Thursday, December 26, 2024

A call that can take away your life!

Yes boss. Mobile phones can kill. The increasing number of accidents and deaths due to the use of mobile phones while driving rings an alarm...

Teri bhendi MC!!

Bc mc are the short forms for All India Famous Gaaliyaan b**n c**d and m** c**d. Who doesn't use them. They are 2 words...

Merder of the English Tung

I write for every time that 'their' became 'there' and 'who's' became 'whose'; For when it became acceptable to begin a sentence with 'because'...

So what IS depression?

*technically this is more of a health article* Depression is bad. There, that's my opinion. But seeing as my opinion apparently doesn't matter, I might...

What Happens When The Baker Gets Baked?

Source - http://stupidusmaximus.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/what-happens-when-the-baker-gets-baked/ Before I get into the column, let me state up top that you should never ever do cocaine, because it has horrible side-effects...

Tarun Tejpal : The friend I can no longer recognise

A moving article by Binoo K. John We three-- Parsa (Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr), Tarun and I-- were in the same team at India Today...

Ex-Roadie votes for the candidate he hates most thinking of elections as a vote...

New Delhi. Rohit Singh, a proud alumnus of MTV Roadies hailing from Pitampura, today voted in the Delhi assembly elections for the candidate he...

How Nelson Mandela was more different than similar to Mahatma Gandhi

I met Nelson Mandela twice. The first time he was no longer a prisoner and not yet the president of South Africa. His office was in...

What You Should Know About Madiba

  As the world rose to the depressing headlines of Nelson Mandela’s demise at the age of 95 on 5th December 2013, the obvious question...

Escape into a dreamworld…

Gertrude Stein once said and I quote, “Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.” Is that why we’re more attracted to things that are...

The politics of getting a life!

  Source : http://jacobinmag.com/2012/04/the-politics-of-getting-a-life/   Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon, never more so than in hard times. We simultaneously work not enough...

R.I.P to South Africa’s Greatest son : Nelson Mandela

" I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I...

No One killed Aarushi Talwar

To decide whether a person is guilty of any crime is not my job, its the job of  a  judge. To portray someone as...

Thinking about Thoughts!

Thoughts! I can't control them. You can't control. Even if I try, even if I want to. You know what the funny thing about...

NOTES ON HAUS KHAS VILLAGE AND FETE DE LA MUSIQUE

  Notes on Hauz Khas Village & Fete de la Musique by Mnanasi Negi The Fete de la Musique in Hauz Khas Village :- Traffic jam from...

THE PRINCE AND THE FROG PRINCESS

  THE PRINCE AND THE FROG PRINCESS by Manasi Negi Once upon a time there was a prince who was told to shoot an arrow and find...

Six Quick tips to decorate your house this Diwali

Diwali is just round the corner and most of us are already looking at some interesting way to decorate our houses. However, making these...

A Guru-ism Crisis

Era of unprecedented growth in Science, Arts and what not, and yet more than three-fourths of student population in India has no guru! More...

Redefining Reservations

  Reservations. The one concept that introduces the word ‘inequality’ to a child’s dictionary. We are all born unaware of our caste, creed and family...

Homosexuality, Hijras, and India’s Silence

With the current debacle regarding the Russian Olympics and gay rights, you might think that Indians would have commented on the issue. There are...

“Comparing” Education Systems

I am all for cross-cultural insight and appreciating differences. What I do not appreciate is the comparison of the American and Indian K-12 (primary...

Bhajji to act!!!

Harbhajan Singh, after successfully tricking the batsmen with his googlies, is now all-ready to mesmerize the cinema-goers. He is up to act in his...

Seven Types of Sarcasm

    Everyone thinks they can be a smart a*s. Well you know what? It's an art. So if you want to use sarcasm you'd better learn...

Abuse of substances.

The sight of those gloomy faces, inability to make an eye contact with anyone, eyes which close instantly in daylight, mouth covered with handkerchiefs...

Why India should legalise Casinos

Earlier this year the Goa government decided not to give licenses to new floating casinos on the Mandovi river, potentially foregoing millions of rupees...