Monthly Archives: August 2017
Breast milk banks is a new concept in an already existing blood bank culture. The idea is to collect breast milk from lactating mothers in order to provide it to babies in need.
Now, it's a scientifically proven fact that breast milk works better for infants than artificial pasteurised milk or cow/buffalo milk. In many cases, breast milk banks have...
Not every day you get to see journalists howling like wolves on TV screens.
Okay, err... yes, you see it every day.
Let's do this again.
Not every day you get to see elite news panelists having serious discussions with sanitation workers on prime time slots. Ravish Kumar invited actual scavengers as panelists on his prime time on NDTV.
The issue at hand was...
You ever sat in a group of free-thinking radically opinionated people discussing their brow’s sweat away about the trending political agendas, and thought, “Politics, meh, I am not interested in all of this. Hmm, there is this itch on my back that I just can’t reach…”
Congratulations! You have "Larry, The Cat Syndrome".
Google “Larry, The Cat” and you will be...
Welcome to my section where I address everyday things around us that we see but don’t observe.
Yes, the science behind what you see every day! And trust me even if you’re not a science person, you’d love to read this.
In this article, I’m going to talk about the sensory root of vision: the eyes.
1) “Din me taare nazar aana”
If...
Raja Ravi Varma is perhaps one of the most widely known Indian painters, and while his nude paintings are the biggest pull factor, it is also a fact that he was a painter much ahead of his times who brought a shock factor to the Indian art scenario by takings risks that none was willing to take.
Born in 1848 on...
Games have always been considered to be a form of entertainment and nothing more. But anyone who knows anything about board games will definitely tell you that apart from being fun, they rack your brain and make you think, thus making your brain sharper.
Here are 8 such games and fret not, for most of these are available as a digital...
Started from the bottom now we here.
These lines by Drake seem almost prophetic, describing Amazon's success. From the early days when it was called Cadabra to the Goliath level status, it has achieved in the market today, Amazon has come a long way.
But unlike the biblical version, this time it is the Goliath which is defeating all the...
There is a big reason why fans in today’s time are perhaps more revered than even the actors. Because in present time, fans have shown their extremely high creativity level and what all lengths they can go to in order to show their appreciation towards a certain movie or show.
From creating posters, life-sized statues, making the movie or its promotion...
Polyphasic sleep, that is, the act of sleeping more than twice in a day has caught on as a concept among the youth and promises more waking hours to the person. So, what is it and how did it come into being?
THE CONCEPT
Polyphasic sleep does not imply any definite sleep schedule, on the contrary, a person following this kind...
The entire Indian education system is populated with the hype of engineering. It has ruined many dreams and many souls. The first thing that comes into a science student’s mind after clearing 11th exams is: Let’s prepare for JEE. The overly enthusiastic students didn’t know that they are trapping themselves in a cobweb. It’s only after getting trapped in...
Diabetes mellitus (commonly referred to as diabetes) is a health condition in which the body does not produce enough insulin, or does not properly respond to it.
The thing about diabetes is that it can strike anyone. More than 380 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes mellitus. And the World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, that number of people...
Negativity, hatred, chaos. All the essential ingredients which you need to make the world a not-so-happy place to live in, with the argument stretching as far as the inference of all the bad overtaking the good things in the world, and rightly so.
We've come a long way from being neanderthals but we haven't learnt much, have we? We think...
On August 4th Friday Night, DJ Varnika Kundu was allegedly stalked by two men for half an hour on Chandigarh Roads. One of them was the son of BJP Haryana’s Chief Subhash Barala, Vikas Barala and his friend Ashish Kumar.
In her F.I.R., Varnika explained how traumatising the incident was and how she was almost kidnapped by the two men...
Liv’ED It is an ED original style where we write about our personal experiences on experiencing and reviewing any app/place/website which gives us a feeling of coming back for more.
If you are not living under a rock, then you obviously know about the Sarahah fever. Sarahah is all everybody is talking about. Not just talking, it is all everybody...
“Learning is the key! No stipend Expectations.” (Forgot your Linkedin messages?)
It’s that time of the year again when college students start subduing their fragile egos and begin updating (hyperbolizing) their glorious CVs to become the Bigshot intern in the company they like (but don’t know shit about).
College internship can be the (worst) use of your vacations/free time especially when...
In a city like Bengaluru, the race is against the clock. People native to the city – who spend their entire lives here – are still complaining that they haven’t seen all of it, and their list just keeps growing!
Not surprising though, that fact isn't. The Silicon Valley of India is like a sprawling colony of mushrooms: erratic and...
Every upcoming movie goes through a feminism test known as the Bechdel Test or, the Bechdel-Wallace test. It is used as a measure of active intelligent female participation in films and other works of fiction, where they have sensible conversations on things other than men.
It is named after cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For it...
By Kshiteeja Tomar
Like the diverse country that India is, the Indian politicians seem even more diverse. Be it their style, the way they talk or the way that they never leave a chance to prove the opposition wrong. The Indian politicians seem to have nothing missing in them and it turns they seem to be the most entertaining and...
Situated on the west of Prince William Sound, the town of Whittier has a population of 288 and almost everyone here lives under the same roof! Apart from the port, there is a long one-way tunnel road that serves as the ONLY other way one can wish to reach Whittier. The tunnel closes at 10:30 pm every night and...
People say monsoon is the season of love. Really? Monsoon has its own indescribable joys like when you walk in your drenched shoes and socks and then a wonderful smell of dampened litter knock at your nose. (oh! wonderful)
This time, the monsoon had come with all the alarums and excursions like always. The word monsoon should be the pronoun...
When it comes to fashion one thing to remember is that a lot of the new things that we wear in today’s time are not as new as we might believe them to be. Most of the modern wear has had their own journey through time where it has gone through several changes and modifications to be what they...
By Angad Singh Madan
Disclaimer: I do not write perfect English and every society sows the seeds of its own destruction.
Model United Nations Conferences are one of the most brilliant ways to engage oneself trying to fit a shoe size that usually doesn’t fit yours and an extra edge in the knowledge of footwear doesn’t normally help.
An M.U.N conference is...
So, a while back, I wrote about the hassles, us consumers have to face in an online marketplace; the various scams we have to be weary of and the many many precautionary measures we have to take before making that final purchase. You can read about all of that right here.
But now, I would like to bring in a...
Raksha-Bandhan is a festival wherein a sister ties a band/thread called Rakhi to her brother's hand. The brother, in turn, swears to protect her. It's a festival to highlight the auspicious bond between a brother and a sister.
It was a regular Raksha-Bandhan until Kavitha, a member of Parliament from Telangana came up with a brilliant idea. She gifted her...
We are back with FlippED! And this time our two Bloggers are fighting (we seem to do that a lot) about Prayers in School. You know that hymn you were supposed to sing everyday, that one.
It's just a 5 minute harmless excercise
~ Tanmay Mehra (Blogger 1)
Full disclosure, I attended a catholic school, run by the Society of Jesus. So, we had...
