scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicLoneliness

Topic: loneliness

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

Sagrika Kissu -
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 Conversation -
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

The Conversation -
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

+TFP Shubhangi Misra -
Golden years, grey days. India’s elderly are now looking for connection online.

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

Almina Khatoon -
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

Dr Meg Jay -
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

Timothy Matthews -
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

Anurag Paul -
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?

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

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

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

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

Defence

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Vaibhav Pant -
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

Follow us

Copyright © 2025 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.