Very rarely do we find Bollywood celebrities who know how to maintain a decent internet presence amongst their fans. Now the word ‘decent’ may be questionable when light sheds on Poonam Pandey :P Few are aware of her acting career as her online dominance certainly undermines her ‘actual’ career. There is got to be something right when her popularity is booming and we here at DD give you ‘Top 5 things which Poonam does the best’!
India – the land of colours, festivals, food and spices. It is amazing how people around the world praise our culture and those few 100 firang millionaires bring their wife and kids down to beautiful cities in the north and south in the early months of September to explore such a rich culture. Perhaps, they even choose to board a train to get a feel of the Indian railways – the longest network of railways across the world apparently (Tee-Hee, wait till the fun starts).
We have come to the end of our Middle School journey and have opened a new door for ourselves in the Senior School building. This is not just a new class, but it is a new responsibility. We are just one step away from choosing our streams. The moment we reach class 10, there is one question on everyone's lips - Which stream are you going take next year?
This is about a night where I sat down with my friends, the three of us were bored at night and had nothing to do. After running out of topics, we finally started talking about something I hadn’t really thought about – Can India advance socially? This obviously lead to nonsensical jokes and ceaseless arguments.
To be honest, politics is not my strength, well is it yours? You can never know enough about it, especially when you’re an Indian with its vast history and the current affairs as well. A friend of mine is rather well versed with it, and I realized I knew more than most. So I guess it was an enlightening night in more than just one way.
If one takes India, with all the talk about secularism, riots, the upcoming elections, you would only come to a conclusion that India can never really be secular in the real meaning of the word no matter how it portrays itself. The recent riots and the Uttarakhand floods have gone on to prove this point. Riots occurred due to community enticement and no one remembers the real reason for it. Hindus have a reason, and Muslims have a reason, while now that it has cooled off, the politicians and the parties are pointing fingers at each other and playing the ‘blame-game’. After Uttarakhand flood rescue operations were being run, politicians were giving media interviews and posting on Twitter that they had rescued people without taking into account what state they were from or their religion. Well, hello? Isn’t it the way it is actually supposed to be. The fact that the politicians ( not taking names ) had to resort to such tactics, explains their true motive . What caused this? The ‘Modi-Effect’ of rescuing a large number of Gujaratis from there when actually he could’ve saved others as well. So the other politicians want to show how they are better midst all the people waiting for faster rescue operations and fighting for their lives.