adulting Archives

What Cringing at Old Social Media Posts Taught Me about Adulting

My old social media posts, especially those on Facebook often feel like a nightmarish journey back in time. But they are also clues to the way we absorb the world and learn to eventually, navigate it as adults.

Yashodhara Sirur July 1, 2016

Modern Family

How To Survive a Long-Distance Relationship with Your Parents

Nobody told me that moving out of the house would mean enduring a long-distance relationship with my extremely inquisitive parents. Mom calls me every day at 7.30 am to gossip about the neighbours. Dad, in a pretence at being fake-casual cool, pings to find out what am I up to after work.

Shreya Ramakrishnan May 4, 2016

POV

Dine and Dash: The Final Frontier Before Adulting

The idea of dining and dashing seems dangerous, yet everyone I know has tried it once. This wholly needless but adrenaline-boosting stunt is a rite of passage before you get your act straightened out.

Nihal Bambulkar May 4, 2016

POV

Dine at Taj By Day, Worry about Rent at Night: Confessions of a Lifestyle Journalist

As a lifestyle journalist, I rub shoulders with the one per cent, without actually belonging in their preferred social circles. It’s a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation and I am constantly reminded of it by the Max Mara-wearing, eight-course-meal-eating folks I am surrounded by.

JJ Rankin April 25, 2016

Features

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

Modern Family

Why Can’t Indian Families Let Us Adult In Peace?

When I turned 22, I believed that I would live away from home, revel in my financial independence, and travel across the world, no questions asked. However reality involves my grandparents implying I settle down while they are alive and my mother demanding to know the minutiae of my spendings.

Shreya Ramakrishnan April 1, 2016

Modern Family

Netflix and Overkill: How I Lost My Retired Father to Binge-Watching

When Baba came to visit me this summer, I installed the Amazon Prime and Netflix apps on his phone, thinking he’d watch the odd movie sometimes. I didn’t expect him to get addicted to it and walk around the house like a teenager with headphones glued to his skull.

Runa Mukherjee March 14, 2016