Who Needs a Valentine’s Day?

February 9, 2012 By 2 Comments

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...]

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Children: Where did they go?

February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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...]

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More to Life than just Living it

February 7, 2012 By 1 Comment

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...]

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All That is Blocked Silently

January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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...]

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Resolution of a Citizen

December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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As we prepare to bid adieu to 2011, we are summing up the positives and negatives that we had in the year, while at the same time preparing for a fresh start to the New Year.

I had been jotting down NYR (New Year Resolutions) in my mind when suddenly a thought, as to why we could not make resolutions ‘as a citizen’ came to mind. [Read more...]

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Why Not the Marts? My take on FDI

December 29, 2011 By 2 Comments

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“FDI investment will be a good bargain for India“, say the experts. Consumers will have access to superior quality goods at bare minimum costs and the farmers will also get better returns, which could assist in infrastructure growth.

In the last few weeks, on-going discussions between the government and the opposition over FDI in the retail sector in India caught the attention among retailers, but the middle class populace is still confused about the issues. What does the decision mean for a common man? Will this bring a change by providing relief from cruel food prices? [Read more...]

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2011: The Year of Anna Hazare

December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

anna-hazareWhether one likes it or not, the year 2011, now at its end point, will be remembered in India as the year of Anna Hazare.

His movement, commencing with his first fast andolan in April this year is a very major movement having a lot of implications for our democracy. After dragging the issue for about forty years and eight abortive attempts, the country is going to have a LOK PAL in place. Only its form and its efficacy could be the debating points. Full credit goes to Anna and Team Anna. [Read more...]

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Authoritarianism on Social Networking Content?

December 9, 2011 By 13 Comments

INDIA IS A DEMOCRATIC NATION. Maybe this is the first sentence that every Indian citizen would say to describe the country. In old school sense, it is true. The leaders who made our Constitution kept this in mind in every law they made and every amendment that they still do.

However, over the last few months and especially during the last week my doubts on our strength as a democratic nation began to gather strength (sic). I have been reading about matter that makes me think of my freedom – because I believe that people sitting on their luxury chairs in Delhi are now restless. They have witnessed the Anna Hazare movement, which to an extent gathered nationwide strength and global patronage through activities on the Social Networking sites. They also beheld the anger in people, which was expressed through online journals against Kalmadi and the façade around the issues surrounding the Common Wealth Games misadventure. [Read more...]

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How worth is to react on an Abusive Facebook Update?

November 23, 2011 By 7 Comments

facebook-updateProtest and aggression has disrupted the peace of Udaipur during the past 3 days. This aggresive public opposition initially began due to the update of an abusive graphical image of the Islamic pilgrimage site on a social networking site Facebook.

Facebook was a mere social networking site few years back but now it’s a second home to many millions of people. An increasing number of internet users spend a good part of their days on Facebook and if Facebook was a country it would have been the 3rd largest with 500 million netizens.

The sheer purpose of Facebook was to present one world to all, where people could connect, share and voice their opinion to all, minus the physical boundaries of nations and mark my words Facebook has done far beyond its purpose.

It gives us platform to make friends or find old friends, contacts and new business deals, share stuff, comment on it and a lot more. All sorts of profiles of Individuals, groups, socialists, anti-socialists, business, news, political, extremists, celebrities and even human trafficking pages could be found there.

But the question is, to what extent we should allow this virtual world to influence our real world? How are the users supposed to react on Facebook activities? Are all FB actions worth a reaction? [Read more...]

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Why do we love Firecrackers on Diwali?

October 24, 2011 By 8 Comments

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Diwali is certainly indescribable without two most essential features; one is diya/deepak and other is firecrackers. Both of the said things are symbolically attached to one of the most celebrated festivals of India.

Although it is a Hindu festival but it’s widely celebrated by every Indian community and castes.

Since I was in my early teens, I am crazy about Diwali, that’s mainly because I will get chance to light firecrackers at my terrace with friends. My only intention or best you can say, it was a ‘mission’ to collect more and more pocket-money to buy as many fire crackers as I can.

Even today, I am fascinated with Diwali because of its characteristics features which turn every house, lane and city looks bejeweled and prosperous. About concept of fireworks I started thinking in another way unlike when I was 13 year old.

Lots of questions popped up now about this typical way of celebrating by lighting firecrackers worth hundreds and thousands of rupees.

Why we are tend to follow the tradition of observing fireworks on Diwali? What psychological satisfaction we get after burning and bursting those small sparkling objects? [Read more...]

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