News at a Glance
1. Full Speed Ahead for CWG In an optimistic statement, Lalit Bhanot, the CWG Secretary General has assured the media that India will be ready to host the games even as officials and labourers race against time to finish the remaining jobs like cabling, landscaping and removal of debris at the games venues. 2. DUSU...
Freedom Speeches
Freedom- be it from colonial oppression, societal rejection or racism- has historically not come by easily to the people who were denied this freedom. People all over the world struggled tirelessly and fought ceaselessly for this freedom, driven by the hope for a better tomorrow for themselves and their children. History is testimony to many...
Neocolonialism – The Debate
A Disguised Subjugation As far back as I can remember, we’ve been taught that India became independent on the 15th of August 1947. Recently, though, it became more and more obvious that formal independence and recognised sovereignty can hardly be equated with true freedom. If freedom is the absence of any external coercion, then India...
Independence Day Special
Books On Independence Day, la grande dame decided that this Independence Day issue would treat the day not only as some sort of day of reverence in honour of the country, but also talk about the liberated spirit. Two books that talk about absolute opposites in that sense are Train to Pakistan and 1984. Khushwant...
News at a Glance
1. DU gets disabled friendly: DU colleges are working proactively to improve differently abled students’ university experience by setting up dedicated buses, parking slots, scanners to convert books into the audio format, special computers, ramps and elevators. St. Stephen’s has installed voice activated computers for visually impaired students while Khalsa is installing elevators for people...
And it Begins
DU Beat gets you the first impressions of some fachchas from Delhi University. Step one – Look Straight, Step two – Walk straight, Strep Three – Be confident. Step four – Forget it all and simply enjoy the experience. Despite my apprehensions, we were not ragged. As boring as it may sound, it was a...
News at a Glance
1. People protest DU student’s murder Angry relatives and neighbours of 20-year-old Kamal Singh Rawat, a Delhi University commerce student who was brutally murdered by some young men at Sonia Vihar in the trans-Yamuna area on Monday, went on the rampage, setting afire the houses of three of the suspects, damaging vehicles and hurling stones...
CWG Training
The boisterous zeal with which students attended the Commonwealth Games Volunteering Program was the central theme at Amity University, Noida. An astounding 30,000 volunteers were being trained since early June when the sessions began. The tight schedule begins at 8.30 in the morning and goes on till around 5 in the evening. In the completed...
Delhi University at a Glance: Evolution of a Student
First Year First year in college is, as some already know and some of you will eventually get to know, unlike any other. You can feel it on your first day, when you realise that the first division your school was so proud of is shared by fifty other people in your class. Also, unless...
Courting Addiction
The first time I took drugs was after my XII boards, a year back. My friends took me to a place they knew, where drugs are sold cheap and in abundance. The first thing I ever smoked was weed, which I bought at Rs 50 per packet. Later, I moved on to smoking hash which...
Dub Diaries
DU Academic Session -The Year That Was Ragging-no longer a rage With the starting of the new session preparations were underway to welcome a fresh new batch of students to Delhi University. However along with the orientation sessions and freshers’ parties, what cannot be forgotten is the issue of ragging. Stringent laws have been laid...
DUB Music Quiz
Can you guess these songs? While there are no prizes for guessing, literally, but the after pleasure of listening to these classic numbers to realize that we are in fact correct- should totally be worth it. On being asked what the song meant, the singer said ‘It means I don’t have to work again.’ Most...
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