Articles in the RELATIONSHIPS Category

Following my Heart across the Atlantic
By NEEM Magazine
Posted in EDITOR'S PICKS, RELATIONSHIPS, Spring 2010

At the end of 1995’s French Kiss, Meg Ryan’s character Kate boards a US-bound plane in France, closes her eyes, and takes a deep breathe to help overcome her flying neurosis and return home. Luc Teyssier (played by Kevin Kline) assumes the seat next to her, having had zipped through security in a pre-9-11 [...]

The Age Old Issue at a New Age: Falling for My Best Friend
By NEEM Magazine
Posted in RELATIONSHIPS, Spring 2010

It’s one thing to fall in love with your best friend – but it’s something  completely different to fall in love with someone who is your best friend, when he doesn’t consider you his best friend.
I admit, there is a fine line and almost tragic inability to make that distinction.
How can one know who [...]

Pervasive Dilemmas: Too-Low Standards
By NEEM Magazine
Posted in RELATIONSHIPS, Winter 2009

by, Shabana Metha
Do South Asian Women Set Their Standards Too Low?
Every other day you hear a desi man saying, “I need a hot girl that will work out and stay fit, have a great career, live at home with my family, take care of my parents, have kids, make my friends jealous…” and more.  [...]

3 Questions to a Guy
By NEEM Magazine
Posted in RELATIONSHIPS, Winter 2009

Answered by Aram Jawad
You know those questions that you ask your girlfriends but don’t ever buy their answers because you think:  well, we’re girls, we think differently from guys… well – you aren’t alone.  So we at NEEM Magazine pooled some reader questions together and submitted them to a South Asian American boy to help [...]