Monthly Archives: March 2015
Another case. Another couple. And it’s Ranchi this time.
Honour killing is not a new term in India. It has existed for years now, in some form or the other. A number of couples have been murdered in the name of these ‘honour’ killings. However, the major question still remains unanswered. What kind of ‘honour’ needs to be protected? Is...
So here we are, back with our 18th edition of Friendly Fridays, our little big attempt to create a talent map of the world. Today we have the uber cool 22 year old Saxophone player Abhay Sharma who besides being a kickass saxophonist is pursuing his Bachelors in English from Ramjas College, Delhi University! Abhay started playing professionally at...
Religion drives some to dedicate their lives to help the poor and needy while it drives others to exterminate as many "heretics" as they can.
Religion has the capability to generate unselfish love in some people, and vicious, raw hatred in others.
Which religion teaches us to kill? Which God asks us to disrespect other religions? Which human being can willingly accept to...
Story-telling is probably the single-most popular recreational activity after sex and shopping. Story telling has now changed the way it usually worked with people sharing their story through pictures on facebook, hash tagging their sagas in 140 characters on twitter or telling their state of affairs to their friends on Snapchat. All of us aren’t just willing to share...
Crowdsourcing may have started out as a fancy marketing tactic the way flash mobs and QR codes did. But crowdsourcing is way bigger than that and is here to stay. It has come out of the closet of the marketing department and is powering cost effective innovation and state of the art solutions to many challenges the world faces.
Crowdsourcing...
While everyone had their pair of eyes glued on to the Cricket World Cup down under, Indian Badminton Ace, Saina Nehwal was breaking all records in England in the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships.
She had defeated the Chinese, Sun Yu, and had reached the final against all odds. Here, she was to face the current World Champion, Spain’s Carolina...
With the Board exams underway, another batch of fifteen and seventeen-year olds find themselves at the crossroads of an academic milestone. For millions of students across the country, the Boards offer the first real step into the adult world. However, as students, parents and neighborhood aunties wait with bated breaths for the results; the question of a ‘future’ looms...
There are few sights as gorgeous as the approach to Hong Kong International Airport against the morning sunrise. Nestled among the several islands that constitute Hong Kong, the morning vistas that shroud one of the largest megalopolises in the world is as beautiful as anything one can see. And yet, for all the calm that stays over the great...
Passing of insurance bill in upper house of the parliament is being regarded as a major victory for the nine month old BJP government. After almost 11 years when that time finance minister P. Chidambram had proposed to increase FDI limit in insurance sector to 49%, the bill was finally passed in Rajya Sabha on Thursday much to the...
The most decorated Olympian:
Michael Phelps is set to return to the competitive arena after a gap of nearly three years. This world champion responsible for popularizing swimming as professional sport across the world hails from Baltimore, USA and is easily the fastest all rounder swimmer the world has ever seen. His medal haul (read 22 Olympic medals, 18 gold,...
Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese novelist arguably one of the most popular in the world.
Apart from that, it is incredibly hard to describe him.. He loves cats and jazz music. He is a recluse and seldom appears on public forum not even to market his own books. But he doesn’t need that, his latest book ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki...
As you all know, we are on a mission to build the talent map of the world. So, steering on in our noble effort please welcome the immensely talented Uplaksh, a voiceover artist for the 17th edition of Friendly Fridays. Uplaksh is a graduate in commerce from the University of Delhi (Ramjas College). In his college days he has been into...
I must come back home from where ever I am, before it gets dark. I ought to dress ‘appropriately’ so that I don’t appear provocative. I have to do the household chores. I should be submissive and meek. I must avoid going out alone.
No brownie points on guessing who I am. Yes, a girl.
I live in 21st century India,...
How to Get Away with Murder is one of the most talked about debuts of last year’s fall TV which had viewers not only impressed with its fresh new spin on the legal drama genre but further confounded with its tease and tricks. Produced by Shonda Rhimes with acclaimed actress and Academy Award nominee, Viola Davis, in the lead,...
Documentaries and rapes; Shades of Grey and eroticas; Girls and their dragon tattoos; Human Rights and Women Empowerment, have all seemingly been banned from this country of ‘snake charmers’. From where I stand, incompetence and failure go hand-in-hand, but well, so does the Indian govt. and its long list of faffs.
Be it the documentary on the most brutal rape...
We all see movies. Nowadays, there’s no dearth genres in the visual medium industry. You have romance, horror, sci-fi, comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy, funny superhero, gritty and ‘realistic’ superhero and so on. You get the gist.
But, here’s a thought: how do the makers of the movies belonging to the aforementioned genres go about treating their female members? Hint:...
Last month, as The Guardian reports it, a recording of Italian Serie A team Lazio’s owner went viral which had him arm-twisting the director of a lower league team to forego participation in the league owing to the low revenues his club is likely to bring. Caught in the act however, he remained unrepentant and all the more persuasive...
Differences between Hindustani and Carnatic Music
Indian Music has many genres like folk, bollywood, Rabindra Music, pop, indi-pop, Indian rock, etc. Similarly, the two most important systems (or genres) in classical music are Hindustani Classical Music and the Carnatic Classical Music. Below is a short description on each of them and then some differences between these two systems of music.
Hindustani...
With the 87th Academy Awards, thousands in India were again left to wake up groggy-eyed in the dark of the dawn as the famed red carpet rolled out to the celebrity world of Hollywood. The pale morning, lit up briefly by the likes of Emma Stone, Jennifer Aniston and Marion Cottilard on the red carpet shone brighter as Neil...
The Battle for Supremacy has seen the dawn of rising Knights, mindful valour and tethering strategies. As the flag flies high, the final trumpet resounds the glory of the strongest legion.
Battling through mind numbing tasks, riddled theories, unprecedented twists and weaponised words, the Warriors have emerged from the dark to stamp their 'Insignia' in the destructive chaos of the...
As the entire nation rejoiced in the celebration of the festival of colours, India beat West Indies in a thrilling contest. Although it was quite a see-saw, nail biting, heartbeat stopping, down to the wire game that could have really gone either way, the bottomline is that the Men in Blue have bagged one more victory.
Given the form of...
Humans make mistakes, it’s in their nature. Some mistakes give us such valuable lessons that we would have been at a greater loss had we not made those mistakes in the first place. Then there are some mistakes which do more harm than good, and may be downright humiliating. These are the mistakes when you make with what you’re...
Hailed by critics and worshipped by TV fanatics, the 2014 American crime drama television series, True Detective, written and created by Nic Pizzolatto, is ambitious and revolutionary for its genre and TV entertainment itself. The first series of the anthology focussed on two homicide detectives, Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle, in their hunt for a serial killer spanning a...
Though it seems innocuous that the title of the film is ‘Queen’, it has a deeper significance and is part of an ideology that informs the entire movie, and it is so subtle that most of us miss it. It unravels, in a multi-layered way, the two-sided interaction of East and the West, most obviously because the movie is...
What's special about today, March 8- just like any other day?
My phone’s been buzzing since 00:00 and that has never happened with me before. Not even on my birthdays! At first, I tried to ignore it thinking of it as some glitch in my phone but later realised that almost everyone in my contact list had wished me a...
