Aries: You will not go through that morning lethargy and inertia ever again now that you will discover the reason behind the same, was your wrong deodorant soap that has a foul and offensive smell.
Taurus: Feel free to keep your mouth shut when you are with friends this week as they won’t take you seriously if you show off your ravishing and stunning intellect.
Gemini: Stick tight and wait because you are likely to meet the man/woman of your dreams who you will find selling Bhelpuri/Sevpuri near your college.
Cancer: Expectantly, you will be able to grab attention in any possible way you can; in the metro, in your college and in the movie theatre too. Bingo!!
Leo: Wearing those same lucky lemon-colored shades will be even luckier, when its cloudy outside and you don’t want yourself to be stuck in the rain.
Virgo: Your favorite attribute in a person, you will find is their ability to tell you how fantastic you are. Plus, the sensation in the gulf of your stomach is going to explode at noon, or sometime afterwards in the week.
Libra: fashion aesthetic to the tail, they are certainly going to make people turn around for just a single glance. Likely to swamp most of their pocket money buying age defying products and jaw dropping attire.
Scorpio: Finally, it’s the time for scorpion freshers to get an insight into what actually they will be doing in their FYUP. Luck seems generous enough.
Sagittarius: Sleep deprivation can affect you negatively today, so ensure you murder all the dogs in your area for a guaranteed good night’s sleep. There’s no harm in taking the day off.
Capricorn: ‘Yes’ will be your lucky word for the whole week. Don’t hesitate using your lucky word even when your date asks you whether you are two timing.
Aquarius: If you think it’s my job to tell you good news, you’re wrong pal. You’re going down. So better rush to the nearest temple and get your prayers done as soon as possible.
Pisces: You will discover that you can wiggle your ears pretty easily, and will actually become quite good at it after a little practice. Seeing your wonderful talent people will actually invite you to their parties.
Freshers timidly walk into colleges on their orientation days not knowing what to expect. They’re afraid or seniors and do not know anybody. So here is what your seniors from several colleges, experienced during their orientations:
Kirorimal College
“It was in room 18. After our teachers introduced us to the staff officially, had done explaining to us the course structure and had handed out the routine that our seniors came. What we feared to be ragging turned out to be something fun in the end. After the introduction, we were asked to sing. Some were made to dance. Someone rapped something. The highlight was the dance to “Oh La La” where the roles got reversed and the guy played Vidya Balan and the girl Naseeruddin Shah and the spoken essay on “tatti” in shudh Hindi. Though a few of the freshers did look uncomfortable, most took it lightly as it was meant to be like. At the end of the day, our seniors became our friends.” – Pallab Deb
Gargi College
“First day at college seems like a big fat tangle of emotions. As I entered the quad, I had no idea how the experience would be, but the college orientation gave me a feeling that this is place where I can spend 3 years of my life and emerge as an all rounder. The day was jam-packed with performances by cultural societies like Enliven, Kshitij, etc. Orientation acquaints students with the various facilities available at the campus and the college societies. The college orientation was followed by departmental orientations where students were acquainted with their courses and respective teachers. In other words, one could call it as a halftone of the coming years.” – Shaily Sharma
Shri Ram College of Commerce
“My college orientation isn’t exactly something I recall frequently, but once I do it all comes back to me like a movie. Just a year back on this day I explored my college for the first time and came to know facts which both surprised and scared me. I remember sitting in our not-so-huge auditorium listening intently to everything the teachers had to say, my hands shaky and mind anxious. The fact that I was sitting in that grossly overcrowded hall among thousands of outstanding young students each one better than the other was weirdly reassuring. I knew that my dream has come true when the principal on the podium said that three years from now you’ll be proud of the person you’ve become.” – Aishwarya Chaurasia
Indraprastha College for Women
“We were asked to assemble in the studio, that’s where the college tour started. Then we were addressed by our principle as to what to expect from this course and college and who are faculty members would be. Later the seniors took over. Each person has to sit on a chair under the spotlight. We had to give our introductions along with the craziest thing that we have done in our life. It was a fun exercise and we all enjoyed a lot.” – Pinakita Gupta
Lady Shri Ram College for Women
As I entered Lady Shri Ram College for the first time, it was the sheer grandeur around it that amazed me. From the lush green lawns to the mighty red building, everything about LSR is inspiring on your orientation day. Walking in to the auditorium was like entering another universe. To be introduced to all major societies, see them perform, listen to teachers and students speak about how the red bricks and the magic they guard accommodate changed their lives is overwhelming. But it’s nothing close to the how one feels when Dr Gopinath takes over the podium. She’s articulate, inspiring and instils all new students with a sense of confidence. The final tree planting tradition is great way to end an orientation at LSR and makes everyone feel like they’re going to be leaving their mark on the institution forever. – Bani Bains
There is nothing to be intimidated by, not even the seniors. So enter your respective colleges with your heads held high and expect nothing but great times! All the best freshers, welcome aboard!
“The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald’s classical work portraying Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as the narrator who leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, drinking-games and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his dream to make it big after Yale, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, large-hearted, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, and drives across the bay for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her good for nothing, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, love and deceit with lead characters being his own cousin, her husband and his dear friend, Gatsby. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, treachery, power of the rich and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
The movie takes you through a bumpy ride of overdone glittering parties and grandiose displays of wealth with Jay-Z music and Lana Del Ray backgrounds. You know the 2013 Great Gatsby hasn’t done justice to the 1925 Great Gatsby, when there is an overuse of the dialogue “Old Sport” and Daisy’s unreal helplessness crosses all bounds. The hopelessly optimistic Gatsby after a while begins to disappoint the modern trended generation and leads to a predictive ending.
For what it is worth, I would rate the movie a 3.5 out 5 for Tobey Maguire pulls the movie to its ending. His narration of witty life-lessons makes you walk out with a thought. The Great Gatsby definitely teaches one how to party, but fails to be a testament to the determination of the human spirit, and the reality of the American Dream.
Sahiba Chawdhary
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About 150 teachers and students who had gathered to protest against the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) in Delhi University were arrested at India Gate on Monday. The protest was a peaceful candlelight protest and was organised by the Joint Action Front for Democratic Education (JAFDE).
There were about 500 teachers and students in all who came together at India Gate to hold a torchlight procession. All the detained teachers and students were loaded onto buses and kept in the Parliament Street Police. On this matter, S B S Tyagi, DCP, New Delhi was quoted as saying, “They didn’t have our permission to protest at India Gate. We advised them to move to Jantar Mantar but they refused. We had to detain them.”
“Hello Sex Amma,
Me and my GF have been in a relationship for a year. In the last one year we almost lived like a Live-in at her place and we used to have sex very often , almost daily ,sometimes , twice in a day (with some days exception) , But as of now we live apart due to studies, and I miss everything so badly, I cannot have control over ‘things’ . Please suggest how should I control and what to do..”
My dear lost little lobster of the Southern seas! You two have been very naughty fishes, frying in coconut oil! You lucky lad and lady! Amma went to the beach when people asked her to get a room. You’ve had one for a year. But, the wind and the waves of joy. Ah! Anyway, high-five for the awesome ex-sex life!
My lovely lobster, nothing is permanent, is it? Study, and study hard so that you two can end up together! But, Amma understands, so I’d suggest you to throw away your pen every once in a while and use your hand for other activities, eh? The Americans have made sure that nobody goes sex-less when alone. Tune into their ‘artsy’ movies and let things fall in their place (do clean up afterwards!!). Graham Bell might not have thought of it, but his invention can work wonders for your deprived, er, soul. Let her oohs and aahs over the phone send you into a frenzy! And if you can’t talk over the phone, geniuses of the world have created texting, and other geniuses who have gone the extra mile have created sexting. Try it, my boy!
I’ll pray that you somehow get your hands on the Anywhere Door from Doraemon. How easy it’d be! Besides, you’re a male macchi, visuals can turn you on. Think about your poor female macchi who needs to get touchy-feely for her dose. So, ride high and solo for a while on crashing waves and breaking thunder! Do let Amma know how it’s working for you. Cheers!
Have a query? But don’t know who to ask? Mail your queries to Sex Amma at [email protected].
Together for a Cause(TFAC), a project based initiative, organized a promotional Flash Mob on 8th April 2013 at four different locations in Delhi.
This Flash Mob was in regard to their project called ‘Nadaan Parindey’ which will be launched on 26th April at LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg. Trough ‘Nadaan Parindey’ TFAC plans to confer vocational training to school students of all sections, so that they can peruse their hobbies as a career.
The event on 26th will see a special performace by the students of Teach For India classrooms in Seelampur, who will be given special focus in the whole project.
Meanwhile the promotional Flash Mob saw the participation of more than 80 dancers and thousand plus spectators in four different locations of Delhi, namely Kamala Nagar Market, Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station, Hauz Khas Village and Select City Walk, Saket. People were seen enthusiastic in the whole project as they joined in the dance.
Delhi University student Jasraj Bhinder from Sri Venkateswara College has been awarded the prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society’s INDIA HIGH ACHEIVER AWARD of Rs 2.5 Lakhs. The India High Achiever award is instituted by Golden Key to assist Golden Key members to further their education in India. “Jasraj Bhinder has demonstrated excellence in Academics and related academic activities during his undergraduate study. Jasraj also demonstrated how Golden Key’s Commitment to Academics Leadership and Service will be furthered by his Postgraduate study, Golden Key will award more such scholarships to deserving individuals in India” said Dr Abhiram Prabhu Golden Key’s University Relations Office For India.
“It is indeed a great honour to have received this prize and I would like to thank Golden Key for that. It is always nice to have your efforts in life to be recognised and appreciated and this award does exactly that. More importantly, it urges me to put in even more hard work in my endeavours in the future. The scholarship award will be very useful in covering the costs of my current postgraduate education and in funding my studies further in the future”.
Said Jasraj Bhinder after receiving the award from Golden Key.
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Type “street play” on Google and the first link, a wiki page, describes it as ‘a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. These spaces can be anywhere, including shopping centres, car parks, recreational reserves and street corners.’
Over the years there has been a deviation from this long established and rooted definition. Street plays have been reduced to a mere competition. In fact and in principle, they are still carried out in front of a large, unpaying audience (more so in the DU circuit) but the purpose is not completely served because they are not reaching out to a large proportion of audience who are equally affected by say, sexual harassment, corruption, consumer rights, reservation etc which are common topics of nukkad nataks.
‘Aaghaaz’, The Education Tree initiative is an attempt to revive the lost essence of street theatre or nukkad nataks and take them to the masses. The Education Tree is a student organization with an agenda to support and facilitate all manifestations of education. Under their initiative, they have collaborated with the dramatics society or dramsocs (as they are popularly known) of several DU colleges like Hansraj, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, SGTB Khalsa College, IP College for Women, Daulat Ram College, Maitreyi & Shivaji College and given them the opportunity to perform their annual productions at various public venues like Sarojini Nagar Market, Adventure Island, Delhi Haat(INA), Satya Niketan Maket & GK-M Block etc, in schools like DPS, Bal Bharti, Rukmini Devi Public School & Maharaja Agrasen Model School and at NGOs like Salaam Balak Trust & Prayas and at the same time disseminating valuable information to the common people from all ends of spectrum.
With their core belief in the utility of nukkad natak as a tool of education, The Education Tree believes that the revolution begins at the corner of YOUR street.
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The incandescent afternoon of March 20, 2013 could be seen as the nature’s sense of humour in the form of ingenious irony. Indraprastha College for Women witnessed the 9th Annual Public Lecture, endowed by Indraprastha Girls Sr. Secondary School, on “Are We a Blind Nation?” conducted by Rajiv Vora, Chairman, Swaraj Peethe Trust.
The chief panel comprised of Babli Moitra Sraf, principal, IP College, Rajiv Vora, Narayan Prasad, Chairman, IP College and Geeta Gupta, Pricipal, IP School. Rajiv Vora, a staunch Gandhian, assertively narrated the chronicles of our nation in the last century-the carpel that conceived the perennial principles like Swaraj, Freedom and Justice. Keeping Swaraj at the centre, he linked it with various aspects of our nation, ourselves, and everything else. Quite graphically, Mr. Vora carved a vicious circle before the keen audience, stating that non-violence is the only way to achieve Swaraj, which further leads to freedom from the circle of life. Righteously enough, Swaraj, according to Rajiv Vora, is that term that shall inspire people to sacrifice in the face of a dire situation as it had done once before during our freedom struggle. Referring to the present scenario, he said that we are no longer able to distinguish between justice and injustice, moral and immoral, and sinful and pure-the lines between them thinned into oblivion. Mr. Vora emphasized that our nation is not an adequate reflection of its people and we are in need of struggle at all the levels, but the question is are we ready for one?
As for us being a blind nation, it is a devastatingly sad truth. There is no ideal that ensures that the last and the first person strive together, in the words of the Gandhian. He went on to explain the majority of young listeners that the nation is stagnant with its people cowering in fear of the powerful and living at the mercy of the strong. There is complete absence of Swaraj; synonymous to independence, fearlessness and justice. We have no vision. We ARE a blind nation. But the lecture did not end on a pessimistic note as Mr. Vora showed us the solution to the prevalent problem in Swaraj and its religious practise. The session concluded after a round of questions, answering to which Mr. Vora said that we need to shun complacency and fuel the fire within us.
After all, the nature’s sense of humour was disapproving-we are a blind nation and it was an incandescent afternoon.
Picture Credits: www.phayul.com
Shreya Bhardwaj