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The launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan led many to believe that days of living in the dirt were finally over. But it’s our attitude that stinks and not our roads and cities.
Versova Beach is one such example of how filthy human beings can get, by littering every place they get their hands on.
It has been turned into a dumping...
Padmavati has been in the news ever since it started its shooting, however, as the release date draws closer, the aggravation towards it just keeps rising steadily with each passing day.
The groups and communities have gone from just doing protest and burning posters of the film and fake models depicting the actors and director, to giving out threats of...
Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist buys 25,000 acres of land in Arizona to build world’s first “Smart City”. Gates has made a generous investment of $80 million through his investment firm, Cascade Investments LLC to build the community, Belmont.
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Belmont will feature stores, schools, homes, and more. With 80,000 residences, Belmont's population...
A few days ago, Caravan Magazine published this story about the CBI Special Court judge who was offered a bribe in a case involving the BJP’s general secretary, Amit Shah. Now, something this high profile would have easily captured the fancies of print, TV and digital media. But apart from Scroll, The Wire, Firstpost, and of course Caravan, no...
When you were in school (which I’m assuming most of you are), what reflected your performance for the whole year? Of course, it was your annual report card. Similar logic applies when it comes to your financial performance over the lifetime which is reflected by what is known as your Credit Score.
Most of us are blissfully ignorant about the...
There are certain stories that you always can just objectively look in to, and give your opinion on it, however, it is not until you actually experience it for yourself that you understand exactly how it feels to be going through that certain thing.
Something similar to this occurred to me when I read the Huffington Post article that commented...
India is always seen as a nation that produces one star after another in the field of cricket. Sports in our country usually revolves around this colonial era game.
But this image of ours as a "cricket frenzy nation" is slowly changing since badminton has come into the picture.
A sport can only hold the audience's attention if it is something...
There are few things that Delhi is extremely well known for, such as its food, its culture, its history and oh, of course, its autowallahs.
I don’t think I need to give an introductory para on what kind of problems we or at least those who use public transport, experience when we want to get to a place, on time,...
Paper has been an essential final product staking up the monopoly in the market for decades. Print being a tactile medium has been effective in catching our attention even if it’s the smell of ink in newspapers or the musty dog-eared pages of your favorite book.
Located in the southern and central part of Assam are two paper mills which...
Is there a doctor in the house?
In 1966, Reita Faria, a final year medical student, won the title of Miss World for India for the first time and now, after 51 years, the streak repeats as yet another medical student brings home the coveted blue crown.
20-year-old Manushi Chhillar, India’s comeback in the Miss World pageant after Priyanka Chopra’s victory...
Who does not know the ultra-famous “Madame Tussauds” wax museum.
This wax museum founded by Marie Tussaud somewhere in 1835 has some of the most notable and prominent people immortalized in wax form.
It is almost a matter of pride and honour to have a wax statue at one of these museums and is sort of a mark that you have...
Disclaimer: The author of this article wishes to remain anonymous due to obvious reasons.
Amity Law School Delhi, affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh University has ended up in yet another controversy. This time, over the detention of students apparently due to a shortage in attendance.
Just last year, Sushant Rohilla, a meritorious student of the college had committed suicide for being...
So, recently I sat down with Vidya Balan at an unknown location that only my Instagram followers know about (because SHOW OFF) to talk about film, fantasies and more.
Being the official blog partners for Tumhari Sulu, ED was the first to interview her, we even did a Facebook live with her, starring her, Manav Kaul, and yours truly. Go...
If you haven’t noticed already, more recently, the feminist cause has been gaining a lot of traction by way of celebrity endorsements in our society, which is a good thing, because celebrities do have a ‘pull’ with the people.
The fact that celebrities possess this influencing power and have the ability to impact change in the society because of it,...
Demystifier: An ED Original where we take a complex topic but the content is written in such a way that it is knowledgeable and easy to comprehend at the same time.
Padmini was talked about ages ago, Padmavati is being talked about right now. For different reasons though.
While I wouldn't like to comment on what's going on in the country...
Twitter it seems is finally planning to take some proper and much-needed action on controlling the behaviour of their users and making sure that the platform is a more inclusive and safe space.
Although their recent decision to expand their character limit from 140 to 280 was not met with as much joy as they were expecting, their latest announcement...
FlippED is An ED Original Style wherein two bloggers come together to share their opposing or orthogonal perspectives on an interesting subject.
A bit of background
If stats are anything to go by, over 40% of the world population uses social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram are powerhouses of social sites. According to Twitter’s reports, a million men and women from about 85...
Although ‘Swach Bharat’ might be a popular initiative, however, it seems to be making little headway in actually cleaning up the cities. Sure there might be a few cities like Ambikapur in Chattisgarh and Mysore that are considered clean, however, a majority of the cities are becoming a bane for the citizens themselves.
Bangalore is the latest but perhaps the...
Not too long ago, in the beginning of November, WhatsApp introduced a feature that had been long awaited and something that almost everyone wanted, the ‘delete message’ feature.
This update would allow a person to delete a message they had sent on a WhatsApp chat from both sides of the conversation. Earlier deleting a message would only remove it from...
Before you all read our exclusive interview with the Bollywood music sensation (purely sarcastic, trust me) Anu Malik, here is a disclaimer about a content style in ED Times referred to as Fake Friendly Fridays. Here you go:
Fake Friendly Fridays is a section where we pick a famous personality and throw fake questions at him/her and in return, we...
Justice League is here. Finally.
A surge of dissatisfaction runs through my body as I type this review because that's the sort of bittersweet (rather bitter) aftertaste that Justice League will leave you with as the climax occurs and the men and wom(a)en of the largest superhero alliance of the world save the day.
We're gonna go technical and emotional in...
My Facebook post copied here:
Aadhaar or UIDAI service is the most frustrating procedure in this country, run by the most incompetent officials possible.
#RANT #PleaseShare #SomeoneHelpUs
My roommate is trying to enrol for Aadhaar for about 5 months now. The service is the biggest sham, with no rules, nothing concrete in place, a bunch of careless people and zero tension.
History...
The school is an extremely important but as increasingly becoming evident, not really a safe zone for young and impressionable students.
Baring the truly horrific acts that we have seen being committed in school recently, there is also bullying, lack of education control and many other issues that plague our school system.
However, the Delhi state government, in a bid to...
The recent spate of events which has purged Hollywood of powerful men accused of sexual misconduct and allegations has sparked a domino effect outside of the borders of US.
With the #MeToo campaign spawning a wave of women across the globe empathizing with the injured party, India is yet to experience a watershed moment.
The only drastic repercussion that jogs my...
Startups in India have always been a cause of talk due to their interesting beginnings and as a dream for the common person that even they can become an entrepreneur one day.
But it seems as if startups are showing their troubles now, especially in today’s economy and Voonik’s latest decision just sheds light on this problem even more starkly...
