Archive for July 12th, 2012
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Good Grief
Our non-qualified, non-professional in-house pseudo psychologist addresses your worst anxieties…
(Relationships, office politics, peer pressure, teacher trouble… mail your questions to nxg.nextgen@gmail.com Mark “Good Grief” in the subject line)
I’ve just started Std X in a new school. I’ve always been a bit of an introvert, so I’m really as to how the first few days are […]
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Campus Buzz (12/07/2012)
On stage
What: The Festival of Drama and Dialogue
@ The School KFI
The Festival of Drama and Dialogue, initiated 18 years ago by the students of Std XII of The School KFI, was born out of a need to interact with students of the same age from other schools in a non-competitive forum. They evolved certain criteria […]
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Grown up? Not really
Some things never change…
Monday morning: I’m struggling with my sandals, fully aware that I’m already six minutes late when mom asks (read ‘shouts’) THE question: “Have you taken everything?!” from the kitchen.As always, I shout back, almost stepping out of home, that I did not forget anything. This is a daily ritual. She will ask […]
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Convivial lexicon
Learning over a 1000 words for GRE’s sake is fun … really!
The pursuit of a post graduate course in a foreign university begins with three letters: GRE. Well, that’s what people say instead of “There are 3000 words that you need to memorise!”Though it may seem competitive from one perspective, to me it is […]
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Brain drain
Why we are our country’s greatest resource…
It happens every year around the country: canvassing young intelligent brains, targeting not the underprivileged, but students who top the top schools for they need students who are not only brainy but also have wealthy parents.A few months ago we had a campaign in our school by an organisation […]
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To be or not to be…
…professionally qualified, that is. Armed with a degree related to the career or to just dive in? Listen to both sides and decide. ARCHANA SUBRAMANIAN and MADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN
ACTING
DIA MIRZA
Self-taught: Becoming an actor was not pre meditated. I had no time but to say yes or no to the film offers at hand and I chose […]
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Eight-bit entertainers
SHARAN M. takes a nostalgic look at the video games that ruled the market and hearts in the 1990s. Mario, anyone?
At a time when we are playing the latest 720p RPG on a console capable of streaming music and videos to your high definition TV, it is easy to forget that a little over 10 […]
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