Monthly Archives: October 2013
‘Binaural Beats’ is a term given to a change in brain activity when it is given some sort of audio stimulus. When a person is presented with a sound with two different tones – the brain produces a response called the binaural beat. Now this means that the brain performs the dual function of hearing and responding to the...
Its time to get those witch hats and vampire fangs out! Its Halloween people!! The time the year, inevitably as always, has arrived when the line between the dead and the living becomes the thinnest. As we speak, there are thousands of other people around the world right at this moment(well, that depend upon those ruddy time zones!) gathering...
The Range Rover Sport has been launched with a price tag of 1.09-1.65 crores (ex-showroom Mumbai). The Range Rover Sport has a much cheaper price tag when compared to the full-size Range Rover and as a result it has always been the top selling model for Land Rover in India. The Range Rover Sport bridges the gap between the...
THE PRINCE AND THE FROG PRINCESS
by Manasi Negi
Once upon a time there was a prince who was told to shoot an arrow and find his bride and he did and he found a frog at the other end and he was like, "I don't want to marry a frog!" but his dad was like, "Dude, that's too bad, but...
By Aravind |
Google glass being the first visual wear that is ultra-modern and literally the first wearable computer to hit the streets. The foremost and primary fact you need to know about the google glass is that, yes you'll look like an idiot once you wear it. That aside and it is without doubt Glass’s biggest issue, the technological...
It's time to wrap up warm for autumn and winter, but that doesn't mean you have to stop looking fabulous! Fashion trends this winter according to me are pretty predictable. So here’s my opinion, after those blissful hours spent reading Vogue and Femina..
Big Cardigans!
Chunky and textured are the keys to knitwear this winter - whether cardigans, turtlenecks or sweaters....
J.K. Rowling became an overnight sensation with the success of her popular book series Harry Potter. A lot of the credit for this goes to the film adaptation of the seven series long fantasy novel. The film series not only did a lucrative business at the box-office across the globe but also made Harry a rage among teenagers and...
The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers. By Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. Berrett-Koehler; 264 pages; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com
ONE of Paul Polak’s first innovations for the poor, back in the early 1980s, was to re-engineer donkey carts for refugees in Somalia, a project he and his colleagues jokingly named Ass Haul International. Their carts, which...
It’s that time of the year once again when we step away from the light & head into darkness. As the wall between the normal and the paranormal becomes weaker, as social networking sites get flooded with photos of Jack O’ Lanterns, costumes of yesteryear, costumes of this year, costumes worn at Comic Con, it’s time to embrace the...
The Times Of India in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki initiated the idea of the Youth Parliament which is a part of the I lead India campaign designed specifically for the literate and aspiring youth of the country who believe that they have the required potential to bring about the much awaited change in the society which has been strongly...
Diwali is just round the corner and most of us are already looking at some interesting way to decorate our houses. However, making these changes not necessarily have to cost of a bomb or require a complete overhaul.
Karishma Bajaj and Asim Merchant, designers of RED, BLUE & YELLOW share six quick tips that will transform the look of your...
One man's vision of 'a phone that you can keep for the rest of your life' gets support from A Google Company
Upon hearing of Motorola’s Project Ara, it's easy to lapse into thinking about all the reasons why it'll be hard — almost impossible — to pull off: customers won't have incentive to buy new phones, modules will be...
If you have trouble reaching your toes, when your strongest relationship is with your refrigerator, if you find solace in eating when you’re happy, depressed or agitated, congratulations! You are on your way to be tagged as “fat”. Or to be polite, overweight. Almost two-thirds of America is overweight, out of which about 36% are obese. India seems to...
Era of unprecedented growth in Science, Arts and what not, and yet more than three-fourths of student population in India has no guru! More than 7 million teachers and yet a shortage of Gurus! That’s underwhelming. Knowledge can now be bought, which may come as a serious offense to our modern educational system, but is it what led to...
Reservations. The one concept that introduces the word ‘inequality’ to a child’s dictionary. We are all born unaware of our caste, creed and family income. But over the years, we start to notice how different our world is from the world of the people around us. How someone else comes to school in an Audi, while we travel in...
With the current debacle regarding the Russian Olympics and gay rights, you might think that Indians would have commented on the issue. There are plenty of gay Indians, regardless of what many people say. Yet ‘gay’ and ‘Indian’ are two words rarely connected. Why not? Where is the debate about gay issues? It is as if the whole country...
I am all for cross-cultural insight and appreciating differences. What I do not appreciate is the comparison of the American and Indian K-12 (primary and secondary schools) education systems that insist on ranking. Just searching 'India-US Education' reveals a wealth of blogs, discussions, and arguments over whose schools are more effective, almost all of which degrade the American system and glorify...
Billboard named them ‘The Breakthrough Band of 2013’ and Rolling Stone magazine called their single “radioactive” the biggest rock hit of the year. They’ve been active for a while now, but the sonic boom of fame hit them with the release of their first debut album, “Night Visions”, in September 2012. They’ve already been on a World Tour and...
Gareth Bale, the Welsh footballer has been the biggest highlight of this summer transfer window, being bought by Real Madrid for a staggering 100 million euros ($132 million). This signing makes Gareth Bale the most expensive soccer player in the world overcoming his teammate Cristiano Ronaldo’s $131 million move from United in 2009. Ever since this deal was signed...
INDIA-THE SILVER BIRD
SOUNDS STRANGE BUT TRUE!!!
We all have heard India to be a ‘golden bird’ but many of us are not aware of the fact that the Indian economy, at one time, was one of the world’s largest importer, or ‘earner’ of silver, if correctly said.
Between 1600 and 1800 Indian cotton cloth was consumed massively around the globe. In...
By Mudit Batra |
In the past few months, we have seen an outburst of gadgets and gizmos that are to be worn somewhere or the other. It’s not like they weren’t around before but these days electronics giant like Samsung, Sony and a few others have taken upon themselves to make the most out this area which hasn’t been...
The generation gap has deepened with the digital divide with the young and old being light years away in the use of new technologies. What may however seem almost self-evident , has fundamental implications when it comes to information, and this is what creates a civil society. Our world is split in two between the young and elderly,...
Round 16 of the Formula One season of 2013 was held at the Buddh International Circuit, India. Unfortunately though this Grand Prix is not going to make it’s way on the 2014 calender due to “political reasons” but hopefully we should see it taking place in 2015 again. The race was sure to be an action packed one as...
Formula 1, the thrilling automobile racing competition is back in its third edition of the Indian Grand Prix at Buddh International Circuit, Noida. However this time, there is a tinge of sadness. Because Formula 1 ain’t be here in 2014, and it is doubtful whether it will be reinstated in 2015.
Bernie Ecclestone, the boss of the sport has been...
By Shubham Mittal |
After an article on the “Origin of the seven swaras of the Indian classical music” I would want to talk more about raagas and swaras as promised in the previous article. Swaras, as described previously are originated from the sounds of nature. Each swara has a specific fixed sound in the nature, if a swara does...
