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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicModern dating

Topic: Modern dating

Young couples are reinventing first dates. Not coffee and dinner but Zumba, spa, pottery

The 20-somethings are trying out the A to Z dating trend, testing out potential partners through alphabetically curated dates. A for arcade, Z for zoo.

How to drop the F-bomb on your first date

Feminists looking to date allies have to get crafty in an anti-women world. Welcome to the reverse Bechdel test.

Dating for ‘potential’ is the futures trading of modern romance. A stock that never grows

Imagine the divine devotion of Meera, the charitable enterprise of Mother Teresa, and the financial aspirations of a girlboss—dating someone for his ‘potential’ in 2024 takes all of that.

Gen Z is giving up on dating apps. Turning to parents, Shaadi.com & LinkedIn

Looks like Gen Zs are warming up to the vintage vibe of arranged dating, if not marriage. Mothers everywhere are doing a victory dance while Cupid is crying in a corner.

Stalking an ex on LinkedIn, Instagram, WhatsApp isn’t self-sabotage. Go, win the breakup

When you dodge a bullet, it’s only natural to check where it eventually lands.

Music match, love and heartbreak mix—Gen Z has turned Spotify into a dating app

Music, love, heartbreak, algorithm, and Spotify merch — Gen Z has concocted yet another strange mixture for the waiting market.

How do you navigate the dreaded ‘what are we’ question in casual dating

I don’t like labels, so I call one dude my Lajpat Nagar hang. Another, the art conservator—it’s not romantic, just his job.

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.