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After months of sitting at home due to the pandemic, everyone wants to get out of their houses and travel to places other than their local grocery store. Well, in 2021, the ‘wanderlust’ ones can sign up for a bus trip that will travel halfway across the world.
Adventures Overland, an Indian expedition company, has launched a unique road trip...
From ancient times to this modern era, mankind has made a lot of progress to decipher the eccentricities of nature. Human nature is filled with an eternal, unquenched inquisitiveness and the quest to get answers for every question is what makes man the most superior living being of all.
The popularity of the famous fiction series Sherlock Holmes makes it...
In the 1989 movie, “Back to the Future: Part II,” the protagonist, Marty McFly was sent many years into the future. He arrived in 2015, surrounded by self-lacing shoes, hoverboards and, of course, flying cars.
The movie got many things right about the future - biometric scanning, flatscreens TVs, video calls - but the non-existence of flying cars has always...
Sometimes, adversity pushes us to achieve great things in life.
Azeem Bolar, a visually impaired man, once declared brain dead by doctors, now leads an amazing life as a counsellor at Banjara Academy. His life story is a mammoth example of how optimism and perseverance can truly help one find a way amidst seemingly inescapable gloom.
So, let’s get acquainted with Mr....
FlippED is an ED Original style wherein two bloggers come together to share their opposing or orthogonal perspectives on an interesting subject.
How many times have we heard, 'get your head out of the clouds!'; and realized that we were zoned out to a completely different world amid a dull class or a meeting.
That’s what daydreaming is, theoretically, a...
Have you ever thought about how most of the things you are awkward about are really very ordinary things and shouldn't seem weird at all?
The fact is, things are only awkward if you make them. It's a state of mind. Nothing has to be awkward, it only is because you labelled it so in your head. If you just...
A Buddha bowl is a health bowl/meal comprising usually of vegetables, grains and proteins. To add to its growing popularity is its colorful qualities which make up for the perfect Instagram story.
Popular among Yoga enthusiasts and food bloggers, the Buddha bowl is one of this year's top emerging food trends.
As it is filled with macronutrients, it is also known as a...
By Sumedha Bansal
We have all heard of the famous term “concentration camp”. Basically, they were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939.
In literary terms, a concentration camp refers to a camp where people are detained or confined usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are...
Mothers have been known to do some rather annoying things on Facebook due to the fact that a large number of people from their generation are technologically inept.
Here are some of the most embarrassing "mom" moments on Facebook that most people have been through.
Uploading Pictures We'd Rather Forget
In the eyes of our mothers, we will forever be little children....
The 2020 pandemic has had severe consequences on two imperative institutions of the society – one, it has exposed an extremely ill-equipped medical infrastructure and the other, it has struck the economy right at the roots.
The Indian economic sector is broadly divided into three sectors based on activity, ownership, and work conditions. The performances of these sectors are highly...
Both nepotism and reservation are forms of discrimination. While reservation is a 'positive' form of discrimination for achieving social equality, nepotism is discriminatory in terms of your familial ties.
But reservation, too, benefits people from certain families, so are the concepts really that different?
Their differences cannot be ignored. However, it is important to reflect on the impact they have in...
History often has a way of staying in just the books we read. Many of the historic things that used to exist back in the day are no longer physically around.
Whether it be non-management of them, loss in business or various other reasons, they often only become a part of our history subject that we read about.
But the Higginbotham's...
Let’s be candid and acknowledge the fact that we, millennials, despise being average. We wish to achieve something extraordinary. We are driven by a motive of excelling in everything we do.
We are passionate and industrious individuals striving for perfectionism- never settling for mediocrity. At first, this might not seem bad at all. All high achievers are perfectionists, they give...
Nepal has Mount Everest. Tamil Nadu has the Nilgiris. And Delhi? Well, Delhi has a special mountain, a garbage mountain to be exact, the Bhalswa landfill.
Commissioned in 1984, the landfill, which reached its capacity way back in 2007, continues to be dumped with tonnes of waste with authorities citing a lack of a replacement site.
The Bhalswa landfill, which...
ED VoxPop is where we ask people different survey questions and get responses to conduct sort of a poll of our own.
On this year’s Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government planned to increase the minimum age of marriage from 18 to 21 years. The intention behind the proposal is to lower maternal mortality rate (MMR), reduce...
The worst goodbye is when you have to give away your favourite dress or shirt just because it’s too tight or too loose.
Imagine that your clothes fit you, even if you gain weight or lose some. For all those who love their wardrobes, Harvard has come up with an innovative alternative to our one-size fabrics.
Researchers at the Harvard John...
On 6th September 2018, a historic judgment was passed in the Supreme Court of India. Section 377 was revoked, i.e. gay relationship was decriminalized, after years of protests and injustice to the LGBTQ+ community.
The judgment remains a special one, not just because of the cause associated with it, but also because there was a poetic essence attached to it.
The...
Have you ever had “bhang” as lassi or thandai during Holi, the Indian ‘festival of colours’? Many of us have despite knowing that it is a mixture of milk, spices, and cannabis leaves (also known as marijuana plant).
Cannabis has been a part of India for decades, particularly in Hinduism. It is widely known that bhang is considered as the...
The pandemic has indeed been a rough ride for all of us. Things have been going downhill for a long time now. Amidst such an utterly chaotic situation, sitting at home to prevent its spread has been a frustratingly boring task for people across the world.
Be it the children or the adults, we have all reached a level of...
The ‘roof of the world’ is what the Siachen Glacier is called. And our very own Indian Army guards the world’s highest battlefield as a part of Ladakh and has been doing that since 1984.
The terrain is so brutal at Siachen that guns are dipped into boiling water so that they don’t jam. A soldier is given several pairs...
Last week, China’s education ministry issued a notice regarding a new education policy that would encourage boys to become more ‘manly’. The notice also suggested that young Chinese men had become ‘too feminine’, which did not sit well with netizens.
The notice titled ‘Proposal to Prevent the Feminisation of Male Adolescents’ was said to be curated to ‘cultivate masculinity’ among...
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To foster the spirit of self-reliance among young minds and help them build their future through exposure to entrepreneurship, E-Cell IIT Bombay is set to launch the 16th edition of their annual entrepreneurship fest, E-Summit 2021: A Blizzard of Ingenuity.
The past year taught us how tough times call for tough measures and how small and large businesses worldwide are...
कंगना रनौत, जो कभी बॉलीवुड कलाकारों का चेहरा बनकर आई थीं, उन्होंने केवल एक बॉलीवुड कलाकार बनने के सांचे को तोड़ने के लिए कड़ी मेहनत की है। वह अब एक चीज का चेहरा बन गई है, जो सोशल मीडिया पर नहीं होनी चाहिए- अप्रिय।
किसी को यह सोचना चाहिए कि जब कोई सेलिब्रिटी सोशल मीडिया पर आता है, तो उन्हें...
The farmer’s protest took an unexpected turn after some participants of the Tractor Rally went haywire. Among other anticipated measures to ‘control the chaos’, the internet was cut in and around Delhi quite immediately. And the same has not been restored yet in many parts of Delhi.
How Did It All Start?
The Indian judiciary and its overall mindset take a...
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 relive it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
4th February 2004, Massachusetts
Today marks the launch of a concept that is expected to change the way people communicate with each other forever....
