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Weekly Columns

Spo(r)tlight

By Shashank Gupta

It was a week where controversies dominated the proceedings. Commonwealth Games were in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons and so was Michael Schumacher, overshadowing the build up to the soccer season and some sober cricket for the gentlemen. Nonetheless, we bring you all the transfer news, the drama, the adrenaline, the obvious and [...]

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Candid Canvas

By DU Beat

Simren Singh
B.A Programme
2nd year
Lady Shriram College for women

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Sportlight

By Eeshaan Tiwary

Controversy, close finishes and new eras; there were headlines aplenty in the sports world over the last week.
While India’s loss to Sri Lanka in the first cricket test was nothing less than comprehensive, the retirement of Muttiah Muralidaran made it memorable. Although he had announced beforehand that he would be retiring at the end of [...]

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Sportlight: David Beckham’s Other Side

By Shashank Gupta

David Robert Joseph Beckham, 35 year old soccer star, celebrity, entertainer, and most of all a family man, is a living legend to many youngsters like me all over the world, and more so in a cricket frenzied part of the world. Many of us know Beckham only as a soccer star, a free kick [...]

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Spo(r)tlight

By Shashank Gupta

Football has been the most popular sport on the planet for some time now, and not without reason. Each World Cup has left a mark in time. A gaze into history will tell you that the 1966 World Cup was remembered for the Geoff Hurst goal, 1986 for Maradona’s Hand of God, and more recently [...]

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It’s all in your head

By Ishan Marvel

Smack, crack, DMT, cocaine, LSD, mescaline, horse tranquilizers, nitros, valiums, opium, psilocybin and then of course marijuana; for some reason the very mention of this motley collection must have made a considerable number of you flinch, just like it did to your parents, their parents, teachers, interlocutors and so on. History shows that drugs have [...]

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Candid Canvas

By DU Beat

Credits: Pavni Poddar
Think you can do better? Send in your entries to beat.du@gmail.com
It can be a photograph, painting, anime  or graffiti. Basically anything your creative juices conjure up.
*Credits will be given*

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Campus Rock Idols

By Aina

Campus Rock Idols, the biggest inter-college music competition for rock bands is back for the fifth time. Being one of the best platforms for amateur bands at the college level to demonstrate their talent on a nationwide basis, CRI attracts the who’s who of India’s music scene. The bands not only get a great stage [...]

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Ravish me a tattoo

By Chhavi

“I want a huge tattoo across my back so that when my girlfriend rips off my shirt…”

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Who do you dress for?

By Chhavi

When I first came to an all girls’ college two years ago, I thought
that one of the fringe benefits would be that most of the time, we
could get dressed in the morning without keeping the male species
opinion on our clothes in perspective. We could wear baggy t-shirts
and flip flops to class without being bothered about [...]

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