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Yesterday India lost one of its most popular, revered, trusted and beloved female politician, arguably in the entire Indian history. Sushma Swaraj was a leader of heights that very few politicians ever manage to reach, let alone women. A mother, a wife, a politician, a minister, a nationalist and above all a visionary who was filled with nothing but compassion for Indians everywhere which she proved in more ways than one during her tenure as the Foreign Minister of India. On the day of her death, her last tweet was congratulating PM Narendra Modi for his bold and much anticipated decision to scrap article 370 of the constitution of India. She basically said- she lived this far to see this day come to reality, and then she left us. May Peace be hers. Her visions and words will guide India for centuries to come. What I personally admired about her the most was her skills of oratory. When she spoke, the world listened. Be it UN, OIC or the Indian Parliament itself. Her vocabular...

Since a very long time, I was wired to think that democracy is the best way to go as far as governance is concerned. Not just that, as part of my school education(ICSE board, set up by the Cambridge University, London: essesntially a follower of democracy) democracy was touted as next to perfect. While communism and dictatorship is touted as evil warlords of some kind. As I read NCERT recently, it still does. Making me a frog in the pond. But as I gain more knowledge I see several benefits of a concentrated power at the helm, like in China or in Russia.  Sure there have been massive failures of communism and/or dictatorships around the world, but there are several successful examples as well which our education system often tries to underplay. For eg. the communism in China has been a massive success and I cant stop thinking about it. Under the leadership of various visionaries and now Xi Jinping, China has accomplished the unthinkable. Once upon a time, just like us, China w...

The quest of nostalgia often proves unworthy. It comes when it comes. Naturally! The Lion King is a Disney legend that would be remembered for a hundred years to come. Sequel or no sequel. The trailer for the new sequel looked amazing, with stunning scenes of Africa, and so realistic but this time it had Beyoncé in it. So it was hard to miss. So I made a stopover to the nearest Cinepolis, first day, second show! It began with great setting, powerful voices, detailed characters and stunning graphics. James Earl Jones as Mufasa was indispensable to this project. It made me wonder if Amitabh Bachchan would have been a better choice than Sharukh Khan to voice Mufasa in the hindi version of the movie. The cinematography felt a little copy pasted, lacking a natural flow which created a lesser immersive experience than one would hope for. The adult Simba kept reminding me of Alex, the lion from the Madagascar Franchise for some reason. Even the half time break felt abrupt, somebody in t...

After Kylie Jenner, a 22 year old girl with no specific talent (at-all) made news all over the planet for being the world's youngest billionaire, the power of well managed Business and exclusive Endorsements was demonstrated. Kylie Jenner, from the bedroom of her Calabasas home, California, promoting through her Instagram profile, at no cost basically, created one of the most in-demand skin-care line for young women. Coupled with a single exclusive endorsement deal, one of the most expensive deals in fact, with Adidas, made her a billionaire at the age of 22. Compared to that Jay-Z, one of the most prolific artist of our time, became a billionaire only by the age of 49 years. And only a handful of artists have ever achieved that size of financial success in human history. This realization has lead to a frenzy of pop artists entering business for themselves. First came Rihanna with her well-selling line of Fenty Beauty products, with the niche of making cosmetics for all com...

So I have shifted to New Delhi, our capital city only a few days back. I'm here to kickstart the next phase of my academic career using India's premiere coaching institute. But let me tell you the truth. I absolutely hated it and pretty much still do. I have never liked Delhi to be honest. I have stayed here for a shorter period of about 6 months, around 6 years ago in a different part of the city. My earlier stay was in a much worse part pf the city, but it was counter balanced by the fact that I stayed with the best person I have ever known- my bff. 6 years on, now I'm located in one of the most sought after locations for students- and I still hate it. And today I will tell you why!! Firstly, the temperature! You must have seen the latest articles telling us how massive parts of India are too hot for human kind to stay at. Yeah- the first on that list is Delhi. Right now its slightly better, but when I first landed here it went as high as 46-47 degrees(Celsius). I...

So I found time to watch the latest bollywood release- Kabir Singh with Shahid Kapoor and a few beautiful women I’m not bothered to learn the names of. After a long time, medical profession and live of doctors was the baseline for a very mainstream movie, the last one was Munna Bhai MBBS, and it was a wonderfully entertaining with great social message. So I had a lot of expectations. It was a remake of the south Indian movie Arjun Reddy and I’m not familiar with it at all. And lets just say, in spite of a watchable story line, it let me down in so many parameters, so many dimensions, it won’t be easy writing this. So first lets start with the good. Almost everyone of the cast member are great actors and it showed (other than the various beautiful romantic entanglements of Dr Kabir Singh, MS Orthopedics, thats why I’m not bothered to learn their names). Shahid Kapoor does an incredible job of portraying an aggressive, testosterone fuelled doctor with severe anger issues and blat...

So I have been gone for a really long time and a lot has happened since then. Narendra Modi won the election with massive landslide that I'm grateful for, The big bang theory came to end, so did VEEP, Modern family, and a lot of my favourite shows. My internship got over, my long delayed and super-painful dental treatment came to an end, Cardi B won a Grammy before Nicki Minaj (once a nightmare, but now I don't hate it), and above all of this, I am finally the unemployed depressed MBBS graduate that I always wanted to be. I pulled over all my health issues, physical and mental, to conquer my internship and it was a long road. The people I trusted the most once upon a time are all OUT of my life, it was painful but I would have killed myself if I had an hour longer with them and its extremely unburdening(Yayy!!!). My dental treatment that tested my patience and my pain threshold limits, got over today with the 'cap' placement so now I'm free to fly out wherever...

, After almost 30 years in development at HAL, when compared to international biggies like Gripen from SAAB, the Tejas does falls short but its too quick to be discounted, and actually it represents more than a sub par army jet and I will tell you why... After planning started in 1980, development didn't start until 1990 when the funds actually started to flow into the project. Built with a meagre budget of 1 billion USD, Tejas is the first indigenously built light weight fighter jet by India's HAL. After several delays due to Engine procurement, funds shortage and sanctions on India after 1998 underground atomic testings, the Tejas started flying by 2004 and so far it has hadn't had much of a glitch. That's not to say it doesn't has issues. The engine is imported from GE (cuz the proposed indigenous Kaveri couldn't be developed on time), which is not providing enough thrust, the payload is not huge and it weighs a little too much for the given category/en...

Making her own rules as she goes, from nothing to once in a century Divadom- Onika Tanya Maraj a.k.a. Nicki Minaj was bound to rise through the ranks, as real talent cant be put down for long. Nicki Minaj has surpassed by a huge margin any women who ever came to Rap. She has been the reigning queen of rap since almost Decade. Here are some records that Nicki has set through her career. - Nicki has to her name the highest number of billboard hot 100 singles in the history, more than MJ, Bey or anyone else. -  Throughout her career, Minaj has received numerous accolades, including six American Music Awards , 11 BET Awards , four MTV Video Music Awards , four Billboard Music Awards , a Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award, and 10 Grammy Award nominations. . - Nicki has highest number of videos with 100 million views on Youtube. She is tied up with Rihanna for that record.   - Apart from music, Fashion Industry is where Nicki has left a massive impact. - ...

When a long forgotten actress Tanushree Dutta finally came out about her sexual woes at the hands of the veteran Bollywood actor Nana Patekar, a man who has mastered theatre, Marathi as well as Hindi movies and whose acting skills knows no bounds, it created a chain reaction when more and more women came out with there stories alleging over half a dozen celebrities- not just men, but women too, of sexual harrasment at the work place. These are not minor celebrities either- veteran actor Alok Nath, director Vikas Bahl, comedians Tanmay bhatt and Gursimran Khamba, Musician Kailash Kher, Union Minister MJ Akbar, comedian Aditi Mittal etc. It was a shocking revelation and one that has divided the country. I was talking to a friend last night and he called it a copy-cat movement from the west, but he had no answer to the question why his favourite Bollywood actress, who is one of the top most A-lister of Bollywood currently rests to gain from alleging work place harrasement on a direc...

It wasn't long time ago that I thought Modern Family was the best internationally acclaimed comedy series on TV, but change is what happens every time you think you know something. I watched the first season of Veep and realized theres nothing quite like it. A comical satire on American Politics, it spoke to me cuz it came awfully close to my perception of American Politics. And the curses- they are half the fun of that show. Universally critically acclaimed, its a sparkling Crown jewel of HBO. So the plot revolves around a rich bred politician Selina Mayer, played by 'American TV's Meryl Streep'- Julia Louis Dreyfus, who dreams of becoming the first elected female President of the United States, but mostly for the perks and power, and not quite for the privilege and duties of the position. She is not a good orator, not an intellect, nor a fine stateswoman, and everyday is a disaster waiting to happen in her office. The show begins after she loses the election t...

So I finally found time to watch this epic movie and in one word- Im floored. 3 of the most reputed talents in the Hollywood- Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep came together for this Biopic and since the day of announcement I just knew this movie was going to give me severe goosebumps. And it delivered. So its all about the Pentagon Paper leaks in 1970s in the President Richard Nixon regime which brought a massive truth in front of the American public as well as the world. So basically The United states was at war with North Vietnam for a period of 30 years to prevent a communist take over of South Vietnam by the North Vietnam. The American army lost billions and during Nixon period 300 army personal deaths were occuring each week while the several successive government kept assuring the media and people that they were making progress each day. The truth was that American army was not at all trained for densely canopied rainforests of Vietnam which the Vietnamese m...

A lot of pop or otherwise, artists have tried hands-on with acting but very few could find the connection genuine and strong enough to stick to it. (Except for JLo! This one woman does it all) Over the years Madonna failed, Shakira's same, Rihanna, Nicky Minaj doesn't wants to do movies anymore, Beyoncé hasn't done any move in like a decade ('Cadillac records' a biopic on the life of legendary black singer Aretha Franklin was her last, R.I.P. Aretha) in spite of the fact that she is brilliiant. But this autumn, Bradley Cooper's directoral debut and a remake of a legacy, starring the one and only Lady Gaga seems to be poised to change that. We all know theres nothing this woman cant do. She jumps off the height 15 storey buildings for NFL while 100s of drones dance behind. She stood alone in front of Trumps building, at midnight, with a board that says 'Love Trumps Hate' when he announced the deportation programs for millions of latinos that have be...

The first trillion dollar firm in the human history represents more than just unimaginable profits. The Cupertino based giant is neither the first nor the largest manufacturer of smartphones yet it stands the tallest, of all firms in the whole world. what happened as such... The first iPhone was launched in 2007 while its behemoth of a rival- Nokia was at its peak. Soon Nokia's shares started sliding from a record market capital of around 250 Billion USD until its flailing smartphone business was sold to Microsoft for 7.3 Billion USD. It happened so because Apple pretty much revolutionized the industry. For example Apple brought to mainstream- Touch based input system, minimalism, fingerprint sensors, exclusive App store, proprietry software on all its devices, keen eye on craftsmanship of devices, yearly launches of new models, one flagship serves all system, exclusive tie ups with carriers etc. Further Apple has been able to generate a cult following throughout the glob...

Pet project of Billionaire Tycoon Elon Musk, Tesla motors brought into the mainstream- Powerful, Quality Electric Vehicles, at a time with no competition. His other projects like SpaceX and Hyperloop are just as revolutionary. So what makes Tesla Motors so important in the world?? At a time when each country is scrapping its funds for petroleum imports and reduce its carbon footprint cuz of impending climate change and more, while the only mainstream, concentrated source of energy are the ones Fossil, depleting fast and spewing International hate and paranoia, Economic instabilities, debt that several countries wont recover from, and last but not the least- Pollution. At such uncertain times, Tesla shows theres a clean road to the future. Ahead of its time and ahead of its competition, Tesla motors shows us a dream where not just our cars, but our trucks also run on clean energy, zero emission. The electric current if sourced from renewable energy will be win-win. Internation...

The sad demise of Ex- Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has just made me aware how scarce are men of his status, the giant leaders who have a vision and shoulders strong enough to take a democracy of 1.3 Billion people forward, each day a little bit till it has made a real change in the common man's life. We owe our freedom, our prosperity, and everything we have to such great leaders, It has been a long journey since India achieved freedom from British Imperialism, and by the end of 2018 India will overtake The Great Britain as 5th largest economy of the world. All the thanks to our current Prime Minister Narendra Modi!! And while our PM is taking the country forward to the most positive state since a really really long time, The longest running ruling party of the country is so hell bent on misogyny and patriarchy that they refuse to move on from their failed plans of putting a giant baby as the PM of this country. They have Priyanka Gandhi right unde...

Its here! Its here! Its here! After asking us to wait even more, the 'Queen killer, with massive rear' has finally released her 4th studio album titled "Queen". Packed tightly with 19 tracks, unlike the new trend of mini-albums, Nicki just gave us a buttload of Nicki to hear to, and I couldn't be happier, especially when I'm on bedrest due to a cold situation. Complete with collabs from The Weekend, Lil' Wayne, Labrinth, Future and his majesty Eminem, himself. Few hours and already No. 1 @iTunes of 64 countries, this album is supposed to re-affirm Nicki's Crown at the game and, so far so good. Ever since Cardi B rocked me, I was so in need of a Nicki dose. And now I'm so on the clouds, if you know what I mean! Also on account of being so biased, I wont be reviewing it at all, I will just bask in her glory and everything else will be taken care of. Adios. #NickiMinaj #Queen Heres the track list

She is 37 years old, a wife loyal to the fault, mother of 3 but she still manages to take away breaths of millions with her voice and her suave. The biggest Fashion icon there is, her stage presence is a lesson in textbooks for artists to come for the next century or so. But why do some people hate her?? Wikipedia says-  Throughout her solo career, Beyoncé has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artist s . She has won 22 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history. She is also the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards , with 24 wins, including the Video Vanguard Award . The Recording Industry Association of America recognized Beyoncé as the Top Certified Artist in America, during the 2000s decade. In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2000s decade, and awarded her their Millennium Award in 2011 . In 2014, she...