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The Dating Story

In the dating app world, long distance lovers are the new normal

Whoever accused Gen Z of lacking patience hasn’t interviewed long-distance couples—lucky for you, I have.

There’s an art and science to texting on dating apps. Hone your skills or get ghosted

Don’t just say ‘hi’. You’d be surprised how many talking stages die prematurely because of these two innocent letters.

What’s cheating in the dating apps era? Betrayal now comes in so many flavours

Modern-day Freuds are having meltdowns analysing this one.

Modern romance comes with EMIs & Splitwise accounts. It really isn’t a sport for the broke

When you’re juggling 10 matches off Hinge, the only way to figure out who’s worth your time is to have an over-priced cocktail with each of them.

Modern breakups are like divorces. Who gets the cat, friends, Amazon Prime account?

Exes don’t go out of sight anymore. You block them everywhere and they can still reach out to you on Google Pay, or worse, Gmail.

The pressure to be the ‘it’ couple—fake Desi proposals and dance Reels

That couple recording themselves running toward each other in slo-mo at the Delhi Metro has broken all shackles of cringe. So have couples simply meowing together into the camera.

Young Indians are moving beyond Bumble & Tinder. Finding love on Reddit, Discord, Marketplace

Gamers are sorted. They figured out that nobody else would date them so they are dating each other—finding love on Twitch streams, Call of Duty lobbies.

Men have tough competition in the dating game now. It’s called ChatGPT

This is the competition that the dating universe needed to shake things up. Young women are relying on ChatGPT for emotional support. And men are using it to draft smart, flirtatious texts.

Young couples are reinventing first dates. Not coffee and dinner but Zumba, spa, pottery

The 20-somethings are trying out the A to Z dating trend, testing out potential partners through alphabetically curated dates. A for arcade, Z for zoo.

How to drop the F-bomb on your first date

Feminists looking to date allies have to get crafty in an anti-women world. Welcome to the reverse Bechdel test.

On Camera

Geopolitical forces beyond New Delhi’s control are at play in Trump’s approach to India

The strategic drift currently being witnessed runs the risk of confirming the doubters’ view lurking on both sides: that the US is an unreliable power, and India is a reluctant partner.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.