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After the ban of one of the most popular games ever, PUBG, in India, it’s ardent fans were left heartbroken with no means of entertainment left during the ongoing pandemic.
But, coincidentally soon after the ban, FAU-G (Fearless and United Guards), a Made-in-India war game, was announced in September 2020 by none other than actor Akshay Kumar himself.
Finally, after a...
Amul has been a pioneer in advertising and 2020 was no different. Many creative advertisements have come and gone but Amul still sticks to that one small corner of creativity to light up many people's day with a small quirky caption.
Creative advertisements in India has really amped up with many companies like Durex and Swiggy coming up with really...
More often than not, athletes, upon retiring, fail to adjust to the everyday routine of life as a normal individual, a citizen without the professional need to deck up and head to the training field at the early quarters of the rooster’s call.
The athletes who don’t make it to the golden accounts of their compatriots, base the metaphorical...
The White Tiger is an adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning 2008 novel by Aravind Adiga. The movie gives us an insight into the caste system prevailing in India. Not only this, but the film also talks about issues like inequality and class conflicts.
For the poor, there are only two ways to get to the top: crime or politics.
The Indian...
We all know that physical businesses are still popular despite dwindling. On the other hand, e-commerce is seeing a rise day by day, little by little. Each has its potential benefits and disadvantages. But, from a customer perspective, why is it that we are fearful when we make a purchase online? We do not have that sort of fear...
On the path towards India’s freedom, a passionate woman followed suit with her only camera, struggling and shining past the many men who did the job at that time. Homai Vyarawalla used to be a middle-class girl from a simple Parsi community in Gujarat.
She may have learnt photography from her husband, Maneckshaw Vyarawalla, however, she would go on to...
After the monumental ruling by the Supreme Court over the Babri Masjid-Ram Mandir dispute in 2019, preparations to build the temple are in full swing.
While the citizens of the country have conflicting opinions regarding the court verdict, the UP government is going out of its way to rebuild Ayodhya into a global religious centre.
According to government officials of Ayodhya,...
Have you ever had that feeling when you hear something senseless, and you don’t have any words to react to it, but then you need to use all the words your brain possibly knows to scream in anguish and disbelief due to what you just heard? Well, I have that feeling every time Rahul Gandhi opens his mouth to...
We all rely on technology for almost everything in our daily lives, whether it is setting an alarm or a reminder or running business operations. It is quite easy to get too engrossed in it, but like everything, it has its pros and cons.
The current ecosystem of digital media relies on our data for content curation. Sometimes the details...
The #MeToo movement spread like wildfire back in 2018 in the Indian sector. All of a sudden it seemed, women, and some men too, were speaking out about them being a victim of sexual harassment and how rampant this power monopoly was.
Women mostly spoke out fearlessly about how superiors or other people in power misused their position to either...
Football chants are the oxygen for a football maniac. It is pure banter when the lyrics are distasteful because no one really means what they actually say. Nevertheless, the line is crossed sometimes which shouldn’t be the case.
Here we present to you, the most offensive chants in football.
1. Park, Park wherever you may be,
You eat dogs in your home...
London – Feb 22, 2021: Inspired by the popularity of soccer betting, FoxDesi.com is a newly launched web sports community for tipsters and bettors worldwide. It has been built to be an online platform for enthusiasts of Soccer, Cricket and other sports to meet, chat, share betting tips, make predictions and enjoy games together. Because FoxDesi.com pays tipsters even...
Progressive Rock music, often referred to as prog or prog rock, is a music genre that evolved around the 1960s and 1970s, with bands like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Camel, Pink Floyd (duh!), Porcupine Tree and many more.
Prog is described as a “mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility”.
Early...
On Sunday, 24 January 2020, the Delhi Police made a shocking revelation that about 308 Twitter handles have been created from Pakistan from January 13 to 18 to disrupt farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day.
Dependra Pathak, Special CP, Delhi Police said during a press conference, “Through intelligence and various other agencies, we have continuously been getting inputs regarding the...
Besides being man’s best friend, dogs are also great at other jobs. These canines have been trained to assist the police, military and even doctors.
And no matter where they are and what they do, they look adorable.
Imagine a dog running a town as mayor, seems like it would be a no-conflict town. Who could compete against that in an...
All creative heads seem to have given up once Zomato came on board. With the mouth-watering dishes that appease our palates alike, Zomato has now adopted a new marketing strategy such that none can stay unamused after giving the advertisements a read.
Zomato’s marketing strategy has improved tenfold, thereby increasing not only the sales but also the traffic, especially considering...
“Food and free wifi, this is all that we need to get isolated in our houses”. 2020 and this pandemic proved that this phrase was our misconception and nothing else.
Nevertheless, free wifi is always seen as a much-needed luxury by all of us. We never lose a chance to steal open wifi from our neighbours and friends.
Let me ask...
Disclaimer: Originally published in May 2018. It is being republished since it still remains an interesting topic till today.
To misquote Jane Austen, it is a fact well known and acknowledged that while we Indians don't exactly speak the Queen's English, the educated Indian's grasp of the language per se is reasonably strong.
Most Indians are bilingual (at the very least),...
Fashion is a constant presence in our lives. In today’s time, fashion and clothing brands are extremely famous. But the fashion trends in ancient India are still so relevant.
Men and women have been fashionable in the ancient times.
People in India used to wear mostly cotton clothing. The cultivation of cotton in India started in 2500 BC during the Harappan...
During World War II, Indians were under the colonial rule of the Britishers as a result of which the latter recruited Indians too for their army to go fight against the Axis powers. India had no liberty to choose their stand in this case and hence the recruited ones were merely at the mercy of the imperialists.
Conditions at the...
If you’re familiar with the dystopian science fiction TV series, Black Mirror, this new technology is going to seem vaguely familiar to you; in particular, the episode ‘Be Right Back’ in which the protagonist is able to bring back a deceased loved one in the form of a ‘robot’.
You may also recall that the episode did not have a...
FlippED is an ED Original style wherein two bloggers come together to share their opposing or orthogonal perspectives on an interesting subject.
Nowadays, many of us are quite engaged in a trend called ‘self-care’ but what is self-care actually? And are we doing it right? In a nutshell, self-care is an activity that we do deliberately to take care of...
Scheduling and making time-tables is an age-old technique to organize everything and get things done. But what if they are killing your productivity?
If you are able to check off everything on your list for the day it feels satisfying. However, most of us aren’t able to complete them and that leaves us filled with guilt. At times, to-do lists...
Released on the 23rd of October, A Suitable Boy, an adaptation of Andrew Davies's from Vikram Seth’s novel, is a Netflix series directed by Mira Nair. The show has quite a star-studded cast playing the roles of characters set in the post-independence background.
The story sheds light on the rather problematic ways in which people used to function right after...
Young entrepreneurs are often told to think outside the box. Well, it isn't completely wrong but they are not advised about how they can do this. Thinking outside the box has many advantages such as the expansion of perspective, better problem-solving ability, infinite possibilities of development, and so on. But no one tells us how we can tap into...
