Author: Arya Rai

Introduction  Here are the 6 best books for people who don’t read. Reading takes a long time for people who don’t read. Using their free time to watch a movie or a new TV show is more appealing and fun to people who don’t like to read.  Many people in Generation Z and Generation X also have shorter attention spans now. Impatience sets in when we see how long a video is. We’d rather speed up two times faster as long watching even a 10-minute video than wait for the time to pass.  Books are used for many different things.…

The ongoing ordeal of Nimisha Priya, a Kerela resident currently facing a death sentence in Yemen, saw a serious development. Justice Kurian Joseph, a former Supreme Court judge, has agreed to provide a route of mediation attempt for Nimisha Priya’s release. Who is Nimisha Priya and what was her crime? Nimisha Priya is a nurse from Kerala who has been operating a clinic in Yemen since 2015. She has been lodged in Yemen jail since 2020 for committing the crime of murdering a Yemeni resident, Talal Abdo Mahadi. It is alleged that Nimisha Priya’s passport was seized by Talal Abdo…

Summer is here and the heat is becoming unbearable, making us drowsy and listless, sucking all of our energy out. It’s April, and the season of treacherous exams is over too, as is the tedious online classes. Suddenly, all the fun activities we were planning on doing when the exams were over, especially distracting us when we needed to focus on studies, have now become less appealing and bored. Scrolling through Instagram as well is not that attractive now, where all the content is centred around the current trends with no originality from the creators. Also, watching people from school…

On April 7th, the state government in Allahabad affirmed that neither the Hindu Marriage Act 1955, the Foreign Marriage Act 1969, nor even the Special Marriage Act has accepted or recognized same-sex marriage. This case came before the court when the mother of one of the girls filed a Habeas Corpus plea letter to the court. Asking for the court’s help to get her daughter back after the inaction of the local police station. The station head of Attarsuiya, Prayagraj forwarded her plea to court in which she claimed that she was kidnapped and detained by another woman. She pleaded…

Summer is here and I already miss spring, when the sun wasn’t too hot and the air felt comfortable on our skin. So, in this heat, we get drained faster. Our energy leaks out like overused batteries, leaving us easily tired and bored. Everything irritates us, be it the boss at work or your mother’s gossiping about some random relative’s excellent daughter.  The activities we do in a day, how we interact with other people, or what we eat or drink also influence our energy. I’m not talking about only physical energy, which can be replenished with a glass of…

On April 12th, UGC or University Grants Commission’s Chief M. Jagdesh Kumar announced good news for all the students in India. Since last July, UGC, an institution that is responsible for maintaining the standards of higher education, has been working on enabling students to pursue dual degrees, or more clearly, two degrees from anywhere across the world. What are double degrees? A student can either enrol himself in two separate courses within a university, or he can enrol in two separate universities anywhere in India, or if he wishes to study and enrol himself in a university abroad, that is…

Madhya Pradesh In Khargone, a city in Madhya Pradesh, communal riots broke out on the day of the Hindu religious festival of Ram Navmi during the devotees’ procession through the city between two communities. The devotees were stone-pelted on their way. More than a hundred families have left behind their houses and possessions and taken up shelters in different cities at their relatives’ houses, seeking safety. The rioters damaged more than 20 vehicles. Thirty people were injured on that day, and SP Siddharth Chaudhary was shot in his leg as well. The 16-year old boy who was nearly shot in…

BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyah had filed a petition with the Election Commission, requesting that political parties that give freebies to voters before elections should be de-registered as they result in unfair competition amongst political parties. Image Source: Theleaflet Ashwini Upadhyah’s Petition There was a part of his letter about taking away the permission for political parties who want to influence people by giving them things they can get for free from the public funds of the government because they want them to vote. As part of his petition, he also said that it has a negative effect on the…