The immortal Judy Garland’s ‘Over the Rainbow’ and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz took centre stage at Narratives 2017, held in Patna Women’s College at the Department of Communicative English. What better way to start three days of exploring the messages in the media than by having the best guitarist in the world , Eric […]
Bihar is going to witness the longest human chain formation on January 21, expected to be over 11,000 km long in support of the liquor ban. It is going to be the largest human chain ever formed in the world and is said to go down in the Guiness Book of World records. Around 2 […]
Sir, The tragic event which happened in Patna on the eve of Makar Sankranti in which an overloaded boat capsized claiming the life of 24 fellow Patnaites, deeply saddens me and makes me ponder. As the spot of the accident is close to me and at one of my favourite destinations of the city, it […]
Sir, It was only recently when the city was celebrating Makar Sankranti like every year on 14th January. In the evening, when I switched on the television, I saw in the breaking news about the boat tragedy, which happened near NIT Ghat and killed almost 20 – 25 people and many of them are still […]
Sir, Whatever we see, it doesn’t reflect the reality always. It is so with the reservations (Quota) system in India. The systems of reservation in India were proclaimed to bring equality among masses for the sake of backward categories (OBC, SC, ST) of our society in different government legislatures or jobs and even in educational […]
Sir, Yesterday, when I was waiting for an autorickshaw near Boring Road I saw a group of boys around 16 to 20 years age dressed shabbily which they pretend to be cool, were smoking proudly. How tragic it is that about 13 lakh people in India die every year due to diseases related to smoking […]
Sir, Shopping of citizens of Patna have been changing and online shopping has brought about a drastic transformation in the buying behavioral habits especially that of the middle income group. The developing online market is characterized by domestic and foreign investors, it’s growing and ever hungry consumers like us apparently have insatiable demand for all […]
Sir It’s good to know that records have broken free from the collectors’ shelf and all the nostalgia associated with these crackling musical discs, and vinyl record sales — probably, for the first time ever in history — have outstripped that of digital downloads. While the resurgence was recorded globally in the run-up to the […]
Sir, It is good to see that Newsnet One consistently publishes news items that are not highlighted by the mainstream media, and that issues are raised here that are not ‘passing sensations’. There are several media students, or shall I rephrase that as ‘students of the media’ who contribute to this site from time to […]
Sir- I recently watched this film “The Color of Paradise” an Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed’s blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries […]
Sir, Sashi Deshpande’s novel ‘That Long Silence’ is an autobiographical narration. This novel is a masterly work of purposeful fiction set in a middle-class Indian family. It is subtly concerned about a woman’s struggles, in context of contemporary Indian society and about her efforts to find her identity as a wife, mother, and of all […]
Sir, Education is meant for the all-round development of a person. But today the whole education system merely focuses on the quantitative aspect of the students whereas their qualities somewhere seem to die under the burden of the dreams, interests, and ego of the parents and teachers. In the present education system, teachers instead of […]
