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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why Indian Dating Apps Have Given Us a Generation Stuck in the Almost Relationship

The Apartment You Never Quite Move Into

You know exactly what this is. There is a man whose texts arrive at 11 pm and whose silences arrive on weekends. You have had the conversation about what this is at least twice, and both times it ended somewhere soft and unresolved, like a door that doesn't latch. You are not together. You are not not together. You are in the almost relationship, and the app that introduced you was specifically designed to keep you there.

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