Monthly Archives: November 2013
It was one of the strongest storms in world history, but even so, Americans aren’t that interested in Typhoon Haiyan, a new study shows.
After surveying 1,013 adults a week after the storm hit, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that Americans’ engagement with the news and in donating to the relief effort is trailing behind other recent...
My mother’s relationship to cricket is limited to my brothers’ and my love for the game. She didn’t watch his farewell speech nearly two weeks back, but she cried. I asked her on the phone, why? She said, “I don’t know, perhaps because of what he has meant for so many years.”
He has given us joy in millions of...
What is B.PAC?
B.PAC (Bangalore Political Action Committee) is a citizen-based group, with a set of objectives designed to improve the Governance of Bangalore, having noticed the startlingly low number of recorded voters in the city.
The voting population (read: "educated" middle-class citizenry) forms roughly 40% of the population of Bangalore. Yet, this large voting population (read: 3.5 million people) only...
Before I start with the topic I want to introduce via this article, I’d like you to note that this article is a rewrite of an article called “Strategies of Investment Gurus”, which was published in Economic Times weeks ago. I’d like to decode it for you, the ED Way!
Warren Buffett once said "Be greedy when others are fearful...
Be it New York, Paris, London or Milan, the Trend Reports these season seem to be screaming the word, ‘contrast’. Ambiguity between masculine and feminine, opulence and grunge, strength and fragility, past and present has been the flavour of the season. These contrasting trends are a representation and celebration of the multi-faceted modern woman.
Androgyny continues to rule the ramps,...
By Kanwar Anand
Some books rely entirely on self deprecating humour to be funny but while this may be funny in that instance, it soon gets tiring and maybe even seems ostensible to the reader after a while. Looking for Alaska is a book with much self deprecating humour but it has many more intricate layers to it. I am...
Dubai is known for having exotic, fast and highly modified cars. The streets are filled with supercars and hypercars like Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s, Bentley’s etc. The police obviously need to keep up with such powerful vehicles and as a result the Dubai police is known to have a fleet of hypercars themselves. These include cars like the Nissan GT-R, Ferrari...
After passing 12th board exams, one thing that clogs every mind is getting into good college for higher education. But unfortunately everybody who wish to study further, do not end up getting into good college. There was a time when scoring 90% was considered a mark of brilliance but as of now scoring 90% has become so common that...
If you’re under the impression that Shillong has nothing to offer apart from, sloped hills, tall trees and plenty of waterfalls, you are mistaken.
Well of course there are various spots that twinkle toed people would love to visit, even if it were miles away, such as: Elephant Falls:- 12 kms on the outskirts of the city the mountain stream...
Yes, you have guessed it right. This article is about Rahul Gandhi. Inspite of the fact that Narendra Modi has been trying to connect with the voters through frequent rallies and all, all that we get from the other side is gibberish. It is simply not fair to the voters. So, I undertook this difficult task of decoding Rahul...
I'm not a politically-minded person at all, but I still have SOME preconceptions of what "politics" entails. Most of what I understand about politics comes from what I've seen in Movies, read in Books and heard through Songs; from what I've gathered, there's nothing welcoming about the world of politics at all. But that's solely conjecture. But that's also the...
Following a previous post on another little-known band: "The Small Faces", I feel it's fitting I follow up with a review of another little-known band called: "The Roots" A quick look at their Wikipedia page tells you that they should be ANYTHING but little known, going by the sheer list of achievements they have accrued over the years; but to...
What else could I be?
all apologies...
"The sad messiah weeping silently with his guitar desperately trying to cover his paranoia. The Jesus of Suburbia was he. All he missed was his crown thorns, which the world did impose on him, by the grief he received. He died a martyr some say, some say he didn't die at all. But shall...
Hot water seems to freeze faster than cold water, known as the Mpemba effect. The effect was named after the Tanzanian student who in 1963 noticed that hot ice cream mix freezes faster than a cold one. The effect was first observed by Aristotle in the 4th century BC, then later Francis Bacon and René Descartes. Mpemba published a...
THE French are steeling themselves for yet more tax increases when the finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, unveils the 2014 budget on September 25th. The government is planning an extra €3 billion ($4 billion) of taxes next year, which will push up the overall tax take in the economy to 46.5% and make 2014 the fifth consecutive year that the...
Notes on Hauz Khas Village & Fete de la Musique
by Mnanasi Negi
The Fete de la Musique in Hauz Khas Village :- Traffic jam from the beginning of the road, all the way up to the parking lot. As we ditched our car in the earliest open spot and walked in the sweat dodging cars and hipsters, it gave me...
THE NEXT 'LITTLE' BIG THING IN FASHION
How young is too young to be a Fashion Icon?
The formidably young entry into the glamour style poll is five year old Suri Cruise,who came 21st in a magazine's annual poll.This little Cruise has the perks of being born to two of the most famous and beautiful celebrities of hollywood,Katie Holmes and Tom...
