Monthly Archives: February 2014
The whole world is familiar with the infamous quote by Shakespeare- "What's in a name?". Most of us also know what it means, but a very few of us adhere to that quote. Here, I'm asking everybody - what's in a color? You are fair or dark, how does it matter? How does it make you any less beautiful,...
Start talking about a Prada coat and all the pseudo intellectuals around you would flare their noses at the slight mention of it.
What’s the point of strutting around a stage wearing fancy clothes?
What good does it do to society?
Why are we wasting so much time and money on this, it makes no sense at all.
Oh, thank you for your...
There are couple of varied individuals amongst us who tend to be crazy over some blood sucking species which are mostly wild and fictious. But the love for them is so overwhelming especially by the female gender that if they are actually alive, they would be treated no less than a superstar.
You know on a broader perspective, these vampires...
Maruti Suzuki has just launched their all-new hatchback, the Celerio which will compete with the Hyundai Grand i10. The pricing starts at 3.76lakhs for the manual while the Automatic variants start at 4.14lakhs(ex- showroom Delhi). Maruti Suzuki has the biggest market share in the Indian auto industry. They have launched some revolutionary products over the years, the most important...
Belonging to a 100 year old family run business by the name of Indian Handicrafts Emporium & Ivory Mart Jewellers, life is like a page out of The Jungle Book.
From where I see it, old establishments are surviving or have survived only because of our old timbers. There are couple of them at-least in a huge joint business like...
Well if I can name just one beverage in Hyderabad that is meant to be served only in café’s it is the infamous Irani chai. Existing for more than a century now, the Irani chai is a hard-core favorite for a true hyderabadi.
Now if you think this beverage is best served only in high class exquisite restaurants then prepare...
A family has a good night’s sleep in Kashmir because it knows that there are enough troops out there to protect them. A man walks out of his house, freely, for work, in Kashmir because he knows that the troops, abundant in nature, are there to protect him. Isn’t this peace? So is it justified if we take away...
By Sneha Garodia
The heading must have left you in a perplexed state of mind. Well you need not look into the ideological meaning of this. This place is neither too far nor very near. But it has decided to follow the 'chai bagaan' time instead of the Indian Standard Time. The bagaan time refers to a daylight saving schedule introduced by...
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program is a professional accreditation offered by the American based CFA institute. On completing the three levels of exams and after completing the professional working requirements a candidate is awarded a 'CFA Charter' and becomes a 'CFA Charterholder'.
If finance is up your street, and you are at 'that' major crossroad in life. Consider enrolling...
AMG is the in-house performance division of Mercedes-Benz. They are to Mercedes-Benz, what //M is to BMW. In a nutshell, they make the standard issue Mercs faster, louder and crazy tire smoking monsters. The engine of an AMG Mercedes-Benz is hand built and signed off by the engineer who put it together. Typically, the AMG model is the most expensive and highest-performance version...
By Anushka
Above is a signboard of what has famously come to be known as the ‘Magnetic Hill’ in Ladakh. It invites you to be a part of and experience this mystifying phenomenon first hand. Follow the instructions on the signage and your car actually starts moving on its own at speeds of 10-20 km per hour.
And for those of...
By Anushka
Salman khan is back with a bang with another one of his movies that stir up the imagination of the people and provide food for thought. But the important question is that for HOW long will we retain this feeling of patriotism in our busy schedules? Do we really have time to think beyond ourselves? These are certainly...
By Nikita
Recall all the renewable energy forms you know: solar, wind, geothermal - now there's a new renewable energy source to add to that list. It's free, completely reliable and totally unlimited: the force of gravity! Two British designers -Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves, have invented a lamp that runs on gravity alone. Their ‘Gravity Light’ - aptly named...
By Nikita Whom does one call insane or mad? Generally, mad people are those who cannot be comprehended by the so called “wise men”. But if you read through history, people who were considered insane turned out to be geniuses. Their thought process was unconventional, maybe that's why people called them mad. I fail to understand that why...
All those inspirational feelings that we get, the moment we walk out of the theater after watching a science-fiction (Time travel) movie is all plausible in the very near future. It is due to increased fictional based reality science development. A better way to say is that these movies certainly portray an enlarged or expected possible outcomes, of that...
By Chirali Sharma
Polyvore. It is a community powered social commerce website. Members of this site, use a shared product index to create image collages called "sets". This is the wikipedia definition.
But in actuality, it is so much more than that. Its not just about clothes and makeup or etc. But, its about having a platform to show your creativity,...
By Chirali Sharma
I have always been fascinated by the concept of writing a letter. Its not like a mail or a text message. Its deep, its personal and its there, in your hand, a tangible piece, which will always be there, there is nothing that will take it away from you. You might forget it, but that letter, that...
By Pranali Batra
Going green is more than just a phrase. While the world is reiterating the importance of environment conservation and trying to implement the clichéd measures, there are some who believe in adding an innovative and practical touch to green solutions. Here’s a look.
Ø ECO FRIENDLY NIGHT CLUB
A night-club in Britain has a bar that is supposedly powered...
By Chirali Sharma
Keep calm.
This line, two words, are very strong if you look at them closely.
The feeling of panic can be very dangerous, and the truth is you can do nothing to escape it. Once it gets its grip on you, it never can leave you. Panic can lead a person to such extremes, that that person does not...
By Surangya Kaur
We spend 14 years of our life in the closed walls of our school, sheltered from and unexposed to the real world. Our sense of opinion and views reflects that of our elders. We aren't accustomed to thinking independently, or say, we lack the confidence to make our own decisions, without the consent of our parents. Parents...
By Surangya Kaur
Home to thousands of refugee Tibetans, His Holiness the Dalai Lama also took asylum here when ousted from his own country by China. Its popularity is increasing by the day and the weekends are especially crowded with people flooding in from all the nearby cities in search of a change of weather. It is named after a...
The 2014 Formula One Season kicks off in Melbourne, Australia on the 16th of March. 2014 marks the 65th season of Formula One. Eleven teams and Twenty-two drivers are going to battle it out in nineteen races scheduled for the season. There have been a number of revisions since last year. The Austrian Grand Prix makes a comeback after ten years,...
Imagine this; a future where you have the convenience of strolling around museums, where with the flick of an eye you get every piece of information that is available on the planet about the arti-fact you are staring at. Or you are walking down the street, where you get this crush on this lady you know nothing about; but...
By Priya Goyal
Pretty Pastels:
A rainbow of soft springtime shades reigned throughout the collections; from minty -green board – shorts-suit to a sexy-CEO lilac dress to sporty baby blue bombers. The best thing about the pastel trend is that you can pick your most-flattering colour and wear it with whatever silhouette flatters you.
Boxy, Cropped Jackets:
Your fall wardrobe-staple moto jacket will...
By Nikita Rana
Companies like fair & lovely can’t sell us such useless products unless we reject our own skin.
Few days back, I came across a campaign ‘Dark is Beautiful ‘. Promoted by unconventional actress Nandita Das, it aims at ending fair-colour obsession among Indians. Why whenever an article is written about her, she is referred as dusky? Why the...
