Here in India Engineers Day is celebrated on 15th September every year to honor Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1860-1965), an eminent Indian engineer who had built many dams across the country. His contributions and job par excellence is evident from the ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2010
My Love’s True – And One Sided
“The greatest pain that love can cause, Is loving someone who can never be yours” I remember one of the worst phases of growing up was having feelings and not being able to express them. Its only now that I ... Read More »
“Elections In Bihar” Going To Decide Its Fate
Currently election processes are going on in Bihar and is being seen as one of the biggest election battle in India. Most of us are interested to know the final result. Needless to say this election is going to decide ... Read More »
Kashmir: A Viewpoint
History has always being considered as an teacher, people have often said one should learn from the mistakes which they make. However, India as a nation has done various mistakes, these blunders were responsible for molding the modern day Indian ... Read More »
Craze Of Going Abroad
Indian students now prefer to go abroad for higher studies. A number of reasons support this craze of young generation. As soon as one gets into secondary stage of study starts thinking about going abroad for higher studies. Now even ... Read More »
Guilty, Are You?
“It is the confession not the priest that gives us absolution”- When Oscar Wilde said these words, he was referring to one of the greatest problems of the human psyche- guilt! When a deadline has not been made, a promise ... Read More »
Nafrat Ki Duniya Ko Chod Ke Pyaar ki Duniya Mein Khush Rahna Mere Yaar
Indeed when Anand Bakshi wrote this soul touching song about an elephant being killed by human beings, and thank god, he is not alive to see what he wrote becoming a stark reality. What a remorse full day it is ... Read More »
IIMs Change And Revamp Their Selection Criteria
After all the hullaboo over the Common Admission Test (CAT) going online some of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to go revamp their procedure for selecting candidates, reducing the weightage for the CAT score. For instance, IIM-Kozhikode ... Read More »
The Dabangg Effect
The year 2010 for the box-office has been incredible with movies like Dabangg and Endhiran (Robot) rocking the collections. The stats show the opening collections for Dabangg were higher even than movie like Three Idiots while Endhiran collected a staggering ... Read More »
Karva Chauth, Popularization Of A Festival Through Cinema And Some Queer Facts
Today when ladies all over North India in particular, and India in general were waiting for the moon to make their appearance so that they could break their fast, would be aware that today’s full moon is 12 larger than ... Read More »
One Liner In Hindi Cinema
If one were to analyze the success of Dabangg one thing that would emerge as a stark motif is the one liner in the film. As a matter of fact, off-late, Salman Khan has specialized in this genre, be it ... Read More »
Astroturfing – Is It A Fair Playground After All?
In the words of Shakespeare himself, “everything’s fair in love and war”, but I often wonder how far should we take the implications of this quote. We believe with the advent of media, transparency and authenticity of the news that ... Read More »
All I Need Is Faith!
Once upon a time a great businessman had lost all his fortunes and had over nightly become a classic example of “from-riches-to-rags” story. From everywhere in the vicinity, sad shaking of head and murmuring of sympathies could be heard. Surprisingly, ... Read More »
Recent Market Trends: It’s Impact On Technology
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you cannot get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere” – Lee Iacocca The above said words have been rightly quoted. For any idea to be fruitful it should have the ... Read More »
Railway Platforms Of North India And Mumbai And Beyond: Acomparative Study
It indeed is a very strange phenomenon that while the railway platforms of Mumbai, be it the main station or the local stations is studded with shoe-shinewalas, same numbers are rarely found on the platforms in North India. As a ... Read More »