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Students, Teachers Protesting against FYUP Detained

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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.”

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Sex Amma

Sex Amma

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“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].

 

 

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Flash Mob for a Cause by TFAC

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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.

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Sri Venkateswara College Student wins the Golden Key International Honour

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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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The Education Tree

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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. Follow them on facebook http://www.facebook.com/theeducationtree?ref=ts&fref=ts]]>

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Are We A Blind Nation?

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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

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Kyun Na Maane Bura?

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The festival of colours is just around the corner and the country seems to be stocking up on colours and balloons already. A festival with a tagline such as “Bura Na Maano, Holi hai”, what could possibly turn into hooliganism, right? Wrong. Holi sees more than its fair share of rowdy-ism and some not-so-good moments. Here’s a list of the things that irk us mortals while the rest of the Indian populace rolls around in all sorts of stuff.

  1. Eve Teasing: Everyone knows it happens but they’re all too high with joy to put an end to it. It’s the perfect excuse for the not-so-friendly neighbourhood lecher to touch the pretty damsel he’s been eyeing for way too long at all the wrong places. If she protests, pat comes the reply, “Bura na maan, holi hai jaaneman”. It doesn’t help being surrounded by people who’re drunk on bhaang either.
  2. Bhaang Intoxication: That brings us to the next problem. It’s the one time during the year when you can be publicly intoxicated and nobody can say anything because well, “Holi hai, yaar. Aaj toh banta hai.”  And it’s no secret that ‘Bhaang’ stands for anything but just that. And that’s where the rowdy-ism exacerbates; people get into fights, wreck public property, the usual.
  3. The water balloons: Now, for those who’ve been at the receiving end of these, and most of us have at some point or the other, it’s been painful. But what’s more annoying is the fact that the onslaught starts well in advance of the festival and it tends to be indiscriminate. It could potentially ruin your entire day.
  4. Dirty Holi: It may be called the festival of colours but it isn’t just limited to colours. There are all sorts of stuff that are used ranging from eggs to mud and grease. And God knows that they just won’t come off.
  5. The sweet delicacies: Indian festivals are known for the awesome food that accompanies it. There has to be some incentive to tolerate all the annoying relatives, no? Holi is synonymous with the mouth watering Gujjias. Who can resist binging on them when there’s a platter laid out in front of you? But the reason they are on this list despite the shared love for them is because they don’t really let you forget the binging all that easy. ‘A moment on your lips, forever on your hips’, is that not what they say?
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Surya Rajappan
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Colloquium, The NSIT Debating Festival 2013- Schedule

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The schedule for Colloquium -The NSIT Debating Festival is ready! And it definitely promises to be a great Easter Weekend. 29 March (Day 1)

  • 9:30 a.m – 10:00 a.m. : Opening Ceremony and registration for all events
  • 10:00 a.m – 11:30 a.m. : Panel Discussion – Round Pegs in Square Holes – In the midst of easy jobs, fast money, posh lives, where dreams, goals, aspirations, wish fulfillments all topple over each other, many people get unknowingly trapped in the rat race for corporate jobs and conventional careers and are never able to take some time out to introspect and find what they are destined for. Having chosen to question the status quo, we at Colloquium 2013, want you meet some very ordinary people whose stories serve as a beacon for all to follow one’s dreams. The round pegs in square holes, Padma Bhushan awardee Dr. Mallika Sarabhai, bestselling author Mr. Ashwin Sanghi, notable social activist Ms. Kamla Bhasin and the renowned social worker Mr. Anubrotto Kumar Roy, popularly known as Dunnu Roy.
  • 11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m : Netaji Subhas Memorial Debate (The Conventional Debate) – Colloquium’13 brings to you the centre stage of all debating events, here is your chance to battle it out in a fierce war of words to prove your point.
Cash Prizes Best Team : 4,000/- Best Speaker For : 2,000/- Best Speaker Against : 2,000/-
  • 12:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m : Author’s Isle – Session with Ashwin Sanghi – Come and meet from the man himself. Ashwin Sanghi takes the listeners through the exciting journey of his award winning novel ‘Chanakya’s Chant’ and his latest work, ‘The Krishna Key’.
  • 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m : Literary Quiz – Attention to all the voracious readers out there. Now is a chance to encash your insatiable appetite for reading. The quiz is open to undergraduate & postgraduate students and the top three teams will win the prizes.
Cash Prizes First Team: 5,000/- Second Team: 3,000/-
  • 4 p.m. – 6 p.m : Comic Speak – “Growing up, all of us have had a fascination… for comics and cartoons.” Extending our pent up passion for comics, this workshop aims at exploring the nitty-gritties of the narrative works in which a story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art. We are proud to present, as the first speaker of this one of a kind event, none other than Pran Kumar Sharma, the leading pioneer of Indian Comics and the creator of ‘Chacha Chaudhary’, followed by Akshay Dhar of Comic Addicts fame.
30 March (Day 2)
  • 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m : NSIT Model UN (Day 1) – We are back with the second edition of the NSIT Model UN. The following four committees will be simulated.
General Assembly – VI Security Council Human Rights Council Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m : Joint Parliamentary Committee – Joint Parliamentary committee is an ad hoc committee of the Indian parliament investigating ongoing national issues of utmost urgency and importance. The participants will get an opportunity to simulate a JPC, represent a ministry, take a stand on the topic in question and debate to build viable solutions.
Cash Prizes Best Speaker: 5000/- First Runner-Up: 3000/- 31 March (Day 3)
  • 9:30 – 5: 30 p.m : NSIT Model UN (Day 2)
  • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m : Crack the Case – The participants will be presented with a predicament pertaining to an existing business. The team(s) that are able to present the most creative and effective solution to the problem, win the coveted title.
Cash Prizes Best Team: 10000/- Second Runner-Up: 4000/-
  • 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m : Newshour Debate – This event gives you the chance to assume the role of an eminent personality and discuss a burning issue, pitching in your ideas and opinions.
Cash Prizes Best Speaker: 2000/- First Runner-Up: 1000/- Second Runner-Up: 500/-
  • 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m : Judgement Day – Say you were Hitler or Jack the Ripper, how would you defend yourself? Play one of these characters and save yourself from your doom.
Cash Prizes Best Speaker: 1000/- First Runner-Up: 600/- Second Runner-Up: 400/- Visit www.colloquiumnsit.org for more!]]>

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Delhi College of Arts and Commerce

Ecolympics 2013: Sports day with a twist!

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While Economics departments of other colleges go about organizing their departmental fests, Ecolibrium, the ecosoc of DCAC has come up with a new refreshing idea of`Ecolympics: sports day with a twist’ as they like to put it.

Ecolympics, to be held on 19th march, 10 am onwards in the grounds of DCAC seeks to bring together students, teachers and staff of the college for a fun filled day. With competitions like lemon race, tug of war, sack race, 3 legged race, taboo and 5 on 5 football, participants will not only get a chance to revisit and relive their childhood days but also a chance to win cash prizes worth Rs. 12000!!

The main attractions of the day however, will be the popular Paint Ball and the Segway. For those who don’t know, Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing, battery-powered electric vehicle and a fun ride.

To complete the day, there will be some good food too, to fill all those hungry stomachs after a day of jumping around.

In their attempt to make 19th a crazy and memorable day for the participants, Ecolibrium has received immense support and encouragement from their sponsors Jain art jewelers, Healthee.in, Sangeeta Bedi School of Economics and Math’s, DU beat, IATA Flight Center, Punjab sweet corner thy campus  and Spicy by Nature .

“We are expecting a participation of at least 150 people given all the excitement it has created among the students” Says Siddharth, Vice president, Ecolibrium.

Here’s a day dedicated to fun, freedom and of course spirit of sportsmanship spirit!

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