Romantic interaction between man and machine – that’s what dating sims offer.

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Journalist Anu Singh Chaudhary‘s book “Neela Scarf,” or The Blue Scarf, is a collection of stories depicting life in different parts and among different social classes in India. She speaks to Women Talk Online about writing about class differences and intimacy in her mother tongue, Hindi.

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Women are becoming more confident and rising up to every challenge that their lives offer. Yet, is this newly-found self-assurance hampering their attempts to be in a lasting relationship with a man?

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In her Urdu short story, “Ujli Subah Ka Anjam,” (The Fate of a Bright Morn), author Ayesha Siddiqui concerns herself with a woman who wakes up fresh and sparkling but due to wrongs suffered by her during the day, becomes a wreck by the time the sun sets.

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39-year-old Indian investment banker-turned-novelist Chetan Bhagat has touched the pulse of India’s youth with six bestselling novels. He talks to Women Talk Online about his first screenplay for the Salman Khan starrer, Kick.

Every website administrator managing a Facebook page is hungry for new likes. Theoretically, there are many easy ways to increase organic likes, but in practice, it’s a hard job.

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In this excerpt from “The Love Diet,” published by Random House, Shonaali Sabherwal, chef and instructor in macrobiotics, reveals the secrets of keeping the chemistry alive at an age when women are fighting menopause and lower testosterone levels are bumming out men.