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Saturday, November 22, 2025

PoV

Gyms are unsafe for gay men like me. Jeers, stares, and treadmill trauma

I don't want a hulking body; I want to be lean so I can wear a crop top. But my idea of fitness doesn’t match theirs.

Drinking on Dal Lake isn’t just unethical—it snatches freedom, safety from Kashmiri women

Dal Lake is more than a tourist attraction. Kashmiris share a pious and intimate relationship with it.

Poha has found its godfather in Indore but Indians don’t need a World Poha Day reminder

From five-star breakfast menus to finding its place in fitness experts' cheat code and on flights and railways, Indori Poha is no longer limited to Indian kitchens and street food.

Bihari, Jat, Madrasi, Bhaiya—workplace stereotypes aren’t harmless. They hit morale

Snide remarks serve as a skeleton for rumours and gossip, which take a toll on an employee's mental health.

Nitish Kumar ‘double dating’ to kingmaker Chandrababu Naidu—popular counting day memes

Congress Kerala’s official X handle has been batting it straight out of the park consistently with its memes. It called this Modi's second defeat, the first being in 8th grade.

The journey of meme—from WhatsApp to billboards, police posts to matrimony ads

In the world of ‘no such thing as bad publicity’, riding on a cringe meme is a good marketing move. But before VIPShaadi.com joined the trend, Bengaluru and Delhi police wrote the memo.

This CA broke up with his girlfriend with an Excel Sheet of expenses. It’s neither cool nor equal

Chartered accountant Aditya itemised every rupee spent during his time with his girlfriend. From birthday parties and Valentine’s dates to flowers and even mosquito coils.

Influencers aren’t the best ‘Indian representation’ at Cannes. Filmmakers are

Even if fashion was a core feature of Cannes, Indian influencers failed at that too. No one, barring Nancy Tyagi, was able to turn heads on the red carpet.

Natasa-Hardik divorce drama follows same old script—blame the woman, call her gold-digger

There’s no confirmation that Natasa Stankovic and Hardik Pandya are actually heading for a divorce. But the meme factory has already gone into overdrive.

South Korean Do Nothing competition counters hustle culture. But why turn laziness into sport?

We're talking about people who have honed their skill of doing nothing to a degree that would make even ‘Flash’ from Zootopia proud.

On Camera

Game theory in modern Indian relationships. First person to demand more loses

Most relationships don't operate on fairy tales. They operate on something more predictable: The mathematics of mutual reluctance.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.