

Aman Pandey March 1, 2016