Indian Institute of Students

Dear Gandhiji, You left us 62 years ago. If you were still around, you would have been 140 years old. However, we have not forgotten you. You are on every banknote and most stamps. There are many statues of you. Prestigious roads in almost every city are named after you. Our politicians try to model themselves on you. They wear the fabric you promoted, they quote you at every instance, they've got a photograph of you in their office and some even eat and live like you. There are books, TV programmes and movies about you. Seriously, you'd be impressed at how much we still adore you. However, there are things that won't make you feel proud. The India you spent all your life making free, is far from free. True, the white guys are gone. But there are still millions of poor people. In 60 years, we are still among the poorest nations on earth. This lack of money leads to a lot of problems in healthcare, infrastructure and education. In education, for instance, m...

Photo credit is given at the end of each photo.* The article is a digital reproduction of a Yahoo! News photo. Varun Dhawan:  David Dhawan's younger son Varun was no good looker. Several years and some serious styling later, the Student of the Year star makes for good eye candy! Isn't there a noticeable big style change?  Photo credit: Yogen Shah. 2: Salman Khan: The "Mashallah" and "Tiger" superstar Salman. The  Quite a journey from the solemn and sweet young man of then to the bad boy of today. The previous pictures does bring back a lot of memories.  3: Aamir Khan: This man needs no introduction. An actor and director and also associated with the filming industry for over a decade. Age has treated him well, buddy! 4: Kajol: I'll be frank, I actually didn't watch lots of Kajol films. But I did watch a few and they, according to me, are one of the best cine's I have ever seen. "Fanha", her film with Aamir Khan,...

So students, every year there are two monitors selected from your class, right? I'm writing this article from my past experiences. This is practiced in most schools. All monitors/leaders are generally the "best boy" of the class/school (in discipline), or maybe the highest academic scorer (Well, the criteria does vary from school to school- I have written the common practice) . Observing leaders and captains from various schools, I have come to a conclusion and just decided to publish this article, as a guide. Being a leader is not that easy. One has to be taking the responsibility of his/her whole class, or perhaps, the entire school. Being a leader demands a lot from us. Some random quotes are: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” -John F. Kennedy “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjust...

Are you a webmaster, having a domain and website running, or do you plan to create new websites, with e-mail features and such in near future? Well, this article is for you, then. The following piece of article concentrates on a web-based email client's vulnerability. The email client is none other that RoundCube- one of the most  popular email clients webmasters use today . Did you know that RoundCube's vulnerability reveals sensitive, confidential and important data about the domain, highly risking it's security? Read on to get a better grasp of what I am trying to say.  The following short technique I am going to expose gains a hacker access to a site's Webmail log-in page, which is usually almost impossible to stumble upon. Moreover, the RoundCube application's login page is stored externally on the FTP server- and it contains the port number which the site is using for sending e-mails. Port numbers are crucial in black hat hacking. Most sites provide ...

Did you remember I wrote a short article on Email Scams ? The following short interview was conducted via e-mail and I'm publishing the interview here. You can visit http://www.hoax-slayer.com  for being updated on all types of hoaxes and scams. Here are those:  1:  Why did you open Hoax-Slayer.com? A:  I became interested in online scams and hoaxes in 2003 after I was caught out by a virus hoax. The hoax claimed that downloading a Budweiser Frogs screensaver could give you a virus that could destroy your computer.   I sent it on to all of my contacts as instructed, but was soon informed  that the message was a hoax. I then started to research emails that came my way. Soon, people on my contact list started to send me messages for verification.  I then started an email discussion group about hoaxes and scams and, soon after, I created the Hoax-Slayer website. The site has grown from these beginnings.  2: Had you ever been ...