Monthly Archives: April 2015
Folks, Friendly Friday’s back!
This time we bring to you the next big thing on the Folktronica|Asian underground|Electronica |Fusion scene:
Hari ★ Sukhmani.
(Interview conceptualised and taken by Pratishtha Mahajan)
We're sure a lot of us don’t even need their introduction, but for the rest, here goes.
One band, 2 individuals - singers, songwriters and producers. Hari + Sukhmani have been creating fresh and eclectic...
#uberAUTOfail : There’s miles to go before this works
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for these past few months, you’ll have definitely heard the name of Uber. Matching the notoriety of this cab-booking app (at least in the Delhi-NCR region) are our famous autorickshaws, which can be relied on always overcharging the fare.
In an unexpected turn of events,...
According to a Business Insider story 6 days back, “Michael Kors has lost its status as one of the coolest brands in the industry." The fashion brand's stock is underperforming, leading Morgan Stanley's analysts to remove Michael Kors from its "Best Ideas" list. Michael Kors enjoyed a stunning rise in popularity in recent years thanks to its trendy handbags and watches....
What’s Iran and the P5+1 Powers Upto? (Background Check)
The fact of the matter is that Iran in 2003 was discovered by spy networks to have secretively maintained uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities for development of nuclear grade weapons thus, side stepping the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which it was a committed member as a non-nuclear State. It...
It’s that time of the year again! The IPL is back, and what a time for it to come: just after the Cricket World Cup.
In a multi cultural country, festivals never end. And the biggest festival of the country is back. Here we are, once again, welcoming the annual mega party: Pepsi IPL India ka tyohaar.
But wait, the World...
It was a tiring habit for the ever-burgeoning legion of Game of Thrones fans in India to wake up early Monday morning to rev up their torrents (Who watches HBO anyway?). The anticipation and excitement was always tremulous enough to have you get late for college, or work for that matter. However, as much of us have learned, the...
Terrorist attacks, neighboring countries encroaching on borders, societal unrest and plenty more grave and urgent matters need immediate attention.
But what do we all decide to focus on instead?
In the next few days, I will take you all, through plenty of trivial and frankly nonsensical issues that we all choose to focus on instead of actually doing any type of work that...
I want to initialize this article with an important question. You’ve 22k in your pocket and you want to buy a phone. Would you buy an iPhone 5C (or 4S) or a flagship phone from the house of a good Chinese gadget maker?
I know most of the people would opt for the obvious first choice but we really want...
Today, the finest and the greatest innings in cricketing history came to an end as Richie Benaud lost his long fight to skin cancer and passed away at the age of 85 in Sydney ,Australia.
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending thoughtful leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the...
Sitcoms- a genre, the present generation relates with English episodes. The American Episodes of ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’, ‘HIMYM’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ etc. are there in hard disks of every teenager. Watching them again and again is a common habit. To come to think of it we all love the English sitcoms basically.
And before we laughed on the fluent English jokes...
Without social media, we’d have no platform to post our selfies, stay informed about our friends’ whereabouts or to stalk our ex(es). We also wouldn't have these sometimes funny, sometimes downright depressing controversies to look at. Social media is the new drama generator. Building a controversy out of 140 characters is no easy fete. So I bring to you...
In less than a month, Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron will hit cinema screens across the globe (24th April in India, a week before the U.S release. In case, anyone’s wondering). Starring a top-notch cast which includes Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo (who did a surprisingly better job as The Hulk than Ed Norton) and Scarlett Johansson (who makes...
Few days back, all the champion players, playing and representing their respective countries were battling it down under to be crowned the world champions. Some of them were able to achieve their dream while the others went home with a broken heart. But here they are again. All the smiling faces are back in action, fully pumped up and ready...
Robert Delaunay called Impressionism the birth of light in painting. A 19th century art movement that like many others, claims Paris as its birth place, couldn’t be described in better words. Impressionism shocked the world with the most subtle yet visible of weapons, colour, as at that time, it was accustomed to sober and pleasing tones that held strong...
Aam Aadmi Party which truly needs no introduction is battling internal conflicts and power struggles which is disheartening to observe as Delhites wage a tiresome battle against inadequate water supply, untimely power cuts when Delhi’s brutal summer has just but begun. Extremely sorry people, am here not to bash politicians but to direct their attention to the dismal state...
World’s best racing drivers, racing for some of the biggest and best car manufacturers including Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault etc. driving few of the finest available engines and trying to go around a track as fast as possible. If you liked the idea then certainly Formula 1 is your taste and this article is meant for people like this only...
Another week is here with yet another Friendly Fridays edition. We are unfolding a new chapter from our search for individuals who have a great story to inspire our readers. We have successfully completed 20 weeks and promise to bring forth stories you surely wouldn't want to miss.
Today for this 20th edition of Friendly Fridays we have the young,...
“I do not need anybody to tell me what empowerment is. I know what it means, thanks to the Oxford dictionary for that, and how easy it has become in today’s world to label anything as ‘women empowerment’. Only a few understand the negative baggage it carries along with it. ‘Videos’ can never define empowerment in totality and even...
Spring is finally here and so are the latest fashion trends of the season. As we dive head first into the start of a new season, we thought it would only be fitting to highlight the key trends you need to be familiar with for spring summer 2015. (Excited already?) Check them all out here:
STATEMENT STRIPES: With stripes being a...
The years have done little to lessen the perception among many, especially in the West that the Middle East is a cauldron of chaos, an acronym for anarchy disguised as a loose federation of nation-states. From the revolution in 1979 to the Arab Spring, the region has always been a hotspot of radical overhaul, changes that have never hesitated...
It’s the episode we’d all been waiting for over a year now. The fourth season had left us all hanging with those twists. Season 4 finale ‘The Children’ rendered Tywin Lannister dead and depicted how being counted among the living is especially important when, like Bran, you find yourself in a literal life and death struggle against the undead. So far...
