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TopicDating apps

Topic: Dating apps

Slow-burn is the sizzle that dating apps can’t replicate. The thrill of the ‘will they, won’t they’

Forget immediate trauma-dumping on the first date. Building unbearable physical tension is the real high-stakes sport we need.

From salam to ‘halal baddie’ messages—being a Muslim on dating apps is a problem

Being Muslim on Hinge comes with its own peculiar problems. It’s not the obvious communalism that gets to you, but the absurd messages, stereotypes and religious assumptions.

Single at an Indian wedding? Prepare to be matched, judged and monitored

At Indian weddings, somewhere between the pheras and the paneer tikka, singles slip into corners and quiet rooms, scripting their own meet-cutes on someone else’s big day.

Bumble update is all about who makes the first move. It doesn’t matter

The let-women-approach-men-first performative slash safety feature was hurting the sentiments of men’s rights activists in thousands, who were smacking Whitney Wolfe with one lawsuit after another.

Why I choose Raya, Inner Circle over Hinge, Bumble—dating and ‘fairness’ are separate domains

Nobody dates democratically. We like pretending that we do. But we are filtering, sorting, selecting all the time when we date or marry.

Love and FIFA World Cup. How dating app swipes are surging during matches

UK traffic data shows dating app use jumped during hydration breaks, with swipes and matches rising around key World Cup moments.

Grindr most searched in TN, Bumble in Karnataka. Welcome to India’s dating map

India by Pixels used Google Trends data to map the relative search interest for Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, and Shaadi.com across India’s states and Union Territories.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is driving a Tinder boom across the US

International users swiped 47% more during the opening week of the FIFA World Cup, with ‘Passport Mode’ and cross-border matches surging across the US, Canada and Mexico.

Women looking for 6 ft tall men to date may be sexist, UK study reveals

The study also noted that women’s preference for a taller partner was stronger than men’s preference for a shorter partner.

Madonna’s tie-up with Grindr made me hate her new album with a passion

Grindr’s married-with-two-kids, conservative CEO wants it to be more than just a hookup app. He calls it “The Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™”.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.