Monthly Archives: January 2014
By Shreyasi Das
There is something to be said about the winter fashion. Just as the skies begin to turn dreary, the air nippy and the trees withered and bleak-looking, there are all the colorful layers that one can finally pull out of one’s wardrobe to lift one’s spirits, not to mention one’s style. Suddenly after gasping in the heat...
By Vageesha Bainwala
Every next day a wedding card of a distant relative reaches your doorstep. It’s the season of marriage. In a country like India, weddings are a BIG thing. And so is the Bollywood Industry. With the given similarities between a BIG FAT INDIAN WEDDING and a MASALA FLICK, it’s automatic to connect them. One finds it highly...
By Aakriti Chowdhary
Choked drains, contaminated beds and sultry classrooms are just appetizers to the feast awaiting state level sports players. The Pandora’s box seems to have long been opened, but deep down, in a dark corner lays an ocean of unknown that is conveniently concealed by the overpowering, the powerful, and the influential. Lush green playing fields, new equipment,...
By Vishakha Gupta
Roger Federer needs no introduction. He’s one of the greatest tennis players this sport has ever had. Currently ranked at world number 6, this Swiss player is all set for the year.
Unlike others, he plays well on all three types of courts. “In an era of specialists, you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist,...
By Lakshay Kumar Chowdhury
Like most Indians, I am crazy about cricket. At the risk of sounding anti-national, I say that cricket is a decadent sport and one of the main stumbling blocks to the emergence of India as an international frontrunner in sports. Over the past few years, cricket has evolved into a religion from being a mere sport...
By Hemant Jain
YESSS…It is INDIA who is creating more jobs in the US than the other American IT companies. And it is now official.
Although India had the reputation of raising employment only in the US, but now India is even providing job opportunities around the globe. With HCL Technologies announcing 10,000 jobs for locals in the Canada and Europe, India...
By Bhavya
A little group of islands, surrounded by the beautiful waters of East China sea, might sound like quite a looked-forward-to tourist vacation spot. But, these seemingly peaceful islands are in the eye of an impending tornado.
This group of islets known with different names are an issue of much outrage between the ROC (Taiwan) and PRC (China), and Japan. ...
By Abhilasha Banerjee
It was sometime in the late 1950’s when this steamy love affair began. It was a typical love-hate tale...two strangers despise each other.... gradually the hatred begins to fade away....fast enough it turns from hatred to a ‘liking’ or rather an infatuation and boom boom, the grass gets greener, the roses begin to bloom and pure,...
By Ira Sharma
The rupee has plunged to an all time low against dollar. In simple words, the rupee depreciation means the value of Indian currency has gone down against dollar. Many macro economic matters such as slow economic growth, huge current account deficit, rising imports, etc are brought up in the scenario by usual discussions over fall in the...
The origin of the Lohri can be traced back to the tale of Dulla Bhatti. By the end of the first week of January, small groups of boys ring the doorbell of houses and start chanting the Lohri songs related to Dulla Bhatti. In turn, the people give them popcorn, peanuts, crystal sugar, sesame seeds (til) or gur as...
Cinderella is tortured by her “evil’ step mothers and stepsisters. She finds her Prince Charming after endless hardships. Snow White is haunted by the evils of her stepmother and is forced to live with the dwarfs in the forest. Beauty sacrifices everything and her innocent and sincere nature pays her off as the beast turns into a handsome...
Honda started it’s operations in India way back in 1997 with the launch of their mid-sized sedan, the Honda City. Back then there were already a few cars in that segment like the Opel Astra, Daewoo Cielo, Mitsubishi Lancer and Ford Escort so the City had it’s work cut out, and it sure did deliver for Honda. With Japanese...
By- Rashmi Mittal
We call Gross Domestic Product (GDP) the godfather of the indicator world. The World Bank has called it "the main criterion for classifying economies."According to conventional wisdom, what is good for the GDP is good for the nation; as the GDP rises, so do our fortunes. But what does it actually measure?
Economists traditionally use GDP to measure...
By Anusha Gupta
Gone are the days when only pizza could be delivered in half an hour. According to Jeff Bezos' announcement on 60 seconds, the world can soon expect same day deliveries of the order they placed online. However, unlike Dominos or Pizza Hut, Amazon does not plan on delivering these packages using conventional modes of transport, rather,...
By Prakriti Kohli
The E-Commerce market in India is flooded with problems of low repeat purchases, high acquisition costs, and small basket sizes in the case of most companies. The only two choices left for these stereotypically appealing but less profitable ventures is either to make profits, or bow out of the business.
Due to high inventory and infrastructure requirements, it...
By Roop Kunwar Singh
Have you ever had an experience where a hunch or an intuition turned out to be true? Have you ever felt an uncanny sense of recognition towards a person or a place (or object), although you might well be meeting that person or visiting that place or coming in contact PHYSICALLY for the first time? Have...
Jan 3, 9:59 PM, the air in my room gets tense, as I wait with bated breath, and count the final seconds prior to the first episode of the 3rd season of Sherlock. After the news of a speculated January 2013 release, the actual 3rd season began in January 2014, but definitely proved to be worth the wait for all...
Social media is abuzz with memes on Alok Nath. One cannot put a finger on what kick-started this new trend and obsession with Alok Nath, but everyone who has a facebook or twitter account definitely knows about it. On 30th of December, Alok Nath became the top trending topic on Twitter, the social media network through which it is...
Just because it's winter doesn't mean your clothes have to be drab and unflattering! Pep up your wardrobe, and feel cozy and stylish at the same time. Say goodbye to the winter wardrobe blues, because you seriously have a multitude of options to choose from.
1. Scarves/stoles - They are undoubtedly the first on our list when we think of winter...
After ages we have a movie that is so very royal. Yeah! That’s the word-ROYAL. Sheer magic. Be it the sets, the costumes, the songs with the Sufi touch, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s voice- all of these take you to an era where romance was pure bliss. The seven stages of love-“Dilkashi, Oons, Mohabbat, Aqidat, Ibaadat, Junoon and Maut”...
By Hemant Jain
The relationship between the US and India was cold and often thorny. This was due to the closeness of the US towards India's arch-rival Pakistan during the War, with Pakistan joining the US-led Western Bloc in 1954. The relations worsened further with India pursuing a policy of being neutral.
With the advent of time, America distanced itself from Pakistan, owing...
I clearly remember back in 2010, when I first heard Tool. I listened to ‘The Pot’ off of their 2006 album ‘10,000 Days’. It was the most bizarre, amazing, and disgusting yet the most beautiful song I had ever heard. Clearly, I never heard Tool again. But then, one day in 2011, this urge rose inside of me to...
If I were to re-write a digital version of a much loved fairy tale, that of Cinderella would be very fascinating. The godmother who waved her wand and turned a pumpkin into a chariot and mice into horses for her beautiful daughter, also magically created a pair of glass shoes that weren't quite the right fit. Had she owned...
Watching Anil Kapoor and Sridevi starrer ‘Lamhe’ yesterday it suddenly dawned on me that things have become so much more complicated. And the expression of love is not the same anymore. The forever wala love is to say the least elusive.The immense range of options that we have make things anything but simple, be it food, clothing, movies, music...
By Harshita Kain
Since 1957 India has been recording sustained trade deficits. Trade deficit is not a new problem in India and hence has failed to garner much attention but we cannot be indifferent to the fact that trade deficit has been one common factor for all the western countries in crisis, during the last ten years making it significantly clear that it...
