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MISSING is an awareness campaign founded by Leena Kejriwal, a photographer and an artist, in 2015. It aims to inform people about the million girls who are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
The main objective of MISSING is to inform the populace about the plight of the girls, who are being trafficked into prostitution and educate the public about the...
Since the rise of OTT, stand-up comedy got more popularised amongst the masses. It became hugely popular in India and introduced us to so many incredible comedians.
But it seems like joking has become a crime in the world's largest democracy. Have we become that intolerant that the people of our country can't handle a joke? Or is it just...
'महापुरूष पैदा नहीं होते, वे खुद बनते हैं!'
गणतंत्र दिवस 2019 पर, यह कहावत नर्तकी नटखराज के लिए बिल्कुल सही साबित हुई क्योंकि वह देश के तीसरे सबसे बड़े नागरिक पुरस्कार पद्म श्री को प्राप्त करने वाली ट्रांस समुदाय की पहली व्यक्ति बन गयीं।
भरतनाट्यम नृत्यांगना होने के नाते, नर्तकी थंजावार स्थित नायक भाव परंपरा में माहिर हैं और भारत और...
At some point or another, we have all stumbled in our speech, especially when speaking in front of an audience.
Whether it be a class presentation, a project meeting, or literally anything, nerves can often the best of us and cause us to falter in our speech.
This is a big reason a presentation in front of a whole room is...
According to an annual report on global political rights and liberties, India is now a “partly free” democracy. “Following the coming-in-power of Mr. Narendra Modi in 2014, civil liberties have been on a constant decline,” stated Freedom House in its report Democracy under Siege.
There’s been a battle of powers and a perpetual tug-of-war between democracy and authoritarianism, pointing towards...
Nowadays, tattoo designing has become more like a customary trend for millennials, with so many tattoo designs to choose from.
Whether its 'butterflies' or names of close pals, everyone wants to get a tattoo that would make them different from the rest. But with so many samples to choose from, which one should you get?
To get you out of this...
A perfect storm is perhaps the best description of what Anil Ambani is going through right now.
His debt-stricken company Reliance Communications is in the drain with the stocks depreciating a whopping 54.3 percent to Rs 5.3 on Monday and the company filing for bankruptcy.
According to ET, he is also facing a possible case by the Swedish company Ericsson over...
By Jhanvi Shah
Society has always seen women as pliable bodies that can be framed according to circumstances and social norms. The “perfect” female body has greatly changed over the years and is the result of a cultural construct that needs to be challenged if society is to accept diverse body types.
Evolution of Fashion
For instance, in the early ages, women...
ED VoxPop is where we ask people different survey questions and get responses to conduct sort of a poll of our own.
The worldwide phenomena of music sensation- BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan/ Beyond The Scene) that took over the globe, finally landed in India on 2nd February 2019, making Desi ARMYS a part of the novel history.
Their new movie BTS World...
In a commendable effort to uplift the grieving denizens of the Syrian Republic, the Indian government has pledged to assist the United Nations (UN) to supply the ailing nation with COVID-19 vaccines. This comes at a time when the entire world is out for Syrian blood.
The Indian administration, in relation to the disastrous year that the world witnessed last...
On 2nd March, Hurun Report released the Hurun Global Rich List 2021, which revealed astonishing data.
When we were in a lockdown, we saw the economy crumbling, people losing jobs, and even loss of livelihoods, therefore naturally to people might have assumed that this misfortune caused by the global pandemic was mutual to all human lives.
On the contrary, more than...
Jagdish Chandra Kudiyal, fifty-five-year-old, a farmer and grocery shop owner from Kumaon’s Bageshwar district, revived a spring in his locality which had been lying dead for decades.
Inspired by the Chipko movement, he started planting saplings around the spring, which slowly recharged the groundwater table. After 20 years, the spring finally came to life and now helps locals irrigate...
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The Entrepreneurship Cell of Rajdhani College, University of Delhi is back again with its annual mega event EXILR 2021 on 5th and 6th March 2021 which includes E-Summit and competitions.
The event is all about developing entrepreneurial related skills amongst the students.
A panel of some of the distinguished industry leaders, with Social Media stars, YouTube sensations, stand-up performances, and exciting...
One viral thread on Twitter has made thousands of people in India quite nostalgic about, ‘the good old days’.
The thread was started by user Samsays who happened to find an album of her aunt that was filled with replies that various film stars had written and sent to her, along with their autographed pictures.
https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1364449497279959040?s=20
The album consists of handwritten replies...
For most of history, the general public has been least interested in thinking about academia in their everyday life but we are living amidst changing times. Soon enough we can expect public discourse on thesis and dissertation now that the government has begun to scrutinize them.
The Letter To The Prime Minister
Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has objected to a...
If one was to think of all the esteemed and reputable academicians that write scholarly papers to contribute to various fields of study, it is unlikely that a feline ever comes to mind.
But who’s to say it is impossible when Chester Willard seems to have achieved this unimaginable feat!
The Research Paper Dilemma
Chester, also known by his pen name...
Religion is often said to separate people into groups rather than unite them. We also see evidence of this with how many fights and riots take place between groups of different religions.
While each particular religion might unite people within it, there seems to be some difficulty in it uniting people overall even if they might be from different ones.
However,...
Disclaimer: The identity of the author has been kept anonymous, as per their request owing to personal reasons.
Some love the colour pink. Some love the shade blue. Some love beautiful girls and some love handsome guys. I love both.
I am a first-year, English Hons student and I swing for both teams. I funnily get the best of both the...
The alpha male.
That one man who scares you regardless of his shape and size. The one man who you wish you'd be. The one man who can walk into a tank of full of sharks and walk out taming them. Okay, I'm making it sound like an Axe deodorant commercial but you get the hint.
An alpha male, in simple...
Pot does not mean your common household item. It is one of the many slangs used to refer to Marijuana. If you don’t know what other slangs for weed are, you will learn after reading this article.
There are many reasons to take a hit of the chronic and many to never indulge in it. The major reasons to not...
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.
Political parties, especially the ones who lose the elections, have started this practice of scapegoating their electoral loss on EVMs, instead of accepting their shortcomings.
Several political parties have even appealed...
Recently, 6 children’s books by Dr. Seuss were called out for containing racist innuendos and have been banned from being published further. The books will no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong”.
The move was made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises and these books were written decades ago for children. Published in the...
With petrol prices increasing for the 16th time in the last month, giving out petrol is almost as valuable as handing out cash awards.
Did I Read The Above Bit Correctly?
Yes, you did. In a local cricket tournament in Bhopal, the Man Of The Match in the finals won 5 litres of petrol. Salauddin Abbasi was awarded this hilarious prize...
Mukesh Ambani has become Asia’s richest man after overtaking China's Zhong Shanshan whose company recently lost 22 billion dollars. Now the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries is all set to challenge the world’s wealthiest person.
Ambani is all set to drive towards a high-tech future with his investment in skyTran, a company with its patented magnetic levitation technology....
Biopics have been an easy escape for the Indian filmmakers to quench the audience's thirst for original content. In the last few years, we have been bombarded with biopics one after the other. And biopics of sportspeople seem to be a rising category within this genre.
And you know what, why not? You get it all - emotion, drama, climax,...
