LSR Tarang 2012 - The Curtain Raiser

LSR Tarang 2012 – The Curtain Raiser

College fests, generally associated with vibrancy and euphoria, have recently been reduced to money making opportunities for participants. The relatively easy availability of sponsors has allowed almost all fests to hand out exorbitant cash prizes thus ensuring considerable footfall. Consequently the actual concept of fests has faded into oblivion leaving...
Why Jan 26 is not just a holiday anymore

Why Jan 26 is not just a holiday anymore

Date: January 26, 2012. Day: Thursday, a holiday. The old generation of the country would say this is all how a 19-year-old would describe the day. Switch. A 19-year-old clad in a khadi kurta and jeans along with his teammates, is performing a street play on ‘Whistle Blowers’ in a...
Many Beautiful Minds

Many Beautiful Minds

A selfless good deed in our rapidly modernising and materialistic society is almost as rare as the Green Sea Turtle. Living in this age of spiffy technology, where everything that we need is just a touch away, has rendered most of us incapable of looking beyond our immediate world to...
10 Things NOT to do at LSR Tarang 2012 for bwoys

10 Things NOT to do at LSR Tarang 2012 for bwoys

The silk shirt, red pants and orange sneakers you own must not be put to display this season. Some things are best hidden in the dark depths of your cupboard. This is not the best occasion to apply copious amounts of Gatsby hair gel that you may have won at...
DU students protest outside the VC's office

DU students protest outside the VC’s office

Post graduate students of MA/MSc Mathematics and BSc Physical and Life Sciences held a demonstration outside the VC’s office earlier this Friday to protest the irregular conduct of classes and push for an inquiry into the semester results. They alleged that a faculty member teaching ‘Measure Theory and Integration’, had...
2012: It isn’t just about the Khans!

2012: It isn’t just about the Khans!

If 2011 gave us record breaking films with mind boggling collections, plethora of biggies are lined up in this new year which have the potential to take the industry by storm. You don’t need to be a genius to predict who will rule the Box Office but the Khans, still...
AIESEC DU recruitment begins

AIESEC DU recruitment begins

For all those who missed out in August, AIESEC in Delhi University’s February recruitment has kicked off and if you’re someone whose unsure of what the organisation is all about, how you can apply and the kind of work that one is required to do, we provide you a rather...
Your Guide to the College Fests

Your Guide to the College Fests

The most awaited chapter of the Delhi University’s calendar is finally here! The fest season is kicking off this February. It’s been only three weeks since the University reopened after the winter vacations and the colleges are already buzzing with preparations for the fests. Like every year, fest budgets have...
Korean delight at Shim Tur

Korean delight at Shim Tur

Hidden within the terrace of a tremendously down-trodden (could give it no stars whatsoever) hotel by the name of Navurang Guest House in Paharganj, the Shim Tur Korean Restaurant is one of the many eateries serving Korean food in the area. Unless referred to by someone, a visitor unfamiliar with...
Controversy stalks Venky President

Controversy stalks Venky President

All those who thought nothing more could possibly go wrong with the semester system after the intense furore over the ‘brilliant’ semester results, are in for quite a big shock. It seems as if the semester system’s armour is not as impregnable as believed. To ensure classes began on time...
The Journey to Redraw India

The Journey to Redraw India

Teach for India was started in 2009 by Ms. Shaheen Mistri, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the organization, taking ideas from Teach For America, a similar organization operating in USA. The organization believes in achieving educational equity for all the children across the length and breadth of our...
To Venky... With Love

To Venky… With Love

‘Life is a race’, realized when I  migrated from Deshbandhu College to Sri Venkateswara college a.k.a Venky. The experience of this transition is worth sharing. Some call it a transition but I consider it as a “miss appropriation”. The changeover was not a cake walk; acclimatizing to the new climate...
LSR: The Promised Land

LSR: The Promised Land

“There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! Some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter” Mad Hatter’s statement in Alice in Wonderland is a fitting reference to Lady Shri Ram College for Women. Entering...
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SRCC Histrionica: Day 1 & 2

SRCC Histrionica: Day 1 & 2

DAY 1 (16th January, 2011) The Dramatics Society of Shri Ram College of Commerce with their sweatshirts reading ‘100 percent cut off, 200 percent dramebazi’, began the first day of their annual fest ‘Histronica’ by singing their official ‘Oha!’ song. Though the event got delayed as a consequence of campus placements going on in the...
SRCC presents Histrionica

SRCC presents Histrionica

The 4th edition of Histrionica, the annual theatre festival of the Shri Ram College of Commerce is here, but with a changed format. A four day festival, it will be held from the 16th-19th January 2012. The previous editions of the festival were competition based, but this year, productions won’t be competing for any prizes...
Moderation mayhem in LSR

Moderation mayhem in LSR

‘Cecilia you’re breaking my heart, you are shaking my confidence daily.’ This ancient Simon and Garfunkel classic resonated the feeling of restlessness and anxiety being experienced by the students of LSR till a few days ago. Make no mistake; it was no fair haired maiden but the moderation committee which was overseeing the correction of...
Football in India

Football in India

Football has really developed over the years in India. I had never even dared to harbour the hope of watching a great football giant playing a football game in India with their full strength squad up until a couple of years ago. We already had one big match at the Salt Lake in Calcutta last...
The Work of the Devil

The Work of the Devil

Were a long flowing white beard synonymous with immense wisdom, discord would cease to exist and peace would reign supreme. Unfortunately however, that is not as rampant as we would like. On the other hand, the aforementioned white bearded men seem to have an addiction to spice and sensationalism; sentiments they are usually bereft of...
CBS FinX : A step towards financial education

CBS FinX : A step towards financial education

In a world where pragmatic knowledge is essential, a unique initiative such as that of the Finance society of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies goes a long way in bridging the gap between the classroom culture and the real world understanding. Incepted in 2008, FinX is a unique initiative taken by the students of...
Sex Amma

Sex Amma

Shifted to the city recently from the backwaters of Kerala, Sex Amma answers the queries of her children in Delhi University… Q. We are friends from two years. I like her very much and now see also gave some sign that see also like me. So how can I propose her. Plz give me some...
SRCC does it again

SRCC does it again

After the big shots McKinsey and Bain, came the much awaited Deutsche Bank in the placement scene. It has always been pristine in every sense, as far as the job and pay package goes. Contrary to the jaw dropping odds which come to the front whenever Deutsche Bank comes for campus placements (of only one...
Your sport’s diary for 2012

Your sport’s diary for 2012

If you thought 2011 was the best year in sports with India lifting the Cricket World Cup, Formula One making its debut in India, Barcelona shimmering with another European Cup, Manchester United knocking Liverpool off its perch and Djokovic bullying the likes of Nadal and Federer , then rest assured, 2012 will only pick up...
Humouroscope

Humouroscope

Aries- Regulate the pace of chewing your food and colour-coordinate the clothes in your closet for some credible karma. Taurus- Accidentally installing timeline on Facebook will put off the longtime object of your secret amorous attentions who finally found you marginally interesting enough to check out. Gemini- A good time to purchase the Gulshan Kumar...
“I’m a lucky dog”

“I’m a lucky dog”

Syed Hamza, DU Beat correspondent and photographer for Barefoot magazine, recalls his dream-like experience of being the official photographer for Bhaichung Bhutia’s farewell match. Walking into Jawaharlal Nehru stadium amidst the roar of over 35,000 fans, I felt like a star myself. The chants of “INDIA-INDIA” could have given goose bumps to anyone standing in...
'The People Tree' at St. Stephens College

‘The People Tree’ at St. Stephens College

‘THE PEOPLE TREE, we have no branch’. These were the words written on the piece of paper put up on the dhaba tree right opposite to the Stephens cafeteria on Friday at 1pm. Amidst the clamour of the teachers staff protesting against the principal, the security being tightened as a consequence of the governing body...