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One Night Stands: The Graveyard of Friendships | Karan Johar on Hooking Up

In this episode of Calling Karan, we talk to Riddhi, as she shares her story of hooking up with her best friend on a trip, and then sharing an awkwardness that none of them asked for. We all walk into these little traps with our best friends. Romantic involvement is often only […]

Reverse Rapid Fire with Karan Johar

Karan Johar has caught Bollywood off guard many a times with his sharp and scandalous rapid fires. With Calling Karan, we turn the tables around and play a reverse rapid fire with him where Ishq RJs ask him questions that’ll spill some major beans!

“Next time, you kiss the hell out of him” Karan Johar, on making the first move

The first episode of Calling Karan, like his first film was a complete blockbuster! If you missed it on the radio, don’t worry, we got you the hottest scoops right here! Rohini was our first ever caller on Calling Karan and she came forward with a problem that most of us face all the time. […]

“What Followed Next?” 5 Instances When First Impressions Turned out to be the Worst Ones

Imagine this, you go on a date and manage to piss of your companion so much so that your first
date turns out to be an A grade nightmare.

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Anjali from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – The Girl Who Got Away

All of us wanted to be Anjali. From rocking jumpsuits to making Rahul eat dirt in their ritualistic basketball games –Anjali was the personification of #goals for us 90s kids. But now that we are grown people; children of the intensely ‘woke’ internet and time itself – Anjali seems far from perfect.

7 Urdu poems that make separation bearable

Let’s start this list of fire poems with one from Faiz Ahmad Faiz sah’b, Presenting ‘mujhse pahli si mohabbat meri mahbub na mang’

Fall in love with this road trip mixtape – on the go

The big blue sky, the open road, and your partner – does it get any better than that?

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6 tales of childhood romance that will give you real nostalgia

Wouldn’t it be nice to return to those times when innocence ruled our hearts? A time when we found joy in the smallest gestures, and everything was simple but felt so impossibly complex. Let’s hop into the time machine and take a trip to see all those things that put us in the path of cupid’s arrow.

5 people talk about the best relationship advice they would give someone

It really isn’t that hard to do. Just concentrate on what your partner has to say and don’t think of that surfing dog you laughed at all afternoon.

5 poems by Rupi Kaur that will shake you if you’ve ever truly been in love

Towards the end of the song ‘Phir Se Ud Chala’, we find Ranbir Kapoor (or should we say Jordan) dancing like there’s no tomorrow but with a hollowness in his eyes, with the weight of an insurmountable loss even in the face of happiness; and the lyrics sing Rang Birange Vehmon Mein, Main Udaas Kyun.

6 ‘Love Songs’ That Sum Up How Bollywood Glorified Stalking

I was in my teens when a song called ‘mere pyaar ka ras zara chakhna’ (uh, okay) freaked me out so much that I started to have second thoughts about ‘love’. The song’s representation of how people behave in love got me a little (read very) uncomfortable.

Here are some moves to keep it romantic on the Dance floor!

Irrespective of where you fall on our list, it doesn’t hurt to know your moves, since life has its ways of making us dance to its tunes.

The Affair. A Movie on Love in the times of no Privacy

The film opens with the Marine Drive couples sharing stolen kisses, drunk in love –exuding the typical Mumbai candour, with much openness & complete nonchalance in the air.

Seven 90’s songs that defined what nostalgia truly means

“Pancham did say that I would ask him to set a newspaper headline to music next!”

4 times Game of Thrones Characters Taught you About Love

Let’s take the case of love and relationships. GoT writers (+ good ol’ G.R.R Martin) have had immense fun painting love in all its abundance

8 Words That Confirm That Urdu is the Language of Love

One of the leading Urdu poets of the 18th century, here’s Mir Taqi Mir or as his pen name or takhallus (Urdu for pen name *wink) goes, Mir, and two mesmerizing lines on pinning hope even during a farewell

Here’s a mixtape of monsoon love songs to keep your spirits high

Now that monsoon is on its way out, it is time to attempt at creating an awesome sauce mixtape that will continue to chime the tunes of the season even when our window sills are dry.

Lovers who were F.R.I.E.N.D.S first – our love letter to Monica and Chandler

Monica’s famous “we weren’t that close, anyway” to Chandlers “it’s likely we’ve effectively ruined our friendship”.

Immortal love letters: 5 letters that continue to amaze till date

I will not waste time after telling you how writing a letter is one of the most romantic things you can do for someone. I am sure most of you have held a letter in your hand at least once in your life.

Ishq ke side effects / Love – a celebrated by product of chemical locha

MRI reports reveal that a feeling of deep affection towards a person sparks a certain pleasure centre of our brain as a direct result of dopamine secretion.

One Night Stands: The Graveyard of Friendships | Karan Johar on Hooking Up

Reverse Rapid Fire with Karan Johar

“Next time, you kiss the hell out of him” Karan Johar, on making the first move

“What Followed Next?” 5 Instances When First Impressions Turned out to be the Worst Ones

Anjali from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – The Girl Who Got Away

7 Urdu poems that make separation bearable

Fall in love with this road trip mixtape – on the go

6 tales of childhood romance that will give you real nostalgia

5 people talk about the best relationship advice they would give someone

5 poems by Rupi Kaur that will shake you if you’ve ever truly been in love

6 ‘Love Songs’ That Sum Up How Bollywood Glorified Stalking

Here are some moves to keep it romantic on the Dance floor!

The Affair. A Movie on Love in the times of no Privacy

Seven 90’s songs that defined what nostalgia truly means

4 times Game of Thrones Characters Taught you About Love

8 Words That Confirm That Urdu is the Language of Love

Here’s a mixtape of monsoon love songs to keep your spirits high

Lovers who were F.R.I.E.N.D.S first – our love letter to Monica and Chandler

Immortal love letters: 5 letters that continue to amaze till date

Ishq ke side effects / Love – a celebrated by product of chemical locha

Milind Deora & Kareena Kapoor Khan – Feminism & Women | Dabur Amla What Women Want | 104.8 Ishq

Here’s Exactly Why Your Partner Might Be Cheating On You

6 Mirzapur Dialogues that Define the Dilemmas of Love

One Night Stands: The Graveyard of Friendships | Karan Johar on Hooking Up

Reverse Rapid Fire with Karan Johar

“Next time, you kiss the hell out of him” Karan Johar, on making the first move

“What Followed Next?” 5 Instances When First Impressions Turned out to be the Worst Ones

Anjali from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – The Girl Who Got Away

7 Urdu poems that make separation bearable

Fall in love with this road trip mixtape – on the go

6 tales of childhood romance that will give you real nostalgia

5 people talk about the best relationship advice they would give someone

5 poems by Rupi Kaur that will shake you if you’ve ever truly been in love

6 ‘Love Songs’ That Sum Up How Bollywood Glorified Stalking

Here are some moves to keep it romantic on the Dance floor!

The Affair. A Movie on Love in the times of no Privacy

Seven 90’s songs that defined what nostalgia truly means

4 times Game of Thrones Characters Taught you About Love

8 Words That Confirm That Urdu is the Language of Love

Here’s a mixtape of monsoon love songs to keep your spirits high

Lovers who were F.R.I.E.N.D.S first – our love letter to Monica and Chandler

Immortal love letters: 5 letters that continue to amaze till date

Ishq ke side effects / Love – a celebrated by product of chemical locha

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