Can India have its own Family Guy?
Regardless of where we’ve reached in our animation skills, the question that beckons is whether the country can have its own eccentric family that ‘parodies’ religious figures, mocks politicians in an outright unprecedented manner, and lampoons just about everything else. May be we can. But then can it survive? Ofcourse Narendra Modi won’t have a...
How I broke my nose in BITS Goa
Mahatma Gandhi once said that if someone slaps you on one cheek, you should show your other cheek to the person. I always said, its easier said than done. This article is about how one routine college trip to Goa turned into a highly dangerous situation for me personally and how one particular incident led...
Extremely Foul and Incredibly Filthy
On the morning of 14th March 2012, when India woke up to its morning cup of chai and retrieved the newspaper from the front door, a collective gasp was heard. A highly audible gasp that reverberated across the legal institutions of the country and one that carried a feeling of intense national outrage. This outrage,...
I don’t go to weddings anymore
The curious case of the Delhi wedding: the bride is the hideous mannequin at the wedding, all dolled up in white powder and whatever that a ‘bridal/wedding package’ make up entails. The married couple sit like gagged spectators under house arrest, so much so that it makes me want to do the Joker’s routine from...
Moderation mayhem in LSR
‘Cecilia you’re breaking my heart, you are shaking my confidence daily.’ This ancient Simon and Garfunkel classic resonated the feeling of restlessness and anxiety being experienced by the students of LSR till a few days ago. Make no mistake; it was no fair haired maiden but the moderation committee which was overseeing the correction of...
The Work of the Devil
Were a long flowing white beard synonymous with immense wisdom, discord would cease to exist and peace would reign supreme. Unfortunately however, that is not as rampant as we would like. On the other hand, the aforementioned white bearded men seem to have an addiction to spice and sensationalism; sentiments they are usually bereft of...
Yes I’m Bihari!
Back in the day when there were no cellphones and people didn’t have to text/bbm each other a million times to meet, everyone would get together at the park for a game of cricket. Childhood aberrations can be peculiar and a portly senior at the colony park who was also my neighbour gained cognizance of...
Friendship Day
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...
Strike that
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’...
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...
Let’s Imagine
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 song...
Five Oceans or One?
“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...
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