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Swipe right for love

While WhatsApp and other apps have seemingly made dating much easier, they’ve also made it infinitely tougher.

By Kiran Manral, Author, Mumbai

Dated in the early 1990s. This was the time when we'd just about got telephones in our homes. Our first telephone arrived after years of waiting for it to be allotted. I spent a week not daring to step out to visit the doctor even when dying of a fever, in the eventuality the telephone man would arrive, ring the doorbell and go away without installing the instrument. The telephone men swaggered into the home

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