Monthly Archives: April 2018
India as a country lies rock bottom when it comes to safeguarding human rights and especially child rights in particular, a notion which was further made evident by the much publicized Asifa rape case where an 8 year old girl named Asifa was brutally gang-raped, tortured and finally killed off allegedly by 4 men, who have been arrested and...
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‘Self-love’ is to put yourself and your own happiness first, something that deeply lacks in our current society, even in this 21st century. We have been moulded to live a disconnected and disempowered life, where the only right way to sustain is the society’s way.
We are taught that it is not safe to show our true-selves and therefore we...
Did you know that the POCSO Act does not apply to Jammu & Kashmir?
Meaning: the offenders in Asifa Rape Case cannot be charged for offences under the POCSO Act or even IPC.
So, the question that arises is will Asifa ever get justice if there is no child protection law in Jammu & Kashmir? Well, the answer in affirmative does...
The World Bank, in its bi-annual South Asia Economic Focus report, published on Sunday, said that the Indian economy has recovered from the adverse effects of demonetization and implementation of GST.
Demonetization and GST were two bold decisions taken by the Indian government to tackle issues that have been plaguing the Indian economy for years. With hardly eight months of...
There are few directors in Bollywood that can be looked upon with respect and admiration for actually making movies that make sense.
And although there are a number of female directors, the ones doing this smart content is even less, with most either choosing to make films in their family or husband’s family’s production house and that too mindless romantic...
The Cauvery water sharing dispute has reached its tipping point in Tamil Nadu because of the central government's unwillingness to frame a scheme for sharing the river’s water as per the Supreme Court’s order.
The Southern state has witnessed massive protests, which has led to Indian Premier League matches of Chennai Super Kings being shifted out of Chennai to Pune.
What...
Breakfast Babble: ED’s own little space on the interwebs where we gather to discuss ideas and get pumped up for the day. We judge things too. Sometimes. Always. Whatever, call it catharsis and join in people.
I'll be honest. My regular day these days is as interesting as most of the films these days. Yawn-inducing.
You see, that's what happens when you've...
Kidambi Srikanth rose to attain the World No. 1 ranking in the Men's Singles category on 12th April 2018, a day which will now be remembered as another golden day in Indian sports.
Kidambi scripted history, a feat which only Prakash Padukone could achieve back in 1980.
After leading India to their first badminton mixed team goal at the CWG, Kidambi...
A university is not just meant to be a place to study and earn a degree, it is supposed to be a breeding ground of new ideologies and ways of thinking- an atmosphere to shape young minds.
However, a debate that has been raging over the past few years is whether or not it is necessary for Indian universities to...
The greatest football tournament in the world (no, not looking at you, FIFA), the Champions League has been an exciting endeavour this season.
Not only did we see shocks such as AS Roma dumping the mighty Barcelona and Sevilla deservedly beating the might Manchester United (LOL), we also saw a bunch of high-profile matches high on quality and thrill.
Where we...
We live in a world that increasingly tries to rely on visuals and imagery for garnering any kind of information. The habit of reading is slowly dying out, and most of us find it hard to read an article without getting overwhelmed by the length of the written text and losing interest in the middle.
We read the news on...
Fake Friendly Fridays is a section where we pick a famous personality and throw fake questions at him/her and in return, we receive fake answers. Why should you not take it seriously? Because it is fake.
If you still didn’t get it: This is a fake interview written purely on the basis of the author’s imagination of how the actual interview...
The Kathua rape case of an innocent 8-year-old girl from a Muslim nomadic tribe in Kashmir has taken the entire country with a fiery rage.
The girl’s body was recovered 7 days after she disappeared on 10th January 2018 while bringing the family’s ponies home, according to reports.
Asifa Bano was abducted on 10th January and kept in a local temple...
Picking up the baton from The Wire:
This story will be updated once Prime Minister Narendra Modi actually speaks about the Kathua and Unnao rape cases.
Note: We thank The Quint, which first broke this exclusive story.
And we also urge other media platforms to run their story as is, so as to ensure there is some news with which the story can be updated.
The...
Roma pulled off the impossible by beating Barcelona over two legs in Champions League last Tuesday and the match will go down in history as one of the greatest comebacks of all time.
Champions League has a rich history when it comes to comebacks and is filled with absolute thrillers which have been remembered for ages. These comebacks are the...
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. Today, we take you back to the deadliest aviation accident in history.
April 13, 1913: Hundreds are feared dead while several more are...
In the wake of the recent Unnao rape case where BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar is accused of raping an 18 year old girl, a series of tweets is doing the rounds on internet taking jibes at the BJP led NDA government’s flagship program: the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme. And now it has piqued the interest of many...
The trailer of Raazi, starring Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal has already impressed audiences and we can’t wait for the movie to actually come out.
That Meghna Gulzar of Talvar fame is once again behind the director’s chair with this one only lends faith to us thirsty people longing for a good Bollywood movie.
But more than anything, the fact intriguing...
By Rohan Bachhav
The Champions league’s campaign for Barcelona ended in the most bizarre way possible. An away 3-0 defeat at the ‘Stadio Olimpico’ on Tuesday night.
When everyone except Barcelona and Roma fans was watching the clash of EPL giants Liverpool and Manchester City, everyone expected City to make a comeback.
Instead, Roma shook the footballing world by overcoming a 3...
We see and hear a lot of funky things in cabs, from extremely horny couples turning my UberPOOL/OlaShare into a hotel room to aunties screaming at their tailor/kaam vaali bai/ husband/random person who just had the wrong number to intense (albeit misguided) political discussions.
But this, by far, was the weirdest.
Imagine the look on my face when a cabbie tells...
Recently, the Indian government has endorsed an Rs. 639 crores contract for 1.86 lac bullet-proof jackets which were much needed by the soldiers. The need for bulletproof jackets has been sensed for nearly a decade now.
Till now, the government was risking the lives of the soldiers in lieu of providing them with appropriate equipment. However, it's a rare scenario...
It was a monumental event when Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of social media giant Facebook, faced more than 44 legislators, that amounts to almost half of the US Senate.
The much-awaited Senate hearing was to interrogate and question Zuckerberg on the recently unveiled Cambridge Analytica data breach where almost 87 million users’ data was used by this firm allegedly during the...
Bundesliga has become a top brand in European football with an exhibition of high octane action, menacing stadiums and packed crowds but at the same time, it hasn't been able to shed off its predictability in terms of the title race. Since the last 6 years, Bayern Munich have trodden to the title with relative ease.
Register that: 6 years...
YouTube succumbed to the likes of hackers today resulting in many videos defacing from the video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, including the most viewed video ever in YouTube’s history.
Yes, ‘Despacito’ a single by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring rapper Daddy Yankee disappeared from the site today for a while after which it was revived. The video had around 5 billion views...
A few weeks back all of my hopes from Bollywood had washed away after seeing Baaghi 2 and then on television movies like Dilwale, Judwa 2 and more.
However, the Raazi trailer was just the cure I needed to find a little bit of faith in Indian cinema once again and hope that we can really make good movies.
Raazi, the...
