New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
London: A woman dentist in Poland is facing jail after she allegedly pulled out all her former boyfriend's teeth because he dumped her for another woman. Anna Mackowiak, 34, took revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic with toothache just days after breaking up with her, the Daily Mail reported. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked all his teeth out. She...
07:34 AM, Apr 29, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says she still believes in the power of love. The 31-year-old, who split from basketball player Kris Humphries last October after just 72 days of marriage, is still hopeful of falling in love again, reported Showbizspy. "I learned so much, and the things I care about in my life have completely changed. I still believe in love. I am in love with love. I...
01:56 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday said live-in relationships must be discouraged in the country as it is 'against humanity and Indian culture'. "The Sangh is against live-in relationships because it is against humanity, and also against the Indian traditions and culture," RSS joint secretary Dattatraya Hosbale said, speaking to reporters on the first day of 'Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha', the outfit's highest decision-making body. Live-in relationships should be...
06:12 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Ghaziabad: Batting for "live-in relationships", Team Anna member and former Union minister Shanti Bhushan has said people should accept it in the context of changing society rather than protest. "Social values are changing fast and we should accept it (live-in relationships) rather to protest or go against these values," Bhushan, who was here to attend a function last evening, said. Referring to the Assembly polls' results in five states, he...
06:01 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Nagpur: Encouraged by a Supreme Court verdict, making live-in relationships legal and inspired by a recent meet of senior citizens in Ahmedabad, in search of a life partner, elders in Nagpur have decided to give the idea a go. A group of senior citizens under the banner of 'Jyeshtha Nagrik Liv-In Relationship Mandal', led by a former banker Arvind Godbole hit on the idea to float an organisation for helping...
12:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Despite legal legitimacy, live-in relationships are largely perceived to be immoral and it is a fad visible only in urban areas, a Delhi court observed on Tuesday while dubbing it as "infamous western cultural product". In remarks that may stoke a controversy, Additional Sessions Judge Surinder S Rathi said, "Traditionally peaking, live-in relationships were alien to our nation till late. Even today it is fad which is visible...
07:58 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Writing about relationships is not an easy task. The writing has to come from a personal place, known and sometimes unknown to the writer. While reading 'Overwinter', I had mixed feelings - sometimes of joy but mostly of sadness and Ratika Kapur, intelligently has managed to evoke these emotions in her readers. 'Overwinter' is not an easy book to forget. It has been two days since I have finished it...
02:30 PM, Jan 12, 2012
London: Predictive text, a marvel of mobile phones that has made it quicker and easier to communicate with people, has been blamed for errors that can sabotage relationships by leaving users fuming. Predictive texting is a facility that makes SMSing faster especially for phones with non-qwerty keyboard. The latest submissions to the DamnYouAutoCorrect website show how the simple predictive text misspelling of the words 'at Pam's' resulted in a very...
11:41 AM, Jan 02, 2012
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Dating in India is very different from dating in the West. In both cases, there is a 5 Step Process. The West is more; meet ...
08:11 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Bangalore: With a 23-year-old Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, student committing suicide after her boyfriend quietly dumped her by updating his status on a social networking site, the need to discuss the minutiae of Facebook break-up etiquette has become more pressing. Of late, incidents of couples washing their dirty linen on social networking sites have risen in the city. The case of Malini Murmu, a first year MBA student...
11:09 AM, Sep 21, 2011
It is impossible to turn away from this story once begun, so be forewarned and prepared to read it in one sitting. Though this is only to feel the loneliness of missing a great friend, and to want to begin all over again. Unlike many big stories that try the readers patience with unnecessary details, Nairs novel efficiently contains a multi-generational family saga, loves, deaths, secrets, ruin, and rebirth. We...
02:52 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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