Date 22nd April’14, time 11:52 pm now, I feel something very constructive deep inside. I feel a fire, a fire that will take away all my discomforts, pains. Now, what kind of pain am I referring to? I am just 21. What is this pain about? To some it seems my hopelessness, my anguish of […]

Movie: Dekh Tamasha Dekh Director: Feroz Abbas Khan Cast: Satish Kaushik, Tanvi Azmi, Rating: **** In the opening scene of Feroz Abbas Khan’s “Dekh Tamasha Dekh”, a police constable is suspended from work by his superior for being careless with Elizabeth, a police dog. Through this scene Feroz throws the spotlights on things police pay […]

“London Paris Berlin Rome Moscow New-York Washington Geneva Vienna” This is the earliest lesson I remember I learnt in my childhood. Tall, big glasses, clean shaved, benign face with wrinkled eyes n mildly sunken cheek. That’s how I remember my grandfather. And he daily used to make me learn these names. The then new arrival […]

Man’s urge for scientific research and innovations has been guided for some time by basic instincts of survival and sustenance on one hand and acquisition and dominance on the other. Strategists and philosophers from Kuatilya and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Count Bismarc have influenced kings and rulers to support scientific pursuits for achieving their goals […]

Universally, the B-schools have been credited with delivering learning systems to provide the knowledge base and critical insights in trade, industry and business. Model building, case studies; role-play, scenario building, simulations, business games, etc. are used to make the process more dynamic and wholesome. Continuous dialogue and interaction are encouraged between the students and industry […]

Now that the euphoria or the disappointment of CAT 2013 is over, I am sure quite a few of you are looking forward to CAT 2014. There must be some new players in this game as well. And some of you, the old and the new, must be wondering – what to do next? CAT […]

In the past, Indians have been known to bemoan the lack of technological and economic progress of the nation on its large population that according to many is the Albatross dragging the nation down. Two decades of economic liberalization has changed the Indian scenario to a considerable extent, with greater foreign investment and inroads made […]

1-Give a candid description of yourself. Describe your formative years in brief. Are there any incidents in your growing up years which had a major impact on your life? 2-What according to you are your biggest achievements in life? Why are you particularly proud of them? 3-What extracurricular activities have you been involved in? (Sports/Community […]

1984 will always go down as the year of bad memories. The massacre of innocent Sikhs following the assassination of Smt. Indira Gandhi remains a black spot on Indian democracy. The fact that the innocents can be killed in thousands is terrible. What is worse is that the guilty went unpunished.The collusion of the state […]

In this Mexican film “Heli”, director Amat Escalante narrates a regular story of a family whose world is savaged by a drug cartel. Although the film is mostly brutal and senseless, you relate to this troubling story because of its neo-realistic standpoint. A depressing insight into a poor family makes for partly uneasy and occasionally […]