When we’re too needy to see the truth. — Of all the countless moments I had shared with my ex-girlfriend, the one I remember the most is the memory of the day when we last saw each other, on the day when she told me we were breaking up. I was sitting in front of her, on the breakfast…

And the ever ignored Compounding rule of a relationship — “We’re meant to be!” This belief. This feeling — It is the most important reason that breaks up even the strongest of the relationships. This belief that we are soulmates, that we are perfect for each other, it’s a miracle that we ever met, that our meeting was somehow special…

It had started to rain again. Standing at a cross-road waiting for the light to turn green I was staring at the wet road glistening with the yellow reflection of sodium lamplights when I felt something cool and soft pricking against the skin of my face. I turned my head…

Is unconditional love an asset or a liability in relationships? — In any business (and also in life), it is considered good sense to have a Plan B as a backup if your Plan A comes to fail. This Plan B, which acts as a cushion, ensures that you don’t up end up with nothing when you are roaring ahead to…

And how I relive them. — Every night after I have finished my last household chore I go to the lounge, switch off all the lights in the room except the dim lamp in the corner and sit on the rattan chair beside it. There, leaning, I push the play button of the stereo system and…

Can People Change? — It had a bad ‘ring’ to it from the very beginning — dating your bully. Yes. It had, since the first day — the first moment, in fact — when, in the attic of the guest house that night Rhea had leaned towards me and our wine-soaked lips had touched…

It can liberate you, or can become your chains. — Desire is a double-edged sword, lifting us high one moment and plunging us down the next. It’s a wind that comes and goes, comes and goes, stirring the dredges of our soul into a whorl, into beautiful fractal shapes, colorful patterns, forming and cracking, emerging and dissolving — hallucinatory, magic. …

So I met this girl, and we hit it off like Soda and Rum — instant attraction, great conversation, and amazing, mind-blowing sex. I mean, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. She was a banker at an MNC but looked more like a model. Everything was exquisite about…

That’s how I knew it wasn’t about sex. — Tia and I were sitting in a pub looking at each other. She was running her fingers on the rim of Screwball glass half-filled with Long Island Iced Tea. I had finished yet another drink of Cutty Sark and now was leaning back deep into the sofa, just admiring her…