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Friendship Day

By DU Beat

Friendship Day is special to all of us, or at least friendship is. The DUB writers all got together to bring to you some of the most memorable sitcoms, characters, movies that celebrate friendship.
Beaches
If you’ve heard Bette Midler’s unforgettable ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’, Beaches is where it came from. The story talks of the [...]

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Strike that

By Eeshaan Tiwary

The recent bandh called by the opposition parties seemed to come just in time for those preparing for the new academic session. Just as the University was getting ready for another year, the bandh came as a reminder of an intrinsic part of the academic calendar.
Student political parties, and occasionally the Delhi University Students’ Union, [...]

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Emoticon Dictionary

By DU Beat

-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 smiley [...]

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Let’s Imagine

By Janhavi Mittal

Recently admiring the sheer genius of the Beatles with a friend, the innate awesomeness of their lyrics triggered a debate. Well, certainly we weren’t debating the brilliance of the Beatles, (like that’s even debatable) but the inspiration behind it. The song in question – Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds. The initials of the [...]

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Five Oceans or One?

By Tanmay Dhall

“A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, involving the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs”. Isn’t the above statement too complicated to be understood? That’s what religion is-Complicated.
It all started [...]

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Too Little, too Late

By Devika Dutt

Isaac Newton found enlightenment when an apple conked him on the head into action and he discovered gravity and formulated the laws of motion which literally form the building blocks of physics. However, Newton’s laws are applicable in almost every field, even beyond physics. His first law talks about how a body continues it its [...]

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From Paper to Canvas

By Eeshaan Tiwary

Transitions from graphic novels to movies have one inherent difference as compared to those from novels. While written works leave directors with leeway in terms of visuals, a graphic novel already has set visuals. The director, then, has to grapple with balancing his own vision, the writer’s, and the view of fans. Graphic novel writers [...]

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Movie aside Batman, Here come the new screen stars!

By Pragya Mukherjee

Movie adaptations have revolutionized literature, so much so that many books are now written with the sole view of becoming material for a new blockbuster. It’s hardly surprising therefore that comics, a medium far more visual in nature than books, have chosen to go the same way. Movies about age old comic book super [...]

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The republic Day parade debate: is a parade really required to celebrate our republic?

By DU Beat

A Celebration of our Patriotism
Each year, Republic day celebrations are marked by a grand parade in New Delhi, beginning from Raisina Hill, along the Rajpath, and on to the historic Red Fort in the old quarter of the city. It includes many traditional dance troupes, to symbolize the cultural heritage of India. It traditionally ends [...]

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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes

By Geetika Sachdev

Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Mark Strong, Rachel McAdams
Sherlock Holmes is brought to you in a glossy new package – A movie, which portrays the iconic character with a remarkable convergence of innovation and reverence.
The basic plot is woven around Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his partner Watson (Jude Law) as they begin [...]

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