Today is Akshay Tritiya, a holy day for Hindus and Jains, famously known as Akha Teej. On this day Veda Vyas and Lord Ganesha began to write Mahabharata. The meaning of the word Akshaya is infinite that which never recede. It is unknown why and when ritual of marriage that started on this day lead to the child marriages and as the day says Akshay it’s not ending even today, doesn’t matter how hard we are tr ...

20th April, 2012 Press Club, Sector-27 Chandigarh Ravinder Singh, (Author- I too had a Love story, Can Love happen Twice?) Launched the Book, You & Me & Our Relationship- Nikhil Mukhija, a Book upon PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTRACTION, supposedly the first ever book in India written upon this subject. Talking to the Media he discussed various issues like, Mushrooming of chic lit authors, lack of Authors from L ...

For some reason the name Salman comes with controversy. Be it the Bollywood heartthrob, or the Union law minister for his minority reservation jibe or more popularly the present one since 1989. I was surprised to see that a friend who doesn’t know who the President of india is, knows Salman Rushdie. Thanks to the media crafted Rushdie movie which got interesting by each passing day. Add to this is one more ...

23rd march, 2012 It was the 81st death anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. One of my friends shared a video of ‘Ae Watan Ae Watan Humko Teri Kasam’ on facebook. Thanks to the inspiring lyrics, the feeling of patriotism filled within me and with that zeal of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’, I started reading about Bhagat Singh. As soon as I did that, I started noting down some qualities of Bhagat Singh to think over th ...

A Rendezvous Of Aspiring Writers And Bloggers Freedom is to be able to express the thoughts that linger in your mind. But how far do the ripples of your thoughts flow? To how many souls do your feelings and your words reach? How many minds do you want to tell your stories to? May be a million? In first of its kind events to build a closely-knit community of writers and readers, TalEx is organizing a blogger ...

Sagarika Chakraborty, an author of “A Calendar Too Crowded” is an awesome person. I would describe her as amicable, happy, bubbly, hyper-active, pretty, and intelligent too. It was a great pleasure talking to her and Youth-diaries is more than happy to interview her. Q.     When did you start writing? What inspired you to start writing? A.     If you mean when did I pen down my first story well you are in f ...

It’s a music that speaks for itself and for the youth. Unlike the conventional practice of playing live first and then securing a deal with a record label; Delhi based band ‘Sifar’ does it the independent way. The music and lyrics, which are written by Amit Yadav and Anshul Bansal are a reflection of their personal experiences and thoughts. These are the same experiences which are shared by the youth today; ...

There are soo,ooo,ooo… many people in our country! It is hard to believe that 7th largest country is 2nd most populated while US which is three times the size of India is only one-fifth as much populated. Once, Ankit, a friend of mine jokingly said ‘If 2012 calamity comes, the world will wipe out. But India? Indians will survive. There are so many of them! They will dig holes and hide under the earth, they ...