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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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