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TopicFriendship

Topic: Friendship

The dating pool is depleting. Gen Z is fishing in the friend zone

The best part? If they ghost you, you can summon them on their mom’s mobile.

Friends are still matchmaking in the dating apps era

Gauging romantic chemistry between two people is risky business. When it flops, years of friendship and group dynamics fall apart.

‘Friend breakups’ can hurt just as much as romantic ones. Here’s why

Research shows that the most common method of ending a friendship is by avoidance – not addressing the issues involved.

Workplace best friends are good for you, a US researcher explains

While there will always be colleagues you don’t care for, it can be empowering to know that with some reframing, you can help create a better workplace for everyone.

Making friends from different generations can reduce loneliness. Here’s how

Friendships between older and younger people can also promote social inclusion, tackle ageism, besides reducing loneliness in society.

‘Bhakts’ or ‘Liberals’ — friendship changed in Modi’s India. Tech will make it worse for GenZ

In ‘India 2030’, Sandipan Deb, as part of the volume of 20 essays, predicts how ideology and technology will widen political polarisation over the next decade.

Is sex more important than friendship in marriage?

Public intellectual Gurcharan Das writes about how dwindling desire in marriage can give way to another kind of love. 

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.