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Are you acting like a teenager in love? It’s a modern dating epidemic

Ratan Priya -
I have been called out for the hater energy I bring to my romantic life. Here I was thinking that my rants about the people I date are a sign of my deeper interest in them.

Sapiosexuals are just snobs who are bad at small talk

Ratan Priya -
This bold I-only-go-out-with-smart-people crowd opens Hinge chats by asking you what you're reading these days. They name-drop Kafka and Nietzsche and use the word 'nuance' a lot.

Should you pick your partner from the airport? It can be the ultimate gesture or a lovebomb

Ratan Priya -
Imagine someone came to pick you up at Bengaluru airport. Spend more than two hours in traffic to see you? And pay for a cab both ways? There’s no bigger confession of love.

Have women taken the quest for perfection too far? It’s time to ignore some icks

Ratan Priya -
Friends in relationships have one piece of advice for single women—work through the ick

Is sharing phone passwords the ultimate sign of commitment in modern dating?

Ratan Priya -
Our phones are our lives, and—according to some monogamists—it doesn’t make sense not to share with someone you claim to love.

What to do when your paramour sends you a poem? It’s mostly game over after that

Ratan Priya -
Whatever gives people the courage to send poems to their insignificant others is spreading like a viral fever. The big disruptor? ChatGPT.

Modern lovers don’t kiss and tell. Only ChatGPT knows the relationship problems

Ratan Priya -
The kids these days reject TMI. Welcome to emotional minimalism: Share less, reveal slowly, and only when the relationship can withstand public scrutiny.

When do you leave your lover? 1st sign of disrespect, some say

Ratan Priya -
As someone with a flexible tolerance, I define disrespect by the vibes of the situation.

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

Ratan Priya -
If someone doesn’t text back, they’re avoidant. If you feel jealous watching your partner cosy up to someone else, you have attachment trauma. He dumped you? He is a narcissist.

What if your partner doesn’t believe in Valentine’s Day and you do

Ratan Priya -
Valentine’s Day is a threat to undefined 'attachments' of the modern dating world. Don’t even ironically wish your humourless, insignificant other if you don’t want to be ghosted.
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Iran player’s gun gesture was just a goal celebration. Stop projecting your politics on it

Saptak Datta -
From Gabriel Batistuta's machine-gun routine to Robbie Keane's finger-gun salute, guns aren't foreign to goal celebrations. Backlash against Iran’s Mohammad Mohebi is excessive.

ICAI to onboard 25 CA firms under PM Internship Scheme, targets 2,000 interns by year-end

Udit Bubna -
ICAI plans to engage medium and large CA firms under the PMIS, with interns likely to start joining next month. The ICAI can later open it up for everyone.

India, US, Siberia, Pakistan: 5 crashes in 3 days underline military aviation risks

Anmol Kapil -
In India, the crash involving the AN-32 transport aircraft marked the fourth major incident involving a military aircraft since the beginning of this year.

Five challenges await Modi. First, he must shake off the past and Nehru

Shekhar Gupta -
It’s a perfectly reasonable presumption that Modi will be around for a significant enough time for us to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead. I will list five.