Monthly Archives: January 2014
By- Nidhi Mardi
Do you constantly find yourself in a hassle of finding the exact denomination of currency while making payment to auto-rickshaw drivers, local vendors etc.? If your answer is in the affirmative, then you are a part of a majority of urban Indians struggling with inconvenience of carrying change. Another problem is the lack of access to banking and financial services...
By Deepshikha Agarwal
As India took a step back and re-criminalized homosexuality (as per article 377 of the Indian Penal Code), other parts of the world seem to be moving forward! Other than New Year, residents in Colorado had more to celebrate as marijuana or cannabis was legalized not only for medical purposes but also for recreational use!!!
Uruguay was the...
By Deepshikha Agarwal
Is Pappu a.k.a. Rahul Gandhi, really going the AAP way? This is one question that most news channels and perhaps a lot of us are asking these days. But the question should be, will Pappu going the AAP way help him or his party in any way? Now, what AAP is doing is much appreciated but we...
A major economic power and one of the supersonic nations, Japan, is drowning, with one of the lowest fertility rates and at same time, highest longevity rates.As a result, population is plummeting badly and becoming aligned to old people.
By 2060, the government estimates, there will be just 87 million people in Japan; nearly half of them will be over...
Can you relate to the following:
alluring ting-ting of messages makes you get up and check your phone.
You constantly check someone’s “last seen”on whatsapp and mentally calculate the time difference in the time they take.
Your rate of changing your display picture is 4 times a day.
Your day begins with checking and ends with checking of your whatsapp.
If the answer to...
By Mahima Rana
The deftness to translate musically an entire gamut of emotions was the hallmark of RD Burman or Pancham Da, as he was fondly called. The only child of the illustrious S D Burman, Pancham was trained by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (sarod) and Samta Prasad (tabla). He was a child prodigy and composed his first tune at...
By Anurag Pandit
Google his name and 20,000,000 results pop up in just 0.36 seconds. He has 15959131 likes on his Facebook page. He’s the only celebrity who’s being followed by 3,470,492 people on Twitter and follows none himself. Born as A.S. Dileep Kumar, this man has taken the world by storm with his music. So much so that he...
By Virangna Pal.
Breda has been no stranger to housing the greatest DJ acts for a while now, but when Hardwell transcended EDM’s heavyweight champion Armin van Buuren last year to be crowned the world’s best DJ, the small Dutch town knew they'd more than just marked their place in the hall of fame.
It all started in a shabby room...
By Nidhi Mardi
There has been tremendous hue and cry in the bitcoin market after the recent RBI governor Raghuram Rajan’s warnings regarding the danger of using virtual currencies due to potential money laundering and cyber security risks. The bitcoin market has found a welcoming home in the Indian financial markets in the recent past making it an ideal avenue for modern tech-savvy Indian...
By Parikshit Pal
It’s a belief in football that if you have the money you can build a team. That is absolutely true. The trend was started by Real Madrid and then came the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea. But the reverse which states that if you don’t have the money you cannot build a team, is absolutely wrong. In today’s...
By Ujjwal Dahuja
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
This is what Marshall McLuhan, a communication theory philosopher, believes is the role of the media in a market bubble. Generalized, though the claim might be, McLuhan’s claim in fact resonates not only with the claim of this year’s Economics Nobel Prize winner, Robert Shiller, who too argues...
By Ujjwal Dahuja
“This unlimited borrowing in the OTC derivatives market – like the unlimited borrowing on securities that contributed to the Great Depression – may pose grave dangers to our economy.”
When Brooksley Born, former chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said the above lines, she was trying to communicate to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the grave dangers that the seven...
By Anushka Bansal
There has been considerable debate in India about the impact of growth on employment especially in the organized manufacturing sector for different periods since the early 1980s. For the period as a whole as well as for these two separate periods - the pre-and post-reform phases-the picture that emerges is one of "jobless growth", due to the combined effect of two trends...
By Ira Sharma
Over the last one decade or so, three critical issues have captured the mind share of the common man out there. These three issues are economic recession, corruption and terrorism. It has not only exposed massive corruption causes but India has also witnessed some major terrorist attacks. Apart from this, the unprecedented and back breaking price rises have also been a bête...
By Rhea Yadav
Sadness is a bore, happiness comes to the fore!
One hundred days of happiness, wait, what?
Remember the time when everything black and emo was awesome and those perpetually depressed people were the coolest kids around? Well, there's a new fad around. And it makes a comeback with quite a bang! Yes, being happy is the new cool.
If you're...
We all grew up in a comic crazy childhood. All those moments when our parents used to get us a copy of any Marvel comics we used to go gaga. It used to be the same excitement that our moms get every time the next episode of any nail biting TV serial releases on Star Plus.
Now since Marvel comics...
By Rhea Grover
Disclaimer: Read the article without labelling me as a disgrace to womankind and averse to the ideals of an equal society.
As I sat drawing Homer Simpson in my notebook, my history teacher went rambling on about gender discrimination for what seemed like forever. She elucidated how history itself is testament to the poor conditions that women face in our society...
By Ipshita Agarwal
Hillary Clinton’s views on abortion and unintended pregnancies
Source- Youtube.
She chose what she wanted to study, chose the school she went to, chose the dress she wanted to wear, chose the friends she made, made independent decisions for everything from a pin to an airplane in her life.
But could not choose whether she wanted to have a baby,...
By Divya Kamboj
There are some places in the world where you know adventure won't be hard to find. New Zealand, the self-proclaimed adrenaline capital of the world, is one of them. In fact, any place with mountains is a good bet.
But there are other destinations that are better known for more low-key affairs. You can find adventure options in...
By Hemant Jain
The 16th Lok Sabha elections which are due later this year are surely going to be one of the most crucial elections in recent history. In 2014, India will be a 67-year-old democratic country still very young and tender, but one that has managed to stay a democratic country since Independence.
Talking of the present scenario, there is a...
By Divya Kamboj
Meaning & Reasons
In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.
Generally found reasons of Disinvestment are:
First, a firm may divest (sell) businesses that are not part of its core operations so that it can focus on what...
By Sonali Wadhwa
Mahatma Gandhi quoted rightly 'Earth has enough for a man’s needs but not for man’s greed!!'. We all agree on this quote, don’t we? But do we really realize its importance in real life and try to make use of the message conveyed by this quote? Now coming to the topic of our discussion, let’s talk about...
By Parikshit Pal
In football every coach has a way of running a club. He implements his own style of working and the club functions accordingly. There is no golden rule as to what is the winning formula. Sometimes the coach also has to compromise according to the available resources. You have to balance between the resources available and the demand...
By Surangya Kaur
It all began in the late 19th century, when horror films were called "spooky tales" and sound hadn't yet been infused in cinema. Horror movies without haunting music? Without disturbing screams or screeching violins? Well, in the olden days they could only implement grotesque screenplays in order to induce terror. They would definitely fail to frighten today's...
"NAYAK NAHI KHALNAYAK HAI YE !"
By Pranali Batra
Youth- the very mention of the word itself brings to mind an impression of vigour, enthusiasm and zest. This is that chunk of the population which promises to be the torchbearer of a bigger and brighter India. The country is evolving in every aspect and it is the young population of the...
