An original short story, set in the city of loss and rebirth, by the PEN/Hemingway Award- and Folio Prize-winning author
8 min read10 Feb 2018Melodramatic and plaintive, aggressive and muted, lovelorn songs in Hindi films have covered all registers
4 min read10 Feb 2018One of India's most successful singles dating platforms has just morphed into a community network, putting self-expression over romance. Is love as we knew it in peril?
6 min read10 Feb 2018What urban Indians think of love, sex and fidelity todayThis survey was conducted last month by Floh, a singles network established in 2011, with 769 total respondents across the gender and sexuality spectrum. Of the respondents, 88% were single and 65% were male. While the age of the respondents ranged 20 to 50, 40% were aged 25-30 and 37% were aged 30-35. Respondents were drawn from across the country but 88% were from Mumbai, Bengaluru and the Delhi NCR region.
9 Feb 2018The gift of grief, being open, and that calm, safe place
6 min read13 Feb 2016A love story spanning decades, relocations, an adoption and a marriage
6 min read13 Feb 2016It's a good time to be in one's middle years and not slotted into some relationship mould that fits into narrow mainstream parameters
7 min read14 Feb 2016When dating is a romantic expression of the self, a luscious right-now, and not a means to an end
8 min read12 Feb 2016Prising apart love from sex at 52, and finding meaning in the gap
7 min read12 Feb 2016Dasharatha and Kaushalya spend their later years with a weary gratitude rather than with remembered passion
7 min read20 Feb 2016The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared