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 slum in north Delhi. Lavanya,...
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 help someone who may not...
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 the BITS PILANI fest during...
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...
Controversy surrounds Ramjas College
Reservations are as much of a truth in Delhi University, as is sunshine on a summer day. Not getting into the much controversial debate of whether reservations are entirely justified or not; one can boldly state the facts, saying that there is a provision for reservation in three principal social segments of higher education, that...
‘Ramjas has a very intensive style of debating, a particular structure’
Winners of TASHI- LSR , Premchand Memorial Parliamentary Debate, the list of their accolades is endless. Well, it’s none other than the Debating Society of Ramjas College. They do not need a name to describe themselves; The Debating Society of Ramjas College is arguably the best ‘Deb-Soc’ in Delhi University. So what is it that...
DU: The Santa this Christmas?
When Delhi University decided to ditch the existing annual system for the internationally accepted semesters, it was depressingly oblivious to the revolution it had sparked or at any rate, to the sheer magnitude of it. The University did claim that adopting the semester system would bring it closer to international colleges but it couldn’t possibly...
DMUNC 2011 and How It All Began
“I’m going back to basics To where it all began I’m ready now to face it I wanna understand” So go the lyrics of a popular song by Christina Aguilera, and the same line of thought was followed by the students of the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, lovingly called DCAC, who in their maiden attempt...
BITS OASIS 2011 l The Roadtrip
BITS Pilani & Nokia presents OASIS 2011- The Roadtrip in association with Wildstone. Powered by MTv “Not all those who wander are lost” For further details: http://www.bits-oasis.org/2011/
The Buddha of Suburbia – a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Sometime before the world began perceiving him as a once-brilliant success-cliché who’d simply gone stark raving mad and taken to penning scathing novellas about intolerable ex-wives, Hanif Kureishi produced his debut novel The Buddha of Suburbia – a curiously satirical work that drew almost entirely from Kureishi’s own tumultuous teenage years growing up in the suburbs of South London....
South Campus gets a Metro station
South Campus gets a Metro station In what can be called as an ‘Independence Day‘ gift for DU students, Delhi Metro opened its two remaining stations in the Airport Express Line on August 15, namely Dhaula Kuan and Aerocity. While Aerocity station will benefit people residing in Vasant Kunj and Mahipalpur, the station at Dhaula...
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...
