Tag: valentines day
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Valentine’s Day: Five Bollywood movies that shaped the idea of love in the 90’s
We have all grown up watching Bollywood movies and we have learned about our ideas of love and romance from those movies. I mean, we all remember: “Hum ek baar jeete hai, ek baar marte hai, shaadi bhi ek baar hoti hai … aur pyar ek baar hi hota hai,” dialogue by heart. We all…
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Valentine’s Day: Gift ideas for your partner to make them feel special
Valentine’s Day is the ideal opportunity to express your love for your partner or friends by giving them thoughtful gifts. If you are confused about what to purchase for your partner, here are some gift ideas for both men and women. Vintage card and envelope: We all can agree that handwritten customised cards are one…
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‘I won’t fall in love… will marry as per my parents’ choice’: Video of oath at girls college goes viral
About 40 students at a girls college have pledged to desist from love marriage besides giving or receiving dowry, a 2020 video going viral a day after Valentine’s Day has revealed. As per the details, the video was recorded at Mahila Kala Vanijya Mahavidyalaya in the Indian state of Maharashtra The oath was administered by…
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Last-minute Valentine’s Day gift ideas
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. While celebrations will be slightly different this year given the pandemic, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t celebrate the day of love. If you have not yet bought any gift for your loved one(s), then do not fret. The Current has compiled a list of gifts you can still buy or…
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‘What nonsense are you doing here?’: Professor dodging wife’s kiss on Zoom goes viral
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and love sure is in the air… The video of an Indian professor dodging his wife’s kiss while on a Zoom conference has gone viral over the internet. The man, who was seen talking about GDP in the video, then calls his partner’s romantic move as “foolish and…
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Pakistani Love: Love in Expected Places
I was 23 years old when I met my husband for the first time. After a whirlwind courtship of gorgeous flowers and overseas calling cards, we were married a short eight months later. By the time I was 28, I had three beautiful babies. Becoming a mother was the most momentous and profound turning point…
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Looking for recipes to cook for your Valentine?
It’s not like any of us needs an excuse to eat hearty and heavy, but if you do, cooking for your loved one(s) on V day is a good one. Here are three tried and tested recipes that taste amazing and are at an intermediate level of cooking. They are a mix of different recipes:…
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Posters we love on ‘Haya Day’
As the world celebrates Valentine’s Day today on February 14, Pakistanis are calling for the day to be celebrated as ‘Haya Day’. A group of people started this to boycott Valentine’s Day because they think that it is against our norms and culture many people joined them in the cause. Here are the posters we…
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Pakistani love: The Pleasure Quartet and Black Ships
There are only four things in life worth chasing: Serotonin, Dopamine, Endorphins and Oxytocin. Belonging. Reward. Achievement. Trust. Release. Butterflies in the stomach. Warm blankets. Enveloping hugs. Every feeling worth having is borne upon the backs of those little molecules of the Pleasure Quartet. We’re all addicts, because to be otherwise would be to be…
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Saudi Arabia observes first legal Valentine’s Day
After decades of marking the practice as forbidden, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is observing its first legal Valentine’s Day by selling and buying gifts, flowers and chocolates, which was not thought possible until a few years ago due to the strict laws deeming the same un-Islamic. According to Middle East Monitor, the once-feared religious police…