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The Surrogacy Bill, 2016 was in making for almost a decade now. It was drafted in a number of ways but it is only now that the draft has been finally tabled and guess what? This one probably is the worst of the lot. Surrogacy Bill, 2016 Flaws and unjust bans is what sums up the cabinet approved Surrogacy Bill, 2016...
Medical Negligence. The term is not unusual to any Indian patient or their relatives. We all know what goes on when we step into one of those “Sarkari Hospitals”: Long queues, uninterested doctors and a serious lack of compassion. The dire need for medical attention for any patient is regarded as one of the most primary reasons to build a...
Malvika Raj Joshi made it to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, and it made headlines. She is an ordinary girl hailing from Mumbai and the only thing that sets her apart is the fact that she is NOT a product of CBSE, ISCE or even IB, but was home-schooled by a curriculum set by her mother. A Little Background Malvika...
Debating, like all other hobbies, is no short of being called an art for those who take it seriously. People are fascinated by it, motivated by it and it offers a learning and oratory curve like no other activity. So, here's my personal experience as a debater articulated solely for those who wish to become future debaters and exhibit their skills...
Fantasy Premier league is the rage nowadays with more players vying to score big than ever. Amidst all the massive choices, it gets quite hard to put together a solid team with the meager 100m budget you are provided. But there are some players who are simply expected to produce the goods on a regular basis and, in turn, award...
It is bad enough when a female is raped in India. I cannot imagine how much worse it must be for a case of a male rape. On Aug 24, 2016 Deccan Chronicle published an article reporting the gangrape of a male BHU student, two weeks since the incident. The first line of the report reads that ‘a student’, without...
Advertisements… always so enrapturing and interesting to watch, aren’t they? In a matter of seconds or at the most a minute or two, these advertisements have to accomplish many several things. They not just have to capture the attention of the audience, but also create interest about their brand and earn the trust of the people watching it. All of that,...
We, humans, are so immersed in our own lives, dwelling on things that we do not have and trying to achieve them, that we never stop to think about what we have that others don’t. As kids, when we used to go to parks and had a gala time, one thing that we never seemed to notice was that there...
Be it any film industry in the world, horror is one genré which isn’t easy to do justice to. One loophole and BAM, horror movies move to another genré altogether. The movie becomes a butt of jokes with even one mistake! We introduced you to some Hollywood movies with weirdest objects as their focus, last week. Now, it is about...
There already exist several business-themed reality shows for like 'shark tank' outside India and we ourselves are in a critical need of our own version to boast of. Quite a lot of us have been impressed with TVF's 'Pitchers'. But it's still fictional at the end of the day. Not every startup just stumbles onto the right path by a...
Open Defecation is one of those harsh realities that still persist in India. In fact, the extent of open defecation in India presents a major health and safety issue. According to WHO statistics, worldwide, there are one billion people who don't have a toilet and Indians make up 60% of this figure. Despite on being track with other developments in...
It’s September Fest time! No, it is not a fest to congratulate you to have made through more than half a year. Although it does give you another reason to shop and be part of a cultural fiesta showcasing talented designers and artists of the city, all under one roof. There’s shopping, fashion, music, fusion, dance, food, wish balloons and...
Is it just me or even you dread even the thought of packing as you have the incessant desire to keep all the ironed clothes as neatly as possible, so that you don’t have to struggle to repeat the tiresome process of ironing all over again once you reach your desired destination? But, you are always disappointed, as the...
The Premier League had a pretty entertaining week, as usual, with some last-minute goal action and a key clash ending in a draw. Here's the summary of this week's key clashes : Starting off with Manchester City, The Sky Blues continued their winning run with Raheem Sterling stealing the show against West Ham. Sterling was undoubtedly the mam of the match, with...
The main concern for any Indian mother, in any part of the world, is to be able, and make able her children to make well roasted and round rotis. Everything else in this world is secondary when compared to round rotis, and in the current times, they are close to being a myth. The struggle to roll round rotis of...
He would’ve been 58 today, hadn’t it been for his untimely death in 2009. The King of Pop may not be alive but his music is still moving and inspiring his fans every day.  I come from a family that used carol to Michael Jackson songs which was mostly the reason why his demise was like a trauma to me and...
Another week in the Spanish La Liga saw the usual suspects Real Madrid and Barcelona record their successive wins against defensively resilient oppositions whereas Atletico Madrid faltered to another goalless draw. Here's how the big guns fared this week : Starting off the summary with Los Blancos, the 32-time La Liga champions Real Madrid hosted Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu,...
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. Zanzibar Town, 28th August 1896: The last three days have moved the grounds of Zanzibar. The sudden demise of Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini...
Let’s face it, wedding and kids don’t always go hand-in-hand. Especially when it’s the ‘big fat Indian’ variety! When wedding functions are long and rigorous, it could set the alarm bells ringing, as they put a child’s endurance to the test. The truth, however, is that it ain’t the celebration itself that makes a child cranky; it’s what they’re...
So Maneka Gandhi believes that if paternity leave was increased that it would just result in the men thinking of it as a holiday and nothing more. While speaking with the Indian Express Maneka Gandhi said, “Paternity leave can be considered only if, once the woman goes back to work after her 26 weeks of leave, we find that men...
By Supriya Atree Garg It is with a great sense of anguish and disgust that I am addressing this letter to you. My father Mr. Gopal Atree had booked 2 rooms for a night at the Holiday Inn, Aerocity, New Delhi, on 26.08.2016. My kids and I checked in at about 5 P.M. (Room No. 348 & 351). My husband...
‘Politics is the game of astute’ was proved once again when Vishal Dadlani who’s more famous than Kejriwal himself decided to distance himself from politics once and forever. Vishal’s tweet on Jain saint Tarun Sagar led to a huge public outcry and he was criticized for speaking ill of someone who is not only respected by the Jain community but...
Lots of news happened this week. Some were funny and some were more than funny. Here is a compilation of all the news piece I found funny and why I found it funny. Richa Chaddha at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne said this: "... I will have far more in common with Fawad because I am from the North of India than...
Piers Morgan is Britain’s icon, an inspiration to the youth and the popular Brit in the world today. He is known to judge ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ since forever because nobody else will. Yes, Piers Morgan is that unwanted or is at least to India. Morgan recently had the privilege to be trolled on Twitter harshly. His crime was a simple tweet he made...
Success is harsh and demanding. Behind every successful person is a struggling past which was tough to overcome. Everyone loves hearing rejection stories of these famous people.This time, India's youngest Cabinet Minister Smriti Irani shared her rejection story. At an event organised by the Air Passengers Association of India in New Delhi, after she presented an award to a Jet Airways...

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