Monthly Archives: July 2015
I was fortunate. I stumbled upon Robert Frost in my middle school years and being a philosophical kind of person, he became, and has been ever since, my favourite poet.
Lucky or unlucky,whatever you want to call it, my name starts with a double “A”, which meant that by default, I was the first one who had to learn up...
There is always some good to some bad… So here are a few things we loved this week and few we wanted to shove.
If you think we missed something, do tell us in the comments!
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Shashi Tharoor's address at Oxford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
Bruno Mars handling the VMAs drama. And the way Ed Sheeran takes his case!
https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/623724741409509376
Disney Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' Promo
https://youtu.be/O-RgquKVTPE
Trash It
Crappy 'reality' shows...
Earthquake in Pakistan
Pakistan’s capital Islamabad was jolted by midnight earthquakes having magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale on 25th July. Local residents reported tremors lasting for about 20-30 seconds at 1:59 am local time (02:09 am IST)
The tremor struck at a relatively shallow depth of 26 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicenter...
Ant-Man, the 12th addition to the Marvel canon is also the conclusion to the largely successful ‘Phase Two’ of the franchise. ‘Phase Three’ begins with Captain America: Civil War next year and honestly, Marvel couldn’t find a better movie to flag off the next phase in the superhero marathon. In fact, I'd say that 'marathon' is obsolete, with over...
Recently I saw the trailer for the new CBS show Supergirl, aka Kara Zor-El based on the DC comics about the long lost cousin of Superman. While I loved the trailer and unfortunately the leak of the first episode has made most of us privy to the actual content, and the show might have its flaws but the overall...
By Aarushi Jain
So I just got back from these 2 amazing places and had so much to share. Where better than on ED...here it goes...
The irony is that though Australia is known to be the ‘Land Of The Kangaroos’ (the cute creatures with their baby pouches), but spotting a Kangaroo is surely a Herculean task here, definitely not as...
August 12th, 2015 is the day Samsung will reportedly unveil their next smartwatch.
Ladies and Gentlemen, be prepared for the Samsung Gear A. or the Orbis as it was previously called. While the incoming smartwatch is certainly an upgrade over their Gear Live smartwatch that was released last year, much of its specifications and features had remained shrouded in mystery,...
I have always been a voracious reader and at the tender age of 13 I had already read most of the books of my course and around the house. So what's a girl to do when she has nothing to read except pester her parents.
That is when my mom brought to me her collection of Archie comics and since...
By Shubhangi Thapliyal
Touted as one of the best speakers in India, Shashi Tharoor sure kicked some butt in the recent Oxford Union Society debate on whether ‘Britain owed reparations to its colonies’. I couldn’t stop but wonder and compare his speech, with the quintessential bollywood masala movies and their one-liners!
I also noticed an uncanny resemblance, to the dialogue in...
The consumers have been caught in frenzy with the retail prices of food rising sharply, even with wholesale prices dipping to an all time low.
THE PROBLEM OF RISE AND FALL:
There has been a rapid decline in the wholesale price index (WPI) causing it to turn “negative”. It’s what economists call “deflation”. This happens when prices are not rising at...
This week on Friendly Fridays we have someone who defines herself as an MTV India anchor, someone who’s less human and more being; a storyteller and a collector of ink.
Give it up for the Queen of MTV, VJ Bani!
We got a chance to have a small chat with her and got to know her better. Here are snippets of it for...
Strength and vigor -that's what the symbol of THE Italian luxury car brand Maserati represents. Being true to it's meaning, the car maker is back in India yet again. The luxury sports carmaker is set to officially re-enter the Indian automobile market after being away for 2 years after a poor first stint.
Let’s give you a sneak peek into what...
The red carpet has been rolled. Our guinea pigs have arrived once again with the same old naivety, helpless and careless, with no hint of what the future holds for them, as they walk in through those huge iron gates. Timid and fragile, these newbies to the happy world of college sit as clueless as our masters.
The Choice Based...
Nobody hustles like Harvey Weinstein, and he's been a regular Don King when it comes to the upcoming boxing flick "Southpaw." As part of his annual meet 'n greet with the press at the Cannes Film Festival, he declared he would get Jake Gyllenhaal an Oscar nomination for his performance and when a promised surprise screening didn't materialize, he still showed the movie...
All Indian restaurants are experimenting by blending one cuisine with another. It doesn’t only look tasty but sounds enticing too, right?
Dishes like Butter Chicken Pizza, Chilli Chicken Paratha and Tandoori momos have been here for a while now. These dishes give a desi touch to other cuisines and simply satisfy our taste buds by giving us the best of...
If there is one thing any rock band is incomplete without, it’s the black and gold stack of Marshall Amps behind them.
Marshall Amps has become the heart and soul of Rock & Roll since the 1960’s. It has become a term synonymous with music itself to some extent.
So when Marshall decided to launch its very first smart phone called...
Ever since online shopping sites like Flipkart, Amazon, and Myntra opened its doors to the Indian users, there was no looking back for shopaholics – they were gifted with what they had always dreamed of and for them, shopping had never been easier.
Over the past few years, online shopping has risen to a great level, and has practically become...
The U.S Presidential elections are not my concern. Not particularly, at least. As an outsider, I could care less about the politics of any candidate, whether they are Democrat or a Republican, a New Yorker or a Redneck, White or Hispanic. That is, unless of course their vision of foreign policy is bereft of what my country and the...
There is always some good to some bad… So here are a few things we loved this week and few we wanted to shove.
If you think we missed something, do tell us in the comments!
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1. Bajrangi Bhaijan... Salman Khan plays the most heartwarming role, and L'il Miss Harshaali Malhotra only adds to the "Aww" factor of the movie.
https://youtu.be/vyX4toD395U
2. Pluto Flyby: The little planet,...
Meet USMAN RIAZ, the musical prodigy from Pakistan who breathes and lives music. The successor to a long line of cultural artists, his parents – like so many others’ – tried to develop a passion for music they thought was blooming. However, unlike most of those other parents, they are now proud of a son who plays like a...
HKV boasts of another great cafe; tea cafe, CHAAYOS, opening up this month. A fun place to hang out at with your friends and bond over a cup of chai.
ED takes you through the place.
Graffiti on the walls, cushions on the chairs, the colours and a warm cup of tea is not all that the place has to offer....
While the SDCC might sound like a corrupt government body at first glance, it is in fact one of the greatest events of modern times, the San Diego Comic-Con. It was inaugurated in 1970, and since then has seen lakhs of nerds normal people attend its various panels and stalls.
This year’s Convention was probably one of the highly anticipated...
Few days back, the Lodha panel appointed by the Supreme Court of India, issued a landmark judgment in suspending the IPL franchises Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for a period of two years in regard to the fixing allegations of the 2013 edition of the IPL.
The decision raised major concerns over the credibility of the IPL as a...
DISCLAIMER: This is a satire. Readers are requested to take it in that sense.
A youth had recently posed a question on behalf of Kenya, saying “We have very beautiful, amazing and lovely women… why should we be gay?” with a picture of a rather beautiful woman shedding a single tear…
And they say he has Homophobia, like it’s a...
The author personally has been engaged in a bid to find answer to this particular question for a long time now- What causes a person to be right-handed or left-handed, after all?
Etymology Lessons, first!
Norman Lewis, the author of ‘Word Power Made Easy’, says (with a lot of empirical backing as well) that the word dexterous, a synonym for skillful,...
