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You need not be bargaining nowadays. You need not walk out of the comfort of your home. You need not conduct a market survey to check prices. Period. Welcome to the virtual marketplace. We have been and is familiar with Big Bazaar, Spencer's, More, etc. But, from another side, names like Ebay, Flipkart, Amazon are popping out. These are mega e-supermalls- However, you cannot be walking in one of it's stores. You have to remain home, right in your chair or bed, as your preference, and 'order' the product virtually. You have to wait 2-3 business days and your product comes in home. There are tons of advantages if you buy one of these products from these online marketplaces. The greatest advantage is that you get heavy discounts. Sites such as naptol.com allow upto 80% discount at times, and that is really, really a great deal to strike upon. In the real world, you wouldn't get offers like these. There are 3 main advantages of online shopping. They are (a) He...

I've heard lots of whining and complaining from young gamers that their parents discourage them from playing shooting games in their home or in their local cyber cafe- they call it inappropriate. 'Inappropriate' in the sense that it has too much bloodshed, too much gory. 'What will my child get from playing these' is the question of every parent. I don't disagree with the fact that it doesn't have a lot of bloodshed, vulgar terms, gory, etc. In my own personal opinion- I have seen hoards of RPG shooter gamers more rude and agressive in nature than the ones who play cricket, baseball, mystery games, etc. I guess young gamers get into the game character very much these days. It'd have been completely okay if the barrier between the real and the virtual world existed. I will be neutral in this topic because both the parties (the parents and the children) are correct in their own sense. Let me begin with parents. They are true with their claim- I...

If you can use computer today, you are literate and is or have went to a school in your life. Yes, I don't say that there doesn't exist people who are illiterate- in India, about 35% of the people are illiterate. Since I write about youth and young people, you may be just a young person- either studying in school or maybe in college or maybe just got a job recently. Or, you maybe one of the many people reading my blog, so thank you. You may have observed a similar situation somewhere in your life. Read on to know more on what I am trying to say. The point is clear. Where is the education system in India heading to? Is it just mugging up lessons that you find in your textbook? Or is it just because you need marks? Think different, think wise. Will this mugging up session that you follow every year, increase your actual "knowledge" in any ways? I, in no way (I don't even have the interest to), discourage you from getting marks in school by mugging up texts...

Jab Tak Hai Jaan has made blockbuster entry into Bollywood. Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Till my last breath) is a very special film as it marks the last film of the legendary and ever-remembered Yash Chopra, without whom Bollywood wouldn't have been where it is, today. Yes, I am speaking unbiased. I do not work for JTJH-So  I will try to keep it as simple as possible.  The story is interesting, yet boring since many people in this generation will not be understanding the relation between the God and Man. They can't digest too much of superstitious beliefs, which is shown between Katrina (Meera) and her God. Jab Tak Hai Jaan is also listed as the top-ten films at the United States box office.  Let me begin with Jab Tak Hai Jaan's review. This, as I said is Yash Chopra's last film. Say it or not, it is somehow special. But, from another point of view, Jab Tak Hai Jaan is very hard to judge. The green meadows, the romance and the love- Sharukh has fused all of it- to give h...

Bahadur Shah Zafar II in 1858, captured by the British.  Bahadur Shah Zafar’s descendants want to lay claim to the Red Fort The direct descendants of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, who have long been bitter with the Indian government for not giving them their due, have now said that they will be suing to claim the Red Fort, which was the emperor's last main residence in India before he was exiled to then Burma. "My mother Sultana Begum only gets a pension of Rs 400 a month from the Indian government for being associated with the Mughal dynasty. We surely deserve better," said the great-great-granddaughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar, Raunaque Zamani Begum, 34, who lives in a small, one-room apartment in Nerul's Sector 11 with her family. Sultana Begum was married to the great-grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mirza Bedar Bakht, who died in Kolkata in 1980. The family also wants the pension paid to Sultana, who continues to live in Kolkata, to be i...

When it began 11 years ago, Wikipedia represented utopian ideals: power dispersed more evenly than any democracy, participation open to anyone and work done solely for the promotion of knowledge. But utopian ideals often become diluted when put into practice on a large scale and inevitably fail. Today, to the dismay of many die-hard Wikipedians — the tenacious, voluntary editors who are the site’s backbone — the site also attracts profit-seeking writers. One such writer is Soraya Field Fiorio, a 27-year-old entertainment-relations consultant who has a sideline in writing commissioned Wikipedia articles for musicians and writers. “Just like when I write press releases, clients say, ‘I want this. I don’t want that.’ So it’s really part of a promotional package,” she said. She charges $30 an hour to edit an existing article, and will write a page from scratch for around $250. It’s not surprising that musicians, writers, artists or anyone else seeking a spot in the public eye will p...