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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicDating apps

Topic: Dating apps

Dalit dating in India is a choice between dignity and loneliness

Dating apps promised to disrupt the casteist marriage market. Instead, they’ve merely translated social biases into digital language.

New-age job search: Join a dating app, network your way to interviews

About a third of dating app users said they had sought matches for job hook-ups, according to a survey.

Attachment styles are the new kundli matching. Swipe, diagnose, repeat

People with anxious attachment are on the far left end, craving closeness like it was oxygen. And on the far right are avoidant attachment ghouls who will get mad at you for loving them.

Indian couples keep lying about how they met. Dating app stigma is real

If Zohran Mamdani can admit his Hinge romance, why can’t you?

Modern dating and the black cat-Golden Retriever theory

Every couple thinks they’re black cat–Golden Retriever until the bill arrives. That’s when everyone magically transforms into a terrified goat.

Why fruity men are winning hearts on dating apps—it’s survival of the softest

An average single girl likes men who care about women’s cricket, skip the ‘harmless sexist jokes’ and listen to them rant without offering solutions. She still might call him a ‘performative male’ for ticking every box.

Be soft, smile more, never text first—‘feminine energy’ is men’s new obsession

Uncertified dating gurus are teaching women to be suggestive, mysterious, and never loud. For some of us, this level of performance is simply unachievable. We might as well give up and become Brahma Kumaris.

Diwali dating — when ghosted lovers rise again in the festival of lights

Something really changes in the air that makes everyone text their ex this season, and the emotional kabaddi of modern dating turns festive.

Nice guys, bad boys, and the dating propaganda

Every influencer is selling a course, a podcast, or a protein powder on how to upgrade from Nice Guy to Alpha. Nice is needy. All his kindness is a loan that you never signed up for.

Lover girls are the tragic clowns of modern dating. They are keeping romance alive

It’s not that lover girls lack self-respect — they’ve just put it on a little sale for whichever emotionally unavailable dude they’re currently fixated on.

On Camera

Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.