Monthly Archives: October 2016
Perhaps the most popular chat show India has ever witnessed, Koffee with Karan, is set to return with a bang on 6th November. Now I can finally stop binge watching episodes from the previous season.
Amidst those unprecedented binges, I came across some hilarious moments. It got me thinking, what are the episodes that made me chuckle out the most?
So...
As of Tuesday, October 11, Samsung has permanently stopped the production and sale of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after failing to implement the fix for the devices exploding and catching fire. The news broke out following Thanksgiving on Tuesday when the electronics giant made the announcement.
“Taking our customer’s safety as our highest priority, we have decided to halt...
Why is it that when it comes to cows, beef is the only problem that worries us. Who will speak about the milk-related malnutrition prevalent in the country? Gau rakshaks prove yet again why they are a farce.
Patanjali has announced plans to use artificial insemination to produce 92% of female calves. Yashpal Arya, the head of Patanjali’s dairy unit,...
Alright guys, so the festival season is here, and while personally I love this time of the year, the smells, the whole vibe of the city and how colourful it is, there is one thing that truly makes me quake in my boot.
The festive season madness and overdose of relatives.
Perhaps I should clarify this early only, that I am...
Simi Garewal and interviews are like Miley Cyrus and controversies, you just cannot keep them apart for long. I came across one such recent interview with Rishi and Neetu Kapoor acting as the guests.
In the wake of multiple famous divorces such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or even Hrithik Roshan and Suzanne Roshan, it's incredible that a couple...
Art transcends all boundaries. Art being the most expressive medium to convey emotions and messages has found a new meaning.
A French-Senegalese artist and photographer Delphine Diallo has successfully compiled a photo series of five Senegalese women who have been living at La Maison Rose, a shelter for women and girls recovering from sexual exploitation and abuse in the capital...
How many times have we blamed the state for not having adequate aid or help centres for women who are victims of several kinds of harassment? A zillion; or maybe even more than that, right? Delhi has finally realised the need for this.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) is all set to open one-stop centres in 11 districts in...
Akhilesh Yadav, CM of Uttar Pradesh has now launched the 'Samajwadi Smartphone Yojna', under which an individual would get a smartphone if they are- above 18, earn less than 6 lacs per annum and is a class 10 pass out.
Though the phones will only be available after UP elects its new government next year, this announcement came before the...
The security of women in Delhi has been under scrutiny for a while now. Heck! There are memes going around about the rampant decline of women security in the capital. Adding another feather to that hat, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir was seen firing shots over the state of women security in the capital.
Recently at an event...
Hospitals in Syria have been recklessly targeted. Right to healthcare at the time of war now seems like a distant reality. The world is silent.
Syria is now a dystopian neverland. It has been damaged by ISIS. It is now being damaged by “pacifists” alike. We are not equipped with that imagination to capture an image of war atrocities.
Since the...
Donald Trump. I remember the first I had seen or heard of him was a decade ago on the sidelines of a WWE match. Orange haired and puffed up, I remember him looking like a cross between the Grinch and Freddy Flintstone. Ten years later he’s much of the same; Except the fact that he is one Umbridge away...
Mental health.
These two words are more stigmatised than we can imagine.
In a country like India especially, the very mention of any mental issue or problem is straight away taken as proof of the fact that the person is just plain mad and should be put in a mental asylum.
Our Bollywood and television industries have also not done this sector...
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With the purpose to guide, educate and inspire the budding entrepreneurs, The Entrepreneurial Cell of Hans Raj College organised ‘Illuminate-An Entrepreneurial Summit’ on October 3rd & 4th.
In this event, entrepreneurs from diverse fields like entertainment, e-commerce, fashion, real estate etc shared their journey, failures and success stories with the students and also answered their queries. The two-day event was...
Old technologies are supplanted by new ones and the new ones are superseded by newer ones. The world of technology is always revamping itself, every minute to be precise. Google’s Pixel is just another example of one such revamp with a slightly major modification.
So we all have heard about Google’s Nexus smartphone series right? Simple, economical and innovative, Nexus...
It is said that at certain points in one’s life, your friends can perhaps be more important to you than even your own family.
Not to say that you stop loving your family, but sometimes family has a more difficult time in understanding that you are becoming your own person, who might be different to what they had expected and so...
One cannot argue here that the Indian Railways are not kept in the best shape, and especially the older trains are in miserable conditions.
The sad thing is that it is not just the economy and lower class compartments that are bad, but even the first class and more expensive areas in these trains are not that much to boast...
Ever had the pleasure of playing games on your mobile phone right in the middle of a lecture? Well, students of Salford University in the UK might soon get to capture Pokemon as a part of their curriculum.
The students pursuing Business Information Technology course at an undergraduate level in Salford University will have to play Pokemon Go if they're...
Power Rangers just released a new trailer and I am feeling… quite conflicted about it to be honest.
Power Rangers has been a big part of my childhood, I still remember how me and my friends would run around playing Power Rangers, choosing our colours, our powers, adding more powers if we wanted and more.
The television series too was followed...
'Allo you all there!
This week the world got its fair share of happiness and heartbreaks, heavily dosed with what seemed like a twist of sour lemon added in a sweet lemonade of world affairs. While the world winced as Trump wrecks ideological havoc on American media, all was not quiet on the Indian front either.
Let's take a quick recap...
We talk about gender equality and literacy. But it seems that the Islamist militant groups are more sorted in these areas.
A study by the World Bank showed that the chances of a recruit in these militant groups to be educated are higher than the general belief. What's more shocking is that those who want to be among suicide...
It always seems like a good idea to go out drinking with your buddies on a Friday. I mean, the week is finally over (thank the lord), you’ve managed to bomb 3 out of 4 midterms, and gotten more internship rejections than the movies Samuel Jackson has appeared in.
So that “just one beer” quickly turns into 3 and “no...
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Parades. Paradise. Lights. All you could expect of a college fest, and then some.
Effervescence, however, is much more than merely a fest.
It is the culmination of months of back-breaking effort and carries with it the emotions of thousands of people who attend, participate, organize and ultimately make the fest what it is.
Effervescence stands for a legacy that...
Strange matter won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. The honour will be shared by a trio of British scientists working on it, Professors David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz whose research in the area of quark matter has now created inroads to world of superconductors and quantum computing.
Like Daily Mail reports, "The citation read out at the...
Fake Friendly Fridays is a section where we invite the current entertainment source of the country for a no-holds-barred interview with ED. We make sure they remember this interview, even though they never gave it as this is purely an imaginative piece (Oh how we wish this wasn’t!).
Heavy Disclaimer: If you are a really sensitive person and get offended...
Moonlight by director Barry Jenkins has been proclaimed as one of the best movies of 2016. The movie's biggest triumph lies in its depiction of gay men in a community that has already been marginalized - the African-American population in the United States.
And the sound that you'll probably hear at the end of the movie? That will be a...
