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By Shivansh Gupta
Students in a college are categorized into two columns: Hostellers (who do all the fun and still suffer from homesickness) and Localites (who have been living in the same city and are sick of home).
From not being a hosteller to being the tour guide of the city, a localite (day scholar) embraces many things within itself. While...
The IBM Institute for Business Value and Oxford Economics conducted a study called ‘Entrepreneurial India’ which found out that 90% of Indian startups will fail in the first five years of their establishment.
The study included interviews of 600 startup entrepreneurs of which 300 were Indian; 100 government leaders along with 100 venture capitalists, 1500 leaders of established companies, and...
The intuitive eating movement is a fight against eating disorders, against food shaming, and against the diet culture.
The Intuitive eating approach aims at healing people’s toxic relationship with food by promoting a healthy and satisfactory outlook for it.
This approach believes that there is no need for restrictive or excessive eating, which is usually done by people to reach their...
An accidental find on Netflix, "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker" opened to me the world of the legend Madam C.J. Walker. It is incredibly sad that to date, people of colour who manage to make the impossible possible remain a footnote in mainstream history.
As I watched this miniseries, I couldn’t stop myself from becoming...
बंगाल चुनाव भारत के लोकतंत्र में एक प्रमुख बिंदु को चिह्नित करते हैं और किसी भी तरह की भविष्यवाणी नहीं करते हैं। चुनाव पूर्वी महानगर पर नियंत्रण करने के लिए पार्टी की क्षमता से संबंधित मोड़ को भी चिह्नित करते हैं।
बंगाल के चुनाव में इस बार मुख्यमंत्री की सीट हासिल करने के लिए निर्णायक मुकाबला बहुत अधिक और कठिन...
The Bengal Elections mark a major point in India’s democracy each year and by no mere predicament, the elections also mark the turning point concerning a party’s potential to take control of the Eastern metropolis.
Most parties have sought to take to the driving seat and call shotgun only to see the battle for the seat unfold, while the...
The beauty industry, which is now worth $7.5 billion thrives on the very fact that there is a constant need for women to look good and be “perfect.”
It is expected that the beauty industry will expand from an approximate $21.7 billion to $29.2 billion by 2025, thriving on nothing but our insecurities.
Right from the moment that we start speaking...
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.
Certain ‘literary enthusiasts’ use some words that not only make the lot of us, who tend to get triggered by the excessive and nonessential...
Every food lover dreams of a reality where they can eat unlimited servings of their favorite food, these food challenges gathered from all over the world are a dream come true for them!
What most people are unaware of is that they can get more than they can eat, simply by participating in some of the food challenges that happen...
Life always comes a full circle. Believe it or not, The East India Company which once ruled India is now owned by an Indian businessman, Sanjiv Mehta. Ironic, isn’t it?
The East India Company which was once a sign of oppression has now been transformed into a luxurious brand focused on beverages like premium quality tea and coffee, gourmet food,...
"Anime Pilgrimage", a term that might not be known by all fans but it’s something every anime fan should try out for themselves at least once, given the time and money. Anime Pilgrimage is just as it sounds, a visit to all the “holy lands” that have been prominently featured in our favourite animes.
This can range from big cities...
Horror movies and Indian cinema have a very complicated relationship. But have you thought, why? For me, it was the classics of the Ramsay brothers that ruined my whole experience of watching a Hindi horror movie.
Hey, you can call them out on their grotty wig or make-up, over-the-top item songs, and bad acting! But at the same time, one...
1980 के दशक की शुरुआत तक कई राज्य विधानसभा चुनावों में खुली राजनीतिक हिंसा का चलन हुआ करता था। चुनाव के प्रति लोकतांत्रिक दृष्टिकोण नया मानदंड बन जाने के कारण ये रुझान धीमा हो गया।
कानून और व्यवस्था की स्थितियों को समझदारी से संभाला गया, जिसने जनता के बीच लोकतंत्र में विश्वास पैदा किया। हालाँकि, आज तक, भारतीय गणराज्य राजनीतिक...
If you thought WhatsApp asking for all your data would take away your privacy, think again. The day you bought a smartphone or the day you installed a router at your place, ‘privacy’ became an imaginary concept.
Google tracks every single thing because their products run on one essential thing - data, and you willingly give it to them. WhatsApp’s...
यह एक ज्ञात तथ्य है कि लगभग 50 प्रतिशत पहली शादियाँ, 60 प्रतिशत दूसरी शादियाँ और 73 प्रतिशत तीसरी शादियाँ तलाक में समाप्त होती है। विषाक्त संबंध में रहने की तुलना में तलाक आम सम्मानजनक विकल्प है।
हालांकि, कुछ समुदायों में तलाक को कलंक बराबर माना जाता है परन्तु संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका जैसे देश में भी, जहां, औसतन, लगभग 40...
Pakistan’s first beauty YouTuber who has Down syndrome is taking the world by storm. She is charming, witty, determined, and unstoppable. She is Ridda Zahra Naqvi.
Ridda started her social media venture just a month ago and her videos are already accumulating more than 100,000 views.
People from all over the world liked and shared her videos so many times that...
Haven’t all of us struggled with finishing books which are thicker than our wrists?
And don’t we feel the joy of reading fading away, as it drags us on, and the destination never appears?
Reading thick books can be a big challenge.
But, fortunately, there are ways through which you can take the best from these books, without breaking your head over...
Dark is beautiful of course but not when it comes to our gods. Our gods, that we worship and consider to be the beginning and end to our universe, are expected to be white as milk.
See, even till now, we have the notion that white or fair skin is better than dark skin, which is just further imposed by...
While you read this article, look around you and just vaguely count, how many people are currently listening to music via their earphones or headphones?
Yes, yes, it depends on where you are, but whatever the place might be, your local gym, your office, the metro, the shared cabs, sometimes your own house, everyone plugs in their earphones for...
Politics in India is a strange affair. With massive rallies full of people and loudspeakers and amazing, amazing slogans. One thing that has stuck throughout the ages is political nicknames.
Here are 6 of the best and their stories.
1. Rahul Gandhi
Pappu became a nickname for Rahul Gandhi in the period before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP leaders, workers,...
Before OTT platforms took over the digital sphere, advertisements played a huge role in our TV viewing experience.
All of us have definitely cribbed over 15 minutes worth of advertisements between the run of a 20-minute long show. But, these advertisements clearly made a place for themselves.
Advertisements come in all forms – they have genres, they have themes, they even...
Just when you think that the K-pop band BTS has gone past the racist and even homophobic attacks, they pop up again like those annoying beavers in olden days arcade games.
BTS, short for Bangtan Sonyeondan or Beyond the Scene and is a seven-membered group consisting of Jin, Suga J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, Jungkook, have recently been showered with love...
Ongoing deliberations of shifting the affiliation of Sri Venkateswara College (Venky), from the University of Delhi (DU) to Andhra University (AU), has shocked the students and teachers of the college beyond their imaginations.
The professors and students were neither informed nor consulted about this unfolding of events and only came to know about it via social media and news channels....
Chetan Solanki, a professor from IIT-Bombay has started on a journey to promote self-sufficiency in energy for sustainability. What started as vision ended up as a multi-country project for the IIT- B professor.
The Gandhi Global Solar Yatra:
Chetan Solanki who belongs from the department of energy, science, and engineering, began his ‘Gandhi Global Solar Yatra’ (GGSY) also dubbed as...
Demystifier: ED Original where the content is written in such a way that it is knowledgeable and easy to comprehend at the same time.
With 2019 Lok Sabha elections knocking at the door, the terrible ear-ache that one can get after hearing fancy words such as “Left And Right” repeatedly used in the news debates form the central theme of...
