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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bored of what I usually do.  I decided to take a walk by the river.  I walked slowly, by its side, enjoying the cuddle of the wind.  I stood there, for a moment to watch it flowing away- waiting for none; not caring if anyone's passing through it or just walking by its side.  I watched it flow and flow with the same rhythm.  I wondered how deep it would be.  'Deep enough to drown you?' said my inner-self.  ...

A student from NIT Warangal wanted to win the world's coolest intern award from Stanford. For the promotion of his application he designed an algorithm that ran on Twitter. He didn't win the Award but today he runs one of the India's most successful online advertisement platforms. An Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Delhi, who was in love with photography and traveled the world clicking pictures, was o ...