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...
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...
You’ve got an Audition!
At this time of the year, cultural societies of various colleges are busy conducting rigorous auditions to select for their society the best-suited freshers. Audition is usually a fun-filled activity involving a lot of healthy interaction between the freshers and the seniors. It not only helps the freshers know their college better but also enables...
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...
Non-Violence or Non-Existence: A Matter of Choice
The twentieth century can best be defined as a century of extremes. Although it witnessed the World Wars, The Holocaust and Apartheid, it was also the century when the path breaking idea of non-violence was espoused, at least on a large scale. It was a century of tremendous churning, as the world shed several age-old...
Dear Diary: The Diary of Mel Gibson
Lord, what is happening to me? Where did it all go wrong? Something snapped in my head in the last decade and I can’t figure when. I had an appointment with a psychiatrist today, she diagnosed alcohol induced dementia. “You need to see a therapist”, she said, for the gazillionth time. So the other day,...
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