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What is Vipassana ? Vipassana is a way of life as suggested and practiced by Gautam Buddha. Vipassana guides you to help cleanse the conscious and to attain inner peace. Vipassana is the knowledge of living in the present. Accepting others as they are and believing them to be their true self, our appropriate and […]
The 23-year-old Neeraj Chopra from Panipat won the Men’s Javelin Gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and became the first Indian track and field athlete and made his way through to become an Olympic champion. In an interview, expressing his joy he said that he slept with the medal near his pillow and was happy […]
Disclaimer: VoI urges all of the children to only cook under the guidance of an adult. Especially, do not use the stove in absence of an adult. Yana cooks mouth-watering ‘Cheese Loaded Bread’ with the help of her grandmother and shares the entire recipe with all of us. Try this easy yet delicious recipe out! […]
The closing ceremony of the 16-days sporting event was concluded in Tokyo, Japan. The closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics began in an empty stadium and following the strict COVID protocols on Sunday. The ceremony began with six bearers bringing the flag of Japan with the Tokyo Story movie’s theme song in the background, which […]
German Modern Pentathlete, Annika Schleu dreamt of bringing home the gold medal, but her horse, the handsome Saint Boy had other ideas. As Schleu mounted him, he refused to jump over the obstacles and left his rider in tears. In such a situation, the right and humane thing to do would be to dismount, and […]
A few years ago, my friend, a beautiful divorced woman in her 60s, with adult children from a heterosexual marriage, ‘came out to a group of us during a weekend break. For a brief moment, awkward silence descended upon the flower-filled garden where we sat. Six minds churned, our thoughts could be heard buzzing at […]
Santanu Bhattacharya is a hardcore soccer fan who has been following this global sport since the early ’90s. Having mostly followed World Cup football and the local East Bengal, Mohun Bagan Derby leagues, and more he started following club level – EPL, La Liga and other international leagues for a decade. This year too, Kolkata […]
by Kimaya Rana Bangtan Sonyeondan which means Bulletproof Boy Scouts is better known to people as BTS. It is a globally known sensational South Korean boy band of 7 members. Their music is different from other K-Pop bands. Their music has a meaning to it that I feel is something that music rarely has nowadays. […]
Hundreds of thatched huts, rickety houses, tin-sheds jostling for space amid smelling overflowing public toilets. And a narrow squalid lane meandering through them. Welcome to Ramapir Tekra, a typical slum colony in Ahmedabad’s Vadaj locality and home to around 150 tribal migrants. Some 70 per cent of them would be single male migrants, anywhere from […]
Hidilyn Diaz, the Phillipines weightlifter created history on Monday by winning her Nation its first Gold Medal in weightlifting at Tokyo Olympics after a 97-year-long wait. The story for Diaz in 2019 was quite different when the 30-year-old was accused to be involved in a plot to overthrow Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in 2019. Fast […]
Times have changedEven though theyAre dying.Sky is redNow hearts black,Even though theyAre throbbing.Times have changed. (One of the poems from the book titled ‘Change’) This beautiful poem is penned by the youngest English poet from Kashmir, Abdullah Bin Zubair. The 12-year-old poet from Delhi Public School, Srinagar, wrote his first book – a collection of […]
India rejoiced the Indian women’s hockey team’s spot in the semi-finals at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. This is the first time that the women’s hockey team has made it to the semi-finals with a stunning victory of 1-0 against Australia. Savita Punia is one of the key contributors to this historic event. The Australian […]
“I wanted an escape from my life; from the electricity shortages to the mosquitoes buzzing in our ear when we slept, from barely having two square meals to seeing our home getting flooded when it rained. My parents tried their best, but there was only so much they could do–Papa was a cart puller and […]
Boxing, wrestling, games that demand hardcore physical training were once thought to be a regimen for only the men, but not anymore. With sheer determination and prowess, women athletes have continued to thrive in sports with no holds barred. It is worth noting that six out of India’s last eight medalists at the Olympics are […]
Herschelle Gibbs last played any form of international cricket in 2010. Known for his aggressive strokeplay, the South African had made quite a name for himself during his playing days. He’s had a fairly modest presence in the public eye since, though, and the last time he’d made headlines in India was a couple of […]
India has had an illustrious list of Hockey players. Vibes of India introduces you to some of the brightest stars of our golden galaxy of hockey players. Dhyan Chand Our greatest hockey player, DhyanChand made his mark in the 1928 Olympics where he scored 14 goals to help India win the gold, he went on […]
In a country obsessed with cricket, it is time for our national game. Hockey.For the first time, India ended its 49 year waiting period at the Olympics by qualifying for a semi final after 3-1 win over Britain in the quarter final at Tokyo 2020. History has been rewritten in Tokyo as India have qualified […]
In March 2020, I was visiting a friend in Goa when the lockdown was announced. What was meant to be a week-long visit suddenly turned into a ten-week stay. Those who’ve been through such an experience would know this doesn’t bode well for a friendship. First of all, it breaks down the distancing required for […]
Friendship, what is the definition of this particular word? It is one thing that you cannot live without, friendship defines a lovely bonding between two people no matter how far they are. This virtual friendship that I will be describing today is a friend who is not in my society, school or even grade. My […]
In pandemic enforced times, our first thoughts are those of fear, deprivation, death, grief and a range of emotions over which we have no control. Traumas of different kinds come to reside in our beings. These intense experiences should not be taken lightly. However, in the annals of literature, we find various ways of coping […]
