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Generally, self-balancing technology uses gyroscopes but they add a lot of weight. Instead, Honda's Riding Assist system increases the rake angle the front forks and disconnects the handle bar. it then uses minute steering inputs to keep the bike perfectly balanced.Previously, such technology has been seen in the BMW Vision Next 100 Concept bike. While the BMW motorcycle might look a little like it came from the future, the concept bike displayed by Honda at CES looked pretty much of today's times. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486998501414","data":"58a1cc215d70c"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486998723427","data":"58a1cd0819b78"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486998745459","data":"58a1cd19e4e92"}]
All of us are commonly aware of this so called phrase\"VALENTINE'S DAY\".Love is a feeling which is connected to hearts not genders.It is not only meant for opposite genders but also parents&children,friends and siblings.Here's the short inspirational story of a father and his son,Which shows us how pleasure true love actually is.....<\/p>
A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner.Father being very old and weak.While eating,dropped food on his shirt and trousers.Others diners watched him in disgust while his son was calm.After he finished eating,his son who was not at all embarrassed,quietly took him to the washroom,wiped the food particles,removed the stains,combed his hair and fitted his spectacles firmly.When they came out the entire restaurant was watching them in dead silence,not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486998774838","data":"58a1cd349a802"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486998770742","data":"
The son settled the bill and started walking out with his father.<\/p>
At that time,an old man amongst the dinners called out to the son and asked him,\"Don't you think you have left something behind?\".<\/span><\/p>The son replied,\"No sir,I haven't\".<\/span><\/p>The old man retorted,\"Yes,you have!You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father\".<\/span><\/p><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486999394287","data":"58a1cfa4a898a"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486999856013","data":"I will always need my father ,No matter what age i may be.My father had made me laugh,made me proud,made me cry,seen me cry, hugged me tight,cheered me up and driven me crazy at times.but my father is a promise that i'll have a friend forever.<\/div>Love your parents.We are so busy growing up.We often forget they are also growing old.We are the only hope to them."}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1dfff6658astryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"A Letter","title_id":"a-letter4","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Krishnasai Yelugam","authorUserName":"krishnasai2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":11,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"Love,valentine's day","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter4\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487002736112","data":" Ajay, who has to give a presentation on his current project progress was searching for his pen drive in his room. He searched every corner of his room which turned out to be in vain. Then his eyes glazed upon his closet. He opened his closet as his \u2018forgetting \u2018nature questioned him. Down goes the searching of cupboards, lockers and everything which can hold his pen drive. He then turns to his clothes. Each of his clothing had their turn. At last, the diary under the blue t-shirt gets his attention. Then the diary, his personal dairy for the year 2001, had a letter sticking out between its pages.<\/p> \nScientists are cracking their heads to find a way to do time travel, never had they known that an unaddressed letter can do that.<\/p> \nThe Letter read<\/p> \" Hey... Anjali,\nI don\u2019t know where to start, but here it is, the first time I saw you, I never thought that you were going to be a great part of my life, because I was stupid enough at that time, not to feel that. Every time you smiled, you took my breath away. Every time I had to drag myself into me after hanging out with you, which keeps circling around you. If I was paid a rupee every time you crossed my mind, I would have given the World Bank, a loan. All those little teasing, was to see those beautiful devil looks on your face. (Pardon me, for those)<\/p> I\u2019ve been asking Lord Krishna every Valentine\u2019s Day, \u201cWhere is my Radha?\u201d Well at last, he answered me in the form of you. I had been practicing a lot to say it to you but the fear of response let me down. With failing every time, this time to confess.<\/p> All that I wanted to say is,<\/p> Hand-in-hand together as 1 <\/b><\/p> My LOVE for you beyond 4<\/b> letters,<\/p> Be my better half as 3<\/b> in the 8. <\/p> WILL YOU MARRY ME?\n\"<\/p><\/p>Tears rolled out as he read the letter. Then came the mobile ringing, he wiped off his tears as he had to attend the video call of his little daughter, Anjali.\n<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1e38577affstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"EQ over IQ?","title_id":"eq-over-iq-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":1,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"EQ,IQ,Intelligence quotient,Emotional Quotient","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/eq-over-iq-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004452442","data":"IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a number derived from a standardized intelligence test. On the original IQ tests, scores were calculated by dividing the individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that number by 100. So a child with a mental age of 15 and a chronological age of 10 would have an IQ of 150. Today, scores on most IQ tests are calculated by comparing the test taker's score to the scores of other people in the same age group.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004524378","data":"58a1e3b09920c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004541881","data":"EQ, on the other hand, is a measure of a person's level of emotional intelligence. This refers to a person's ability to perceive, control, evaluate, and express emotions.\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004559692","data":"58a1e3d2a02e1"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004568944","data":"IQ is still recognized as an important element of success, particularly when it comes to academic achievement. People with high IQ's typically to do well in school, often earn more money, and tend to be healthier in general. But today experts recognize it is not the only determinate of life success. Instead, it is part of a complex array of influences that includes emotional intelligence among other things.<\/p>The concept of emotional intelligence has had a strong impact in a number of areas, including the business world. Many companies now mandate emotional intelligence training and utilize EQ tests as part of the hiring process. Research has found that individuals with strong leadership potential also tend to be more emotionally intelligent, suggesting that a high EQ is an important quality for business leaders and managers to have. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005385351","data":"58a1e70f26d49"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004734246","data":"IQ is used to determine academic abilities and identify individuals with off-the-chart intelligence or mental challenges. EQ is a better indicator of success in the workplace and is used to identify leaders, good team players, and people who best work by themselves.<\/p>While most researchers say that an individual\u2019s performance in life is determined by both their IQ and EQ, there is evidence that IQ only accounts for a small percentage of that.<\/p>We all know it's important to be smart. But being smart doesn't have to mean a super high IQ, of course, it can mean being a normal human with a lot of knowledge about your particular area of expertise. Having a high IQ can be very helpful to a successful career, but it might not be the most helpful thing. A good EQ might actually be even better for your career trajectory.<\/p>Being the smartest person in the room is not enough if you don\u2019t have the capacity to work with the people who are in that room with you. It\u2019s usually said that \"A high IQ will get you through school, a high EQ will get you through life.\"<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005400803","data":"58a1e721680b3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487005429148","data":"You need to have the ability to talk with one another and see things from a different point of view. One of the hallmarks of someone with good EQ is that they can listen and ask questions and consider that they might not always be right. Sometimes people that have too high of an IQ know that they are right, and as a result, stop listening.<\/p>Too often businesses promote the best \"workers\" to management positions instead of the person who would be the best at managing. If you're sitting behind a desk doing a task all day, it doesn't necessarily matter how good you are at understanding others. What matters is if you're good at understanding your task, a very IQ oriented job. Good leaders have to understand their teams and their clients. And that takes EQ. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004533693","data":" <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1feda51b05stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"United.","title_id":"united-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Vamsi Advait","authorUserName":"vamsiadvait","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5899f1fe04c2cprofilepic","authorMagzName":"MVSR Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":1,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"MVSR Hyd","publishedInLink":"mvsr","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56ab6e2af0d6bprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mvsr","country":"IND","keywords":"football,Love,Manchester United","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/united-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487011140229","data":"A city called Manchester, some 8,000 kilometers away, the closest thing to a spiritual home I\u2019ll ever have. Love is an understatement. What I share with Manchester United is way more special. I\u2019ve been through the dirt and through the clouds along my journey as a United fan. Despite not being around during the true glory years of 99 up until the early 2000s, I\u2019ve found everything that makes my club so special. The culture, the atmosphere, the fans, the spectacle, the passion and most importantly the aura of the badge and the crest. What made me a United fan? Guess it was the spirit, the raw nature of the play, the management, the . My earliest memory of United was the Champions League final of 2008. That fateful night in Moscow. I was a complete newbie to football till March of that year. Didn\u2019t know what the offside rule was, didn\u2019t know how a free kick should be taken. But I made it my job to understand every nuance of the sport, watching replays of matches on ESPN and Star Sports, in the hot and humid summer afternoons as replays were being telecasted. I couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t understand the rules, didn\u2019t understand why fouls were being called, I remember saying to myself, \u201cwell this game is stupid\u201d, watching a 0-0 between two clubs I can\u2019t recall for the life of me. I was looking for the wrong outcomes, I realized football isn\u2019t always about who can score more goals (this realization came along much later), it helps, but the game isn\u2019t always about getting a name on the scoresheet.<\/p>So I watched few more games, and thought, \u201cWait this isn\u2019t even better than the IPL.\u201d Agreed Hyderabad was horrid the first season, but cricket promised something instant and fast paced. You were almost assured moments of happiness with a cover drive or a wicket. After watching an advertisement on the tele claiming the final was going to be the biggest game of the year, I decided to give football one last chance to impress the amazing critic that I was. I\u2019m indebted to myself for making that decision to this day.<\/p>After that warm afternoon of May the 22nd, (the final was on the 21st), I felt elevated. Never knew that a game could be so exhausting, emotionally and mentally. It was the day I fell in love with Manchester United. Over the course of the next few years, I watched movies, documentaries, highlights, replays, basically anything related to United and watched it all. I felt a part of the club, dependant on their performances, connected to every chant, every jibe, and every little detail was an obsession. To be a United fan fatigued me to the point fatigue became an addiction. Being a United fan pulled heart and sinew to the breaking point and brought me back from hell. We as United fans have been called gloryhunters, but never in my wildest dreams will I ever support anyone other than the team wearing the red devil in the front. Been called hypocrites for buying talent, but will never question those who perform. To have anything less than the best is unsatisfactory. To be second best and not strive for improvement is unsatisfactory. <\/p>Spoilt by success, arrogant and pompous till the end, United made me believe in the spirit of never giving up. To never accept defeat as the last checkpoint. Think going is tough? Give everything till full time and give even more after that. I\u2019ve screamed louder than I can justify, punched the couch way too many times and jumped out of my seat even more. To be in love is combustive. My love for United burns with the courage of a tomorrow, of a destiny promised, a time when the footballing gods will smile again upon my club. This flame will not be put out. Not by philosophies and definitely not by accusations. Growing up watching idols retire, comeback, leave and become second fiddle has taught me a lot. Taught me that no story ends until you want it to. That hard work will get you to the top. All motivation is good motivation. <\/p>I witnessed the competition threaten our legacy; I witnessed my club take 19. I witnessed humiliation at the hands of our city rivals, I witnessed a footballing god take his final bow. I witnessed goals galore and destruction of defences. I witnessed our spectacular fall from grace. The pain of being labeled has beens, the momentary uplift of Europe only to be blown out again. I witnessed mud, sweat, tears and blood at Old Trafford. This great club which rose from the ashes half a century ago and became the biggest club in the land, will be a beacon of inspiration and a cornerstone of happiness till the day I die. <\/p>#Love is an understatement. United is my religion. Manchester my heaven.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a13cc347e0bstryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"The Right-Swipe Kinda #Love","title_id":"the-right-swipe-kinda-love","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Uttiya Roy","authorUserName":"uttiyaroy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/588b6cfe0c0baprofilepic","authorMagzName":"","authorCity":"","like_count":2,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"\u200bCentral University of Jharkhand","publishedInLink":"cuj","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/591ec3e239e70profilepic","publishedInCode":"cuj","country":"IND","keywords":"#Love,love,modern,modernity,literature,chetan bhagat,pop culture,millenials,college,sexual relations,loving your generation","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/the-right-swipe-kinda-love\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486961686126","data":" We grew up on Clandestine romances which we read up and watched as kids. Our childhoods were entranced in little bits of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d and \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d, worlds where people fell in love and lived happily ever afters. Heck, Jane Austen almost had us believing that our Mr. Darcy would stand right in the corner and welcome us as we grew up. However, things changed, somewhere between the lines of childhood and teenage-hood, we discovered the forbidden books, \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover\u201d, \u201cGone With The Wind\u201d, heck maybe even, \u201cFive Point Someone\u201d, love was no longer pure and serene, it was an exercise of so many different and complicated feelings. Yet, romantic comedies gave us hope. We were due to meet a particular Lucy on a lift someday and end up listening to long jams of \u201dThe Smiths\u201d, but, that my friend was not to be. <\/p>Love in the modern world is far more complex than it used to be, and it\u2019s all the more beautiful for it. Day after day I wake up with Facebook posts talking about the lack of chivalry in boys, about how sexual relations have become an integral part of romance and how its damaging the romantic institutions like marriage, and it makes me feel kind of bad. My mother didn\u2019t send out love letters, and was never swiped right on Tinder, she married an upper caste Brahmin<\/i>, and somehow made it work. Our parent\u2019s generation cultivated love after marriage, and when they did break the norms, there was a sort of forbidden-ness associated with it, the secret letters written with Hero pens held through the night. The Mandolin players on the sarson<\/i> field. <\/p>But, then came my Elder sister\u2019s love. They knew about the love affairs in the homes and they met in secret, they shared sweet nothings talking all night over the phone. Then, they wooed the parents and got married, \u201c2 States\u201d like. <\/p>We were perhaps different, before we had passed out of our higher secondary, we were browsing pictures of each other on phones. We had a greater media available to us, and the scene of Literature, of TV Romances had changed. There were no more musicals, the horrors of MMS scandals ripped through our spines whenever, we went to meet our lovers in secret. And yet, love flourished. For the millennial child, getting these two worlds together is hard. A Tinder message does not make the same impression as the hand written note passed in class. Some times we\u2019re vocal about it. Our hatred of this sex-obsessed swipe right culture, the faults in our meetings. And yet, the nature remains the same. <\/p>You see, we never had masquerade balls, but, blind dates with someone unknown is just as enticing. Or meeting someone over Facebook and falling in love, still calling them, and stealing a kiss while her mother is not watching. The childish joy in booking a room in a shady hotel, smells of the forbidden love, just like the Sulekha<\/i> ink used by people from my mother\u2019s generation. Yes, it is overwhelming. Yes, it discards Mr. Darcys and gives us bastards like Heathcliff and Rhett instead. But, there\u2019s owning in this. Back then, in the 80s, our parents claim to their spirit was expressed through their love notes, today we lay claim to our own bodies, our own souls by being in love, by sharing physical intimacies. It is alright if you don\u2019t want to, I too, want that perfect date where there\u2019s chocolates and strawberries. But, just for today, if he\u2019s waiting for me in a hotel room, that\u2019s alright for me too, and it\u2019s just as much love as my Di\u2019s love for her boyfriend is, as much my mother\u2019s love for her husband is. As much Bennett\u2019s for Darcy is.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a02656efe62stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"A letter to my Best friend","title_id":"a-letter-to-my-best-friend","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Nekitha Rao","authorUserName":"nekitharao","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589753409eec4profilepic","authorMagzName":"GRIET Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":19,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GRIET Hyd","publishedInLink":"griet","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56c459e3368afprofilepic","publishedInCode":"griet","country":"IND","keywords":"bestfriend support letter","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter-to-my-best-friend\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486890260750","data":"<\/p>I always enjoy writing letters. Old fashioned, but very expressive. This Valentine\u2019s Day I\u2019m writing a letter to my Best Friend of 11 years and how much her presence means to me. <\/p>(P.S- bear with the cheesiness and the long story I\u2019m about to narrate) <\/p>Dear Minion,<\/p> \nI\u2019m sure it\u2019s not a surprise to you anymore that I call you that, considering our 5-inch Height difference. <\/p>\u201cEvery tall girl needs a short best friend\u201d, goes the saying though. Consider yourself extremely lucky that I\u2019m writing you a letter. We\u2019re probably the most insane Best friends ever.<\/p> \n\nI still remember how bossy and adorable we were in 3rd grade, when we met. Always wanting to be leaders, dancing on idiotic songs, being bullies too at times, not something I\u2019m proud of though.<\/p>When I saw Friends for the first time, it was the time I realized you\u2019re my Monica and I\u2019m your Rachel.\nYou being the \u201cThis has to happen my way\u201d kind of a person and me \u201cSomeone has to make decisions for me as I\u2019m not capable anymore\u201d person. I\u2019m so indecisive, I wonder how you deal with it. <\/p>We called each other \u201cbest friends forever\u201d in 3rd grade, little did we know that at that time, we meant it literally. We drifted apart a little until the 10th grade, with the new schools and new friends, but our bond never changed. Rather, it became an unbreakable one. It\u2019s been 11 years and you\u2019re the only one who can handle my madness and mood swings, still. When I cry, you\u2019re hurt, when I\u2019m happy you\u2019re happy and vice versa. <\/p> We\u2019ve grown together. Being Baapans, Our love for Paneer is so obsessive that they should\u2019ve probably made a dish with our names. Every time we meet, everywhere we go, it\u2019s always been a paneer date.\nWe watch romantic movies together because we\u2019re forever alone and have only each other. Yes, people have speculated us being Homo sexual because of the bond we share.\nAnd I have a hunch we\u2019ll die alone being the extreme crazy people that we are. <\/p>Our phone calls and we bitching about everyone we hate and those endless talks which make my day. It\u2019s funny how we end up hating the same people. No matter what happens in a span of 24 hours you\u2019re the first one I update. Ours is the fastest conveying network, even faster than Google finding results for a topic. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same with you. We even talk about what we ate for lunch or how we got punished in a lab. <\/p>Also, we\u2019re Rao-Rao. People call us identical, our habits, the way we talk, the way we look too. <\/p> \nOur sleepovers are an endless session of \u201cHow could that girl say that\u201d, \u201cOh my god she\u2019s so weird\u201d, \u201cWhy is that guy such a playboy\u201d, let\u2019s watch a horror movie together and freak out and me falling asleep half way and you wondering \u201cOh god what do I do with this woman\u201d. \nThe countless selfies or pictures we click together, we should be in the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>The number of times we planned to move in together after engineering, about how I\u2019ll cook and you\u2019ll wash the dishes, How I\u2019ll go partying every Saturday and you\u2019ll take care of our two huge dogs because you\u2019re not the partying type. We are two opposites when it comes to tastes. You hate my choice of guys and I\u2019m not a fan of your choices. You like Beer and I don\u2019t. I like Vodka and you don\u2019t. You like planning and scheduling, I like lazing around. I love cheese burst pizza and you love paneer cheese dosa. Monica and Rachel, literally.\nWe\u2019re two opposites yet the best when we\u2019re together. We stalk so many people on Instagram, commenting on how weird or how amazing they are. Sharing at least 10 meme\u2019s everyday about how Gemini and Libra are the most compatible or about our sad forever alone lives.<\/p> \nOh and also what a HUGE narcissist you are. Your self-obsession is intolerable. But thanks to you, I started becoming one too. You made me see how important it to love yourself the way you are. I always cribbed about being too tall or having pimples or not having thick hair on my head. You made me see why all that shouldn\u2019t matter and how I should learn to accept things the way they are.\n <\/p>Our obsession for snap streak is mental. We have the highest streak in each other\u2019s account. Spamming each other when we\u2019re bored by using all the snap filters available, it is proved that we are jobless. We lose streak with everybody else but not with each other.\nThe way we get jealous if someone else calls you\/me their best friend. OH no no no. No one is allowed to do that. All we have is each other, forever. <\/p> How our forever date place is Sam\u2019s pizza. That restaurant might be getting all its profits from us. Starving the whole day to eat unlimited pizza, I beg you to name any other retard who does that.\nI should probably write a book on us \u201cThe retarded best friends\u201d.\nI can go on and on about us, but here\u2019s what I\u2019d like to end it with:<\/p>You mean a lot to me and thanks for being there always. I know you will continue being there because you have no choice. Our lame lunch dates, our plans to meet up for Valentine \u2019s Day, our endless gossips and our innumerable talk, Love you for everything. We don\u2019t need a girls gang if we have each other always. You\u2019re my ball of happiness, pun intended. I can share anything and everything with you. My google when I have to know things, my FBI agent when I have to investigate about something, we\u2019re unbreakable. There have been times where people thought they could put us apart, but they can\u2019t. We have so many ego issues and we fight for the lamest reasons. But I guess that\u2019s what makes us Best Friends. We may not be talking to each other every day after we settle in our lives, but do know this, No one can replace you. We shall make it a point to try being the same always. I\u2019m sorry I haven\u2019t been available the past few days, what with my busy schedule, but I shall always make time for you. Oh, I should take some credit too, for bearing with you.<\/p> To many more lunch dates and gossips, to travelling the world together and \u201cTrying to become fit and have a flat tummy one day\u201d, cheers.\nWe are best friend goals and will always be.<\/p> Hands, put your empty hands in mine <\/i><\/p>And scars, show me all the scars you hide <\/i><\/p>And hey, if your wings are broken <\/i><\/p>Please take mine so yours can open too <\/i><\/p>'Cause I'm gonna stand by you. <\/i><\/p>With lots of love, <\/p>Your best friend. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486891718184","data":"58a02afc45461"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a05e91caa27stryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"13 Things You May Not Know About M.K. Gandhi","title_id":"13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"vudatha venkata siva koti rambabu","authorUserName":"vudathavenkatas","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5b3bb145716afprofilepic","authorMagzName":"GVRS","authorCity":"Guntur","like_count":8,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GVRS","publishedInLink":"gvrs","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56b9aeb981532profilepic","publishedInCode":"gvrs","country":"IND","keywords":"MAHATMAGANDHI,13,FACTS,WE,DONT,KNOW,ABOUT,HIM","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928110","data":" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, <\/b>remembering and wishing our Father of the nation on his Birth Anniversary, <\/b>here are 13 things your probably didn't know about the man we fondly call Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928111","data":"58a07709def82"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928112","data":" 1. His nickname in school was Moniya.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928113","data":"58a0773a87dbd"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928114","data":" 2. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1930.<\/b>\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928115","data":"58a07792577f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928116","data":" <\/u>3. He was only 13 years old when he married a 14 year old Kasturba <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928117","data":"58a077c0896d0"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928118","data":" 4. While studying in England, he learnt to dance and play the violin.\nBut he later gave it up for a simple lifestyle.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928119","data":"58a0781318134"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928120","data":" <\/u>5. He spoke English with an Irish accent.\nBecause one of his first teachers was an Irishman.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928121","data":"58a0783d77323"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928122","data":" 6. During his time in South Africa, he earned as much as USD 15,000 a year.\nWhich in today's valuation is Rs 9.25 lakh per annum.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928123","data":"58a07897c49d8"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928124","data":" 7. He wrote his autobiography in Gujarati.\nIt was later translated to English by his assistant.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928125","data":"58a078ea691f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928126","data":" 8. He was born on a Friday and died on a Friday.\nIndia also received Independence on a Friday.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928127","data":"58a07921ac217"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928128","data":"58a079616e504"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928129","data":" 9. Gandhiji had very bad handwriting.\nAnd it bothered him a lot!<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928130","data":" 10. His birthday \u2013 October 2 \u2013 is recognized as the International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928131","data":"58a079900c6bc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928132","data":"11. He was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.\nIt is widely believed that he was going to receive it in 1948. But he was assassinated that January, and the Nobel Committee does not award posthumous prizes<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928133","data":"58a07a083ac63"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928134","data":" 12. He was in regular correspondence with Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928135","data":"58a07ae5db8be"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928136","data":" 13. He carried a set of false teeth in his loin cloth. He would only take them out during meal times<\/b><\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a06e7ece2b0stryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"I love, love, #love you","title_id":"i-love-love-love-you","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Gayathri Priya","authorUserName":"gayathripriya2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/597208ce0ad7fprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":9,"cmnt_count":2,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"V-DAY,STUMAGZ,GAYATHRI PRIYA,SREE NIDHI,SNIST,BOOK LOVE,BIBLIOPHILE,#LOVE","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/i-love-love-love-you\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908234037","data":" \u201cThe first time I beheld you, I was hardly eight; the last time I had you is this moment and the next time I will love you is \u2013 every moment. Every word that flows through me traces back to you and you alone.\u201d<\/b><\/p> That could very well be a person but you wouldn\u2019t find a person so \u2018silent\u2019 but vehement enough, subtle yet intense, \u2018open\u2019 and closed, on and amidst and everything that is paradoxically possible. I never sought for a companion with all these qualities, it was serendipity that I found\u2014not one, but many \u2013 BOOKS with a capital \u2018B\u2019. Who would think a bunch of feelings of a stranger penned down in black and white, stretching out to hundreds of pages, calling itself a \u2018novel\u2019, would turn out to be a new-found love??<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908505605","data":"And loads of it I found, safely bundled in woody canvases. What a trance I went every time I hold a book!! They say God made Man out of his own image and only God knows how many characters Man created in books! <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908519270","data":" How I wished I was Birbal when I did my Mathematics. I would live in ashes all my life if I were to get to wear glass slippers like Cinderella! That laughing-the-hell-out-of-myself feel when I read Suppandi and Tinkle comics! That first teen-crush on \u2018The Boy Who Lived\u2019!! Reading all seven parts of Harry Potter with so much patience and wishing I was Dumbledore so I could save Harry. Practising all those \u2018deduction\u2019 skills of Holmes in getting my brother caught for his mischief!! Hoping I would one day be able to talk like Jeeves to please Bertie Wooster, what with his excellent vocabulary!! That giggle of self-satisfaction when I contrive to solve the case before Poirot does! Surfing all Internet to find which undergraduate course will get me to study symbology like Professor Langdon! Falling in love with Mr. Darcy and wishing I was his Lizzie...Loving a fictional character more than a real one and wondering why no one else does! All these are the boons you get as a book reader and you form a Unicorn-Island for yourself, where you dwell all the time.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908534028","data":"You would\u2019ve heard book-maniacs like me ranting and raving about how different the world of books is. Once again take a description of it here \u2013 when reality seems to fall apart in pieces, you are in need of a haven...a \u2018heaven\u2019... You then delve into a book with a new world between its pages, a new story between its lines, new thoughts between its words and a new \u2018you\u2019 in every character. All you have to do is read on, safely forgetting the \u2018real\u2019 for \u2018surreal\u2019 and floating somewhere between heaven and land, all there is but a book in your hand. Its silent words shouting, rustling pages booming and then again you feel ready for the world and to cope up with its various troubles, comforting yourself that there is a book to return to, every time. (Bet every book reader would agree on that!)<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908546953","data":"This V-Day, celebrate the boon of book-reading \u2013 the #love of my life \u2013 grab a book, settle yourself into a settee and read on into eternity and yes, do tell me if you too fall in love with them the way I do, we could be \u2018partners in crime\u2019!!<\/p> \nFinally,Dear Books,\n\u201cYou have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, love you!!\u201d\n(Three guesses as to who said that??)\n <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f50e316fecstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"ART IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA","title_id":"art-is-always-a-good-idea-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"art,artist,art forms","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/art-is-always-a-good-idea-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1544873192008","data":" \u201cWhen I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating moulding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.\u201d - Jackson Pollock <\/p><\/p>According to Wikipedia, \u201cArt historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.\u201d <\/p>The definition of art is open, subjective and debatable. There is no agreement among historians and artists, which is why we\u2019re left with so many definitions of art. The concept itself has changed over centuries.\n\n\nThere is no universally accepted definition of art. <\/p>Although commonly used to describe something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture, and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example, how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas, hoping by this action to create a work of art, does the result automatically constitute art?\nEven the notion of 'beauty' raises obvious questions. <\/p>Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. <\/p>Examples of such phraseology include: \"Fine Arts\", \"Liberal Arts\", \"Visual Arts\", \"Decorative Arts\", \"Applied Arts\", \"Design\", \"Crafts\", \"Performing Arts\", and so on.\nDrilling down, many specific categories are classified according to the materials used, such as: drawing, painting, sculpture (inc. ceramic sculpture), \"glass art\", \"metal art\", \"illuminated gospel manuscripts\", \"aerosol art\", \"fine art photography\", \"animation\", and so on. Sub-categories include: painting in oils, watercolors, acrylics; sculpture in bronze, stone, wood, porcelain; to name but a tiny few. Other sub-branches include different genre categories, like: narrative, portrait, genre-works, landscape, still life. <\/p>Sceptics say that art is a waste of time. Even the famous poet WH Auden confessed that no poem saved a single person from the Nazi gas-chambers. And while this may sound a rather meaningless statement, it highlights the notion that art has a limited use in our daily life, except in the case of attractive-looking buildings, teapots, cars or clothes.\nThere are two broad answers: first, applied art is a major branch of art which cannot easily be separated from fine art, because the root of all design (which is the foundation of applied art) is fine art. Second, ever since Homo sapiens developed the facility of contemplation, he has expressed his thoughts in pictorial form. At the same time, he has continued to appreciate beauty - whether in the form of human faces or bodies, sunsets, animal-skin colours, cathedrals or sculpture. In a nutshell, to create and to appreciate art is to be human. That's the point.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1544873192009","data":"5c14e58af3da0"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f588b9b4e2stryimg","category":"Inspiration","is_vip":"0","title":"MULAN:The Most Underrated Disney Princess","title_id":"mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Grishma Reddy","authorUserName":"grishmareddy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589df8c2c4843profilepic","authorMagzName":"VITS Hyderabad","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":17,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"VITS Hyderabad","publishedInLink":"vits","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56a77e07719c6profilepic","publishedInCode":"vits","country":"IND","keywords":"chinahero,Mulan,Princess","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486744027328","data":"Friends, Romans and countrymen lend me your eyes today! I am here not to give long speeches that bore all of us but to say about the biggest change that we will be facing in our lives will be when we graduate. It will be start of the new chapter in our lives,there is not set rule book that can prepare us for what lies ahead. But let me tell you all that is indeed a start to one of the most magical journeys of our lives where we will discover ourselves in a whole new aspect. However you all need to me very hard and clear as i will discuss some of the advice that my father has given me over the years. I call them my 4 G's of life, they are generosity towards others growth, immense gratitude and God.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486745677307","data":"589df0c69a1d9"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486745343558","data":"The legend of Mulan goes that when the Huns attacked, many Han Chinese people had to take up arms to defend themselves, including civilians, old people and young alike. Mulan, being a woman, broke cultural and traditional norms by being stubborn on learning how to fight for her homeland. She successfully fought back and cemented her place in legend, and the poem that's written about her is also the first account of gender neutrality from that time period. <\/p>We should all aspire to learn from Mulan, her indomitable spirit is what led her to be determined, the iron will she posses drove her to greatness, and we too can aspire to be like her in life. She is an example of perseverance and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds, and that right there is inspiring, and what made her a Chinese hero, even to this day. <\/p>Go on and watch Disney's Mulan, it's easily one of their finest movies. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486920711181","data":"58a09c3f47701"}]
The son replied,\"No sir,I haven't\".<\/span><\/p>The old man retorted,\"Yes,you have!You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father\".<\/span><\/p><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486999394287","data":"58a1cfa4a898a"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486999856013","data":"I will always need my father ,No matter what age i may be.My father had made me laugh,made me proud,made me cry,seen me cry, hugged me tight,cheered me up and driven me crazy at times.but my father is a promise that i'll have a friend forever.<\/div>Love your parents.We are so busy growing up.We often forget they are also growing old.We are the only hope to them."}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1dfff6658astryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"A Letter","title_id":"a-letter4","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Krishnasai Yelugam","authorUserName":"krishnasai2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":11,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"Love,valentine's day","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter4\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487002736112","data":" Ajay, who has to give a presentation on his current project progress was searching for his pen drive in his room. He searched every corner of his room which turned out to be in vain. Then his eyes glazed upon his closet. He opened his closet as his \u2018forgetting \u2018nature questioned him. Down goes the searching of cupboards, lockers and everything which can hold his pen drive. He then turns to his clothes. Each of his clothing had their turn. At last, the diary under the blue t-shirt gets his attention. Then the diary, his personal dairy for the year 2001, had a letter sticking out between its pages.<\/p> \nScientists are cracking their heads to find a way to do time travel, never had they known that an unaddressed letter can do that.<\/p> \nThe Letter read<\/p> \" Hey... Anjali,\nI don\u2019t know where to start, but here it is, the first time I saw you, I never thought that you were going to be a great part of my life, because I was stupid enough at that time, not to feel that. Every time you smiled, you took my breath away. Every time I had to drag myself into me after hanging out with you, which keeps circling around you. If I was paid a rupee every time you crossed my mind, I would have given the World Bank, a loan. All those little teasing, was to see those beautiful devil looks on your face. (Pardon me, for those)<\/p> I\u2019ve been asking Lord Krishna every Valentine\u2019s Day, \u201cWhere is my Radha?\u201d Well at last, he answered me in the form of you. I had been practicing a lot to say it to you but the fear of response let me down. With failing every time, this time to confess.<\/p> All that I wanted to say is,<\/p> Hand-in-hand together as 1 <\/b><\/p> My LOVE for you beyond 4<\/b> letters,<\/p> Be my better half as 3<\/b> in the 8. <\/p> WILL YOU MARRY ME?\n\"<\/p><\/p>Tears rolled out as he read the letter. Then came the mobile ringing, he wiped off his tears as he had to attend the video call of his little daughter, Anjali.\n<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1e38577affstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"EQ over IQ?","title_id":"eq-over-iq-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":1,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"EQ,IQ,Intelligence quotient,Emotional Quotient","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/eq-over-iq-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004452442","data":"IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a number derived from a standardized intelligence test. On the original IQ tests, scores were calculated by dividing the individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that number by 100. So a child with a mental age of 15 and a chronological age of 10 would have an IQ of 150. Today, scores on most IQ tests are calculated by comparing the test taker's score to the scores of other people in the same age group.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004524378","data":"58a1e3b09920c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004541881","data":"EQ, on the other hand, is a measure of a person's level of emotional intelligence. This refers to a person's ability to perceive, control, evaluate, and express emotions.\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004559692","data":"58a1e3d2a02e1"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004568944","data":"IQ is still recognized as an important element of success, particularly when it comes to academic achievement. People with high IQ's typically to do well in school, often earn more money, and tend to be healthier in general. But today experts recognize it is not the only determinate of life success. Instead, it is part of a complex array of influences that includes emotional intelligence among other things.<\/p>The concept of emotional intelligence has had a strong impact in a number of areas, including the business world. Many companies now mandate emotional intelligence training and utilize EQ tests as part of the hiring process. Research has found that individuals with strong leadership potential also tend to be more emotionally intelligent, suggesting that a high EQ is an important quality for business leaders and managers to have. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005385351","data":"58a1e70f26d49"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004734246","data":"IQ is used to determine academic abilities and identify individuals with off-the-chart intelligence or mental challenges. EQ is a better indicator of success in the workplace and is used to identify leaders, good team players, and people who best work by themselves.<\/p>While most researchers say that an individual\u2019s performance in life is determined by both their IQ and EQ, there is evidence that IQ only accounts for a small percentage of that.<\/p>We all know it's important to be smart. But being smart doesn't have to mean a super high IQ, of course, it can mean being a normal human with a lot of knowledge about your particular area of expertise. Having a high IQ can be very helpful to a successful career, but it might not be the most helpful thing. A good EQ might actually be even better for your career trajectory.<\/p>Being the smartest person in the room is not enough if you don\u2019t have the capacity to work with the people who are in that room with you. It\u2019s usually said that \"A high IQ will get you through school, a high EQ will get you through life.\"<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005400803","data":"58a1e721680b3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487005429148","data":"You need to have the ability to talk with one another and see things from a different point of view. One of the hallmarks of someone with good EQ is that they can listen and ask questions and consider that they might not always be right. Sometimes people that have too high of an IQ know that they are right, and as a result, stop listening.<\/p>Too often businesses promote the best \"workers\" to management positions instead of the person who would be the best at managing. If you're sitting behind a desk doing a task all day, it doesn't necessarily matter how good you are at understanding others. What matters is if you're good at understanding your task, a very IQ oriented job. Good leaders have to understand their teams and their clients. And that takes EQ. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004533693","data":" <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1feda51b05stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"United.","title_id":"united-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Vamsi Advait","authorUserName":"vamsiadvait","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5899f1fe04c2cprofilepic","authorMagzName":"MVSR Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":1,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"MVSR Hyd","publishedInLink":"mvsr","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56ab6e2af0d6bprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mvsr","country":"IND","keywords":"football,Love,Manchester United","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/united-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487011140229","data":"A city called Manchester, some 8,000 kilometers away, the closest thing to a spiritual home I\u2019ll ever have. Love is an understatement. What I share with Manchester United is way more special. I\u2019ve been through the dirt and through the clouds along my journey as a United fan. Despite not being around during the true glory years of 99 up until the early 2000s, I\u2019ve found everything that makes my club so special. The culture, the atmosphere, the fans, the spectacle, the passion and most importantly the aura of the badge and the crest. What made me a United fan? Guess it was the spirit, the raw nature of the play, the management, the . My earliest memory of United was the Champions League final of 2008. That fateful night in Moscow. I was a complete newbie to football till March of that year. Didn\u2019t know what the offside rule was, didn\u2019t know how a free kick should be taken. But I made it my job to understand every nuance of the sport, watching replays of matches on ESPN and Star Sports, in the hot and humid summer afternoons as replays were being telecasted. I couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t understand the rules, didn\u2019t understand why fouls were being called, I remember saying to myself, \u201cwell this game is stupid\u201d, watching a 0-0 between two clubs I can\u2019t recall for the life of me. I was looking for the wrong outcomes, I realized football isn\u2019t always about who can score more goals (this realization came along much later), it helps, but the game isn\u2019t always about getting a name on the scoresheet.<\/p>So I watched few more games, and thought, \u201cWait this isn\u2019t even better than the IPL.\u201d Agreed Hyderabad was horrid the first season, but cricket promised something instant and fast paced. You were almost assured moments of happiness with a cover drive or a wicket. After watching an advertisement on the tele claiming the final was going to be the biggest game of the year, I decided to give football one last chance to impress the amazing critic that I was. I\u2019m indebted to myself for making that decision to this day.<\/p>After that warm afternoon of May the 22nd, (the final was on the 21st), I felt elevated. Never knew that a game could be so exhausting, emotionally and mentally. It was the day I fell in love with Manchester United. Over the course of the next few years, I watched movies, documentaries, highlights, replays, basically anything related to United and watched it all. I felt a part of the club, dependant on their performances, connected to every chant, every jibe, and every little detail was an obsession. To be a United fan fatigued me to the point fatigue became an addiction. Being a United fan pulled heart and sinew to the breaking point and brought me back from hell. We as United fans have been called gloryhunters, but never in my wildest dreams will I ever support anyone other than the team wearing the red devil in the front. Been called hypocrites for buying talent, but will never question those who perform. To have anything less than the best is unsatisfactory. To be second best and not strive for improvement is unsatisfactory. <\/p>Spoilt by success, arrogant and pompous till the end, United made me believe in the spirit of never giving up. To never accept defeat as the last checkpoint. Think going is tough? Give everything till full time and give even more after that. I\u2019ve screamed louder than I can justify, punched the couch way too many times and jumped out of my seat even more. To be in love is combustive. My love for United burns with the courage of a tomorrow, of a destiny promised, a time when the footballing gods will smile again upon my club. This flame will not be put out. Not by philosophies and definitely not by accusations. Growing up watching idols retire, comeback, leave and become second fiddle has taught me a lot. Taught me that no story ends until you want it to. That hard work will get you to the top. All motivation is good motivation. <\/p>I witnessed the competition threaten our legacy; I witnessed my club take 19. I witnessed humiliation at the hands of our city rivals, I witnessed a footballing god take his final bow. I witnessed goals galore and destruction of defences. I witnessed our spectacular fall from grace. The pain of being labeled has beens, the momentary uplift of Europe only to be blown out again. I witnessed mud, sweat, tears and blood at Old Trafford. This great club which rose from the ashes half a century ago and became the biggest club in the land, will be a beacon of inspiration and a cornerstone of happiness till the day I die. <\/p>#Love is an understatement. United is my religion. Manchester my heaven.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a13cc347e0bstryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"The Right-Swipe Kinda #Love","title_id":"the-right-swipe-kinda-love","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Uttiya Roy","authorUserName":"uttiyaroy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/588b6cfe0c0baprofilepic","authorMagzName":"","authorCity":"","like_count":2,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"\u200bCentral University of Jharkhand","publishedInLink":"cuj","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/591ec3e239e70profilepic","publishedInCode":"cuj","country":"IND","keywords":"#Love,love,modern,modernity,literature,chetan bhagat,pop culture,millenials,college,sexual relations,loving your generation","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/the-right-swipe-kinda-love\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486961686126","data":" We grew up on Clandestine romances which we read up and watched as kids. Our childhoods were entranced in little bits of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d and \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d, worlds where people fell in love and lived happily ever afters. Heck, Jane Austen almost had us believing that our Mr. Darcy would stand right in the corner and welcome us as we grew up. However, things changed, somewhere between the lines of childhood and teenage-hood, we discovered the forbidden books, \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover\u201d, \u201cGone With The Wind\u201d, heck maybe even, \u201cFive Point Someone\u201d, love was no longer pure and serene, it was an exercise of so many different and complicated feelings. Yet, romantic comedies gave us hope. We were due to meet a particular Lucy on a lift someday and end up listening to long jams of \u201dThe Smiths\u201d, but, that my friend was not to be. <\/p>Love in the modern world is far more complex than it used to be, and it\u2019s all the more beautiful for it. Day after day I wake up with Facebook posts talking about the lack of chivalry in boys, about how sexual relations have become an integral part of romance and how its damaging the romantic institutions like marriage, and it makes me feel kind of bad. My mother didn\u2019t send out love letters, and was never swiped right on Tinder, she married an upper caste Brahmin<\/i>, and somehow made it work. Our parent\u2019s generation cultivated love after marriage, and when they did break the norms, there was a sort of forbidden-ness associated with it, the secret letters written with Hero pens held through the night. The Mandolin players on the sarson<\/i> field. <\/p>But, then came my Elder sister\u2019s love. They knew about the love affairs in the homes and they met in secret, they shared sweet nothings talking all night over the phone. Then, they wooed the parents and got married, \u201c2 States\u201d like. <\/p>We were perhaps different, before we had passed out of our higher secondary, we were browsing pictures of each other on phones. We had a greater media available to us, and the scene of Literature, of TV Romances had changed. There were no more musicals, the horrors of MMS scandals ripped through our spines whenever, we went to meet our lovers in secret. And yet, love flourished. For the millennial child, getting these two worlds together is hard. A Tinder message does not make the same impression as the hand written note passed in class. Some times we\u2019re vocal about it. Our hatred of this sex-obsessed swipe right culture, the faults in our meetings. And yet, the nature remains the same. <\/p>You see, we never had masquerade balls, but, blind dates with someone unknown is just as enticing. Or meeting someone over Facebook and falling in love, still calling them, and stealing a kiss while her mother is not watching. The childish joy in booking a room in a shady hotel, smells of the forbidden love, just like the Sulekha<\/i> ink used by people from my mother\u2019s generation. Yes, it is overwhelming. Yes, it discards Mr. Darcys and gives us bastards like Heathcliff and Rhett instead. But, there\u2019s owning in this. Back then, in the 80s, our parents claim to their spirit was expressed through their love notes, today we lay claim to our own bodies, our own souls by being in love, by sharing physical intimacies. It is alright if you don\u2019t want to, I too, want that perfect date where there\u2019s chocolates and strawberries. But, just for today, if he\u2019s waiting for me in a hotel room, that\u2019s alright for me too, and it\u2019s just as much love as my Di\u2019s love for her boyfriend is, as much my mother\u2019s love for her husband is. As much Bennett\u2019s for Darcy is.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a02656efe62stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"A letter to my Best friend","title_id":"a-letter-to-my-best-friend","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Nekitha Rao","authorUserName":"nekitharao","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589753409eec4profilepic","authorMagzName":"GRIET Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":19,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GRIET Hyd","publishedInLink":"griet","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56c459e3368afprofilepic","publishedInCode":"griet","country":"IND","keywords":"bestfriend support letter","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter-to-my-best-friend\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486890260750","data":"<\/p>I always enjoy writing letters. Old fashioned, but very expressive. This Valentine\u2019s Day I\u2019m writing a letter to my Best Friend of 11 years and how much her presence means to me. <\/p>(P.S- bear with the cheesiness and the long story I\u2019m about to narrate) <\/p>Dear Minion,<\/p> \nI\u2019m sure it\u2019s not a surprise to you anymore that I call you that, considering our 5-inch Height difference. <\/p>\u201cEvery tall girl needs a short best friend\u201d, goes the saying though. Consider yourself extremely lucky that I\u2019m writing you a letter. We\u2019re probably the most insane Best friends ever.<\/p> \n\nI still remember how bossy and adorable we were in 3rd grade, when we met. Always wanting to be leaders, dancing on idiotic songs, being bullies too at times, not something I\u2019m proud of though.<\/p>When I saw Friends for the first time, it was the time I realized you\u2019re my Monica and I\u2019m your Rachel.\nYou being the \u201cThis has to happen my way\u201d kind of a person and me \u201cSomeone has to make decisions for me as I\u2019m not capable anymore\u201d person. I\u2019m so indecisive, I wonder how you deal with it. <\/p>We called each other \u201cbest friends forever\u201d in 3rd grade, little did we know that at that time, we meant it literally. We drifted apart a little until the 10th grade, with the new schools and new friends, but our bond never changed. Rather, it became an unbreakable one. It\u2019s been 11 years and you\u2019re the only one who can handle my madness and mood swings, still. When I cry, you\u2019re hurt, when I\u2019m happy you\u2019re happy and vice versa. <\/p> We\u2019ve grown together. Being Baapans, Our love for Paneer is so obsessive that they should\u2019ve probably made a dish with our names. Every time we meet, everywhere we go, it\u2019s always been a paneer date.\nWe watch romantic movies together because we\u2019re forever alone and have only each other. Yes, people have speculated us being Homo sexual because of the bond we share.\nAnd I have a hunch we\u2019ll die alone being the extreme crazy people that we are. <\/p>Our phone calls and we bitching about everyone we hate and those endless talks which make my day. It\u2019s funny how we end up hating the same people. No matter what happens in a span of 24 hours you\u2019re the first one I update. Ours is the fastest conveying network, even faster than Google finding results for a topic. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same with you. We even talk about what we ate for lunch or how we got punished in a lab. <\/p>Also, we\u2019re Rao-Rao. People call us identical, our habits, the way we talk, the way we look too. <\/p> \nOur sleepovers are an endless session of \u201cHow could that girl say that\u201d, \u201cOh my god she\u2019s so weird\u201d, \u201cWhy is that guy such a playboy\u201d, let\u2019s watch a horror movie together and freak out and me falling asleep half way and you wondering \u201cOh god what do I do with this woman\u201d. \nThe countless selfies or pictures we click together, we should be in the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>The number of times we planned to move in together after engineering, about how I\u2019ll cook and you\u2019ll wash the dishes, How I\u2019ll go partying every Saturday and you\u2019ll take care of our two huge dogs because you\u2019re not the partying type. We are two opposites when it comes to tastes. You hate my choice of guys and I\u2019m not a fan of your choices. You like Beer and I don\u2019t. I like Vodka and you don\u2019t. You like planning and scheduling, I like lazing around. I love cheese burst pizza and you love paneer cheese dosa. Monica and Rachel, literally.\nWe\u2019re two opposites yet the best when we\u2019re together. We stalk so many people on Instagram, commenting on how weird or how amazing they are. Sharing at least 10 meme\u2019s everyday about how Gemini and Libra are the most compatible or about our sad forever alone lives.<\/p> \nOh and also what a HUGE narcissist you are. Your self-obsession is intolerable. But thanks to you, I started becoming one too. You made me see how important it to love yourself the way you are. I always cribbed about being too tall or having pimples or not having thick hair on my head. You made me see why all that shouldn\u2019t matter and how I should learn to accept things the way they are.\n <\/p>Our obsession for snap streak is mental. We have the highest streak in each other\u2019s account. Spamming each other when we\u2019re bored by using all the snap filters available, it is proved that we are jobless. We lose streak with everybody else but not with each other.\nThe way we get jealous if someone else calls you\/me their best friend. OH no no no. No one is allowed to do that. All we have is each other, forever. <\/p> How our forever date place is Sam\u2019s pizza. That restaurant might be getting all its profits from us. Starving the whole day to eat unlimited pizza, I beg you to name any other retard who does that.\nI should probably write a book on us \u201cThe retarded best friends\u201d.\nI can go on and on about us, but here\u2019s what I\u2019d like to end it with:<\/p>You mean a lot to me and thanks for being there always. I know you will continue being there because you have no choice. Our lame lunch dates, our plans to meet up for Valentine \u2019s Day, our endless gossips and our innumerable talk, Love you for everything. We don\u2019t need a girls gang if we have each other always. You\u2019re my ball of happiness, pun intended. I can share anything and everything with you. My google when I have to know things, my FBI agent when I have to investigate about something, we\u2019re unbreakable. There have been times where people thought they could put us apart, but they can\u2019t. We have so many ego issues and we fight for the lamest reasons. But I guess that\u2019s what makes us Best Friends. We may not be talking to each other every day after we settle in our lives, but do know this, No one can replace you. We shall make it a point to try being the same always. I\u2019m sorry I haven\u2019t been available the past few days, what with my busy schedule, but I shall always make time for you. Oh, I should take some credit too, for bearing with you.<\/p> To many more lunch dates and gossips, to travelling the world together and \u201cTrying to become fit and have a flat tummy one day\u201d, cheers.\nWe are best friend goals and will always be.<\/p> Hands, put your empty hands in mine <\/i><\/p>And scars, show me all the scars you hide <\/i><\/p>And hey, if your wings are broken <\/i><\/p>Please take mine so yours can open too <\/i><\/p>'Cause I'm gonna stand by you. <\/i><\/p>With lots of love, <\/p>Your best friend. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486891718184","data":"58a02afc45461"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a05e91caa27stryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"13 Things You May Not Know About M.K. Gandhi","title_id":"13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"vudatha venkata siva koti rambabu","authorUserName":"vudathavenkatas","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5b3bb145716afprofilepic","authorMagzName":"GVRS","authorCity":"Guntur","like_count":8,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GVRS","publishedInLink":"gvrs","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56b9aeb981532profilepic","publishedInCode":"gvrs","country":"IND","keywords":"MAHATMAGANDHI,13,FACTS,WE,DONT,KNOW,ABOUT,HIM","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928110","data":" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, <\/b>remembering and wishing our Father of the nation on his Birth Anniversary, <\/b>here are 13 things your probably didn't know about the man we fondly call Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928111","data":"58a07709def82"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928112","data":" 1. His nickname in school was Moniya.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928113","data":"58a0773a87dbd"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928114","data":" 2. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1930.<\/b>\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928115","data":"58a07792577f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928116","data":" <\/u>3. He was only 13 years old when he married a 14 year old Kasturba <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928117","data":"58a077c0896d0"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928118","data":" 4. While studying in England, he learnt to dance and play the violin.\nBut he later gave it up for a simple lifestyle.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928119","data":"58a0781318134"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928120","data":" <\/u>5. He spoke English with an Irish accent.\nBecause one of his first teachers was an Irishman.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928121","data":"58a0783d77323"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928122","data":" 6. During his time in South Africa, he earned as much as USD 15,000 a year.\nWhich in today's valuation is Rs 9.25 lakh per annum.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928123","data":"58a07897c49d8"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928124","data":" 7. He wrote his autobiography in Gujarati.\nIt was later translated to English by his assistant.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928125","data":"58a078ea691f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928126","data":" 8. He was born on a Friday and died on a Friday.\nIndia also received Independence on a Friday.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928127","data":"58a07921ac217"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928128","data":"58a079616e504"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928129","data":" 9. Gandhiji had very bad handwriting.\nAnd it bothered him a lot!<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928130","data":" 10. His birthday \u2013 October 2 \u2013 is recognized as the International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928131","data":"58a079900c6bc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928132","data":"11. He was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.\nIt is widely believed that he was going to receive it in 1948. But he was assassinated that January, and the Nobel Committee does not award posthumous prizes<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928133","data":"58a07a083ac63"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928134","data":" 12. He was in regular correspondence with Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928135","data":"58a07ae5db8be"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928136","data":" 13. He carried a set of false teeth in his loin cloth. He would only take them out during meal times<\/b><\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a06e7ece2b0stryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"I love, love, #love you","title_id":"i-love-love-love-you","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Gayathri Priya","authorUserName":"gayathripriya2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/597208ce0ad7fprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":9,"cmnt_count":2,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"V-DAY,STUMAGZ,GAYATHRI PRIYA,SREE NIDHI,SNIST,BOOK LOVE,BIBLIOPHILE,#LOVE","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/i-love-love-love-you\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908234037","data":" \u201cThe first time I beheld you, I was hardly eight; the last time I had you is this moment and the next time I will love you is \u2013 every moment. Every word that flows through me traces back to you and you alone.\u201d<\/b><\/p> That could very well be a person but you wouldn\u2019t find a person so \u2018silent\u2019 but vehement enough, subtle yet intense, \u2018open\u2019 and closed, on and amidst and everything that is paradoxically possible. I never sought for a companion with all these qualities, it was serendipity that I found\u2014not one, but many \u2013 BOOKS with a capital \u2018B\u2019. Who would think a bunch of feelings of a stranger penned down in black and white, stretching out to hundreds of pages, calling itself a \u2018novel\u2019, would turn out to be a new-found love??<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908505605","data":"And loads of it I found, safely bundled in woody canvases. What a trance I went every time I hold a book!! They say God made Man out of his own image and only God knows how many characters Man created in books! <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908519270","data":" How I wished I was Birbal when I did my Mathematics. I would live in ashes all my life if I were to get to wear glass slippers like Cinderella! That laughing-the-hell-out-of-myself feel when I read Suppandi and Tinkle comics! That first teen-crush on \u2018The Boy Who Lived\u2019!! Reading all seven parts of Harry Potter with so much patience and wishing I was Dumbledore so I could save Harry. Practising all those \u2018deduction\u2019 skills of Holmes in getting my brother caught for his mischief!! Hoping I would one day be able to talk like Jeeves to please Bertie Wooster, what with his excellent vocabulary!! That giggle of self-satisfaction when I contrive to solve the case before Poirot does! Surfing all Internet to find which undergraduate course will get me to study symbology like Professor Langdon! Falling in love with Mr. Darcy and wishing I was his Lizzie...Loving a fictional character more than a real one and wondering why no one else does! All these are the boons you get as a book reader and you form a Unicorn-Island for yourself, where you dwell all the time.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908534028","data":"You would\u2019ve heard book-maniacs like me ranting and raving about how different the world of books is. Once again take a description of it here \u2013 when reality seems to fall apart in pieces, you are in need of a haven...a \u2018heaven\u2019... You then delve into a book with a new world between its pages, a new story between its lines, new thoughts between its words and a new \u2018you\u2019 in every character. All you have to do is read on, safely forgetting the \u2018real\u2019 for \u2018surreal\u2019 and floating somewhere between heaven and land, all there is but a book in your hand. Its silent words shouting, rustling pages booming and then again you feel ready for the world and to cope up with its various troubles, comforting yourself that there is a book to return to, every time. (Bet every book reader would agree on that!)<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908546953","data":"This V-Day, celebrate the boon of book-reading \u2013 the #love of my life \u2013 grab a book, settle yourself into a settee and read on into eternity and yes, do tell me if you too fall in love with them the way I do, we could be \u2018partners in crime\u2019!!<\/p> \nFinally,Dear Books,\n\u201cYou have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, love you!!\u201d\n(Three guesses as to who said that??)\n <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f50e316fecstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"ART IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA","title_id":"art-is-always-a-good-idea-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"art,artist,art forms","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/art-is-always-a-good-idea-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1544873192008","data":" \u201cWhen I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating moulding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.\u201d - Jackson Pollock <\/p><\/p>According to Wikipedia, \u201cArt historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.\u201d <\/p>The definition of art is open, subjective and debatable. There is no agreement among historians and artists, which is why we\u2019re left with so many definitions of art. The concept itself has changed over centuries.\n\n\nThere is no universally accepted definition of art. <\/p>Although commonly used to describe something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture, and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example, how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas, hoping by this action to create a work of art, does the result automatically constitute art?\nEven the notion of 'beauty' raises obvious questions. <\/p>Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. <\/p>Examples of such phraseology include: \"Fine Arts\", \"Liberal Arts\", \"Visual Arts\", \"Decorative Arts\", \"Applied Arts\", \"Design\", \"Crafts\", \"Performing Arts\", and so on.\nDrilling down, many specific categories are classified according to the materials used, such as: drawing, painting, sculpture (inc. ceramic sculpture), \"glass art\", \"metal art\", \"illuminated gospel manuscripts\", \"aerosol art\", \"fine art photography\", \"animation\", and so on. Sub-categories include: painting in oils, watercolors, acrylics; sculpture in bronze, stone, wood, porcelain; to name but a tiny few. Other sub-branches include different genre categories, like: narrative, portrait, genre-works, landscape, still life. <\/p>Sceptics say that art is a waste of time. Even the famous poet WH Auden confessed that no poem saved a single person from the Nazi gas-chambers. And while this may sound a rather meaningless statement, it highlights the notion that art has a limited use in our daily life, except in the case of attractive-looking buildings, teapots, cars or clothes.\nThere are two broad answers: first, applied art is a major branch of art which cannot easily be separated from fine art, because the root of all design (which is the foundation of applied art) is fine art. Second, ever since Homo sapiens developed the facility of contemplation, he has expressed his thoughts in pictorial form. At the same time, he has continued to appreciate beauty - whether in the form of human faces or bodies, sunsets, animal-skin colours, cathedrals or sculpture. In a nutshell, to create and to appreciate art is to be human. That's the point.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1544873192009","data":"5c14e58af3da0"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f588b9b4e2stryimg","category":"Inspiration","is_vip":"0","title":"MULAN:The Most Underrated Disney Princess","title_id":"mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Grishma Reddy","authorUserName":"grishmareddy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589df8c2c4843profilepic","authorMagzName":"VITS Hyderabad","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":17,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"VITS Hyderabad","publishedInLink":"vits","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56a77e07719c6profilepic","publishedInCode":"vits","country":"IND","keywords":"chinahero,Mulan,Princess","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486744027328","data":"Friends, Romans and countrymen lend me your eyes today! I am here not to give long speeches that bore all of us but to say about the biggest change that we will be facing in our lives will be when we graduate. It will be start of the new chapter in our lives,there is not set rule book that can prepare us for what lies ahead. But let me tell you all that is indeed a start to one of the most magical journeys of our lives where we will discover ourselves in a whole new aspect. However you all need to me very hard and clear as i will discuss some of the advice that my father has given me over the years. I call them my 4 G's of life, they are generosity towards others growth, immense gratitude and God.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486745677307","data":"589df0c69a1d9"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486745343558","data":"The legend of Mulan goes that when the Huns attacked, many Han Chinese people had to take up arms to defend themselves, including civilians, old people and young alike. Mulan, being a woman, broke cultural and traditional norms by being stubborn on learning how to fight for her homeland. She successfully fought back and cemented her place in legend, and the poem that's written about her is also the first account of gender neutrality from that time period. <\/p>We should all aspire to learn from Mulan, her indomitable spirit is what led her to be determined, the iron will she posses drove her to greatness, and we too can aspire to be like her in life. She is an example of perseverance and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds, and that right there is inspiring, and what made her a Chinese hero, even to this day. <\/p>Go on and watch Disney's Mulan, it's easily one of their finest movies. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486920711181","data":"58a09c3f47701"}]
The old man retorted,\"Yes,you have!You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father\".<\/span><\/p><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486999394287","data":"58a1cfa4a898a"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486999856013","data":"I will always need my father ,No matter what age i may be.My father had made me laugh,made me proud,made me cry,seen me cry, hugged me tight,cheered me up and driven me crazy at times.but my father is a promise that i'll have a friend forever.<\/div>Love your parents.We are so busy growing up.We often forget they are also growing old.We are the only hope to them."}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1dfff6658astryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"A Letter","title_id":"a-letter4","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Krishnasai Yelugam","authorUserName":"krishnasai2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":11,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"Love,valentine's day","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter4\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487002736112","data":" Ajay, who has to give a presentation on his current project progress was searching for his pen drive in his room. He searched every corner of his room which turned out to be in vain. Then his eyes glazed upon his closet. He opened his closet as his \u2018forgetting \u2018nature questioned him. Down goes the searching of cupboards, lockers and everything which can hold his pen drive. He then turns to his clothes. Each of his clothing had their turn. At last, the diary under the blue t-shirt gets his attention. Then the diary, his personal dairy for the year 2001, had a letter sticking out between its pages.<\/p> \nScientists are cracking their heads to find a way to do time travel, never had they known that an unaddressed letter can do that.<\/p> \nThe Letter read<\/p> \" Hey... Anjali,\nI don\u2019t know where to start, but here it is, the first time I saw you, I never thought that you were going to be a great part of my life, because I was stupid enough at that time, not to feel that. Every time you smiled, you took my breath away. Every time I had to drag myself into me after hanging out with you, which keeps circling around you. If I was paid a rupee every time you crossed my mind, I would have given the World Bank, a loan. All those little teasing, was to see those beautiful devil looks on your face. (Pardon me, for those)<\/p> I\u2019ve been asking Lord Krishna every Valentine\u2019s Day, \u201cWhere is my Radha?\u201d Well at last, he answered me in the form of you. I had been practicing a lot to say it to you but the fear of response let me down. With failing every time, this time to confess.<\/p> All that I wanted to say is,<\/p> Hand-in-hand together as 1 <\/b><\/p> My LOVE for you beyond 4<\/b> letters,<\/p> Be my better half as 3<\/b> in the 8. <\/p> WILL YOU MARRY ME?\n\"<\/p><\/p>Tears rolled out as he read the letter. Then came the mobile ringing, he wiped off his tears as he had to attend the video call of his little daughter, Anjali.\n<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1e38577affstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"EQ over IQ?","title_id":"eq-over-iq-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":1,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"EQ,IQ,Intelligence quotient,Emotional Quotient","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/eq-over-iq-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004452442","data":"IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a number derived from a standardized intelligence test. On the original IQ tests, scores were calculated by dividing the individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that number by 100. So a child with a mental age of 15 and a chronological age of 10 would have an IQ of 150. Today, scores on most IQ tests are calculated by comparing the test taker's score to the scores of other people in the same age group.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004524378","data":"58a1e3b09920c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004541881","data":"EQ, on the other hand, is a measure of a person's level of emotional intelligence. This refers to a person's ability to perceive, control, evaluate, and express emotions.\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004559692","data":"58a1e3d2a02e1"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004568944","data":"IQ is still recognized as an important element of success, particularly when it comes to academic achievement. People with high IQ's typically to do well in school, often earn more money, and tend to be healthier in general. But today experts recognize it is not the only determinate of life success. Instead, it is part of a complex array of influences that includes emotional intelligence among other things.<\/p>The concept of emotional intelligence has had a strong impact in a number of areas, including the business world. Many companies now mandate emotional intelligence training and utilize EQ tests as part of the hiring process. Research has found that individuals with strong leadership potential also tend to be more emotionally intelligent, suggesting that a high EQ is an important quality for business leaders and managers to have. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005385351","data":"58a1e70f26d49"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004734246","data":"IQ is used to determine academic abilities and identify individuals with off-the-chart intelligence or mental challenges. EQ is a better indicator of success in the workplace and is used to identify leaders, good team players, and people who best work by themselves.<\/p>While most researchers say that an individual\u2019s performance in life is determined by both their IQ and EQ, there is evidence that IQ only accounts for a small percentage of that.<\/p>We all know it's important to be smart. But being smart doesn't have to mean a super high IQ, of course, it can mean being a normal human with a lot of knowledge about your particular area of expertise. Having a high IQ can be very helpful to a successful career, but it might not be the most helpful thing. A good EQ might actually be even better for your career trajectory.<\/p>Being the smartest person in the room is not enough if you don\u2019t have the capacity to work with the people who are in that room with you. It\u2019s usually said that \"A high IQ will get you through school, a high EQ will get you through life.\"<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005400803","data":"58a1e721680b3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487005429148","data":"You need to have the ability to talk with one another and see things from a different point of view. One of the hallmarks of someone with good EQ is that they can listen and ask questions and consider that they might not always be right. Sometimes people that have too high of an IQ know that they are right, and as a result, stop listening.<\/p>Too often businesses promote the best \"workers\" to management positions instead of the person who would be the best at managing. If you're sitting behind a desk doing a task all day, it doesn't necessarily matter how good you are at understanding others. What matters is if you're good at understanding your task, a very IQ oriented job. Good leaders have to understand their teams and their clients. And that takes EQ. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004533693","data":" <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a1feda51b05stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"United.","title_id":"united-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Vamsi Advait","authorUserName":"vamsiadvait","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5899f1fe04c2cprofilepic","authorMagzName":"MVSR Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":1,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"MVSR Hyd","publishedInLink":"mvsr","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56ab6e2af0d6bprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mvsr","country":"IND","keywords":"football,Love,Manchester United","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/united-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487011140229","data":"A city called Manchester, some 8,000 kilometers away, the closest thing to a spiritual home I\u2019ll ever have. Love is an understatement. What I share with Manchester United is way more special. I\u2019ve been through the dirt and through the clouds along my journey as a United fan. Despite not being around during the true glory years of 99 up until the early 2000s, I\u2019ve found everything that makes my club so special. The culture, the atmosphere, the fans, the spectacle, the passion and most importantly the aura of the badge and the crest. What made me a United fan? Guess it was the spirit, the raw nature of the play, the management, the . My earliest memory of United was the Champions League final of 2008. That fateful night in Moscow. I was a complete newbie to football till March of that year. Didn\u2019t know what the offside rule was, didn\u2019t know how a free kick should be taken. But I made it my job to understand every nuance of the sport, watching replays of matches on ESPN and Star Sports, in the hot and humid summer afternoons as replays were being telecasted. I couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t understand the rules, didn\u2019t understand why fouls were being called, I remember saying to myself, \u201cwell this game is stupid\u201d, watching a 0-0 between two clubs I can\u2019t recall for the life of me. I was looking for the wrong outcomes, I realized football isn\u2019t always about who can score more goals (this realization came along much later), it helps, but the game isn\u2019t always about getting a name on the scoresheet.<\/p>So I watched few more games, and thought, \u201cWait this isn\u2019t even better than the IPL.\u201d Agreed Hyderabad was horrid the first season, but cricket promised something instant and fast paced. You were almost assured moments of happiness with a cover drive or a wicket. After watching an advertisement on the tele claiming the final was going to be the biggest game of the year, I decided to give football one last chance to impress the amazing critic that I was. I\u2019m indebted to myself for making that decision to this day.<\/p>After that warm afternoon of May the 22nd, (the final was on the 21st), I felt elevated. Never knew that a game could be so exhausting, emotionally and mentally. It was the day I fell in love with Manchester United. Over the course of the next few years, I watched movies, documentaries, highlights, replays, basically anything related to United and watched it all. I felt a part of the club, dependant on their performances, connected to every chant, every jibe, and every little detail was an obsession. To be a United fan fatigued me to the point fatigue became an addiction. Being a United fan pulled heart and sinew to the breaking point and brought me back from hell. We as United fans have been called gloryhunters, but never in my wildest dreams will I ever support anyone other than the team wearing the red devil in the front. Been called hypocrites for buying talent, but will never question those who perform. To have anything less than the best is unsatisfactory. To be second best and not strive for improvement is unsatisfactory. <\/p>Spoilt by success, arrogant and pompous till the end, United made me believe in the spirit of never giving up. To never accept defeat as the last checkpoint. Think going is tough? Give everything till full time and give even more after that. I\u2019ve screamed louder than I can justify, punched the couch way too many times and jumped out of my seat even more. To be in love is combustive. My love for United burns with the courage of a tomorrow, of a destiny promised, a time when the footballing gods will smile again upon my club. This flame will not be put out. Not by philosophies and definitely not by accusations. Growing up watching idols retire, comeback, leave and become second fiddle has taught me a lot. Taught me that no story ends until you want it to. That hard work will get you to the top. All motivation is good motivation. <\/p>I witnessed the competition threaten our legacy; I witnessed my club take 19. I witnessed humiliation at the hands of our city rivals, I witnessed a footballing god take his final bow. I witnessed goals galore and destruction of defences. I witnessed our spectacular fall from grace. The pain of being labeled has beens, the momentary uplift of Europe only to be blown out again. I witnessed mud, sweat, tears and blood at Old Trafford. This great club which rose from the ashes half a century ago and became the biggest club in the land, will be a beacon of inspiration and a cornerstone of happiness till the day I die. <\/p>#Love is an understatement. United is my religion. Manchester my heaven.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a13cc347e0bstryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"The Right-Swipe Kinda #Love","title_id":"the-right-swipe-kinda-love","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Uttiya Roy","authorUserName":"uttiyaroy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/588b6cfe0c0baprofilepic","authorMagzName":"","authorCity":"","like_count":2,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"\u200bCentral University of Jharkhand","publishedInLink":"cuj","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/591ec3e239e70profilepic","publishedInCode":"cuj","country":"IND","keywords":"#Love,love,modern,modernity,literature,chetan bhagat,pop culture,millenials,college,sexual relations,loving your generation","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/the-right-swipe-kinda-love\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486961686126","data":" We grew up on Clandestine romances which we read up and watched as kids. Our childhoods were entranced in little bits of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d and \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d, worlds where people fell in love and lived happily ever afters. Heck, Jane Austen almost had us believing that our Mr. Darcy would stand right in the corner and welcome us as we grew up. However, things changed, somewhere between the lines of childhood and teenage-hood, we discovered the forbidden books, \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover\u201d, \u201cGone With The Wind\u201d, heck maybe even, \u201cFive Point Someone\u201d, love was no longer pure and serene, it was an exercise of so many different and complicated feelings. Yet, romantic comedies gave us hope. We were due to meet a particular Lucy on a lift someday and end up listening to long jams of \u201dThe Smiths\u201d, but, that my friend was not to be. <\/p>Love in the modern world is far more complex than it used to be, and it\u2019s all the more beautiful for it. Day after day I wake up with Facebook posts talking about the lack of chivalry in boys, about how sexual relations have become an integral part of romance and how its damaging the romantic institutions like marriage, and it makes me feel kind of bad. My mother didn\u2019t send out love letters, and was never swiped right on Tinder, she married an upper caste Brahmin<\/i>, and somehow made it work. Our parent\u2019s generation cultivated love after marriage, and when they did break the norms, there was a sort of forbidden-ness associated with it, the secret letters written with Hero pens held through the night. The Mandolin players on the sarson<\/i> field. <\/p>But, then came my Elder sister\u2019s love. They knew about the love affairs in the homes and they met in secret, they shared sweet nothings talking all night over the phone. Then, they wooed the parents and got married, \u201c2 States\u201d like. <\/p>We were perhaps different, before we had passed out of our higher secondary, we were browsing pictures of each other on phones. We had a greater media available to us, and the scene of Literature, of TV Romances had changed. There were no more musicals, the horrors of MMS scandals ripped through our spines whenever, we went to meet our lovers in secret. And yet, love flourished. For the millennial child, getting these two worlds together is hard. A Tinder message does not make the same impression as the hand written note passed in class. Some times we\u2019re vocal about it. Our hatred of this sex-obsessed swipe right culture, the faults in our meetings. And yet, the nature remains the same. <\/p>You see, we never had masquerade balls, but, blind dates with someone unknown is just as enticing. Or meeting someone over Facebook and falling in love, still calling them, and stealing a kiss while her mother is not watching. The childish joy in booking a room in a shady hotel, smells of the forbidden love, just like the Sulekha<\/i> ink used by people from my mother\u2019s generation. Yes, it is overwhelming. Yes, it discards Mr. Darcys and gives us bastards like Heathcliff and Rhett instead. But, there\u2019s owning in this. Back then, in the 80s, our parents claim to their spirit was expressed through their love notes, today we lay claim to our own bodies, our own souls by being in love, by sharing physical intimacies. It is alright if you don\u2019t want to, I too, want that perfect date where there\u2019s chocolates and strawberries. But, just for today, if he\u2019s waiting for me in a hotel room, that\u2019s alright for me too, and it\u2019s just as much love as my Di\u2019s love for her boyfriend is, as much my mother\u2019s love for her husband is. As much Bennett\u2019s for Darcy is.<\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a02656efe62stryimg","category":"Blog","is_vip":"0","title":"A letter to my Best friend","title_id":"a-letter-to-my-best-friend","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Nekitha Rao","authorUserName":"nekitharao","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589753409eec4profilepic","authorMagzName":"GRIET Hyd","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":19,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GRIET Hyd","publishedInLink":"griet","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56c459e3368afprofilepic","publishedInCode":"griet","country":"IND","keywords":"bestfriend support letter","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/a-letter-to-my-best-friend\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486890260750","data":"<\/p>I always enjoy writing letters. Old fashioned, but very expressive. This Valentine\u2019s Day I\u2019m writing a letter to my Best Friend of 11 years and how much her presence means to me. <\/p>(P.S- bear with the cheesiness and the long story I\u2019m about to narrate) <\/p>Dear Minion,<\/p> \nI\u2019m sure it\u2019s not a surprise to you anymore that I call you that, considering our 5-inch Height difference. <\/p>\u201cEvery tall girl needs a short best friend\u201d, goes the saying though. Consider yourself extremely lucky that I\u2019m writing you a letter. We\u2019re probably the most insane Best friends ever.<\/p> \n\nI still remember how bossy and adorable we were in 3rd grade, when we met. Always wanting to be leaders, dancing on idiotic songs, being bullies too at times, not something I\u2019m proud of though.<\/p>When I saw Friends for the first time, it was the time I realized you\u2019re my Monica and I\u2019m your Rachel.\nYou being the \u201cThis has to happen my way\u201d kind of a person and me \u201cSomeone has to make decisions for me as I\u2019m not capable anymore\u201d person. I\u2019m so indecisive, I wonder how you deal with it. <\/p>We called each other \u201cbest friends forever\u201d in 3rd grade, little did we know that at that time, we meant it literally. We drifted apart a little until the 10th grade, with the new schools and new friends, but our bond never changed. Rather, it became an unbreakable one. It\u2019s been 11 years and you\u2019re the only one who can handle my madness and mood swings, still. When I cry, you\u2019re hurt, when I\u2019m happy you\u2019re happy and vice versa. <\/p> We\u2019ve grown together. Being Baapans, Our love for Paneer is so obsessive that they should\u2019ve probably made a dish with our names. Every time we meet, everywhere we go, it\u2019s always been a paneer date.\nWe watch romantic movies together because we\u2019re forever alone and have only each other. Yes, people have speculated us being Homo sexual because of the bond we share.\nAnd I have a hunch we\u2019ll die alone being the extreme crazy people that we are. <\/p>Our phone calls and we bitching about everyone we hate and those endless talks which make my day. It\u2019s funny how we end up hating the same people. No matter what happens in a span of 24 hours you\u2019re the first one I update. Ours is the fastest conveying network, even faster than Google finding results for a topic. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same with you. We even talk about what we ate for lunch or how we got punished in a lab. <\/p>Also, we\u2019re Rao-Rao. People call us identical, our habits, the way we talk, the way we look too. <\/p> \nOur sleepovers are an endless session of \u201cHow could that girl say that\u201d, \u201cOh my god she\u2019s so weird\u201d, \u201cWhy is that guy such a playboy\u201d, let\u2019s watch a horror movie together and freak out and me falling asleep half way and you wondering \u201cOh god what do I do with this woman\u201d. \nThe countless selfies or pictures we click together, we should be in the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>The number of times we planned to move in together after engineering, about how I\u2019ll cook and you\u2019ll wash the dishes, How I\u2019ll go partying every Saturday and you\u2019ll take care of our two huge dogs because you\u2019re not the partying type. We are two opposites when it comes to tastes. You hate my choice of guys and I\u2019m not a fan of your choices. You like Beer and I don\u2019t. I like Vodka and you don\u2019t. You like planning and scheduling, I like lazing around. I love cheese burst pizza and you love paneer cheese dosa. Monica and Rachel, literally.\nWe\u2019re two opposites yet the best when we\u2019re together. We stalk so many people on Instagram, commenting on how weird or how amazing they are. Sharing at least 10 meme\u2019s everyday about how Gemini and Libra are the most compatible or about our sad forever alone lives.<\/p> \nOh and also what a HUGE narcissist you are. Your self-obsession is intolerable. But thanks to you, I started becoming one too. You made me see how important it to love yourself the way you are. I always cribbed about being too tall or having pimples or not having thick hair on my head. You made me see why all that shouldn\u2019t matter and how I should learn to accept things the way they are.\n <\/p>Our obsession for snap streak is mental. We have the highest streak in each other\u2019s account. Spamming each other when we\u2019re bored by using all the snap filters available, it is proved that we are jobless. We lose streak with everybody else but not with each other.\nThe way we get jealous if someone else calls you\/me their best friend. OH no no no. No one is allowed to do that. All we have is each other, forever. <\/p> How our forever date place is Sam\u2019s pizza. That restaurant might be getting all its profits from us. Starving the whole day to eat unlimited pizza, I beg you to name any other retard who does that.\nI should probably write a book on us \u201cThe retarded best friends\u201d.\nI can go on and on about us, but here\u2019s what I\u2019d like to end it with:<\/p>You mean a lot to me and thanks for being there always. I know you will continue being there because you have no choice. Our lame lunch dates, our plans to meet up for Valentine \u2019s Day, our endless gossips and our innumerable talk, Love you for everything. We don\u2019t need a girls gang if we have each other always. You\u2019re my ball of happiness, pun intended. I can share anything and everything with you. My google when I have to know things, my FBI agent when I have to investigate about something, we\u2019re unbreakable. There have been times where people thought they could put us apart, but they can\u2019t. We have so many ego issues and we fight for the lamest reasons. But I guess that\u2019s what makes us Best Friends. We may not be talking to each other every day after we settle in our lives, but do know this, No one can replace you. We shall make it a point to try being the same always. I\u2019m sorry I haven\u2019t been available the past few days, what with my busy schedule, but I shall always make time for you. Oh, I should take some credit too, for bearing with you.<\/p> To many more lunch dates and gossips, to travelling the world together and \u201cTrying to become fit and have a flat tummy one day\u201d, cheers.\nWe are best friend goals and will always be.<\/p> Hands, put your empty hands in mine <\/i><\/p>And scars, show me all the scars you hide <\/i><\/p>And hey, if your wings are broken <\/i><\/p>Please take mine so yours can open too <\/i><\/p>'Cause I'm gonna stand by you. <\/i><\/p>With lots of love, <\/p>Your best friend. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486891718184","data":"58a02afc45461"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a05e91caa27stryimg","category":"Human Interest","is_vip":"0","title":"13 Things You May Not Know About M.K. Gandhi","title_id":"13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"vudatha venkata siva koti rambabu","authorUserName":"vudathavenkatas","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/5b3bb145716afprofilepic","authorMagzName":"GVRS","authorCity":"Guntur","like_count":8,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"GVRS","publishedInLink":"gvrs","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56b9aeb981532profilepic","publishedInCode":"gvrs","country":"IND","keywords":"MAHATMAGANDHI,13,FACTS,WE,DONT,KNOW,ABOUT,HIM","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-m-k-gandhi\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928110","data":" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, <\/b>remembering and wishing our Father of the nation on his Birth Anniversary, <\/b>here are 13 things your probably didn't know about the man we fondly call Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928111","data":"58a07709def82"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928112","data":" 1. His nickname in school was Moniya.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928113","data":"58a0773a87dbd"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928114","data":" 2. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1930.<\/b>\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928115","data":"58a07792577f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928116","data":" <\/u>3. He was only 13 years old when he married a 14 year old Kasturba <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928117","data":"58a077c0896d0"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928118","data":" 4. While studying in England, he learnt to dance and play the violin.\nBut he later gave it up for a simple lifestyle.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928119","data":"58a0781318134"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928120","data":" <\/u>5. He spoke English with an Irish accent.\nBecause one of his first teachers was an Irishman.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928121","data":"58a0783d77323"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928122","data":" 6. During his time in South Africa, he earned as much as USD 15,000 a year.\nWhich in today's valuation is Rs 9.25 lakh per annum.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928123","data":"58a07897c49d8"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928124","data":" 7. He wrote his autobiography in Gujarati.\nIt was later translated to English by his assistant.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928125","data":"58a078ea691f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928126","data":" 8. He was born on a Friday and died on a Friday.\nIndia also received Independence on a Friday.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928127","data":"58a07921ac217"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928128","data":"58a079616e504"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928129","data":" 9. Gandhiji had very bad handwriting.\nAnd it bothered him a lot!<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928130","data":" 10. His birthday \u2013 October 2 \u2013 is recognized as the International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928131","data":"58a079900c6bc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928132","data":"11. He was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.\nIt is widely believed that he was going to receive it in 1948. But he was assassinated that January, and the Nobel Committee does not award posthumous prizes<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928133","data":"58a07a083ac63"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928134","data":" 12. He was in regular correspondence with Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928135","data":"58a07ae5db8be"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928136","data":" 13. He carried a set of false teeth in his loin cloth. He would only take them out during meal times<\/b><\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/58a06e7ece2b0stryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"I love, love, #love you","title_id":"i-love-love-love-you","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Gayathri Priya","authorUserName":"gayathripriya2","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/597208ce0ad7fprofilepic","authorMagzName":"Sree Nidhi","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":9,"cmnt_count":2,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Sree Nidhi","publishedInLink":"snist","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/59985d6011b31profilepic","publishedInCode":"snist","country":"IND","keywords":"V-DAY,STUMAGZ,GAYATHRI PRIYA,SREE NIDHI,SNIST,BOOK LOVE,BIBLIOPHILE,#LOVE","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/i-love-love-love-you\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908234037","data":" \u201cThe first time I beheld you, I was hardly eight; the last time I had you is this moment and the next time I will love you is \u2013 every moment. Every word that flows through me traces back to you and you alone.\u201d<\/b><\/p> That could very well be a person but you wouldn\u2019t find a person so \u2018silent\u2019 but vehement enough, subtle yet intense, \u2018open\u2019 and closed, on and amidst and everything that is paradoxically possible. I never sought for a companion with all these qualities, it was serendipity that I found\u2014not one, but many \u2013 BOOKS with a capital \u2018B\u2019. Who would think a bunch of feelings of a stranger penned down in black and white, stretching out to hundreds of pages, calling itself a \u2018novel\u2019, would turn out to be a new-found love??<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908505605","data":"And loads of it I found, safely bundled in woody canvases. What a trance I went every time I hold a book!! They say God made Man out of his own image and only God knows how many characters Man created in books! <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908519270","data":" How I wished I was Birbal when I did my Mathematics. I would live in ashes all my life if I were to get to wear glass slippers like Cinderella! That laughing-the-hell-out-of-myself feel when I read Suppandi and Tinkle comics! That first teen-crush on \u2018The Boy Who Lived\u2019!! Reading all seven parts of Harry Potter with so much patience and wishing I was Dumbledore so I could save Harry. Practising all those \u2018deduction\u2019 skills of Holmes in getting my brother caught for his mischief!! Hoping I would one day be able to talk like Jeeves to please Bertie Wooster, what with his excellent vocabulary!! That giggle of self-satisfaction when I contrive to solve the case before Poirot does! Surfing all Internet to find which undergraduate course will get me to study symbology like Professor Langdon! Falling in love with Mr. Darcy and wishing I was his Lizzie...Loving a fictional character more than a real one and wondering why no one else does! All these are the boons you get as a book reader and you form a Unicorn-Island for yourself, where you dwell all the time.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908534028","data":"You would\u2019ve heard book-maniacs like me ranting and raving about how different the world of books is. Once again take a description of it here \u2013 when reality seems to fall apart in pieces, you are in need of a haven...a \u2018heaven\u2019... You then delve into a book with a new world between its pages, a new story between its lines, new thoughts between its words and a new \u2018you\u2019 in every character. All you have to do is read on, safely forgetting the \u2018real\u2019 for \u2018surreal\u2019 and floating somewhere between heaven and land, all there is but a book in your hand. Its silent words shouting, rustling pages booming and then again you feel ready for the world and to cope up with its various troubles, comforting yourself that there is a book to return to, every time. (Bet every book reader would agree on that!)<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908546953","data":"This V-Day, celebrate the boon of book-reading \u2013 the #love of my life \u2013 grab a book, settle yourself into a settee and read on into eternity and yes, do tell me if you too fall in love with them the way I do, we could be \u2018partners in crime\u2019!!<\/p> \nFinally,Dear Books,\n\u201cYou have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, love you!!\u201d\n(Three guesses as to who said that??)\n <\/p>"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f50e316fecstryimg","category":"My Take","is_vip":"0","title":"ART IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA","title_id":"art-is-always-a-good-idea-","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Hemangi Sharma","authorUserName":"hemangisharma","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/598b47c9171b4profilepic","authorMagzName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","authorCity":"Anand","like_count":7,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering","publishedInLink":"mbict","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/stumagzprofilepic","publishedInCode":"mbict","country":"IND","keywords":"art,artist,art forms","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/art-is-always-a-good-idea-\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1544873192008","data":" \u201cWhen I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating moulding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.\u201d - Jackson Pollock <\/p><\/p>According to Wikipedia, \u201cArt historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.\u201d <\/p>The definition of art is open, subjective and debatable. There is no agreement among historians and artists, which is why we\u2019re left with so many definitions of art. The concept itself has changed over centuries.\n\n\nThere is no universally accepted definition of art. <\/p>Although commonly used to describe something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture, and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example, how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas, hoping by this action to create a work of art, does the result automatically constitute art?\nEven the notion of 'beauty' raises obvious questions. <\/p>Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. <\/p>Examples of such phraseology include: \"Fine Arts\", \"Liberal Arts\", \"Visual Arts\", \"Decorative Arts\", \"Applied Arts\", \"Design\", \"Crafts\", \"Performing Arts\", and so on.\nDrilling down, many specific categories are classified according to the materials used, such as: drawing, painting, sculpture (inc. ceramic sculpture), \"glass art\", \"metal art\", \"illuminated gospel manuscripts\", \"aerosol art\", \"fine art photography\", \"animation\", and so on. Sub-categories include: painting in oils, watercolors, acrylics; sculpture in bronze, stone, wood, porcelain; to name but a tiny few. Other sub-branches include different genre categories, like: narrative, portrait, genre-works, landscape, still life. <\/p>Sceptics say that art is a waste of time. Even the famous poet WH Auden confessed that no poem saved a single person from the Nazi gas-chambers. And while this may sound a rather meaningless statement, it highlights the notion that art has a limited use in our daily life, except in the case of attractive-looking buildings, teapots, cars or clothes.\nThere are two broad answers: first, applied art is a major branch of art which cannot easily be separated from fine art, because the root of all design (which is the foundation of applied art) is fine art. Second, ever since Homo sapiens developed the facility of contemplation, he has expressed his thoughts in pictorial form. At the same time, he has continued to appreciate beauty - whether in the form of human faces or bodies, sunsets, animal-skin colours, cathedrals or sculpture. In a nutshell, to create and to appreciate art is to be human. That's the point.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1544873192009","data":"5c14e58af3da0"}] {"cover_pic":"https:\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589f588b9b4e2stryimg","category":"Inspiration","is_vip":"0","title":"MULAN:The Most Underrated Disney Princess","title_id":"mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess","isEdit":0,"isAdmin":0,"authorFullName":"Grishma Reddy","authorUserName":"grishmareddy","authorProfilePic":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/589df8c2c4843profilepic","authorMagzName":"VITS Hyderabad","authorCity":"Hyderabad","like_count":17,"cmnt_count":0,"type":1,"isApproved":2,"publishedInName":"VITS Hyderabad","publishedInLink":"vits","publishedInLogo":"\/\/cdn.stumagz.com\/images\/56a77e07719c6profilepic","publishedInCode":"vits","country":"IND","keywords":"chinahero,Mulan,Princess","isBookingEnabled":0,"privacy_status":"1","url":"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/mulan-the-most-underrated-disney-princess\/","has_form":0,"is_appln_closed":0,"max_no_of_applns":0,"likeStatus":0} [{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486744027328","data":"Friends, Romans and countrymen lend me your eyes today! I am here not to give long speeches that bore all of us but to say about the biggest change that we will be facing in our lives will be when we graduate. It will be start of the new chapter in our lives,there is not set rule book that can prepare us for what lies ahead. But let me tell you all that is indeed a start to one of the most magical journeys of our lives where we will discover ourselves in a whole new aspect. However you all need to me very hard and clear as i will discuss some of the advice that my father has given me over the years. I call them my 4 G's of life, they are generosity towards others growth, immense gratitude and God.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486745677307","data":"589df0c69a1d9"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486745343558","data":"The legend of Mulan goes that when the Huns attacked, many Han Chinese people had to take up arms to defend themselves, including civilians, old people and young alike. Mulan, being a woman, broke cultural and traditional norms by being stubborn on learning how to fight for her homeland. She successfully fought back and cemented her place in legend, and the poem that's written about her is also the first account of gender neutrality from that time period. <\/p>We should all aspire to learn from Mulan, her indomitable spirit is what led her to be determined, the iron will she posses drove her to greatness, and we too can aspire to be like her in life. She is an example of perseverance and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds, and that right there is inspiring, and what made her a Chinese hero, even to this day. <\/p>Go on and watch Disney's Mulan, it's easily one of their finest movies. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486920711181","data":"58a09c3f47701"}]
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Ajay, who has to give a presentation on his current project progress was searching for his pen drive in his room. He searched every corner of his room which turned out to be in vain. Then his eyes glazed upon his closet. He opened his closet as his \u2018forgetting \u2018nature questioned him. Down goes the searching of cupboards, lockers and everything which can hold his pen drive. He then turns to his clothes. Each of his clothing had their turn. At last, the diary under the blue t-shirt gets his attention. Then the diary, his personal dairy for the year 2001, had a letter sticking out between its pages.<\/p>
\nScientists are cracking their heads to find a way to do time travel, never had they known that an unaddressed letter can do that.<\/p>
\nThe Letter read<\/p>
\" Hey... Anjali,\nI don\u2019t know where to start, but here it is, the first time I saw you, I never thought that you were going to be a great part of my life, because I was stupid enough at that time, not to feel that. Every time you smiled, you took my breath away. Every time I had to drag myself into me after hanging out with you, which keeps circling around you. If I was paid a rupee every time you crossed my mind, I would have given the World Bank, a loan. All those little teasing, was to see those beautiful devil looks on your face. (Pardon me, for those)<\/p>
I\u2019ve been asking Lord Krishna every Valentine\u2019s Day, \u201cWhere is my Radha?\u201d Well at last, he answered me in the form of you. I had been practicing a lot to say it to you but the fear of response let me down. With failing every time, this time to confess.<\/p>
All that I wanted to say is,<\/p>
Hand-in-hand together as 1 <\/b><\/p>
My LOVE for you beyond 4<\/b> letters,<\/p>
Be my better half as 3<\/b> in the 8. <\/p>
WILL YOU MARRY ME?\n\"<\/p>
<\/p>
Tears rolled out as he read the letter. Then came the mobile ringing, he wiped off his tears as he had to attend the video call of his little daughter, Anjali.\n<\/p>"}]
IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a number derived from a standardized intelligence test. On the original IQ tests, scores were calculated by dividing the individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that number by 100. So a child with a mental age of 15 and a chronological age of 10 would have an IQ of 150. Today, scores on most IQ tests are calculated by comparing the test taker's score to the scores of other people in the same age group.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004524378","data":"58a1e3b09920c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004541881","data":"
EQ, on the other hand, is a measure of a person's level of emotional intelligence. This refers to a person's ability to perceive, control, evaluate, and express emotions.\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487004559692","data":"58a1e3d2a02e1"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004568944","data":"
IQ is still recognized as an important element of success, particularly when it comes to academic achievement. People with high IQ's typically to do well in school, often earn more money, and tend to be healthier in general. But today experts recognize it is not the only determinate of life success. Instead, it is part of a complex array of influences that includes emotional intelligence among other things.<\/p>
The concept of emotional intelligence has had a strong impact in a number of areas, including the business world. Many companies now mandate emotional intelligence training and utilize EQ tests as part of the hiring process. Research has found that individuals with strong leadership potential also tend to be more emotionally intelligent, suggesting that a high EQ is an important quality for business leaders and managers to have. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005385351","data":"58a1e70f26d49"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004734246","data":"
IQ is used to determine academic abilities and identify individuals with off-the-chart intelligence or mental challenges. EQ is a better indicator of success in the workplace and is used to identify leaders, good team players, and people who best work by themselves.<\/p>
While most researchers say that an individual\u2019s performance in life is determined by both their IQ and EQ, there is evidence that IQ only accounts for a small percentage of that.<\/p>
We all know it's important to be smart. But being smart doesn't have to mean a super high IQ, of course, it can mean being a normal human with a lot of knowledge about your particular area of expertise. Having a high IQ can be very helpful to a successful career, but it might not be the most helpful thing. A good EQ might actually be even better for your career trajectory.<\/p>
Being the smartest person in the room is not enough if you don\u2019t have the capacity to work with the people who are in that room with you. It\u2019s usually said that \"A high IQ will get you through school, a high EQ will get you through life.\"<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1487005400803","data":"58a1e721680b3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487005429148","data":"
You need to have the ability to talk with one another and see things from a different point of view. One of the hallmarks of someone with good EQ is that they can listen and ask questions and consider that they might not always be right. Sometimes people that have too high of an IQ know that they are right, and as a result, stop listening.<\/p>
Too often businesses promote the best \"workers\" to management positions instead of the person who would be the best at managing. If you're sitting behind a desk doing a task all day, it doesn't necessarily matter how good you are at understanding others. What matters is if you're good at understanding your task, a very IQ oriented job. Good leaders have to understand their teams and their clients. And that takes EQ. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1487004533693","data":"
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A city called Manchester, some 8,000 kilometers away, the closest thing to a spiritual home I\u2019ll ever have. Love is an understatement. What I share with Manchester United is way more special. I\u2019ve been through the dirt and through the clouds along my journey as a United fan. Despite not being around during the true glory years of 99 up until the early 2000s, I\u2019ve found everything that makes my club so special. The culture, the atmosphere, the fans, the spectacle, the passion and most importantly the aura of the badge and the crest. What made me a United fan? Guess it was the spirit, the raw nature of the play, the management, the . My earliest memory of United was the Champions League final of 2008. That fateful night in Moscow. I was a complete newbie to football till March of that year. Didn\u2019t know what the offside rule was, didn\u2019t know how a free kick should be taken. But I made it my job to understand every nuance of the sport, watching replays of matches on ESPN and Star Sports, in the hot and humid summer afternoons as replays were being telecasted. I couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t understand the rules, didn\u2019t understand why fouls were being called, I remember saying to myself, \u201cwell this game is stupid\u201d, watching a 0-0 between two clubs I can\u2019t recall for the life of me. I was looking for the wrong outcomes, I realized football isn\u2019t always about who can score more goals (this realization came along much later), it helps, but the game isn\u2019t always about getting a name on the scoresheet.<\/p>
So I watched few more games, and thought, \u201cWait this isn\u2019t even better than the IPL.\u201d Agreed Hyderabad was horrid the first season, but cricket promised something instant and fast paced. You were almost assured moments of happiness with a cover drive or a wicket. After watching an advertisement on the tele claiming the final was going to be the biggest game of the year, I decided to give football one last chance to impress the amazing critic that I was. I\u2019m indebted to myself for making that decision to this day.<\/p>
After that warm afternoon of May the 22nd, (the final was on the 21st), I felt elevated. Never knew that a game could be so exhausting, emotionally and mentally. It was the day I fell in love with Manchester United. Over the course of the next few years, I watched movies, documentaries, highlights, replays, basically anything related to United and watched it all. I felt a part of the club, dependant on their performances, connected to every chant, every jibe, and every little detail was an obsession. To be a United fan fatigued me to the point fatigue became an addiction. Being a United fan pulled heart and sinew to the breaking point and brought me back from hell. We as United fans have been called gloryhunters, but never in my wildest dreams will I ever support anyone other than the team wearing the red devil in the front. Been called hypocrites for buying talent, but will never question those who perform. To have anything less than the best is unsatisfactory. To be second best and not strive for improvement is unsatisfactory. <\/p>
Spoilt by success, arrogant and pompous till the end, United made me believe in the spirit of never giving up. To never accept defeat as the last checkpoint. Think going is tough? Give everything till full time and give even more after that. I\u2019ve screamed louder than I can justify, punched the couch way too many times and jumped out of my seat even more. To be in love is combustive. My love for United burns with the courage of a tomorrow, of a destiny promised, a time when the footballing gods will smile again upon my club. This flame will not be put out. Not by philosophies and definitely not by accusations. Growing up watching idols retire, comeback, leave and become second fiddle has taught me a lot. Taught me that no story ends until you want it to. That hard work will get you to the top. All motivation is good motivation. <\/p>
I witnessed the competition threaten our legacy; I witnessed my club take 19. I witnessed humiliation at the hands of our city rivals, I witnessed a footballing god take his final bow. I witnessed goals galore and destruction of defences. I witnessed our spectacular fall from grace. The pain of being labeled has beens, the momentary uplift of Europe only to be blown out again. I witnessed mud, sweat, tears and blood at Old Trafford. This great club which rose from the ashes half a century ago and became the biggest club in the land, will be a beacon of inspiration and a cornerstone of happiness till the day I die. <\/p>
#Love is an understatement. United is my religion. Manchester my heaven.<\/p>"}]
We grew up on Clandestine romances which we read up and watched as kids. Our childhoods were entranced in little bits of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d and \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d, worlds where people fell in love and lived happily ever afters. Heck, Jane Austen almost had us believing that our Mr. Darcy would stand right in the corner and welcome us as we grew up. However, things changed, somewhere between the lines of childhood and teenage-hood, we discovered the forbidden books, \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover\u201d, \u201cGone With The Wind\u201d, heck maybe even, \u201cFive Point Someone\u201d, love was no longer pure and serene, it was an exercise of so many different and complicated feelings. Yet, romantic comedies gave us hope. We were due to meet a particular Lucy on a lift someday and end up listening to long jams of \u201dThe Smiths\u201d, but, that my friend was not to be. <\/p>
Love in the modern world is far more complex than it used to be, and it\u2019s all the more beautiful for it. Day after day I wake up with Facebook posts talking about the lack of chivalry in boys, about how sexual relations have become an integral part of romance and how its damaging the romantic institutions like marriage, and it makes me feel kind of bad. My mother didn\u2019t send out love letters, and was never swiped right on Tinder, she married an upper caste Brahmin<\/i>, and somehow made it work. Our parent\u2019s generation cultivated love after marriage, and when they did break the norms, there was a sort of forbidden-ness associated with it, the secret letters written with Hero pens held through the night. The Mandolin players on the sarson<\/i> field. <\/p>
But, then came my Elder sister\u2019s love. They knew about the love affairs in the homes and they met in secret, they shared sweet nothings talking all night over the phone. Then, they wooed the parents and got married, \u201c2 States\u201d like. <\/p>
We were perhaps different, before we had passed out of our higher secondary, we were browsing pictures of each other on phones. We had a greater media available to us, and the scene of Literature, of TV Romances had changed. There were no more musicals, the horrors of MMS scandals ripped through our spines whenever, we went to meet our lovers in secret. And yet, love flourished. For the millennial child, getting these two worlds together is hard. A Tinder message does not make the same impression as the hand written note passed in class. Some times we\u2019re vocal about it. Our hatred of this sex-obsessed swipe right culture, the faults in our meetings. And yet, the nature remains the same. <\/p>
You see, we never had masquerade balls, but, blind dates with someone unknown is just as enticing. Or meeting someone over Facebook and falling in love, still calling them, and stealing a kiss while her mother is not watching. The childish joy in booking a room in a shady hotel, smells of the forbidden love, just like the Sulekha<\/i> ink used by people from my mother\u2019s generation. Yes, it is overwhelming. Yes, it discards Mr. Darcys and gives us bastards like Heathcliff and Rhett instead. But, there\u2019s owning in this. Back then, in the 80s, our parents claim to their spirit was expressed through their love notes, today we lay claim to our own bodies, our own souls by being in love, by sharing physical intimacies. It is alright if you don\u2019t want to, I too, want that perfect date where there\u2019s chocolates and strawberries. But, just for today, if he\u2019s waiting for me in a hotel room, that\u2019s alright for me too, and it\u2019s just as much love as my Di\u2019s love for her boyfriend is, as much my mother\u2019s love for her husband is. As much Bennett\u2019s for Darcy is.<\/p>"}]
I always enjoy writing letters. Old fashioned, but very expressive. This Valentine\u2019s Day I\u2019m writing a letter to my Best Friend of 11 years and how much her presence means to me. <\/p>
(P.S- bear with the cheesiness and the long story I\u2019m about to narrate) <\/p>
Dear Minion,<\/p>
\nI\u2019m sure it\u2019s not a surprise to you anymore that I call you that, considering our 5-inch Height difference. <\/p>
\u201cEvery tall girl needs a short best friend\u201d, goes the saying though. Consider yourself extremely lucky that I\u2019m writing you a letter. We\u2019re probably the most insane Best friends ever.<\/p>
\n\nI still remember how bossy and adorable we were in 3rd grade, when we met. Always wanting to be leaders, dancing on idiotic songs, being bullies too at times, not something I\u2019m proud of though.<\/p>
When I saw Friends for the first time, it was the time I realized you\u2019re my Monica and I\u2019m your Rachel.\nYou being the \u201cThis has to happen my way\u201d kind of a person and me \u201cSomeone has to make decisions for me as I\u2019m not capable anymore\u201d person. I\u2019m so indecisive, I wonder how you deal with it. <\/p>
We called each other \u201cbest friends forever\u201d in 3rd grade, little did we know that at that time, we meant it literally. We drifted apart a little until the 10th grade, with the new schools and new friends, but our bond never changed. Rather, it became an unbreakable one. It\u2019s been 11 years and you\u2019re the only one who can handle my madness and mood swings, still. When I cry, you\u2019re hurt, when I\u2019m happy you\u2019re happy and vice versa. <\/p>
We\u2019ve grown together. Being Baapans, Our love for Paneer is so obsessive that they should\u2019ve probably made a dish with our names. Every time we meet, everywhere we go, it\u2019s always been a paneer date.\nWe watch romantic movies together because we\u2019re forever alone and have only each other. Yes, people have speculated us being Homo sexual because of the bond we share.\nAnd I have a hunch we\u2019ll die alone being the extreme crazy people that we are. <\/p>
Our phone calls and we bitching about everyone we hate and those endless talks which make my day. It\u2019s funny how we end up hating the same people. No matter what happens in a span of 24 hours you\u2019re the first one I update. Ours is the fastest conveying network, even faster than Google finding results for a topic. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same with you. We even talk about what we ate for lunch or how we got punished in a lab. <\/p>
Also, we\u2019re Rao-Rao. People call us identical, our habits, the way we talk, the way we look too. <\/p>
\nOur sleepovers are an endless session of \u201cHow could that girl say that\u201d, \u201cOh my god she\u2019s so weird\u201d, \u201cWhy is that guy such a playboy\u201d, let\u2019s watch a horror movie together and freak out and me falling asleep half way and you wondering \u201cOh god what do I do with this woman\u201d. \nThe countless selfies or pictures we click together, we should be in the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>
The number of times we planned to move in together after engineering, about how I\u2019ll cook and you\u2019ll wash the dishes, How I\u2019ll go partying every Saturday and you\u2019ll take care of our two huge dogs because you\u2019re not the partying type. We are two opposites when it comes to tastes. You hate my choice of guys and I\u2019m not a fan of your choices. You like Beer and I don\u2019t. I like Vodka and you don\u2019t. You like planning and scheduling, I like lazing around. I love cheese burst pizza and you love paneer cheese dosa. Monica and Rachel, literally.\nWe\u2019re two opposites yet the best when we\u2019re together. We stalk so many people on Instagram, commenting on how weird or how amazing they are. Sharing at least 10 meme\u2019s everyday about how Gemini and Libra are the most compatible or about our sad forever alone lives.<\/p>
\nOh and also what a HUGE narcissist you are. Your self-obsession is intolerable. But thanks to you, I started becoming one too. You made me see how important it to love yourself the way you are. I always cribbed about being too tall or having pimples or not having thick hair on my head. You made me see why all that shouldn\u2019t matter and how I should learn to accept things the way they are.\n <\/p>
Our obsession for snap streak is mental. We have the highest streak in each other\u2019s account. Spamming each other when we\u2019re bored by using all the snap filters available, it is proved that we are jobless. We lose streak with everybody else but not with each other.\nThe way we get jealous if someone else calls you\/me their best friend. OH no no no. No one is allowed to do that. All we have is each other, forever. <\/p>
How our forever date place is Sam\u2019s pizza. That restaurant might be getting all its profits from us. Starving the whole day to eat unlimited pizza, I beg you to name any other retard who does that.\nI should probably write a book on us \u201cThe retarded best friends\u201d.\nI can go on and on about us, but here\u2019s what I\u2019d like to end it with:<\/p>
You mean a lot to me and thanks for being there always. I know you will continue being there because you have no choice. Our lame lunch dates, our plans to meet up for Valentine \u2019s Day, our endless gossips and our innumerable talk, Love you for everything. We don\u2019t need a girls gang if we have each other always. You\u2019re my ball of happiness, pun intended. I can share anything and everything with you. My google when I have to know things, my FBI agent when I have to investigate about something, we\u2019re unbreakable. There have been times where people thought they could put us apart, but they can\u2019t. We have so many ego issues and we fight for the lamest reasons. But I guess that\u2019s what makes us Best Friends. We may not be talking to each other every day after we settle in our lives, but do know this, No one can replace you. We shall make it a point to try being the same always. I\u2019m sorry I haven\u2019t been available the past few days, what with my busy schedule, but I shall always make time for you. Oh, I should take some credit too, for bearing with you.<\/p>
To many more lunch dates and gossips, to travelling the world together and \u201cTrying to become fit and have a flat tummy one day\u201d, cheers.\nWe are best friend goals and will always be.<\/p>
Hands, put your empty hands in mine <\/i><\/p>
And scars, show me all the scars you hide <\/i><\/p>
And hey, if your wings are broken <\/i><\/p>
Please take mine so yours can open too <\/i><\/p>
'Cause I'm gonna stand by you. <\/i><\/p>
With lots of love, <\/p>
Your best friend. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486891718184","data":"58a02afc45461"}]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, <\/b>remembering and wishing our Father of the nation on his Birth Anniversary, <\/b>here are 13 things your probably didn't know about the man we fondly call Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928111","data":"58a07709def82"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928112","data":"
1. His nickname in school was Moniya.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928113","data":"58a0773a87dbd"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928114","data":"
2. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1930.<\/b>\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928115","data":"58a07792577f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928116","data":"
<\/u>3. He was only 13 years old when he married a 14 year old Kasturba <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928117","data":"58a077c0896d0"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928118","data":"
4. While studying in England, he learnt to dance and play the violin.\nBut he later gave it up for a simple lifestyle.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928119","data":"58a0781318134"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928120","data":"
<\/u>5. He spoke English with an Irish accent.\nBecause one of his first teachers was an Irishman.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928121","data":"58a0783d77323"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928122","data":"
6. During his time in South Africa, he earned as much as USD 15,000 a year.\nWhich in today's valuation is Rs 9.25 lakh per annum.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928123","data":"58a07897c49d8"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928124","data":"
7. He wrote his autobiography in Gujarati.\nIt was later translated to English by his assistant.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928125","data":"58a078ea691f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928126","data":"
8. He was born on a Friday and died on a Friday.\nIndia also received Independence on a Friday.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928127","data":"58a07921ac217"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928128","data":"58a079616e504"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928129","data":"
9. Gandhiji had very bad handwriting.\nAnd it bothered him a lot!<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928130","data":"
10. His birthday \u2013 October 2 \u2013 is recognized as the International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928131","data":"58a079900c6bc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928132","data":"
11. He was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.\nIt is widely believed that he was going to receive it in 1948. But he was assassinated that January, and the Nobel Committee does not award posthumous prizes<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928133","data":"58a07a083ac63"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928134","data":"
12. He was in regular correspondence with Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1538399928135","data":"58a07ae5db8be"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1538399928136","data":"
13. He carried a set of false teeth in his loin cloth. He would only take them out during meal times<\/b><\/p>"}]
\u201cThe first time I beheld you, I was hardly eight; the last time I had you is this moment and the next time I will love you is \u2013 every moment. Every word that flows through me traces back to you and you alone.\u201d<\/b><\/p>
That could very well be a person but you wouldn\u2019t find a person so \u2018silent\u2019 but vehement enough, subtle yet intense, \u2018open\u2019 and closed, on and amidst and everything that is paradoxically possible. I never sought for a companion with all these qualities, it was serendipity that I found\u2014not one, but many \u2013 BOOKS with a capital \u2018B\u2019. Who would think a bunch of feelings of a stranger penned down in black and white, stretching out to hundreds of pages, calling itself a \u2018novel\u2019, would turn out to be a new-found love??<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908505605","data":"
And loads of it I found, safely bundled in woody canvases. What a trance I went every time I hold a book!! They say God made Man out of his own image and only God knows how many characters Man created in books! <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908519270","data":"
How I wished I was Birbal when I did my Mathematics. I would live in ashes all my life if I were to get to wear glass slippers like Cinderella! That laughing-the-hell-out-of-myself feel when I read Suppandi and Tinkle comics! That first teen-crush on \u2018The Boy Who Lived\u2019!! Reading all seven parts of Harry Potter with so much patience and wishing I was Dumbledore so I could save Harry. Practising all those \u2018deduction\u2019 skills of Holmes in getting my brother caught for his mischief!! Hoping I would one day be able to talk like Jeeves to please Bertie Wooster, what with his excellent vocabulary!! That giggle of self-satisfaction when I contrive to solve the case before Poirot does! Surfing all Internet to find which undergraduate course will get me to study symbology like Professor Langdon! Falling in love with Mr. Darcy and wishing I was his Lizzie...Loving a fictional character more than a real one and wondering why no one else does! All these are the boons you get as a book reader and you form a Unicorn-Island for yourself, where you dwell all the time.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908534028","data":"
You would\u2019ve heard book-maniacs like me ranting and raving about how different the world of books is. Once again take a description of it here \u2013 when reality seems to fall apart in pieces, you are in need of a haven...a \u2018heaven\u2019... You then delve into a book with a new world between its pages, a new story between its lines, new thoughts between its words and a new \u2018you\u2019 in every character. All you have to do is read on, safely forgetting the \u2018real\u2019 for \u2018surreal\u2019 and floating somewhere between heaven and land, all there is but a book in your hand. Its silent words shouting, rustling pages booming and then again you feel ready for the world and to cope up with its various troubles, comforting yourself that there is a book to return to, every time. (Bet every book reader would agree on that!)<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486908546953","data":"
This V-Day, celebrate the boon of book-reading \u2013 the #love of my life \u2013 grab a book, settle yourself into a settee and read on into eternity and yes, do tell me if you too fall in love with them the way I do, we could be \u2018partners in crime\u2019!!<\/p>
\nFinally,Dear Books,\n\u201cYou have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, love you!!\u201d\n(Three guesses as to who said that??)\n <\/p>"}]
\u201cWhen I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating moulding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.\u201d - Jackson Pollock <\/p>
According to Wikipedia, \u201cArt historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.\u201d <\/p>
The definition of art is open, subjective and debatable. There is no agreement among historians and artists, which is why we\u2019re left with so many definitions of art. The concept itself has changed over centuries.\n\n\nThere is no universally accepted definition of art. <\/p>
Although commonly used to describe something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture, and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example, how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas, hoping by this action to create a work of art, does the result automatically constitute art?\nEven the notion of 'beauty' raises obvious questions. <\/p>
Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. <\/p>
Examples of such phraseology include: \"Fine Arts\", \"Liberal Arts\", \"Visual Arts\", \"Decorative Arts\", \"Applied Arts\", \"Design\", \"Crafts\", \"Performing Arts\", and so on.\nDrilling down, many specific categories are classified according to the materials used, such as: drawing, painting, sculpture (inc. ceramic sculpture), \"glass art\", \"metal art\", \"illuminated gospel manuscripts\", \"aerosol art\", \"fine art photography\", \"animation\", and so on. Sub-categories include: painting in oils, watercolors, acrylics; sculpture in bronze, stone, wood, porcelain; to name but a tiny few. Other sub-branches include different genre categories, like: narrative, portrait, genre-works, landscape, still life. <\/p>
Sceptics say that art is a waste of time. Even the famous poet WH Auden confessed that no poem saved a single person from the Nazi gas-chambers. And while this may sound a rather meaningless statement, it highlights the notion that art has a limited use in our daily life, except in the case of attractive-looking buildings, teapots, cars or clothes.\nThere are two broad answers: first, applied art is a major branch of art which cannot easily be separated from fine art, because the root of all design (which is the foundation of applied art) is fine art. Second, ever since Homo sapiens developed the facility of contemplation, he has expressed his thoughts in pictorial form. At the same time, he has continued to appreciate beauty - whether in the form of human faces or bodies, sunsets, animal-skin colours, cathedrals or sculpture. In a nutshell, to create and to appreciate art is to be human. That's the point.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1544873192009","data":"5c14e58af3da0"}]
Friends, Romans and countrymen lend me your eyes today! I am here not to give long speeches that bore all of us but to say about the biggest change that we will be facing in our lives will be when we graduate. It will be start of the new chapter in our lives,there is not set rule book that can prepare us for what lies ahead. But let me tell you all that is indeed a start to one of the most magical journeys of our lives where we will discover ourselves in a whole new aspect. However you all need to me very hard and clear as i will discuss some of the advice that my father has given me over the years. I call them my 4 G's of life, they are generosity towards others growth, immense gratitude and God.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486745677307","data":"589df0c69a1d9"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486745343558","data":"
The legend of Mulan goes that when the Huns attacked, many Han Chinese people had to take up arms to defend themselves, including civilians, old people and young alike. Mulan, being a woman, broke cultural and traditional norms by being stubborn on learning how to fight for her homeland. She successfully fought back and cemented her place in legend, and the poem that's written about her is also the first account of gender neutrality from that time period. <\/p>
We should all aspire to learn from Mulan, her indomitable spirit is what led her to be determined, the iron will she posses drove her to greatness, and we too can aspire to be like her in life. She is an example of perseverance and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds, and that right there is inspiring, and what made her a Chinese hero, even to this day. <\/p>
Go on and watch Disney's Mulan, it's easily one of their finest movies. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1486920711181","data":"58a09c3f47701"}]
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