Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
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)...
Digiteyes
Google into Google chrome got us excited. The Qwerty into the touch got us excited. The ball mouse into the laser mouse got us excited. The Eicher Map into the GPS got us excited. The desktop into the tablet laptop got us excited. While an ordinary brain was sitting at home, enthusiastically celebrating these “inventions”,...
Nail The Art!
Pink and green and sparkly blue. Colour after colour splashed on. In dots and swirls and stripes. No, it’s not an M F Hussain painting. It’s nail art! Nail art has made its foray into the streets of Delhi and from the look of things, it’s here to stay. Available in malls and salons across...
Delhi: Connected
BACK THEN So let’s accept it. Till a few years back, life was convenient. There was a school bus that was paid for. There were some parents who went a step ahead to ensure their dainty darlings don’t miss the air conditioned travelling too much. There was the majority who stood in the balcony in...
Destruction Theories and Popular Culture
Are we tired of Living? Judgement Day, The End of the world, Apocalypse, whatever be the nomenclature destruction theories have existed from time immemorial. Religions, cultures and races all embrace the concept with disturbing enthusiasm. Atleast in days of old the destruction of the world was still spoken of something likely to happen far into...
THE BLACK BAG AT VT
It’s been a year now. But the horrors of that fateful night of 26th November haunt us still. They manifest themselves in the form of the stigmas and the feeling of fear and guilt in the common man which is exemplified in the following account. Here comes the one to Dadar. It’s vacant. Through the...
We Will Walk Alone
Human civilization has been progressing at an astronomical rate. As human population grows, we have started conquering previously unconquered territories on earth, taming them and converting them into urban concrete jungles. However, it seemed that the eyes could get a break from the grayish hues when we saw trees within our cities, inhabited by birds,...
Score Foundation: A Report
The Score Foundation is a non governmental organization, steadily thriving amidst challenges of sustainable resource generation to continue its mission of providing the most comprehensive knowledge that informs inspires and includes blind and vision impaired people in India. Their project Eyeway is a one stop knowledge resource for sensitizing people regarding the cause of the...
Upcoming Event: Suite 719
Suite 719 is the winter production of Dionysius Productions. This three act play is an adaptation and combination of two plays “Plaza Suite” and “Last of the Red Hot lovers” written by the witty American playwright, Neil Simon. Suite 719 is a comic satire on mid life crisis and it’s not so pleasant effects on...
CELEBRATING CHILDREN’S DAY: A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
14th Nov…Comes again. Besides hopefully reminding us of the birthday of the first Prime Minister of Independent India, it brings with it innumerable memories of innocent days. When asked to write this article, I never knew the simple task would make memories of lost years flood back and clamour for attention even as nostalgia caused...
Some do it different
Come year end and the various colleges of DU elbow each other in their haste to proffer bigger, snazzier annual fests. Organizers toil looking for sponsorships, thinking up events, designing websites and whatnot. However , most colleges have different ways of going about planning events and fests. Take the case of Shaheed Sukhdev College Of...
What, me feminist?
Ignorance is quite captivating sometimes, its implications often deserve adequate ruminations regardless of whether they happen to be blissful or not. Of all the not so recent news in the North Indian world, what has recently got my goat is the blatant idiocy in the guise of tradition and honour. Now, harmless idiocy is harmless...
