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‘It’s all about the character you play’
After making his debut with Raj Kumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub has gone on to play memorable characters in films like Raanjhanaa, Tanu Weds Manu 2, Raees, Tubelight, Sameer and Manikarnika. His earnest performances in these films have established him as the go-to actor in the Mumbai film industry. In 2018 […]
Unsmart mission
The ‘Smart Cities’ plan of futuristic cities which operate by themselves using Artificial Intelligence is not even mentioned in the BJP manifesto. has it gone kaput? In 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised to build 100 Smart Cities across India, all in an attempt to modernise urban infrastructure so that it can handle the […]
The Virtual State of Facebook
What does it mean to be a citizen of social media, and how does that affect our relationship with the country that we actually live in? This April Fool’s Day, Facebook announced that it had removed from its platform several accounts, pages and groups indulging in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour or spam” from India and Pakistan. […]
Game of words
As we move from 2004 to 2019, ‘Indians’ trumps ‘India’, ‘government’ takes a back seat, and the Congress definitely played the ‘national’ card. Let’s take a look at the most-used words by political parties in their manifestos It’s another election year, and with it comes another round of heavily-loaded manifestos promising a pot of gold […]
People just don’t respect rules
On CV Raman Marg, New Friends Colony, workers have been digging near the main road to install pipes with PWD Permission. The issue here is that they were pulling up the soil very close to the trees. According to an NGT order, digging within 1 metre radius of trees is prohibited. However, the PWD permission […]
Defamation, misrepresentation, whitewash
Netflix series Delhi Crime, it turns out, was only loosely based on the official case files of the Nirbhaya rape case. The real-life patrol officer who called the Police Control room is not even in the picture, while the SHO and Nirbhaya’s friend say they have been defamed On a scorching afternoon, with the sun […]
Encashing cult status
Kamal Haasan is canvassing for his candidates while saving himself for Assembly elections, but observers are treating him with caution Emerging out of the sun-roof of his SUV, Kamal Haasan seems fresh and ready for the next 15 days of election campaigning under the merciless Tamil Nadu sun. However, he didn’t seem to have anything […]
Nothing but eye candy?
I am from Nagaland. I moved to Delhi three years back to continue my studies. I have faced various kinds of discrimination since the day I moved here. First of all, when I was looking for a flat or PG to stay in, I was questioned more than other people usually are. That may be […]