“ Hurrah! Momma, just two days more for my birthday”, said a boy of 6 years to his mother excitedly. Though they are not celebrated in the same manner everywhere and in every culture, this occasion is celebrated by nearly everyone. Many of us give a special importance to this day. People worship God, buy new clothes, sweets, cakes, candies – entice Jack and Jill, paint the town red, decorate their house, receive gifts, bouquets, warm wishes from friends, hearty blessings of near and dear ones and what not.
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Pranay was thoroughly shocked when his friend Arav (name changed) told him that he wouldn’t be going to the US of A, despite scoring a mind-boggling score in his GRE exam. Same was the case with Shilpa, who preferred to remain in India rather than going abroad in spite of getting more than a decent total in the GMAT exam. Well, is that patriotism that’s holding them back in India? Think again. The recent outbreak of swine flu and a series of racist attacks on Indians staying abroad has instilled a sort of fear in the minds of students, who... Read→
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“Got the maal?” “Yeah, it’s beautiful. Trust me, the best I’ve seen. A perfect twiggy!”. “What are you waiting for then? Roll it up! Cant wait to smell Scandinavian.” “Viking style eh?”. “ This is the perfect day. We’re done with our exams. Blessed horse dung! This is smooth as mayonnaise.” This is the conversation between three students who are students of one of the B.Tech colleges belonging to our brotherhood. They’re done with boozing, fagging, piping and life was getting... Read→
July 10, 2009, 6:12 a.m.: This was the first time that Anagha had ventured out on a morning walk to fetch packets of milk, thanks to her dear milkman who didn’t deliver them at home that morning! She had her ipod to give her company so it wasn’t a burden afterall! She was just walking past the Jalagam Vengal Rao Park, close to her place, when she saw a group of people, mostly senior citizens, in their shorts, standing in a circle and roaring with laughter. The very sight of them brought a smile on her face!
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If shopping is an art, then shopping during sales is a kind of mastery, which can only be connoted through excessive indulgence. Whenever wallets run dry or when one gets sick of tightening belts, the word ’sale’ rushes up an instant blithe spirit pouring smiles again!
It was when shopping became no shopping, Hannah yelled at Vishesh for pestering her to hurry up while she was busy trying to choose the best of those new wardrobe assembles. Since the forlorn gates of college are to open and ever since its been raining sales in and out.... Read→
“A Joint a day keeps despair, dejection and denial away”, says Hari, (name changed) a student living at a hostel in Langerhouse. “Garam hona bhayya”, is all you need to say to get a pack of weed in twin cities within a span of 30 minutes. There are numerous drugs being circulated this very moment in your very own vicinity. Drugs like Cocaine are used comparatively scarcely due to their high price and the label of hard drug attached to them. The very accessible and so called ‘not so damaging’ drug among the lot is ‘weed’.... Read→
Torrents is a phenomenon that has taken the internet by storm. Ever wondered how people around you talk about some random movie which very few have heard of or avid discussion of random characters such as ‘Orochimaru’ and ‘Itachi’?
Confused! Well, the answer to this is ‘Torrents’. Be it the death of the legendary Michael Jackson or the much awaited release of Harry Potter and the Half – Blood Prince, the internet and more specifically torrents community have their own way of reacting to it. A search of the word ‘Torrent’ in Google... Read→
“Where the hell do you think you are going?” Aditya snorted through gritted teeth to his friend Vineeth, who was 10 meters away. Vineeth replied, cool as ice candy, “I am going f***ing no where. And how does it bother you? You dumb ass”. Listening to this, Aditya growled. It was so loud that one could mistake it for a bomb explosion. Welcome to the new age India!
The Youngistaan, where verbal abuse has become part and parcel of biological systems. The favorite pastime for a fifth grader in any of the urban schools is to find from his friend... Read→
They said, ‘Live And Let Live’. But when it came to letting us live, there seems to be some unclear friction coming up. Is it a simple misunderstanding that they wanted us to live, like they had lived… or is it an entanglement of unexplained rules that cheats us into believing that they meant it? Whatever it is, whichever form… Generation Gap definitely leaves youngsters disappointed with life and frustrated! Change; whether be it from saas-bahu serials to FRIENDS/ Heroes… or from the household Roti-saag to extra cheese... Read→
“To get something or someone fresh, is to catch it young”, said a local celebrity. Though it sounds weird it’s true. In the correct local lingo it’s called a ‘Double meaning statement’. One can always think about the above statement in two ways: One ‘Oh how weird’ and the second ‘Oh how logical’. To know what’s so logical and what’s so weird in the above statement read on and know how.
Firstly, the first thing that one would get into their mind, between reading the intro and clicking... Read→
