Udaipur mourns death of Moral Values

udaipur-black-whiteI don’t know when and how the image of Udaipur as a serene town was stripped off by that of a budding metropolitan suffering from frenzied road traffic and the mounting crime situation. Over all, the saddest part is the nonchalant attitude of lawmakers, supplemented with our own indolent behavior.

Among the half a dozen of crime incidents reported last week, robbery has been so common, while murder for any small issue is just another growing evil that is being resorted to, by youth who never had any criminal past.

Roads are no safer for driving and certainly no footpaths are available any longer for pedestrians; still a helpless walker walks frightened and a biker urges to reach his destination safely before he gets bumped by another biker. [Read more...]

Love: A Relationship with Twists

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Relation is a term which has several meaning from different perspectives: a bond between a mother and a child is a Relation, between you and your friend is a Relation, between a boss and an employee is a Relation, but here my friends, we are talking about the most amazing meaning of Relation i.e. between two people in Love. [Read more...]

Who Needs a Valentine’s Day?

loveThe exhilaration of expressing love changes orbit as Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

Perhaps, you would be already burning the flab in your wallet, preparing for special surprises and candle light dinners to please your loved one.

Valentine’s Day is considered to be booming business time for the one whose targeted customers are young people while various socio-religious factions in India discourages the celebration as it is believed to be highly disgraceful and immoral for many Indian societies. [Read more...]

Children: Where did they go?

Article by: Shubham Purohit
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Should I start to believe that innocence has lost it’s way and never heading back.? Children have now switched their preferences from ground to chain of game stations in malls.

They don’t keep a toy collection but they are keeping a heavy collection of video games and computer games that are full of violence, sex . And all the things which are enough to make them what they not really are or what they shouldn’t be like. [Read more...]

More to Life than just Living it

Article by Pallavi Chittora

lifeLIVE RATHER THAN JUST BEING ALIVE. Born crying. Grew trying. Worked earning. Lived dreaming. Retired pilling & Died smiling.

Every person craves to fulfill all the parts of the above chain in life.

Some parts of this are fulfilled while the other remains desired and longed. The reason responsible for this is, The Style of Leading Life. Some say life is fun while some say it is a journey.

Some find life full of struggle while the other treats it as a game. Every person has a different view for life and when they synchronize this view with their demands and expectations from life the resultant are satisfaction, contentment, frustration, disappointment, enjoyment, pleasure and so on… [Read more...]

For old Baatcheet times’ sake!

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Baatcheet: Let’s talk! An initiative taken up by a select group of students of Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur set up on Sukhadia Circle for a single day stirred interest amongst the local residents.

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell team aspiring to learn and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst them, met up with Manish Jain, founder of the NGO Shikshantar with a purpose of refining their efforts. [Read more...]

Hookah: There is no such thing as ‘Safe Smoking’

Article By Shubham Purohit

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When everyone among us is now aware of the ill effects of cigarette smoking, the new generation smokers have switched their preference to Hookah or Sheesha as it is known in the Middle East.

Till date, the Hookah is linked with many myths in society from being a safe smoking device to that it contains 0.5 percent Nicotine, which makes it harmless to the human body. [Read more...]

Students Demand Flyover else Mass Movement

flyover-issueUnder the banner of Chaatra Sangharsh Samiti (CSS) many people went to meet UIT Chairman Roop Kumar Khurana in gandhigiri style to convey the feelings of the natives on the issue of a fly-over from Udaipur’s City Station to Court Chauraha.

Under the leadership of Dilip Joshi, Former President of MLSU and Prakash Suhalka, coordinator of CSS, Deepak Meghwal, Gautam Kumawat, Rahul Nagda, Anil Garu, Vinod Sharma and many young representatives reached UIT office and warned the Secretary, R.P.Sharma that the matter of fly-over should not be taken lightly. [Read more...]

Modern Materialism I cannot do without!

materialismMost of my time over the last few days was spent in worrying over the troubles I had faced with my Cell Phone.

Actually I must say troubles because they were more than one in number and to top it all, unfortunately all had come at the same time.

In addition to the normal hanging of a multimedia mobile phone and its slowing down, can you imagine your cell phone not registering a call log? No notification for text and mail received? Phone memory getting consumed on its own? [Read more...]

All That is Blocked Silently

common-manAtrocities against some very common individual rights are witnessed every day in almost every part of India and interestingly every common Indian is very much used to tolerating it.

One such example is the Aam Sabha (General Assembly) of Bhartiya Janta Party’s Kisaan Morcha, which was held today at Bapu Bazaar, Udaipur’s main market at 3pm. To add flamboyance to the event, roads from all three sides were blocked (Delhi Gate, Surajpol and towards Shakti Nagar) by erecting tents. [Read more...]