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Rajvir Saini - a storyteller with a camera

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tête-à-tête Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into photography? As I have always been fond of art and creative things, I started my career as a fashion photographer back in 2011 after getting trained from one of the prestigious institute in Delhi. Soon after my college, I started falling for the photography. What are the fundamental changes that you think have happened in fashion photography in India, say in the last five years? Well, i would say a lot has changed in the past few years especially perception of people about choosing photography as a career. People who used to make fun and never thought about pursuing photography now they have changed their mind and photographer are getting fame and money like in other prominent fields. How important are colors to portray the real sense of an image? Colors to an image is like adding taste to the food. We can fill ourselves with food but can't be satisfied without the taste.  What advice would you give to the people...

“Paytms removal from google play” Aren’t we becoming slaves to these foreigners again

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We all use Paytm in everyday life, it has become a daily essential in our lives. Afterall, it has made our life simple and convinient in many ways. With this Indian e-commerce payment gateway, we are heading towards digitization. Paytm wallets and its UPI feature has made our life go Cashfree. Paytm is one the most trusted payment application used in India.  In this recent week only, we heard Google removed Paytm from Google play store. It was a sudden shock for all of us. Even, some of the Paytm users uninstalled it. The application was temperorily removed from google store. Why was the application removed? The hardships between Paytm and Google started from september 11, when Paytm launched a campaign called Paytm cricket League for claiming more profit during IPL. With this campaign Paytm rewarded it's active users stickers of cricket players which could be used to form a team of IPL. In this campaign, with active participation, people could get some cashback directly in their U...

Drugs vs Bollywood

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Drugs vs Bollywood : The most hot topic of today is drugs and bollywood started with Sushant singh rajput, now i just heard a new word yesterday “NARCO TERRORISM” I have been in Bollywood from 2003 so its been 17 years, to my surprise with so much talked about drugs drugs drugs even in 2003 drugs was there in Bollywood and i don’t know but according to my understanding drugs was there prior to my entry in Bollywood.  It all started with Sushant’s murder or suicide then to Disha’s murder or suicide and now drugs, very interestingly i analysed that all this drama is so non filmy, like in films police never comes on time but here things worked super fast from post mortem to cremation and confirming it as suicide it all happened in a flash that was cool. Puchta hai Bharat  Where is law and order, means these people can kill anyone and prove it that its suicide, this is i am talking about a celebrity, what about a common man, i am sorry but this is a sorry state of law and order in...

Short video formats apps market flooded with new apps after tiktok, Even you tube also started with short video. Do we really have market for these apps ?

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We all are in this lockdown since months. We cannot manage to go out for a change, or for entertainment, in this time of pandemic, all we can get our entertainment from is the internet. We can get ourselves entertained through these digital platforms only. Sitting at home, the only thing that worked out to break our boredom was the 'Internet'. Lots and lots of people got stuck on several social medias, and apart from this most of us moved to 'Tiktok', an application that actually provides us our space and allows us to make videos on whatever our feel is and share it with people. Additionally, it also enhances the hidden talent among us. Tiktok made amazingly good market with it's users, as, it was used by millions of users, people from everywhere used tiktok for their entertainment, or fun. Tiktok eventually managed to create a strong market among the online applications. Heartbreaking for some, but Tiktok had to say Goodbye to India a month ago. Tiktok has now been...

Fashion Keeps on Changing; How Important is for an Individual to be in current Fashion?

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The word "Fashion" is always exploring, ever evolving, and ever exciting. A number of stuff comes to our mind whenever we think of Fashion. Also, fashion is never limited to clothes only, it can be explored to shoes, jwellery, accessories, etc. It refers to the styles of particular things. Fashion is the currently popular style. Few example, Wearing T-shirts on blue denims is a current cool fashion trend.  These fashion trends are set by some of the cool fashion bloggers, the people from fashion industry or the people from bollywood industry. Most of us, mainly the youth follow these fashion trends set by the fashion bloggers. The fashion keeps on changing, it keeps on evolving from time to time. For an instance, we can observe the fashion trends of the 1980s, then 90s, and now. They all are different, maybe repeating some of the times but always changing with time. The bell bottom jeans were the fashion trends in the years of 1960s and 70s. Then the parachute pants were a ma...

Feel Trendy ! Feel Authentic (Shweta Aggarwal - Fashion Designer)

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One-on-One Dialogue Q 1. WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN FASHION I won’t be wrong if  I’ll say i was born with it. My interest in fashion began as a child. When I was very young, maybe seven years old I remember dressing up for different events at school and I took pride in having the best outfit, or at least making the biggest effort made me really happy at that time. I pursued formal education in fashion and took training under couple of renowned Fashion Designers. For 3 straight years, I assisted them for Lakme Fashion Week. Q 2. WHAT ARE THE KEY ELEMENTS FOR YOU WHEN DESIGNING A COLLECTION EACH SEASON? BALANCE. I strive to make sure that my each collection should have balance and harmony. I believe that the outfits I design has to share values of simplified sophistication, class and attainable luxury. I analyze the ongoing trends in the market to get the understanding of what is most loved by the people and then design exceptional outfits for my clients. In addition to this, i ma...

Drugs, Neta & Abhineta connection?

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The whole country is now in a great suspense about the mystery behind the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. All the suspects are under severe investigations by the CBI team and the higher investigatories. The major suspect behind the death mystery of Sushant is his rumored girlfriend and actress Rhea Chakraborty. She is under major CBI investigation. All her personal chats and phone calls are also being investigated. All of this investigation is now leading the case to have some major connections to drugs. The drug angle has came up from Rhea's chats and calls. The investigation has revealed "Four Big names" in the sushant case that were a major part of this drug handle. Two are the Mumbai based politician, one actor and a filmmaker. The names are still not completely revealed but the investigation has taken a major turn in the case to the drugs. Rhea's chats also points out to "Jaya Saha" being involved in Sushant's death case. There were chats in ...

Teachers are loosing their importance in current society ?

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Teachers are the most important part of our life. After our parents, teachers are our best friends, and our well wishers. Teachers play a very vital role in giving shape to our future from beginning to the end. They not only teach us the subjects, or not only help us with our education but also teach us the way of living. They shape our personality. Children takes what they are taught at a young age throughout the rest of their lives. Teachers are the most vital section of the society. They are given the place after "God". But, these days the education is getting digitized, students are now considering internet as their teachers, as internet can always be there for them. Internet can provide students all the information they need. Nowadays, as technology is available everywhere and is easily accessible everywhere, students are considering internet more important than their own teachers as it is more convinient for them, it can be accessible at any time of the day.  Inspite of...

Ram Gopal Verma PPV formula, is it Workable?

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Ram Gopal Varma, a promising director of our industry, who has always given us a bag full of entertainment throughout the years in cinema. He has entertained us with movies like Sarkar, Company, Bhoot, Satya etc. This director has always been experimenting in new genres of the cinema. He has came up with new genres in the industry, and, has always fullfilled the entertainment demand of his audiences. Thus had been a very successful director of Indian Cinema. Even in this time of the pamdemic, the director is not missing any chances to accomplish the heights of success. He is now coming up with new ways of publicing the movies to maximum people. In this time of Covid-19, the theatres are shut and the movies are not releasing on big platforms like theatre complexes.  Therefore the big budget movies are not earning much views and hence less earning.  To cover this major loss of Industry, Ram Gopal Varma came up with a new formula of releasing movies called the PPV formula (Pay Pe...