Category: events
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National Advocates Day
Dec.3rd is the National Advocates Day. The legal community of India celebrates it to mark the birth anniversary of the first president of India. He was an lawyer. In 1915 the gentleman received his masters degree in law and was also given the gold medal. He then quit law practise to join the freedom struggle.…
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Three Things we did not do at #BNLF
Road to Dehradun, was to lead us to the #VOW and #BNLF-2 the feeling was like going to the platform 9 ¾ or some adventure. The amazing experience at #BNLF1 evoked an amazing sense of anticipation, and excitement. The menu also sounded interesting. · The shivalik trek · The blogger street · Blog to book.…
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Who Killed the Keynote address?
Keynote address by the brand ambassador of blogging was to be a important event in the BNLF2 at VoW2017 Being a Toastmaster has its draw backs, until one is sure of the objective of the speech we do not speak. So being a brand ambassador meant I needed to understand what a brand ambassador did.…
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Some awesome things I learnt at the Valley of Words festivals.
“When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love That’s called being speechless, there was this amazing drive from Kurukshetra to Dehradun. After registering at the #BNLF counter we were free to saunter around the festival grounds. I was looking for the blogger street, I might have as…
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Naraka-Chaturdashi
Today is Narakachaturdashi, The organic nature of this festival doesn’t cease to amaze me. Growing we heard the story of Narakasura who captured 1600 women, made them his slaves eventually Krishna the Yadava rescued them. The legend also as it that Narakasura could only be killed by his mother. As Deepavali approaches kids begin collecting trash like old clothes, and old news…
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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Given the current situation, suddenly there is seems to an increase in public lynching, police versus the commoner situation. So maybe today is the right day to see where we are on this one. In 1997 UN launched the international day in support of torture victims this is a result of the UN convention against…
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