life-style ac-tivi-sm: (noun) intentional action in order to bring change in percieved definition of lifestyle in india
13th February confronted panic and confusion as Pune’s most cosmopolitan and up market area of Koregaon Park was plunged into disarray. A blast took place at around 7:00 PM in German Bakery, a café frequented by foreigners and youngsters, and raised consternation and foreboding when the road was splattered with blood and strewn limbs. Recollect [...]
Posted in: Politics by Tejal Johri
As the summit draws closer, we bring you the first of the pre-summit reports: speculations, guesswork, presumption. What will be the outcome of it all?
Posted in: Politics by Anagha Mahajan
Yet another feather in Obama’s cap – this time, it’s the Nobel. But, is he deserving enough?
Posted in: Politics by Sahil Khan
The election campaign is getting too personal and nasty for comfort. Far from focusing on the real issues, our great netas are spending time and energy taking cheap shots at one another. I suppose we deserve nothing else, knowing that we gave such people the power and position that they now take for granted. Many [...]
Posted in: Politics by Vedabrata Basu
A hand is much more significant to the mankind than, say, a lotus. The hand not only feeds us but has played a rather pivotal role in making us human beings out of chimps, or something such, by growing an opposable thumb providing dexterity of using it in case being illiterate. A lotus on the [...]
Posted in: Politics by Ashwin Mehendale
We say India is going to the dogs, but looking at the present election scenario, I often wonder if it is already there with ‘them’. The candidates who are contesting the elections this time are a in a class of their own. The most controversial, or “classy”, being Mr Sanjay Dutt. Apart from him, there [...]
Posted in: Politics by Ankita Ray
Love him or hate him, you just cannot ignore him. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujrat, is such a controversial figure that anything that he does or says becomes a newspaper headlines. Arriving at the political scene two decades ago, Mr Modi has won elections a record three times for the position of Chief [...]
Posted in: Politics by Ashish Padaruth
During the Cold War, if USA launched a nuke-loaded missile, Soviet satellites would inform the Soviet army in 3 seconds and in less than 45 seconds Soviet counter-missiles would be on their way. Recent studies commissioned by US Department of Defense included a study on possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan. This was their scenario: The [...]
Posted in: Politics by Vedabrata Basu
Politics in India has finally caught up with the Internet-age, even with ageing politicians. As the battle lines are being drawn for the upcoming General Elections, Mr L K Advani is trying to pull an Obama by going online; URL of his website – http://lkadvani.in. In the election campaign, Mr Advani will have at least a [...]
Posted in: Politics by Ashwin Mehendale
Comedian Russell Peters likes to joke that African-Americans aren’t really Africans; as neither they, nor their parents or grandparents were born in Africa. They’re just normal Americans with a tan. On the 20th, however, the 44th President of the United States was an African American in the truest sense of the word. Barack Hussein Obama, [...]
Posted in: Politics by Ashwin Mehendale