Monthly Archives: June 2014
By Tansuhree Vyas
Good, old days are back. Yes! Time to chill out for the much awaited summer vacations have arrived.
And I am pretty sure you all would have made elaborate plans about how you’ll be spending your vacation. But in case, holidaying is what you have thought of, then I think you would like to consider my words.
Every other...
By Aishwarya Kochar
From the past few years Bollywood has welcomed many newcomers whose acting not only rocked the Bollywood but made a special place in the hearts of their dearest fans. We have come across two tough competitors Varun Dhawan and our new hunk Tiger Shroff. Both are sons of famous fathers.
1. Big debut, more fans:
Varun made his acting debut...
By Aishwarya Kochar
Leading the world’s market has always been the top-notch priority of some of the biggest companies. Here are some of the head-scratching deals made over the years (in ascending order with time and years) to help the big ones get even bigger.
1. Coca- Cola bought Thums-up to compete with Pepsi.
It was during late 1970’s when Indian government...
By Aishwarya Kochar
TOP 7 DRINKS DELHI-ITES DODGE ON TO QUENCH THEIR THIRST IN THIS ABSURD HEAT.
The busy city has its people starting off their lives and works early, even the environment has to follow its rule and not soon does the absurd heat starts to pinch your skin even when the blazing sun has not reach overhead, and torment...
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 you...
We slowly row away from the shore, leaving behind the dim lights on our palm-fringed island. The current in the backwaters sways our tiny kayak, and after a brief show of resistance, we surrender and let it guide us. Small fish occasionally jump out of the water, creating ripples. A thousand stars shimmer in the sky above. These are...
I love the Bollywood of 70s and 80s. I love the way heroes and heroines would break into a song and dance sequence every now and then. I love the dhishumm-dhishumm. I love the teary eyed Ma and the bechari behen. I love the villain’s extravagant den with all the gadgets to torture the hero’s family. I love everything...
Hey Guys, hoped you liked the previous article and were interested in knowing about the great legends of Hindustani Music; Pt. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar and Pt. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande. In this article I’ll be coming back to Raagas and talk about the time theory of Raagas. I’ll use a little bit of Hindi also in this article for your...
India has always been a patriarchal society, and somewhere down the line this glorious nation hasn’t been able to give its women the respect they deserve. Cases of violence against women are heard on a daily basis, and a large proportion of women are still illiterate. It has always been so… While we can still work in the present...
Summer holidays and laziness are synonymous, that is why we so often reminisce about our 'lazy summers', that whirl past so quickly, in a flurry of inactivity. We sleep, we bumble around doing very little, content and oblivious in the temporary cocoon of inertia, with no deadlines and work to worry about. To a great extent, all of us,...
Genre: Comedy
Direction/Story: Nitin Kakkar
Actors: Sharib Hashmi, Inaamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Gopal Dutt, Waseem Khan, Saroj Sharma, Tushar Jha, Sanjay Mehta, Ravi Bhushan
Screenplay: Nitin Kakkar, Sharib Hashmi
Awards: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
Filmistaan is a beautiful take on the ever disputed Indo-Pak relations. The protagonist Sunny Arora (Sharib Hashmi) is a die-hard bhakt of Bollywood and wants to...
Let me start by making a small guess: as just-out-of-school kids, with great results, most of us were pretty sure that we would make it to North Campus- Hindu, Hansraj, SRCC or even the highly prestigious St. Stephens. However, come cut offs and some of those dreams are shattered by a mere gap of 0.25%-0.75%. And that is when...
Do you constantly check your whatsapp?
Do you upload selfies on fb daily?
Do you feel lonely and bored when you smartphone isn’t working?
Well, if that’s the case with you, BEWARE!!!
You might just be addicted to your smartphone!
Yess, you are right!!
It’s a new type of addiction that our dear smartphone has brought along with it . And nowadays it makes our...
The India Today rankings for the best arts college of India, 2014, are out. Here are the top 10 arts colleges, a guide for all those who are planning on pursuing any course in the field of art. The article also covers a small write-up about the first 5 colleges, hence read on, to get a good insight.
Lady...
The ‘speak now or forever hold peace’: The classic "If anyone has a reason why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace" line gets uttered in every movie wedding, which always leaves the door open for a long-lost lover to burst in and set things right, or a loveable hero who's onto the...
After a big storm that hit our country on 16th December, I, as an indian, was pretty much sure that a big revolution for the country was on its way. All the agitations, all the candle marches, all the new laws. We all thought things gonna change but I think that was all in vain.
The recent Badaun incident has...
‘Reading makes a full man’, says the great English essayist, Francis Bacon. People who are addicted to reading know how wonderful it feels to lose oneself into a whole new world.
Are you a die Dan fan? Then you would know that reading is such a passion that it is absolutely certain that nothing else can replace it. Books have...
Naah! I am not going to give any lecture on how the reservation that our government gifted us based on caste is good. Yes yes, I too believe that it can have severe consequences by further widening the gap among people belonging to different castes. Isn't it evident when people from general category cannot make it to their most...
This is article is especially for all those kids who have given their class 12 boards exams recently (now even those of you who have a sibling or a cousin or a girlfriend or a boyfriend seeking admission after boards are allowed to read it too. The rest of you are also invited to read it. Reading about other's...
So people, it’s the World Environment Day. The great priest to whom we all owe 90% of our knowledge preaches “World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme” (Yeah, Yeah, I am talking about Wikipedia).
So what...
By Kimberly Cecchini, New York City Journalist, photographer and educator
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Globalism. Every nation is seeking out how it will thrive and stay relevant in this new world order. India is no different.
Vinay Rai encapsulated a message for the globe in the title of his 2007 book, Think India. He, with his coauthor, William L. Simon,...
Sarthak Agarwal topped the CBSE class: 12th board exams for this year with a whopping 99.6%. WOW. This impossible feat has earned him a lot of praise and popularity. But this fame just doesn't end here. Trolls and memes of him have hit facebook like a storm. Funny and sarcastic, these memes do make you laugh. Even though the...
The jeans so tight,
Offer no respite.
The car driven so fast,
Gives a jolt to my heart,
But then it is the need of the hour.
Red and green hair,
Make me scared,
But if I don’t have them
Don’t you think, my friends would stare!!
Thus, spoke the heart, which is a victim of the syndrome of status symbol. Alas! This sentiment is not just confined...
Yes, most of us have been through that crazy 'Twilight' face, wherein we were obsessed with the fates of Bella and Edward and the series was as sacred to us as the Bible is to a religious Christian (I never went through that phase though, FYI!!). While all of this was certainly interesting in the beginning, now there's an...
Do you believe in the fact that at some point in life, we suddenly have an ‘eureka’ moment, like a moment of realization?
A ‘wow’ moment that leaves us reflecting and thinking?
I mean it just gives us a different perspective in life…
For many it might happen as they grow older, but for me it happened too early in life. It...
