Monthly Archives: January 2014

By Gauri Singh Rajput Okay now 2014 is here, the year for the grand show 'The Auto Expo'. I am getting excited for it. Aren’t you too?  Well this time it will be bigger, better and grand than ever before. We are expecting some wonder launches in the expo. The Auto Expo has provided an aid as well as Platform...

By Nidhi Taneja She wanted to fly high in the sky of freedom and joy but ended up being caged inside her own home. She had now bruised her wings and shattered her dreams. She wanted her name to be echoed in the valleys of success but ended up in the coffin of silence. The girl who was once the...

By Nidhi Taneja Through the ages music has been an integral part of the entertainment industry. It is considered to have a profound impact on the audience due to its mass appeal. This popular faith in the ability of music to influence people and their way of thinking has led to music being used on various occasions to mobilize people...

By Riya Anna Kuruvilla Tharoor, Clinton and Berlusconi. Other than making national security decisions, holding cabinet meetings, reading intelligence reports, meeting high profile dignitaries and other world leaders, giving the go for important negotiations, and other riff raff, the head of government and other high posts have one very important, although a very latent function - Satiating public curiosity. Be it their...

By Aakriti Chowdhary Slyly, when a man comes up to you, takes out his handkerchief, shows a watch and softly says, "madam, Gucci hai, saste mein doonga (madam, its Gucci, I’ll give it to you cheap)”, that’s when you know you’ve finally stepped into the Sarojini market. Jammed parking lots, muggy lanes, heaps of clothes and an ocean of people...

By Aakriti Chowdhary There are movies that have left an indelible impact. There are movies that go beyond the playing field. There are movies that are better remembered. There are movies that don’t get lost in the mad race to just get innumerable credits in their bank accounts. Like a pair of ripped blue jeans and a crisp white shirt...

It wasn’t long ago when dad’s shoulders were the highest place, when goodbyes only meant till tomorrow, when the only thing that hurt were scraped knees, when mom was the only heroine, when the worst fights were for the window seat of the bus. It wasn’t long ago when we were children, when innocence shined as bright as the...

The Fitbit Pedometer The Fitbit is a family of full-featured pedometers that track steps, distance, and calories. It monitors the number of steps taken and correspondingly deduces the amount of calories you burnt! In addition to this, it has a smartphone app available on both Android and iOS and is compatible with both PC and Mac. You can add your...

By Vishakha Gupta As if six kids were any less, Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt are contemplating adopting another child again. The ‘oh so glamorous couple’ is likely to add one more compartment to their train. Currently, this couple has six kids-Maddox (12), Pax (10), Zahara (13), Shiloh (7), and twins-Knox and Vivienne (5). While the first three have been...

By Riya Kuruvilla When none emerge guilty or guilt free. Ever seen the HBO “Funny or Die: Playground Politics” series? I feel the recent diplomatic standoff between the U.S.A and India would provide impetus enough for an addition to the series. The series portrays a hulking (overweight, not built) America in a very bright red shirt, who in real terms is...

By Lakshay Kumar Chowdhury This is how he was dragged down from a rally by the Delhi Police. Nobody, except the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, had imagined such a spectacular show by the AAP. But Mr. Arvind Kejriwal has once again helped the world in rediscovering the power of the common man (Aam Aadmi). When the Jan Lokpal Andolan...

By Vageesha Bainwala Lights Camera Action!!! On Tuesday 14th January 2014 at MMRDA Grounds, Mumbai, the award season was kick started by the 20th Annual Life Ok Screen Awards. Yes Life Ok , a Star initiative has bagged the telecast rights for the 20th edition. All the biggies of the Industry attended the first award function of the season. Yet...

By Roop Kunwar Singh Okay, before you read any further, I want you to close your eyes and ask yourself- ‘What is my biggest fear? Since, this is very much a monologue and you don’t have to post your answer on facebook or tweet it, I would request you to keep away from those pseudo-moral and politically correct answers and...

By- Isha Sharma This article will explore societal gender norms, which we consciously or unconsciously follow to manage our heterosexual relationships. Before elaborating on the above said, I would like to analyze the term GENDER. Gender is a socio-cultural phenomena in which people are divided into various categories such as 'male' and ‘female', which is further associated with 'clothing', 'roles' and  'stereotypes'...

By Nikita Rana From Rotary to cordless to feature to touch to bendable...Mighty innovations have brought revolutions in the mobile phones segment. Bendable TVs have undoubtedly created new scopes in the television segment. We live in an era where new technologies are being born at the same pace as children being born every second and an era where previous technologies...

Trade and industry are an integral part of every economy. Economies choose to trade so as to maximize their gains from trade. In order to do so, the country which has a comparative advantage in the production of a particular good chooses to export that particular good whereas the country which does not have a comparative advantage in...

By Aman Sardana “It was a cloudy Seattle day in late 1980, and Bill Gates, the young chairman of a tiny company called Microsoft, had an appointment with IBM that would shape the destiny of the industry for decades to come. He went into a room full of IBM lawyers, all dressed in immaculately tailored suits. Bill’s suit was rumpled...

By Nikita Madan You enter a shop, your eye catches a gorgeous top, your mind goes back to your wardrobe and you gleefully realize that you have a jacket that perfectly matches it. Then you see the price tag and you wonder, could I afford this top if I don’t eat for a week? Beautiful clothes and their devilish price tags...

The Law of Conservation of Stories states that Stories cannot be destroyed, but can change form, say from TV and films to books, or from books to TV and films. Now we’ve all heard of the success and flop stories of the latter (read Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Silence of the Lambs, Bade...

By Harshita Kain Entrepreneurship is one of the most important inputs in the economic development of  India, as an entrepreneur is responsible for fostering economic growth and economic development. Other important economic developments an entrepreneur leads to include  increasing the country's export trade and balancing trade deficit, increasing gross national product and per capita income by  wealth creation and distribution and finally creating employment opportunities. If entrepreneurship is so important then why is it that such a large country like India has a contribution of only 3% to the total number of entrepreneurs in the world while a small country like Thailand has had a contribution of 20% of the total number of entrepreneurs in the world? It indeed is a mind boggling question with no proper answer. Let us try exploring some of the possible solutions to this problem. One possible reason for the lack of entrepreneurs in India could be that people in India do not have the capability to dream big. Now there is certainly something  wrong with this answer as we Indians are amongst the most erudite people in this world. We cannot forget the fact that we were the ones who invented the number zero and so, have intelligence running in our veins. Thus ruling this one out, another possible solution could be that Indians have ideas but do not know how and where to apply them and lack the knowledge about starting their own venture. Another reason could be that we Indians are very satisfied with the jobs we are currently doing and hence would not like to step out of this secure zone and take risks. Finally, whichever might be the answer to this Russell’s paradox, what is important to understand is the importance of entrepreneurship and why more Indians should become entrepreneurs.

By Yash Sood London-based economic consultancy Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has recently suggested that, by 2028, India would be the third largest economy behind China and the United States. But, the past year hasn’t given any hints that this will be happening anytime soon. 2013, in most ways, was not a good year for the Indian economy. Everything began well with the...

By Anusha Gupta With the growing popularity and accompanied criticism for hedge funds, they are becoming a frequently used term in finance today. Often misunderstood as “sophisticated” financial jargon, hedge funds, in reality, aren’t that difficult to understand. A hedge fund is simply an investment partnership set up by a manager. It can take the legal form of a limited liability...

By Vishakha Gupta Forbes recently published a list of 30 people with towering accomplishments, under the age of 30, in each category like finance, education, sports etc, and called it ’30 under 30’. From that I chose 5, and hence ‘5 under 30’. Here’s a list of those 5 people I personally admire: 1.      Maria Sharapova (26) This young Russian tennis player,...

By Yash Sood On 8 January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in the US. But after 50 years of struggle, that goal of making the country poverty-free seems to have failed. LBJ stated that this war would be an “investment” which will "return its cost". But what does America have to show for its investment? Apparently, nothing. But, there is...

By Anushka Bansal Let us start by a simple idea about what inflation is. So inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises, and subsequently, the purchasing power falls. The Indian economy, Asia's third-largest, faces a difficult situation where growth has slowed to a decade low, but price pressures have remained stubborn. It has one of the...