Government has taken a bold step of decriminalizing ‘attempt to suicide’ by removing the Section 309 from statute book. Until now attempting suicide was a criminal offence which led to a fine or an imprisonment of 1 year. This step by the government leaves me in two minds. One is, the government is actually moving forward by removing this act because it looked very … [Read more...]
If banning Uber for one rape is a solution, then why not ban the government itself for number of such cases?
India has been heavily tormented by rapes in the past few years and Delhi has been the capital of it. Last Friday night, a 26 year old woman was been allegedly raped in a taxi by its driver. She used her smartphone to book the cab. The app which she used was that of a US based company Uber. Ever since this incident took place, there has been a huge upsurge in our country to … [Read more...]
What every average engineering student should learn from 4 IIT-ians who rejected Rs. 1 crore packages!
What is the single most important dream of a student taking admission in an engineering college? It is to have a job in hand by the time his/her degree is completed. Almost 99% of students studying in over 4000 engineering colleges think like that. The question which I want to raise here is, is being an engineer only about working in a dead end IT company after the … [Read more...]
How 210 ‘WITCHES’ (women) were marched naked, given electric shocks and brutally killed
We Indians believe in God, religion, supernatural powers, myths, ancient stories and every superstition which you can possibly name in the book. And I don’t have any problem with people having their meaningless faith and ridiculous beliefs, no matter how stupid they may sound. After all it’s their own business, what does it have to do with anyone else? Sometimes it does and … [Read more...]
5 problems related to exams which only a VTU student can understand
In college, we bunk lectures, we party, we have night outs and we chill throughout the year but at the end of all this we do have to face our biggest fear, exams. No matter how cool or composed you think you are (I didn’t use the word sincere because if that would have been the case then you would have rather be studying now than reading this article right before your exams), … [Read more...]