teenage Archives

Why I Love the Awkward Teens of TV Today More than Hannah Montana and Lizzie McGuire

As a 14-year-old, I turned to teen shows like Hannah Montana and Lizzie McGuire naively believing that they’d help me escape my woes. Instead, I was left aching for a life that could never be mine. It's why I am glad that awkward teens are ruling TV today.

Sanjukta Bose July 26, 2016

POV

Friendship Cancel: Why Breaking Up With BFFs is Worse Than Ending a Romance

Falling out of friendships rarely gets as much attention as falling out of love. A breakup between friends does not carry the weight of the breakup of a romantic relationship. We might be prepared for heartbreak, but nobody tells us about the friends we are going to lose along the way.

Runjhun Noopur July 22, 2016

Love and Sex

There’s No Love Like Puppy Love

Where are the days of puppy love? In a horribly adult age when most relationships are easily labelled “complicated”, I long for the kind of love driven by impulses, immature promises, and the constant blip of hormones.

Nihal Bambulkar May 20, 2016

Modern Family

How I Lost My Kids to Technology (And Later Won Them Back)

One day you’re the centre of your children’s universe – and then suddenly, you’re not. You’re never quite prepared for the way technology steals them away from you. They sit, their faces aglow in the light of their phone screens, chuckling to themselves. Like my kids, my overactive imagination is not my friend either.

Ashwina Garg May 3, 2016

Modern Family

Channel Change Karo! Why Indian Parents Reach for the Remote When There’s a Kissing Scene

Desi parents are some of the most vigilant gatekeepers of “objectionable” content in the world. To ensure that their children turn out to be as sanskari as Tulsi Virani, they turn to the remote control – skip, fast forward, change the channel. But in the age of the internet, is it possible to restrict what their children watch?

Akanksha Dhyani March 2, 2016