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...
Emoticon Dictionary
-Janhavi Mittal and Aina Matthew How many times have you sat around, scratching your head and wondering which emotion that bunch of brackets, dots and dashes is supposed to convey? With new smileys and rude-ys and disgust-ys and the like entering the cyber scene every other day, the time has come that someone devised a...
Brazil
Feijoada is the national dish of Brazil. It was brought to Brazil by the Portuguese. It is basically a stew prepared with black turtle beans with a variety of salted pork and beef products like bacon, smoked pork ribs and at least two types smoked sausage. It is traditionally served with rice. A popular myth...
Australia
One of the most recognized symbols of Australia, the Opera House in Sydney with its beautiful roof evocative of a ship at full sail includes 1000 rooms, conducts 3000 events each year and provides guided tours to over 200,000 people annually. It was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon after he won a competition held...
Japan
Sakura (cherry blossom) is the national flower of Japan. The blooming of cherry blossoms is eagerly awaited across the country every year. Millions of people go to Hanami (flower viewing) parties to welcome the coming of spring. Also, given the short time that the blossoms remain on the trees, they are also seen as a...
Symbols and Symbolism
India, as all Indians know, is a land of much diversity: diverse people, diverse languages and diverse culture. It’s a melting pot of all this and more. The founders of our nation and many along the way have tried to capture these diversities and our culture for the untrained eye in the form of symbols....
Youth Task Force launches RTI Awareness Campaign
The Right to Information Act of 2005 has received much coverage in all media and is perhaps the government legislation that people are most familiar with. So what do you do if, for example, you want to know why there aren’t enough street lights on your campus inspite of a budgetary allocation? You file an...
Summer School
Beat the heat with a scholarly retreat STANFORD SUMMER PROGRAM Stanford Summer Session classes feature open enrollment, accessible instructors, small classes, a diverse student body and a stunning campus. Undergraduates and graduates from around the world are drawn to Palo Alto and Stanford’s lifestyle: the best of academics, research, athletics and recreation. Summer visitors take...
WordSpill is Back!
DU Beat in association with American Center presents WordSpill Theme: What Should President Obama do when he visits India? Send in your entries to: wordspill@dubeat.com Last Date of Submission: 17th December 2009 Grand Prize: Rs 3000 And your article gets published in DU Beat! Other Prizes: American Centre Library Memberships for 1 year for 10 finalists...
WAR OF THE STEREOTYPES
Disclaimer: The opinions contained in this section are not of the paper’s or the writers’. They simply depict stereotypes and stereotypical understanding of gender differences, the presence of which though regrettable cannot be denied. I understand that I fail to understand girls I have been wondering —what principles, laws or theories in this universe govern...
The Survivor’s Guide to Eschatological Prophesies
Eschatology is the branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind. For many centuries, people have been predicting the year, the month and sometimes the day when: > A violent and sudden end would terminate all life on earth; > Major social and political upheavals would occur around...
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