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What Watching Black Mirror with My Boyfriend Taught Me About Love

I wondered if watching Black Mirror with my boyfriend was creating a real trust deficit between the two of us. There’s honestly just too much relating with the characters. They are us and we are them in so many ways.

Alisha Sachdev April 24, 2016

First Person

Radically Honest Confessions: What a Month of Constantly Telling the Truth Taught Me

The concept of Radical Honesty isn’t just about telling the truth – you have to commit to voicing every stupid, bitchy, relationship-ending, career-destroying thought that tumbles through your head. I started my experiment with absolute truth-telling and landed in my own private hell.

Sonali Kokra April 23, 2016

Love and Sex

The Invisible Sex Life of New Parents

The sex life of new parents is like Donald Trump’s brain – it’s non-existent. If it does exist, it is rare, awkward, and revolves around the bowel movements of your child.

Vani Rane April 22, 2016

Modern Family

The Best Gift Today’s Mothers Can Give their Children is Some Unmonitored “Me Time”

The constant supervision to create a model kid, robs children of solitude: A solitude that will overwhelm them with its monotony before getting them to move their ass to experiment in the kitchen, scribble Rupi Kaur-like poetry on their notepads, and perhaps discover the true meaning of life.

Purba Ray April 20, 2016

Modern Family

By Sheltering an Inter-Caste Couple, My Conservative Father Discovered His “Wokeness”

My old-fashioned father, who still believes women should do the bulk of cooking and tolerates no criticism of Narendra Modi, suddenly turned liberal when a young couple needed his help. Unlike most people from our generation, who use social media to signal our virtues, my father had become the IRL definition of woke.

Hardik Rajgor April 18, 2016

Love and Sex

What Has Taken the Pleasure Out of Porn?

In my small UP city, anything related to sex was – is – taboo. Your parents never talked about it and films and TV showed flowers brushing against each other. Which is why procuring porn was an illicit pleasure. Today, pornography is ubiquitous, but the pleasure is all gone.

Godot April 15, 2016

Love and Sex

Do Best Friends Make Good Baes?

Is dating your bestie a bad idea? Who will you bitch about your broken heart with if your best friend is gone?

Parthshri Arora April 15, 2016

Love and Sex

The Reluctant Adventurer: Dating Diary of a 45-year-old Divorcee

I join an online group that calls itself “A 40s friendliers group” and my inbox pings with a request from “Roy”, asking whether I would like to be connected. There’s no harm if no numbers are being exchanged, I tell myself. A massive step for a middle-class, conservative, 40-something Indian divorcee.

Lofn April 15, 2016

People

The Mother of 68

Over the last two decades, Sulbha Surve has lovingly fostered infants and toddlers before they found their way to forever homes.

Karanjeet Kaur April 13, 2016

Modern Family

“Tussi Na Jao!” How Do You Convince Indian Parents You Want to Move Out?

If I were a 28-year-old, 200 years ago, I’d probably be heading out into battle tomorrow. If I were a 28-year-old about 2,000 years ago, I’d be the village elder. But somehow, here I am at the age of 28, still enjoying the free snacks in between free meals. And every time I bring up moving out of home, my parents think I’m hinting at marriage plans.

Aditya Bhalla April 12, 2016