Monthly Archives: February 2014
By Riya Kuruvilla
If we lived in a dystopian world, you wouldn't be reading this. Fortunately, it isn’t and we can talk about dystopian literature all we want without worrying about ‘Big Brother’ watching and eventually ‘vaporizing’ us. To my embarrassment, I realised a little late that dystopian particularly refers to an imagined place – so in all technicality, even...
By Divya Kamboj,
A good Central bank when going through a change in its leadership, will need its leaders to have a sense of continuity & also the functioning of the central bank should never be directed towards personal preferences. The personal habits, ways of conducting press conferences & other trivial stuff must be coherent for a certain period to...
By Anusha Gupta,
We have reached the high point of the Internet age haven’t we? There is nothing that cannot be done over the Internet. In 2013, the online transactions in India grew by 88%, which is staggering growth for an industry. Since e-commerce is growing so rapidly it is natural that modes of payment will also change with the...
By Riya Kuruvilla
Ghosts and Goblins, Fairies and Elves, Trolls and Monsters, Werewolves and Vampires – these and various other shapely (or shapeless) creatures fill the genre of fantasy, in some novels they’re friendly (a bit too much sometimes) and in other, mischievous or downright evil. Wherever they exist in whatever form, accompanied by background myths and Magic, the masses...
By Rajshree Gupta
A nice hot dress: 4000 INR. A good pair of stiletto shoes: 4000 INR. The mind boggling accessories: 2000 INR (a delicate neck piece, bracelet, earrings etc.). A sling bag or a hand bag: 2000 INR. Keeping the make-up aside, these are calculations that will make you look hot with a good branded stuff. This is the...
By Hemant Jain,
If we begin from the very beginning then the relations between India & China officially started on April 1, 1950 wherein India was the second country to establish diplomatic relations with China among the non-socialist countries. In 1954, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and Indian Prime Minister Nehru exchanged visits and jointly initiated the famous Five Principles of...
By Anusha Gupta,
Agricultural Income under section 2(1A) of the Income tax Act, 1961 can be defined as any income derived from rent or revenue derived from a land which is situated in India and is used for agricultural purposes, any income derived from an agricultural operation. The reason for exemption of agriculture income from Central Taxation is that the...
By Deepshikha Agarwal
India won its independence through a great Revolution which mostly consisted of large scale protests and strikes. Ever since, protests and strikes seem to be a way out of everything for Indians. If we want something and don’t get it, the simple solution is to protest, even if it means hampering the normal functions of day-to-day life.
The...
By Deepshikha Agarwal
As the Indian economy has been long suffering from the severe plague of low growth and high inflation , the “ Rock Star Governor” , Raghu Ram Rajan, has shocked the market yet again by announcing a rise in the repo rate by 25 basis points (to 8%).
For all the readers who are unfamiliar with the term...
By Riya Singla
Prime time shows, family time, The ‘K factor’ and lots and lots of melodrama! The ideal scene from every household a few years back. Ekta Kapoor , a brand in herself, needs no introduction. The daughter of famous veteran actor Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor , is more than just ‘a television czarina’. The flamboyant and creative director...
By Rajshree Gupta,
2013 was full of fashion trends, from funky stuff to sheer dresses. Some of these were hits, other were misses. Dresses and ethnic wear (especially anarkali suits) were in high demand last year. Well, what has happened is not the story, what is going to happen, is something that matters.
Dresses and ethnic wear will rock 2014 too...
By Riya Singla
‘Hollywood’, is something we all fancy. Indian film makers have always been inspired by the way Hollywood conducts itself. In Hollywood, it is quite common to make movies based on bestsellers but the trend is not so common in Bollywood. Or so we think! Over the years silently ingrained in our commercial successes have been the movies...
By Roop Kunwar Singh
We have been taught that history is loaded with the tales of unsung heroes. Those men and women who let their contemporaries run away with the spotlight (some willingly while others unwillingly) having contributed or achieved as much as them if not more. You can go and explore any field-from warfare to even sports- you’ll find...
Magic Bus' Next Step 2014
"Sports’ universal appeal has led to sport gainingrecognition as a simple, low-cost and effective medium for achieving key developmental goals for children and youth. Dasra has studied the evolving sport for development ecosystem and has discovered that if sport is used in the right manner, it can contribute significantly to promote health, improve academic outcomes,...
By Harshita Kain
Be it summers or winters, one trend that never goes out of style is Boho-chic. Boho-chic fashion is exclusively for women and draws inspiration from the bohemian and hippie culture. "Boho" is an abbreviation for bohemian, who were travelers or refugees from Europe.
It is tied to the vintage phenomena in fashion and has been going on since...
By Sanuj Shah
You do believe in chance? Can all random events be always attributed to co-incidence? Are successful people always ‘lucky’? We often hear people say that they were at the right place and at the right time. There are some significant events in our lives which either leaves us overwhelmed or in profound disappointment. In the moments of...
By Sanuj Shah
Many of us have often wondered what it would be like to leave the hustle-bustle of life and set out to travel. With the monotonous routine we follow as students and adults, life seems like a circle as we end up coming back to the same point. The same people, the same city and the same food...
By Sonali Wadhwa
Yes, yes ! You read it right !!
Quite a mindboggling and thought-provoking heading !
Isn’t it ?
A very famous quote says that actions speak louder than words but have you ever imagined in your weirdest dreams that how miraculously our life would be turned upside down if a simple electronic device like keyboard, could talk.
This heading must have...
By Pranali Batra
‘Constant vigilance’ is the ideal catchphrase to describe the media today. Like a bloodhound true to its scent, the media is forever alert and sniffs out stories from every corner of the nation. If it had not been for the media, many manipulative and deceitful acts of the leaders as well as the citizenry would remain undisclosed...
By Bhavya
Criticising or celebrating someone is something I must not do, as a young adult who is still building her opinions; my opinions are still wayward, impressionable and radical. I feel that if I want to participate in this democracy, I need to have a complete idea of what goes on, who makes everything run, who mobilizes people and...
By Pranali Batra
The Questions
Would you rather be told what should be done, or would you rather decide what will be done? Would you rather feel overworked and perpetually underappreciated or work laboriously, yet feel liberated? Would you rather be blamed for most of the failures or know that you are solely responsible for all the successes? Would you rather...
By Abhilasha
Seems like the two nations, who are always at loggerheads with one another, are heading towards another war. Just that, this time it’s different. This time instead of arms and ammunition, guns and barrels; decryption keys are the main weapons being used. And government websites are the victims being attacked.
This cyber war has now been continuing for a...
By Abhilasha
We love to watch them on screen and always have the intel on who’s dating whom, but do we actually know what these mega-stars are worth and the amount they earn?
1) Shah Rukh Khan
He steals hearts everywhere he goes, and is also quite a gold digger. He was ranked 114th in the list of super rich Indians world...
By Bhavya
I have been hearing about interpretations of truths, multiple truths, and the way they affect the process of recording events, causes and consequences, structures and arrangements of a particular time period in a certain geo-cultural space. As a student of history, the process of historical writing, historiography and history itself are studied together, and we are meant to...
By Mallika Sarna
We continue to live in a world where humanity has diminished to the extent where individuals have become callous and look at each other as enemies who could put the entire world at stake for their own personal gains.
Then who is to be blamed for the emergence of the "self centered" trait in individuals? OR Are we...
