State home minister RR Patil will be pleased to know that college students have now joined the moral policing brigade. A few days ago, about 70 students belonging to different Rotaract Clubs got together and gheroed couples who were sitting along the seafront in Bandra. They held placards which read:...
Read MoreThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy—the much awaited prequel series to the ubiquitously acclaimed The Lord of the Rings Trilogy—based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. The trilogy’s second and the third...
Read MorePedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (2009) is a strange yet intriguingwork of cinema. A heartbreaking tale of love, Broken Embraces highlight’s the Spanish filmmaker’s love for filmmaking as well the medium, which is underlined by the following line spoken by the movie’s protagonist: “No, what matters is to finish it. Films...
Read MoreInkaar (which translates to “Refusal” in English) is a 2013 Hindi film written and directed by renowned Indian filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. Inkaar stars Chitrangada Singh and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles. While this is the third Sudhir Misha film that stars Chitrangada Singh in the lead—the other two being...
Read MoreDead Man presents the bizarre journey of a meek, naive young accountant who, after getting haplessly entangled in a deadly maelstrom, goes through an intellectual and spiritual transformation that changes his life forever. While any typical road movie could have served as an effective vehicle for the propagation of this...
Read MoreThe Master is the latest film by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. The movie comes after a gap of five years following Anderson’s highly successful outing in There Will Be Blood (2007). The Master stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams in pivotal roles. Anderson is one of...
Read MoreItalian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must be the Place is a beautiful film featuring an exceptional performance from Sean Penn. A casual viewer is ought to look upon it as a cocktail of a road movie, a detective movie and a Nazi-criminal-hunt movie. But a keen viewer would be able...
Read MoreMan of Steel is the first installment in the much-anticipated “Superman” reboot helmed by American filmmaker Zack Snyder. The movie marks the return of the DC Comics iconic superhero to the celluloid after a seven- year-long hiatus following the abysmal show of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns (2006). Co-written by David...
Read More(Continued from here) As students with arts and commerce backgrounds, you might be aware of a few of your limitations. You cannot solve all the questions. Ideally, non-engineering students should focus more on logical reasoning questions that don’t involve advanced level concepts from probability and permutations/combinations. The idea is to...
Read MoreWho does the stray dog in Mumbai belong to? Mumbaikars, NGOs or the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation? No one’s really staking responsibility and that has resulted in a bitter court battle between the NGOs and the BMC over getting rid of the lot. In 1994, the BMC started the Animal Birth...
Read MoreA screenshot excerpt of PaGaLGuY Channels Back in 2005 when business education in India was peaking, applicants to b-schools deserved a niche news portal that dissected the MBA programs and admissions better than the mainstream media did. That’s when we stepped in with the PaGaLGuY News section offering niche MBA-related...
Read MoreSouthpaw, sinistral, gauche, awkward, clumsy are all synonyms for left-handed. Really? Do left-handed people display all of these characteristics? The world thinks so, the same world where just 10-12 % are leftys or left-handed people. And so August 13 – World Lefty’s Day is celebrated by a very very small...
Read MoreIt is one thing meeting management institute directors and professors in b-schools. It is another bumping into them at a party or at a get together post a seminar and they are nothing like anything you have seen before. No, am not talking about all b-school officials, just those I...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Marian Institute of Health Care Management In jest, Fr Romuald D’Souza is often referred to as the founder of founders. After serving as director of XLRI Institute of Management, Jamshedpur and starting both, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar and Goa Institute of Management, this 88 year old now...
Read MoreShah Rukh Khan and his surrogate baby have been in the eye of a storm lately. And only because the actor chose to have a surrogate child instead of an adopted one. Pray, why should Shah Rukh Khan adopt a child and not use surrogacy? The explanation to this from...
Read More(Photo: mingusmutter) In this post, we are going to talk about two types of questions: Find out the area of the bounded region Find out the points with integer co-ordinates within the bounded region Let us first look at some graphs. |x| and -|x| These graphs will be mirror images...
Read MoreCows produce milk just like humans and precisely for the same reasons – to feed their new-born. But cows in cities like Mumbai are rarely given a chance to celebrate motherhood. Their calves, mostly males, are weaned away within a day of birth and killed or kept in precarious conditions...
Read MoreSouth Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park needs no introduction. Having started his career a couple of decades back with a little known film called Moon Is the Sun’s Dream (1992), Park has come a long way in his pursuit of filmmaking excellence. With his sanguinary “Vengeance Trilogy,” comprising Sympathy for Mr....
Read MoreI see them almost every night near the Bandra end of Bandra-Worli Sealink. I call them the speedsters. The guys on bikes who ride as if there was no tomorrow. A huge group, some with bandanas across their forehead, others with lose transparent shirts atop colourful singlets, but sadly none...
Read MoreThe Xavier Aptitude Test (2014) paper will have a few minor changes. To begin with, GK will be made part of the main test and not a separate paper like last year, when it was introduced. This also means that the main test which was of a 2 hours and...
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