Rise For India

The Change Is Us

In India, burgers and fries are not for poor. McDonalds is not saying this, but someone else is.

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Recently after the shameful incident which took place in a McDonalds restaurant in Pune, there have protests going on all social networking websites against the franchise. I have read hash tags like #McDonaldsmustlearn, and comments where people have said, ‘If McDonald’s is going to keep this attitude then they should stay in America only.’ Now the doubt which I have in my … [Read more...]

Can a 17 year old boy unite India & Pakistan? Arsh Arora from Delhi is on his way to do so!

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Hectic days in school. Tuitions. Exams. Football matches sometimes. Pressures, preparations, and ambitions. That is how life usually is, for a 17 years old school going boy. But what happens when he thinks out of the box? Thinks beyond becoming an IITian and getting a job which pays fat? Yes, he kindles up a lot of hope. Harps hard on the ‘this generation is so self-centered’ … [Read more...]

Sanjay Dutt has proved that how prison time for a celebrity is just a joke in India

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Over the last few weeks, the news of Sanjay Dutt’s prison furlough has been reported regularly in every sort of media. We have all been in the loop of what has been going on with the actor during his leave. And as the days have passed and the story unfolded, various questions have popped up in relation to this single issue. Let’s recap a little On the day Mr. Dutt was … [Read more...]

Can’t Shaktimaan beat Batman and Superman? Let’s give our Indian Superheroes a chance to fight.

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These days when the American TV channels are blooming with superheroes, what has happened to our Indian superheroes that once caught our imagination? The golden age of Indian heroes is long gone by but the shame is that, in an age when we are creating books, films and documentaries of high stature in the world view, we have not been able to create one such superhero that … [Read more...]

Lack of food is not what’s keeping poor people hungry. Some shocking facts about hungry India

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As I walk down the road to my home every day from office, I find myself walking through a lane flanked by hollow bellies selling incense sticks and miscellaneous items and staring hopelessly at people walking past them ignorant of their presence. Their silent eyes and lips somehow keep screaming about their hunger that perhaps has been killing them since years. I wonder if … [Read more...]