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What is B.PAC?
B.PAC (Bangalore Political Action Committee) is a citizen-based group, with a set of objectives designed to improve the Governance of Bangalore, having noticed the startlingly low number of recorded voters in the city.
The voting population (read: "educated" middle-class citizenry) forms roughly 40% of the population of Bangalore. Yet, this large voting population (read: 3.5 million people) only...
Before I start with the topic I want to introduce via this article, I’d like you to note that this article is a rewrite of an article called “Strategies of Investment Gurus”, which was published in Economic Times weeks ago. I’d like to decode it for you, the ED Way!
Warren Buffett once said "Be greedy when others are fearful...
Be it New York, Paris, London or Milan, the Trend Reports these season seem to be screaming the word, ‘contrast’. Ambiguity between masculine and feminine, opulence and grunge, strength and fragility, past and present has been the flavour of the season. These contrasting trends are a representation and celebration of the multi-faceted modern woman.
Androgyny continues to rule the ramps,...
By Kanwar Anand
Some books rely entirely on self deprecating humour to be funny but while this may be funny in that instance, it soon gets tiring and maybe even seems ostensible to the reader after a while. Looking for Alaska is a book with much self deprecating humour but it has many more intricate layers to it. I am...
Dubai is known for having exotic, fast and highly modified cars. The streets are filled with supercars and hypercars like Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s, Bentley’s etc. The police obviously need to keep up with such powerful vehicles and as a result the Dubai police is known to have a fleet of hypercars themselves. These include cars like the Nissan GT-R, Ferrari...
After passing 12th board exams, one thing that clogs every mind is getting into good college for higher education. But unfortunately everybody who wish to study further, do not end up getting into good college. There was a time when scoring 90% was considered a mark of brilliance but as of now scoring 90% has become so common that...
If you’re under the impression that Shillong has nothing to offer apart from, sloped hills, tall trees and plenty of waterfalls, you are mistaken.
Well of course there are various spots that twinkle toed people would love to visit, even if it were miles away, such as: Elephant Falls:- 12 kms on the outskirts of the city the mountain stream...
Yes, you have guessed it right. This article is about Rahul Gandhi. Inspite of the fact that Narendra Modi has been trying to connect with the voters through frequent rallies and all, all that we get from the other side is gibberish. It is simply not fair to the voters. So, I undertook this difficult task of decoding Rahul...
I'm not a politically-minded person at all, but I still have SOME preconceptions of what "politics" entails. Most of what I understand about politics comes from what I've seen in Movies, read in Books and heard through Songs; from what I've gathered, there's nothing welcoming about the world of politics at all. But that's solely conjecture. But that's also the...
Following a previous post on another little-known band: "The Small Faces", I feel it's fitting I follow up with a review of another little-known band called: "The Roots" A quick look at their Wikipedia page tells you that they should be ANYTHING but little known, going by the sheer list of achievements they have accrued over the years; but to...
What else could I be?
all apologies...
"The sad messiah weeping silently with his guitar desperately trying to cover his paranoia. The Jesus of Suburbia was he. All he missed was his crown thorns, which the world did impose on him, by the grief he received. He died a martyr some say, some say he didn't die at all. But shall...
Hot water seems to freeze faster than cold water, known as the Mpemba effect. The effect was named after the Tanzanian student who in 1963 noticed that hot ice cream mix freezes faster than a cold one. The effect was first observed by Aristotle in the 4th century BC, then later Francis Bacon and René Descartes. Mpemba published a...
THE French are steeling themselves for yet more tax increases when the finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, unveils the 2014 budget on September 25th. The government is planning an extra €3 billion ($4 billion) of taxes next year, which will push up the overall tax take in the economy to 46.5% and make 2014 the fifth consecutive year that the...
Notes on Hauz Khas Village & Fete de la Musique
by Mnanasi Negi
The Fete de la Musique in Hauz Khas Village :- Traffic jam from the beginning of the road, all the way up to the parking lot. As we ditched our car in the earliest open spot and walked in the sweat dodging cars and hipsters, it gave me...
THE NEXT 'LITTLE' BIG THING IN FASHION
How young is too young to be a Fashion Icon?
The formidably young entry into the glamour style poll is five year old Suri Cruise,who came 21st in a magazine's annual poll.This little Cruise has the perks of being born to two of the most famous and beautiful celebrities of hollywood,Katie Holmes and Tom...
‘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...
