Varun Grover: Guy who made everyone hear him

Varun Grover is lyricist, writer, a scriptwriter, a standup artist and what not. He is one of the most celebrated writers and stand-up artists of India. He may even be called as the one who masters the language, not only in Hindi but also in English. He has also won a National Award in 2015-16. 

An artist with hardly shows any emotions on his face while doing his act is known for the cynical writings. Most of his work are pointing one or the other social or political issue prevailing in the country. 

Apart from being a stand-up artist, Varun Grover is known for his work as a writer for the TV series like The Great India Comedy Show, Sabka Bheja Fry, 10 ka Dum, Jay Hind!, Oye! its Friday and much more. He has also done some amazing works as a lyricist with songs like Womaniya, Hunter and Jiya tu. He has also written for movies like Gangs of Wasseypur, Dum Laga Kar haisha, Bombay Velvet, Fan, Masaan and much more.

Also read: IIT Girl performance taking all over the internet

The journey for him has not been that easy. Born to a school teacher mother and an army engineer father on 26 January 1980, is a civil engineering graduate from IIT, BHU in 2003. He always has been raising one or the other issues with his writings and works, he often has received many threat calls for his TV Series, Jay Hind! But one thing he didn't do was to stop and change his path. 

He has also been featured in India Today conclave and has recently been spotted in Abish Mathew's Son of Abish. 

For a youngster, he truly is an inspiration.

This IIT Girl performance is taking all over the Internet

Just when Internet was about to get out of the fever of IIT Roorkee's students' video of Ed Shereen's "Shape of You" another IIT performance has taken up all over the internet. This time it has even got better.

This video of IIT Delhi's dance competition has gone viral and for all the good reasons. IITs are mainly known for the serious crowds and nerds inside the college, but every now and then the students of these colleges continue to surprise us.

The girl is seen, in the video, to dance over the famous Dhating Naach from the Shahid Kapoor starer Phata Poster Nikla Hero. The original video from the movie has Nargis Fakri dancing over the voice of Neha Kakkar. This was Nargis' first item number.

The IIT Girl has fully justified the performance by Nargis with all the moves she made. Her performance is flawless and she is just enjoying every beat of the music.

Have a look here, watch: IIT Girl performing

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Delhi Metro to suffer amidst jat protests, major stations to be affected

Monday's commute to Colleges and office-goers from NCR towns as all metro stations would be shut down until further notice, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has informed.

This comes amidst the Jat community leaders are threatening to enter the city in their row of intensifying protests over the quotas in jobs and colleges. Delhi Police has asked DMRC to wind off the trains at last station on Sunday at 11.30 pm. As many as 22 stations of NCR towns which include from Guru Dronacharya to Huda City Center, from Kaushabi to Vaishali, from Noida Sector 15 to Noida City Center and from Sarai to Escorts Mujesar.

Apart from the NCR stations, 12 central Delhi stations are also asked to remain closed with effect from 8 pm, Sunday.

These 12 stations include Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central secretariat, Lok Kalyan Marg, Udyog Bhawan, Janpath, Mandi House, Barakhamba Road, R.K. Ashram Marg, Pragati Maidan, Khan Market, Shivaji Stadium.

All the stations would be closed down until any further notice from Delhi Police. 

Many colleges of Delhi University and other universities across Delhi would be reopening after a week-long holiday of Holi. It is expected many students would be facing difficulty as they return from the colleges. However, none of the university or colleges has declared any holiday. 

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Ramjas Protests: What have we achieved?

Whenever the events like these happen, a large sector of the population is directly or indirectly is affected. Most people never want to get involved in the protests willingly. For people who were inside the college, who had no idea what was happening inside the college, were asked to stay inside the college. 

The passers-by, from surrounding colleges, who got suspicious seeing the number of police officers or the QRT present on the college campus, the coaching institutes' going students, were in all affected badly with the row.

And the people who bullied or made it difficult to these people are the one's who call themselves nationalists and freedom fighters and are looking for Azadi or freedom. What are these people looking for? What kind of Azadi are we asking? Where is the situation heading?

In last few months, a new term has originated for Indian people, that is Intolerance. How can Indians be intolerance? All our grounds whether it be religious or political or any other grounds, we have been made out of tolerance. 

In today's scenario, from my experience, anyone who alleges a particular politician or a religion is often treated as the hero for the another religion or political party. What kind of society are we heading to? We don't even realise, statements like these, the heroes we make out of these protests, are adding up to those bunch of political leaders, who have been ditching us for over 60 years. Also, the kind of response we are giving to these people are also motivating people to do such protests in order to get famous. As a citizen of a society, we need to be sure whether what course would we stand against, what would motivate us to fight. 

What social media has done to us as a society, we are surrounded by the numerous events, and whenever we read a post about something or start a political debate online, it attracts a number of readers so quickly that soon it becomes a trend. It is easy for as a society to be united over an issue, and the recent political happenings are just proving it. A photo which criticises a particular party or an idea of a party accidently gets few hundreds like overwrites the work and image done by that political party. 

Similarly, for a group of people or a player or anyone who makes a statement. It has become far more easy to become famous. 

We are a democratic country, the constitution gives us an opportunity to do us whatever we want to, whatever we are looking for, but we as a society are ready to accept such a high level of freedom. Is the freedom of expression making us vulnerable to the slavery of our perception?

Clash of Titans: Mecca and Crossroads dates clash this year

Delhi University's most favorite college fest, Crossroads and Mecca, have finally revealed there dates and the two fests' dates will be clashing.

SRCC's Crossroads will start on 6th of this month and will continue till 9th of March, Hindu's Mecca will fluorish from 8th of March to 10th of March. The two titans would be hosting thousands of people on these two days.

Both the events are expected to have big stars coming up. There are news stars like KK and DJ Chetas would be attending the big Crossroads. Hindu college is also expected to host big stars and would have number of must attend events for students.

"Ye bhot galat ho rha hai, we wanted to attend both the events. Ye hi to do fest jisme maja aata hai, is baari to tempest bhi ni hua. We were hoping that Tempest loss would be made up by these two events. Now it would be difficult to choose. Hmare group me to abhi se division hona start ho gya hai, some are planning to go to SRCC and some are planning to go to Hindu.", said Satakshi Agarwal from Miranda house.

Crossroads, which happens for four days, has five events that would be clashing with the dates of Hindu College's Mecca, which has most of its events lined up in these couple of days.

Both the college fests are students favorites, so it would be interested to see, what would students chose as the clash would effect both the colleges. Also, it would be difficult for teams planning to participate in these two big college fests.