Monthly Archives: December 2015
New Year is almost here and if you want to spoil your friends with presents but don’t have enough money, here are some DIY new year presents that would really cheer them up!
1. An Animal iPhone Tripod
You will need a plastic animal (better if hollow), caulking, a suction cup and a paintbrush.
Cut your animal in half. Fill the interiors...
Thinking of a fun-filled way to celebrate this Christmas? Thinking carnivals? Then this has to be on your list:
Delhi is hosting another year of Jack & Jill Christmas Carnival at Le Meridien Hotel this Friday, 25th December.
'Santa pals with Jack and Jill' will be a fun-filled festivity for children and parents alike, celebrating the wonder years of being born...
In a one-of-its-kind initiative, the Radio channel RED FM of Indore, Madhya Pradesh has launched a toilet app that locates the nearest public toilet for you whenever you feel the pressure. This toilet app goes by the name Ek Number. That’s right, they named it after the discreet way of pronouncing “susu”!
The toilet app was released in a public...
Welcome again to my weekly desi take on the top trends and news of this week.
Yes, people say stupid stuff, and some go ahead and DO even more ire inviting stuff. My goal is to be unbiased to their degree of stupidness and bring to you the top 3 mentions of the week that can induce a migraine even in the most...
Love it or hate it, but you definitely can't ignore this outrageous, entertaining, funny, star-studded show: Bigg Boss.
So we asked people what they thought of Bigg Boss, and got really varied responses like these:
That's their view, what's yours?
Some food items are just made for each other, while the thought of some combinations might gross you out. But do you know that some of these could ACTUALLY drive your taste buds insane!
Here are some food combinations- some that you might love and some that you actually need to try out for yourselves before judging.
1. Burgerizza
As you can...
There is a broad category of people who are night owls, who are at their working best during the dark hours. Everything is a sweeter indulgence for them during the late hours.
Then there is a yet broader category of diurnals, who rise with the sun up, they don’t dare to meddle with the universal pattern. These are early birds.
Then,...
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards were run for the first time in 2015 and there are no points for guessing what they cater to! This one-of-a-type award show was organized by U.K.-born, Tanzania-based photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks.
The first prize went to this voluptuous hamster in full gallop by Julian Rad:
“It’s a plane. It’s a bird. Oh shit, it’s my food.”
Second prize...
Back in Time is ED’s newspaper type column that reports an incident from the past as though it has happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to re-live it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
For this incident, we go back in time to 1927.
1927, December 19: As the struggle for freedom goes on, India was witness to another...
2015, you have been such a sweetheart. You just came and you are leaving already.
In 2015, the Internet put on its best show, till date. Be it showing solidarity, expressing opinions or just trolling every other popular face.
2015 also brought upon mankind some clouds of misery. ISIS spread its devil wings everywhere. The City of Love fell and rose...
When you are done scrolling up your stagnant Facebook wall for the umpteenth time, what do you do? Simple… You Google!
In 2006, “Google” was added to the dictionaries as the action of using the namesake engine to look up any subject on the World Wide Web. That’s how popular Google became! That beautifully simple blue-and-white search box has become...
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Potcast. Yes, that is right, it is called Potcast, and this piece of satire is done by veteran stand-up comedian and actor, Vir Das. Vir Das is a familiar figure to any lay person due to his idiosyncratic performances in stand-up comedy scene and movies like Go Goa Gone and Shadi Ke Side Effects.
The...
As soon as CBI raided Delhi CM’s Principle Secretary’s (PS) office, Kejriwal opened his mouth and fire came out. He even challenged Modi in Sunny Deol style.
This case is all about connecting unrelated dots and reaching to the final conclusion which could debate-ably be “Sab ke sab CHOR hai”.
The Raid
CBI conducted a raid at Rajendra Kumar’s office in relation...
This week on Friendly Fridays we got a chance to interview an Interviewer, a Film Critic, an Author, a Journalist and one of the key persons behind Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI), Anupama Chopra.
They say do what you love and love what you do, here we have someone who is doing exactly that. Anupama's love for Bollywood can be seen...
The following article is the 3rd winning entry for IIM Indore's fest Retorica 2015, written by Arushee Sharma from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Dwarka, New Delhi.
It is almost natural for my teenage self with raging youth, independence and an almost unconventional status quo to talk about my rights and choices. However, it takes me a while to sit still and...
With the bang of the gavel on Saturday night, officials from 195 countries reached a historic pact that will set the stage for climate change in the years to come. This comes after decades of foiled efforts of international representatives to reach an agreement on climate change.
Traditionally, the accords required developed countries to take vigorous steps to prevent drastic...
“Sundar Pichai, CEO Google to address students at Shri Ram College of Commerce during India trip”.
This was the headline that hit the pages of Economic Times on December 10, 2015.
The wait began and the excitement grew day by day!
December 17, 2015
Shri Ram College of Commerce,
Pushing and shoving people around the Google registration desk, I made my way straight to it...
Growing up through these years, I have never liked birthdays. I mean, why? What is the hype about? Why the buzz and excitement? The last time I was so excited for my birthday, it was 2005. Yes, 10 years ago. Those were the years when all your relatives came in with exquisite gifts, ready for the pomp and show....
This past Diwali I chose not to go home (exam blues, you know!) and have the best Diwali with a quiet lunch in the noon and an even quieter night with only our books. So, my roommate and I were all excited given the air of festivities around and we dolled up for the lunch in a cafe which...
It is a fact that the north of Italy is an affluent and prosperous area. Up in the north of the country, there are cities such as Turin, Genoa, Milan, Venice and Florence, all of which are hotspots for tourism and wealth. Even Rome is only a short commute away, so the north has a monopoly in the country.
The...
The following article is the 2nd winning entry for IIM Indore's fest Retorica 2015, written by Sayan Sanyal from National Law School of India University.
It was the spring of 1993 when some of teenage boys who called themselves the “Spur Posse” combined adolescent competitiveness and sexual bravado to develop a “game” in which members of the group sought to have...
We all have those relatives who once in a while come back to India and then, they do some things, to put it subtly, which we might not end up liking.
You get the feels, right?
So, here’s a list of things NRIs do/ say in India which we aren’t too happy with:
“Back in the States...” or “This happens only in...
Planning it since last year, I somehow managed to find people as big foodies as me and enter the Gate 14 of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on the last day of the fest. And everything just started falling in place to help it make a memorable food gorging day for me.
Here's who we Liv'ED IT:
Hours before reaching the place,...
Donald Trump (as defined by his own website) is the very definition of American success story. He’s also standing as presidential candidate. Now we cannot predict what would be his result in the presidential elections of the U.S.A, but we can tell that if this man ever stepped on the soil of India, running for president/PM, we’d push a...
HERE’S SOMEONE WHO DIDN’T GIVE UP
My best friend was planning on leaving college at the end of our first year to pursue Mass Comm. Everyone advised him against it, but he fought with his family and friends and eventually got his way. But in that process, he screwed up his attendance and exams here, as he was sure he...
