relationships

Bollywood films like Piku, Queen, Dear Zindagi, and Mimi highlight love beyond romance, focusing on self-love, family relationships, motherhood, freedom, and patriotism.

Overprotection prevents children from achieving age-appropriate developmental tasks and milestones because the environment does not permit exploration, curiosity, reflection, challenge and the scope to question.

"I constantly longed for his approval. And as I grew older, I longed for the approval of other men."

Kids from a government school in New Delhi have designed a kit to help make it easier for them to share their feelings with their parents. The project was selected among top 20 stories of change at the ‘I CAN Awards 2017’ organised by Design for Change.

Hima Bindu writes about her journey of grit and determination, and how she never gave up in spite of several hurdles.

The strained political and military relations between India and Pakistan have not stopped people from both nations forming friendships and relationships that endure despite the tension. Sutirtha Saha talks about his experience meeting such a couple, and discovering a story of love across borders.

Raksha Bharadia studies couple relationships in the modern Indian context. With her website, Bonobology, she has created a non-judgemental space where she hopes to break some of the taboos associated with discussing love lives.

Nazreen Fazal has written a very relatable post about arranged marriages on Facebook that discusses the need for communication before every marriage. The post has been shared over 1,700 times so far.

On October 8th, the story of one Indian woman’s choice to leave her difficult marriage was shared on a page called Humans of Amsterdam.

Documentary filmmaker Paromita Vohra's hilarious new short film answers all your questions about consent, sex and why men and women have different meanings for yes, no and maybe.