Desi Buzz - Volume 2

Editorspeak

Hi folks,

Off the bat, I’d like to thank everyone for their responses about the first edition of the e-digest, and a big thanks to all the contributors. I hope we continue to gain momentum with each issue that comes out.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Let me first start off by saying that I personally love anything and everything to do with Harry Potter. My favorite book coming alive on the big screen is something I look forward to every two years.

I liked the movie because having read the book I am not confused about essential details that are left out. If you however, are a person who is going to rely solely on the movies you are going to be left thoroughly confused and I suggest you seek another franchise, maybe Star Wars!!

Drexel Bucket List a.k.a. Drexel Dasvidaniya

Being inspired from these two movies, and considering that time passes by quickly before it dawns upon us that we are actually ‘graduating’, there are a few things that I believe you need to do (with reasons) before you graduate from Drexel – to make your student life ‘complete’.

In the Spirit of Friendship

Life is a long journey, and to make it one that was worth taking, all of us need something that makes it just so. The something I’m talking about is friendship. It is a relationship that is perhaps the hardest to define; because what unites two people to become friends is never the same for everyone. It could be anything, perhaps liking the same things, or even disliking them, some incident or accident that two people go through together, sharing a childhood, or just bumping into each other and discovering the start of a friendship.

Opinions on the Humanitarian Scenario

There is this question that keeps making rounds in this strange part of the body called the mind, why would people have to die for something they are not really responsible for. What wrong did the victims of the recent Mumbai attacks do? What did the people, killed in the Assam blasts, have to do with ULFA and their separatist fight with the government? My heart goes out to the hundreds of poor helpless people dying every day in the limbo, known to us as Gaza. It is always us, the taxpaying common man, who is always at the receiving end, the perennial source of premature blood.

Information Sharing

Some interesting experiments in sharing information using Web 2.0 tools:

1. Twitter

http://twitter.com/drexeleng