Chitra Nair

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  • Fumbling through Bumble – Confessions of Using an ‘Unsanskari’ Dating App

    Here, on a dating app, you’re asked about actual things that you want from a relationship – like if you want kids, want to hook up or basaofy your ghar grihasti. These are some pertinent, deal-breaking points in a relationship that you get to tackle from the get-go. 

  • Oh, mirror, mirror, on the wall; Does it matter who’s the fairest of them all?

    Once, someone had told me, “You look so much like your grandmother.”  I didn’t pay heed because I was used to hearing that all the time. It was like how everyone would look at Harry Potter and sigh, wistfully, “Oh, you have your mother’s eyes!”  Be it my eyes or my cheekbones or the shape…