January, 2016

• 10 January

  Funniest Book Bans in India: A Meme Storyboard!

  

  While books are the ultimate form of knowledge sharing & immortality of ideas, not all the books provide accurate accounts of reality. Each person is entitled to different perceptions of the reality that surrounds him & it is strictly no one’s business to impose his/her reality as the only triumphant …
• 9 January

  Ban on Beef: The “Holy Cow” and the “Holy Crap!”

  

  By now, the word “ban” may have become a very familiar one among all of us. It’s been thrown around nowadays like F-bombs all over the place. The moment a “babu” or a “neta” finds something repulsive while walking around in his daily life, he calls up all his neta …
• 8 January

  Ban on Alcohol: Can Gujarat go beyond the bootlegger?

  

  Living in Gujarat with the alcohol ban strongly influences every citizen of the state. This is what it did to me. If I had to summarize my journey in the world of alcohol, I’d say “From Gujarat to Gurgaon, to Germany, and back to Gujarat again”. So, now that that …
• 7 January

  7 inspiring movies ‘they’ don’t want you to see! Links to full movies in the article!

  

  ‘They’ is a very ubiquitous term which can mean the government, the society, the corporations, organized religion, authoritative figures that abuse their power & spoon-feed you like your nanny about what you should consume & what is too much (read, too truthful) for you to digest! However, here the pronoun …
• 6 January

  Ban on Swear Words: The Overreaction that Could Ruin an Art Form

  

  Ah, language; that lovely thing that we do with our mouths which can make the other person feel a wide range of emotions and feelings,  thus instilling the urge to reiterate and keep the conversation going. Language is as close to  an art form as dance or playing an instrument …
• 5 January

  Ban on the AIB Roast: One for the Overgrown Elitist Babies

  

  Sometimes, it is really important to put yourself in the shoes of others in order to understand what they must be. Well, today I would like to put myself in the shoes of the Indian government and some of these politicians, even though it is something I’m pretty sure I …
• 4 January

  The Country of Bans: The Era of Megalomania and Fanaticism

  

  Well guys, I just spent the last hour sifting through loads of news videos and videos of political leaders screaming their lungs out about how they think the Hindu culture and people are like Gods who may just wither and die like a flower if exposed to anything “impure”. Frankly, …
• 3 January

  The New Age Cure for Cancer: No more Hair Loss and Vomiting

  

  Back in 1600 BC, the anonymous writers of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, which contains the earliest written records of cancer, might not have even imagined in their wildest fantasies about the research that is being carried out by scientists at a molecular level in the era that we live in. By …
• 2 January

  Tesla Powerwall: Get off the Grid and Join the Revolution!

  

  The road to the future cannot be built without tapping into energy sources which abide by the rule of abundance. The more years we depend on ancient plants and animal dead bodies, the sooner we will realize that it’s quite literally, a dead-end. This is especially true when considering the …
• 1 January

  The Ancestor that Evolution Forgot: Homo naledi

  

  On September 10, 2015, scientists unearthed a discovery which would make us reconsider the entire process of human evolution, starting from the very lineage from which we have descended as humans. Within a cave system in the wilderness of South Africa, known as the “Rising Star” cave system, scientists discovered the …