By Aditi Malhotra
Huge crowds. Incessant singing and slogan raising. Raised voices. Loud invitiations to draw in the audience. A rampant air of festivity.
If you’re in DU and you notice an event with the above characteristics, then make sure you stick around. For what you’ll eventually witness will be a fine piece of street theatre performed by enthusiasts [...]
By Aditi Malhotra
My tryst with animation started when I was 12. And today, even though I’m exactly two weeks into adulthood, just about nothing can compel me to deny that I would still prioritize an “Igor” over an “Angels and Demons”.
So, when Happy Feet was released three years back, all my classmates were aware of my “hippity-hoppity” [...]
By DU Beat
Against
Einstein while explaining his relativity theory of time gave the example of how one hour with a gorgeous woman seems like a second and a second at a boring conference seems like an hour. Similarly, a fifty minute lecture with a teacher can vary from seeming like two minutes to fifty hours and in the [...]
By Pragya Mukherjee
Happy Independence Day. Why day? Why happy? Most importantly why the Independence?
First and foremost, why must we celebrate an Independence DAY? Surely the massive struggle for Independence was not achieved in so insignificant and insulting a time as a day. It was a gut wrenchingly slow and dragging battle for which thousands of souls over [...]
By Rachita Murali
Quizzing fanatic? Have the lust for knowledge? Then DU is the right place to be in folks!
With a decent number of colleges in the University into substantial and serious quizzing, competion here is fairly cut throat. Oxymoron eh?
A few noteworthy quiz clubs in the University are Quiz Club of St Stephen’s [...]
By Navin Kumar
Debating in Delhi University is very different from debating at the school level. The main difference stems from the existence of Parliamentary Debating.
While conventional debating (the kind you did in school) involves a team with one person for and one person against an idea, Parliamentary Debating (PD) involves different teams with one team for and [...]
By DU Beat
Creative writing
Fancy yourself as a writer? Looking forward to letting those creative juices flow this year? DU is reputed for its versatile and brilliant ECA. Creative writing as an extra curricular activity in DU does get its share of opportunity if not ample attention.
However, this does not imply that there is no scope for budding [...]
By Kritika Kushwaha
The t-shirt slogan splashed across the media waves certainly did not fail to catch the attention of the masses, the only major difference perhaps this time being that it did not have the right to be questioned. And with these words has finally risen the once oppressed society of the homosexuals, which has taken the first step to move away from physical, mental and societal seclusion to a real, more equal world; anonymous letters of complaint and blog posts having given way to pride parades and revealed identities, and shame to confidence.
By Aina
Leaked autopsy reports reveal that at the time of his death, Michael Jackson was disfigured, emaciated and riddled with needles, stomach empty but for semi-digested pills. His ex-wife now claims that he wasn’t even the father of their children. He was neck-deep in debt and lay forgotten in a hotel, starving and broken. For all [...]
