Monthly Archives: December 2017
Admit this, overplaying can ruin even the best of the songs.
We all have those guilty pleasure tracks we love to plays on a loop. But then there are those songs which are just so overplayed that they can cause serious nervous breakdown if I hear it even one more time. Here is my list of that kind of...
Gather your family and get your lawn chairs ready tonight for the most breath-taking celestial firework display of the year – the Geminid Meteor Shower!
An astounding number of 120-160 multi-coloured meteors per hour will flash across the sky tonight! This annual phenomenon is called the “King of the Meteor Showers” for good reason and is one of the few meteor...
The US is not really in a great position ever since a certain someone, name rhyming with Drumpf, came into office and turned the entire nation upside down.
It seems I, even being an Indian know so much more about the US politics and political scenario at the moment than I have ever known or cared to know.
But it almost...
Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and the new face of the Daily Show, continues to charm and mesmerize us all with his beautiful insights and compelling storytelling. With Born A Crime, Trevor introduces us to an unfamiliar side of Apartheid that is routinely lost in the pages of old history books.
Born A Crime is about growing up feeling like...
So Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma finally got married. After a Bollywood-esque kind of relationship, where they met on the set of an anti-dandruff shampoo ad, started liking each other, dated, then duniya walon ki wajah se broke up, fought against all odds and got back together, they have finally come together in the holy bond of a marriage.
But,...
Keaton Jones took the internet by storm with his heartfelt message against bullying in a viral video BUT... A HUGE BUT... The internet had other plans and quickly exposed him and his family who are claimed to be racists by multiple sources as per their pictures which spread like wildfire on the internet.
The internet wins, yet again.
The Story To...
Indian TV shows. Le sigh. What all can we say about them?
Where the western television sector and Netflix, of course, is only rising in quality content, almost to the point of beating the film sector, on the other hand, Indian television is still stuck in the same rut of endless and boring saas-bahu sagas.
Not to say that we haven’t...
Right now we are in a stage of evolution, an evolution of not just technology and how we live, but also how we learn and teach.
Our education system, for lack of a better word, is slightly lacking and while it is centuries old and no doubt has a lot of importance to it, one cannot deny that the times...
Without wasting any time, moment, space-time continuum, let us directly advance to the fundamental point that is: BJP is not secular and nor does it want to be.
It is extremely lucid that the party background is communal in nature and has, at various instances, firmly established the same. There's little to dispute about the opinion-cum-fact that BJP's Gujarat election...
DC might be getting rave reviews and appreciative points from people due to them debunking the myth that female superheroes don’t work. But Marvel is coming back to one-up them and create an even more diverse and broad universe.
Their latest venture Marvel Rising which will take the MCU into the animated sphere and their first full-length feature film called...
Being an alumnus of Delhi University aka DU myself, I have been part of many debates and heated discussions over which campus is better, North or South?
Some say that South is better since it is more modern and the connectivity it has to all the latest and youth-oriented hotspots is something that the North campus lacks.
But on the other...
Love has always been a very curious and interesting emotion to humans, the mix of biology and the psychology that this emotion brings about, has kept humans fascinated longer than any other topic.
Over the years though, love and its definition along with the place it holds in society has changed a lot. Now it is no longer confined to...
If you’re a sucker for surprises, keep your eyes peeled the next time you travel by the Chennai Metro and, if you’re lucky enough, a certain book fairy might have dropped a special gift for you.
21-year-old Samyuktha Nair, an ardent reader and bookworm herself, was fascinated with the idea of playing fairy godmother with books and decided to play...
In November, news broke the world when it was found that somewhere in Libya, people were being sold in a modern version of slavery. Something we all thought was a thing of the past and a practice that only tainted the pages of our history books. Definitely not something we’d have to witness in today’s time when we talk...
Let’s admit this, most of us have some distant dream of settling abroad for a tentative period of time, if not permanently. Or just maybe travel extensively. Whenever we have drawn up any lists of places Indians can immigrate to, the USA must have featured prominently on that list.
Being the most powerful nation in the world, for work or...
Bollywood lost a gem a couple of days back, rest in peace Shashi Kapoor, and in wake of the new, we saw several actors come across offering their condolences and well-wishes for the family.
While browsing through it all, I came across the blog post by Amitabh Bachchan reminiscing about some of his memories with Shashi Kapoor. Although extremely well...
Back in Time is ED’s newspaper-like column that reports an incident from the past as though it has happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to re-live it several years later, on the date it had occurred. This time, we take you Back in Time to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
December 6th, 1992: In a shocking...
The state of Madhya Pradesh becomes first such state to award death penalty to persons guilty of raping girls 12 years and below. The said bill was passed on Monday earlier this week, it will now be sent to the President for his assent before it gets enacted finally.
This comes in the wake of the current scenario of the...
The much-hyped 'bail in' provision has become a talking point in the whole country. It is a matter of grave concern for all of us.
Can banks still be trusted with our money?
What Exactly Is This Bail In Provision
The new proposed bill, Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance has a bail in provision, which means depositors could lose control of their...
The Trump Travel Ban that made practically the entire of U.S. and several other countries cry racism and religious discrimination, is back it seems and this time in full effect.
Although this is still not the final ruling as the federal courts are still dealing with all the challenges and questions that this travel ban is raising including the fact...
Unusual Comparisons: An ED Original content style, where we take 2 very opposite and different items and show you, exactly how similar they might be.
Before Justin Beiber’s ‘Cold Water’ and ALS’ Ice Bucket Challenge made ice cold temperatures the new ‘cool’, India was much ahead in romancing the cold with Amrita Arora’s famous item song ‘Dilli Ki Sardi’. Of...
There are times when certain foods have some really interesting and unique ingredients. They can range from being truly rare and beautiful to something yucky like slime and mucous or various other things.
However, making something truly edible is an art, how the chef gets the results is something only they know, but what if among those interesting ingredients, you...
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Third edition of Delhi International Queer Theatre & Film Festival (DIQTFF) 2017 is organised in collaboration with Harmless Hugs and Impulse New Delhi by AIDS Healthcare Foundation along with Canada High Commission as its Associate Supporter and ED Times as its Social Media Partners. The festival is scheduled for December 9 and 10 at the Shah Auditorium, Civil Lines...
Rappers, and by extension, musicians usually get shortchanged. I am here to tweak your perception a little bit. There's more to them than liquor, ladies, and loud.
The music industry has rapidly shifted over the years. Artists like Chance the Rapper and Childish Gambino have accelerated the process.
In fact, I am so tired of the overplayed rhetoric of rappers and...
Women can't drive. The sooner you admit it, the better.
A woman behind the wheel is like Thanos in Avengers. You gotta dread it, run from it but destiny still arrives and there's a 100% chance that destiny will do a facepalm as the woman crashes her vehicle and then proceeds to blame everyone but herself.
But before we go any...
