Monthly Archives: October 2016
On 9th October 2016, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao presented the Badhrakali Temple in Warangal with a 3.5 crore worth gold crown as a ‘gift’. Chief Minister Rao had promised to make this offering if Telangana was separated from Andhra Pradesh, and since that did happen, this ‘gift’ was a fulfilment of HIS promise.
The Catch!
Even though it was...
By Kanika Kalra
When the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) decided to ban Pakistani artists and technicians, I was in complete agreement with them.
Sure, I appreciate the sentiment behind, when people argue that art shouldn’t have any boundaries and that politics shouldn’t affect Bollywood. But if Pakistani artists refuse to see terror attacks for what they are and condemn...
Benfica is one of the giants of the Portuguese league. But they could soon be a giant of wedding merchandises. Sounds odd? Well, it's true to every word.
The club has come out with a collection of wedding dresses in order to tackle the heavy debt they're submerged in. The club put together a display of around 24 wedding dresses...
Bigg Boss 10 is here and just like each year, this time too we will see 14 people stuck together in a house, with various cameras and microphones tracking their each movement.
Now its back to nights of watching these ragtag bunch of housemates who, because they didn’t really have any other work decided to do Bigg Boss, will now...
"When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker Jai (Shiv Pandit) thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, Sahil (Dhruv Ganesh), his young, music-producer friend, drops everything, including his reckless boyfriend Alex (Siddharth Menon), to help him execute the perfect getaway.
Hiking the hills and canyons of Maharashtra, amidst half-attempted conversations and sudden silences, business calls...
With BRICS summit going on in Goa, India will try its best to isolate Pakistan and have a chit-chat with China to iron out the differences that have sprung up between the two nations since the surgical strike.
The Indo-Chinese relations have taken a nose dive since Beijing announced its support for its “all weather friend” But this is not...
By Kanika Kalra
JK Rowling has announced that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a five-part series rather than a trilogy as initially intended. The fandom stands divided after this announcement.
Most fans think they can never have too much of the Wizarding World.
The day @jk_rowling stops making books and movies will be the day my life loses...
Plucking, slapping or thumping, you name and Flea got it. October 16 is celebrated as ‘Reminiscing Best Basslines On Songs” day only in honour of my favourite bassist Flea a.k.a Michael Peter Balzary.
Flea rose to popularity as the bassist for the funk-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. While most of us know Flea for his on stage tactics and...
The internet has been going nuts over the news of Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Prize win. Now I understand that it might be gobsmacking for some, but it is actually quite believable for people like me who indeed listened to the music that this rock legend created.
Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 which makes him in his mid-70s...
DU or Delhi University is one of the most well known and popular universities all over the country.
Every year, some 2 lakh or more students, from the entire Indian sub-continent and even abroad too, apply to this prestigious university.
But the few recent decisions that DU has been taking, is not really making any friends and is instead, turning these...
The newly formed state of Telangana has already garnered itself a brand new Guinness World Record for its native Bathukamma festival. Bathukamma is a festival that is celebrated during the culmination of monsoon, just before the arrival of winter.
Bathukamma entered the Guinness Book of World Records with over 9000 women from various parts of the state participating in the...
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.
The Cinema Owners Exhibitors Association of India (COEAI) refused to screen movies starring Pakistani artistes in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa. Such a blow to Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai...
In a recent study, researchers have estimated that around 268 million kids from 5 to 17 years of age would be overweight by 2025 globally. 91 million of them might even be obese.
In 2025, up to 12 million children will have impaired glucose tolerance, 4 million will have type-2 diabetes, 27 million will have hypertension, and 38 million will...
I'm a regular customer of Uber and I can say definitely say that it has made traveling much easier. The introduction of the Uber pool service was a masterstroke for cheap travel. Let me give you an example, auto drivers ask for Rs 50 from the nearest metro station to my home.
And yet, I managed to reach my college...
Warning: This movie review may have spoilers ahead.
Okay, you know what actually kills a movie for you?
Expectations.
Some things are not meant to disappoint you until you really are expecting big things out of it. And that is exactly what happens with Inferno. Being a Dan Brown story, with its usual plot lines and motifs, its regular dosage of make-belief and cliches, you...
By Kankana Saikia
Historically, women have had to fight a long unending battle to reclaim what was denied to them on a foundation of prejudices. The various waves of feminist movements saw empowered educated women come out from their shadows and take to public spaces.
They voiced the injustices they had suffered and demanded the basic equal rights a patriarchal society denied to...
Demystifier : ED Original where the content is written in such a way that it is knowledgeable and easy to comprehend at the same time.
The recent hoopla made in the name of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones was about exploding batteries. This period saw many Note 7s exploding and inflicting fear among its users. Then a plethora of memes and...
Anti feminism. What a lovely way to turn the tables, eh?
Before you think I'm gonna rant about how feminism has oppressed men and all that bullcrap that is fed to you online, get outside your box and read this article first to judge.
The out-and-out criticism of the 3rd wave of feminism does make me question its legitimacy as a...
The news of Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh getting engage must have hit you all by now.
What with his mother making a certain comment and then him getting trolled on the internet because of his engagement, he is straight in the limelight.
But, it wasn't his mother or him that sparked the idea behind this article.
Instead, it was his fiancee...
You know Dussera has arrived when you hear news of Raavan effigies being burnt, of a stampede during that effigy burning or some other random shit happened because people are not very good at taking care of the surroundings as performing a ritual is more important than being alive.
Well, this year JNU students burnt the effigy of PM Modi...
By Kanika Kalra
Have you ever been in a conversation with an easily distracted person and been like, “Wow, this conversation would go a lot better on Whats App”? I know I have, several times. Especially when I am trying to tell my mother something serious, but then she needs to make my brother do his homework, respond to my...
By Sanket Dialani
Disclaimer:
In this special piece, we bring to you an amazingly written and compiled Quora answer, which we believed should be shared with everyone.
As ED picked up the answer from Quora, we do not have assurance whether the facts are right or wrong, but felt its worth bringing attention to this topic of, why exactly there is little to none negative...
Anaemia is rising at an alarming rate in India, and it affects about a quarter of people globally. It reduces productivity by decreasing the ability of an individual to work.
All over the world, it affects women more than men due to recurrent loss of blood.
Dr. Rachna Pande, in an article in The New Times explained the reason for this,...
The Leather Bag case that pushed Barun Kashyap, a film executive into limelight has taken a new twist with Kashyap saying that he faked the entire incident.
Barun says that no ‘Gau Rakshak’ happened and that he fabricated the entire story because he wanted to disrupt communal harmony in Mumbai.
The Fabricated Story
According to the statement, Barun gave to the police...
In a presidential debate filled with insults, a super hero in red sweater won many hearts. While everyone argued and continue to do so as to who actually won the debate, we at ED can safely deliver the verdict:
KEN BONE
And you are asking us why we're calling him a hero?
Well, even to us it isn’t clear. Whether his moustache or...
