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Topic: loneliness

‘Are You Dead?’ How Chinese people are tackling loneliness

The app’s sudden popularity has pushed it to the top of the Apple App Store’s paid charts, making it the most downloaded paid app in China.

Why loneliness is a problem, even if it’s not an epidemic

The idea that loneliness is an ‘epidemic’ is misleading and it draws us away from sustainable solutions, rather than toward them.

Why therapy isn’t always enough to deal with loneliness

Rather than placing all responsibility on a person suffering from loneliness, we need to look at societal solutions.

How India’s seniors are fighting loneliness—Love, loss, and logins

Golden years, grey days. India’s elderly are now looking for connection online.

Delhi NCR is tackling urban loneliness. It’s called ‘stranger meetups’

The willingness to spend money to meet strangers highlights the extent of loneliness in society and the growing desperation to break free from the confines of the online world.

Gen Z is living with peak uncertainty. It’s the loneliest age

In 'The Twenty-something Treatment', Meg Jay offers practical advice for young adults to handle mental health challenges with skills over medication.

Social isolation and loneliness are as fatal as smoking and obesity

Social isolation experienced in childhood can foreshadow health issues decades later.

Covid taught us that love transcends even pandemics. The stories cannot be re-created

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Where’s the sympathy for lonely young people hit by social distancing?

Younger people report higher rates of anxiety and depression when compared with the elderly, and the pandemic hasn’t changed that.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.