Mondays With Manjul, January 3

Happy 2022 From All Of Us At Vibes Of India

Vibes of India is all of six months but has made promising progress. We are pleased to announce that our news portal has got more than 8,00,000 visitors and we are confident of reaching the million mark by March end.  We have stumbled but we have grown, broken records and set new milestones.   2022 is […]

New Year Resolutions To Keep Or To Break?

Like every year, New Year’s eve is the time when most adults make resolutions. It is a different thing that most of the time, these resolutions are broken.  Social media has enabled people to share their resolutions with people in no time. It is therefore not surprising to find people putting out their New Year […]

The Online And Offline Chasm: How Covid-19 Challenged Education

Ever since the coronavirus pandemic struck, it has thrown up challenge after challenge. With the advent of 2021 and cases seemingly under control, life was expected to go back to normal but then the virus began mutating, and here we are looking at a fresh set of Covid-inspired curbs as we enter the third year […]

Fun Ways To Celebrate New Years Eve At Home

It’s the most beautiful and celebratory time of the year as we are about to step into a new year and bid adieu to this one. 2021 was not everything we expected and did treat us with an extreme harsh Covid wave in the first quarter, but we survived through it. Popularly, new year’s eve […]

New Year Resolutions: Small But Concrete Ways To Start 2022 Right

After a year of too many ups and downs with the second Covid-19 wave and then reopening of the world slowly and maybe we are nearing the third wave, we have come a full circle. The year has come to an end.With the new year approaching as the calendar changes, it brings hope to people. […]

The Great Leap Forward Merits Critical Evaluation

At a time when India-China relations are going through a ‘rough patch’, it is important to look back at events that led to the biggest man-made disaster of the century.  The Chinese government’s autocratic ways to control their people clearly demonstrate that China cannot be coherent to India.  Until the 19th century, agriculture was a […]

Why This Crisis Is No Skin Off The Government’s Nose

The lockdown of May 2020 was particularly arduous for Jamalpur resident Faisal Kharawala. At the peak of strict curfew guidelines across India, particularly in Maharashtra and Gujarat, the 31-year-old drove 1,147 km from Ahmedabad to Belgaum in Karnataka with two of his relatives to get cadaver skin for his wife, who had suffered over 71 per cent deep […]

Mondays With Manjul, December 27

Hello, What Will You Have?

I write this maiden column from the lovely land of Gujarat, quite a surprising choice for some, to spend a Christmas eve. One because it is the first and only State of India that has had a prohibition rule since its inception in 1960; meaning alcohol consumption without a government permit can land a person […]

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Mondays with Manjul, December 6

Oh-My-Cron: Travel plans cancelled, money lost – again

If you are planning an international holiday to celebrate the new year, then here is a cautionary note: with the latest travel restrictions, you might not just miss out on the travel but the refund too. As the discovery of a new Covid variant has forced governments around the world back in a huddle, Vibes […]

A Parisian Parsi From Gujarat: Tracing The Life And Times Of JRD Tata

Source: Francois Xavier Durandy Recipient of the highest civilian awards of two countries – his birth place France and the adopted country of his forefathers India – JRD Tata died on November 29 in 1993 at the age of 89. A Padma Vibhushan and a Bharat Ratna awardee, JRD’s ancestors had fled Persia, the homeland […]

Mondays With Manjul, November 29

Unpopular Opinion: No Justice For Chandru, Little Jai For Bhim

Without intending as much, the film confounds the trauma of being born SC/ST in India -a multi-layered perpetual agony to the level of mere physical torture. The title of the film should have been” Chandru”, for “Jai Bhim” somehow just stops short of doing full justice either to amazing Justice Chandru or the essence of […]

Trump Does A Putin: Gets Taekwondo Nineth Dan Black Belt

In an incident which reinforces the image of Donald Trump as the Lalu Prasad meets Athavale meets Sakshi Maharaj equivalent in US politics, he is conferred with, hold your breath, ninth degree black belt in taekwondo. The World martial arts body claiming to be non-political and informed that the choice of former US president for […]

Kangana Goes Berserk, Again: Angers The Sikh

It takes a Sikh to put crass Kangana Ranaut in her place like Daljit Dosanjh once did, or Sikhs for that matter. A FIR is lodged against Padma Shree Kangana for hurting the sentiments of the Sikh community through a social media post in Khar Police Station in Mumbai. Though she is banned from Twitter […]

Mondays With Manjul, November 22