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Thursday, January 15, 2026
TopicModern dating

Topic: Modern dating

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

A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.