Monthly Archives: February 2017
By Aashna Charan
“Fine, we will go!” said my father tired and fed up of my brother and I shouting “please dad! Katti otherwise!” he then went on to be tired and fed up of us screaming “yay!!”
Two months fast forward, through the visa troubles and the shopping, saw us getting up at 3:30 am in the morning for our...
By Anusha Majumdar
Incest...the word itself has a sacrilegious ring to it. How can somebody utter a word like that in public? How can someone possibly THINK of such a bizarre concept!? How can someone contemplate having sex with his/her immediate family members? These are the common questions that arise in our minds the moment we hear/ read of an...
By Pratyosh Gogoi
LivED It: It is an ED Original style where we write about our personal experiences on experiencing and reviewing any app/place/website which gives us a feeling of coming back for more.
If you were in the North Campus of the University of Delhi on the afternoon of 28th February, you must have seen one of the largest student...
By Kritika Dagar
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) grant exclusive rights to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Geographical Indicators etc. to promote innovation.
Compared with several developed countries our IPRs are ‘weak’ as they do not comply with stringent US regulations. India, along with China, Russia and 8 other countries, is therefore, on priority watch list of US’ Special 301 report.
Earlier this February,...
By Sanchari Pal
Bill is a middle-class man.
Bill wanted an operation for his hernia.
Bill got himself admitted to a private hospital for the operation.
On discharge, Bill found his hospital bills to be exorbitantly high.
Bill refused payment and beat up the doctor-in-charge thinking him to have framed such an expensive billing.
BILL IS STUPID. DO NOT BE LIKE BILL.
In light of the...
By Prashansa Khandelwal
Tired of the hustle and bustle of the city? This is your place. Nestled away in a basement at the end of Majnu Ka Tila market, Coffee House is a humble abode to spend some quality time with yourself.
How to Reach
Nearest metro station is Vidhan Sabha from where one can easily find an e-rickshaws for Majnu Ka...
St. Stephen’s is again making news but this time for their call for an autonomous status from Delhi University (DU).
Yup. On Saturday, St. Stephen’s called for a meeting with the governing body in order to discuss the university’s proposal to get a grant of autonomy.
But there is no need to be shocked guys, because this has been in the...
Sanchari Pal
Thirty year old Shree Ghatak Muhuri married childhood sweetheart, Sanjay Muhuri. So, what is the big deal here? Everybody gets married at some point.
Thirty year old Shree is not your regular definition of ‘everybody’. Shree is the first transgender woman to have gotten legally married in India.
The First Legal Transgender Wedding
This revolutionary marriage happened in Kolkata. Shree...
By Sanjukta Das Bhowmick
Calcutta University, was established on 24 January, 1857, and the first institution that was recognised as a multidisciplinary and a secular university.
However, unfortunately, the most prestigious university in the country that is educating stalwarts, refuses to leave its puritan underpinnings and mould itself according to the times.
The university is in desperate need to upgrade its...
By Vasundhara Chauhan
In 2004, Mr. Johar came up with the idea of the most quirky chat show of India: Koffee with Karan became the rain to our gossip-dry lives. Since then, Karan on his 'kouch' with the 'koffee' is all that is needed to brew some controversies. Our favorite stars took the liberty to talk their hearts out on the show...
By Sakshi Kanodia
Almost every one of us has read and watched chick flicks. And if not chick flicks, then most Bollywood and Hollywood dramas.
One thing that I have realised over the years about these is how they portray characters in them. Most movies, especially the ones which come under the genre of romance, have a typical storyline.
The male lead is a...
By Sanjukta Das Bhowmick
It is 2017, we have the internet, we live in a globalised society, but we still clutch on to our horrible traditions- Temple prostitution.
The Devadasi system, a 5000 year old tradition, is followed in many parts of India, despite being prohibited is basically ritualistic prostitution where girls as young as 5 years old are sold off...
By Vrinda Singh
They say India is the fastest growing economy and will take over the developed nations pretty soon!
Well, they are right. And you DEFINITELY SHOULD believe them because we are driven in a direction which is not only misleading but also, a pathway to misery.
India’s contribution to some of the serious existing problems in the world has risen, despite the...
By Drishya Subramaniam
LivED It: It is an ED Original style where we write about our personal experiences on experiencing and reviewing any app/place/website which gives us a feeling of coming back for more.
Artwork changes, and so does its viewers.
Art appreciation was very rare during the earlier times. And as they say, things change as time flies. But is it...
- By Kritika Malik.
The motor vehicles (amendment) bill was introduced for discussion last year to decrease road accident related fatalities by 50%. Every year, there are about 5 lakh accidents in India which cause about 1.5 lakh deaths. The bill aims to amp up the road safety standards in India.
The bill, which was referred to the Standing committee on...
By Kritika Malik
Veer Savarkar, the famous “freedom fighter” and the former president of the Hindu Mahasabha died on 26th February 1966 as he committed “Atmahatya nahi Atmaarpan” by fasting himself to death at the age of 83.
Yesterday, we celebrated the 51st Purna Tithi of VD Savarkar. But the question stands, was he really a freedom fighter?
Savarkar was a leftist...
By Shivani Kaushik
The perfect way to define WhatsApp's new feature is- The minute you are satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore
And this is exactly what founders of WhatsApp believe in. What started as a communication App transformed over the years. The success mantra for WhatsApp's growth over the past years is No Ads, No Games, No...
By Ananya Agarwal
India is a land of millions of gods and goddesses and thousands of God men. Who ever said India is a developing country? With so many Gods and Goddesses present (No spiritual offence) and self-claimed spiritually enlightened God men can never let India happen anything!
What does it require to be a God men or Godwomen?
Some Sanskrit, Hypocrite...
The Indian education system needs a great overhaul. We can already see that the education system that has been followed for all these years is not really working.
Or at least, it needs some major changes that will be implemented swiftly and with proper care and attention.
The inclusion of many modern ways of teaching while still gripping to the same...
By Aashna Charan
We have all had those long drives with our family where a close to world war 3 battle would start on one topic, MUSIC. Being a part of a family of music lovers, the latter was always a heated topic to discuss with my parents.
My brother and I would always take side with the recent music tracks...
By Pratyosh Gogoi
When the news that Haldiram, a business venture that started in a small shop in Rajasthan’s Bikaner, overtook the global snack giants McDonald’s and Domino’s in the Indian market flashed, most of us were left with the mixed emotions of pride and surprise.
While it is great to hear that an Indian brand is doing so well in...
By Prerna Bhandari
'Shring bhring sarvaling, bhoot bhavishya vartmaan badling', does this magic spell a.k.a jaadu mantra ring childhood memories in your head? If it does, there is some good news for you!
The 2004 famous teenage TV soap 'Shararat' is soon going to be back with a new Season.
The famous Indian fantasy sitcom became a classic cult during 2000s. The...
By Anusha Majumdar
CPEC (or China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) is an infrastructure project comprising of 3,000 km network of roads, rails and pipelines between the Pakistan's Gwadar Port to Kashgar city, situated in Xinjiang province of China.
Several economists have pointed how CPEC is an alternative to China's current route of sourcing trade from the Middle East and Africa. CPEC will thus, be a...
By Ranjabati Ray.
How casually do we use the term “refugee”? We hear about people being forced to leave their countries due to internal turmoil and just sigh and think about how they are being treated as refugees.
How often do we read about the Syrian people and feel bad that they are being forced to move out from their homes...
By Eshna Gupta.
There have been many a great actors in Bollywood but none has ruled the hearts and minds of people like the Shehenshah himself, Amitabh Bachchan. After 45 years on the silver screen and still counting, he's the man who is never referred to as "old", for he is an evergreen phenomenon.
Even at an age of 72, he...
