Data is ubiquitous. Especially in today’s digital world, data has become a crucial element for a wide range of industries and organisations to make important decisions. We count and compile a variety of data to make business and even personal decisions. This article provides an introduction to some basic concepts of data storytelling and the importance of not forgetting the human stories behind cold data.

Here’s what happens when two groups of students from India and Pakistan break boundaries to explore their shared histories and identities. I am an international student at the Hamburg University in Germany. And like many international students, I live in a student dorm. I am an Indian, and I live with a Pakistani.

The concluding day of SPOT Festival 2017 brought together three renowned music commentators for a talk on rock and politics. As we get back to routine lives and shake off the SPOT hangover, one can’t help but marvel at the capacity music has to energise and unite people. While music has always garnered a special place in society to bring people together, it is also a powerful tool of expression, and for taking a break from the mundane.

In 2019, over 45% percent of Indians stated that they regularly came across news stories that were entirely made up for political or commercial reasons. At the same time, over 44% of people have never heard of fact-checking sources! Moreover, research shows that supporters of the BJP seemed to have more trust in Indian news media compared to those who were non-partisan.

In 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared internet a human right. This included the right to internet access, freedom of information, privacy and digital rights that are fundamental in upholding liberal democratic values. However, the degree of internet freedom that ordinary citizens experience depends widely on governments in their respective countries across the world. India was given 55 points out of 100 in 2019, as a country with partial internet freedom.

As a leading producer of cost-effective and quality-controlled generic drugs, India supplies around 20 percent of the global pharmaceuticals demand in terms of volume. In fact, the Indian healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector was one of the fastest growing in the world and was expected to grow by a whopping 754 percent between 2017 and 2060. Generic drugs have traditionally been India’s stronghold and contributed over 70 percent to the overall market revenue in 2018 alone.

The global banking landscape has seen seismic shifts in the last decade with the emergence of digital payments, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies and more. As a country with the second largest population of internet users, India has been quick to adopt to this world of financial technology. According to recent reports, India and China were the global leaders in consumer fintech adoption with an 87 percent adoption rate, compared to the global average of around 64 percent in 2019.

India has embraced the internet with open arms, and its digital population has been rapidly growing in the past decade with over 680 million active internet users . What started with simple email correspondences, has expanded to a digital universe with social networking giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter becoming a part everyday life for millions of Indians.

If you have passed Law College road in Pune recently, you certainly must have noticed the big question mark and other signs put up outside the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). The FTII imbroglio, which has received much media attention since it began on June 12th, is still unclear for many. The students of the prominent institute have thus taken help of the medium they know best and made a short film clarifying the issue and explain their standpoint to the uninitiated. After exhau

Banking in India is considered a fairly mature and stable sector in terms of credit, market and liquidity risk. Indian banks are considered to be dependent, relative to other banks in comparable economies in the region while also being generally resilient to global economic downturns. This focused topic page gives an overview of India's banking industry, with some key statistics on the public, private and foreign banks in the country. In addition, a focus on the government's financial inclusion program - Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana's has also been added.

With the energy and spontaneity of a mad artist, AddisAbabaBand got the audience grooving at Ridehuset on the first day of SPOT Festival 2017. A 13-member band that fuses jazz, psychedelic rock, funk and afro-grooves was something I couldn’t miss for the life of me. And I wasn’t alone in feeling so. Even before their sound check, the band had a crowd gathered around the stage, waiting in anticipation.

Rarely has history noted an instance of a foreign community that has so cohesively merged with the local populace, keeping their identity intact, as the Jewish community in India. Although a religious minority, the Jewish communities have settled in India for over 2,000 years. This article traces the roots of the Jewish people in India and explores the multiple layers to their identity.

Aquasonic, the world’s first underwater band, performed in Aarhus recently, taking the audience on a journey into the unknown. It was a mixed crowd of young and old, curiously standing in the long queue, waiting for the venue door to swing open. Their curiosity was justified. Aquasonic, the only underwater band in the world, was playing that evening.

Jazz is not dead… It’s alive and kicking in Aarhus! On March 9th, jazz lovers in Aarhus were in for a treat when, as part of the Århundredets Festival, the renowned Aarhus Jazz Orchestra played a heady concoction of jazz through history. Curated by Rasmus Rosenørn, a doctorate and music historian with a special forte in Jazz, the event titled ‘Jazz is Not Dead’ was a stimulating journey through the history of jazz in Denmark.

A compilation of Sanika Diwanji's work in Crème Magazine's August Issue

“You don’t stop running because you get old; you get old because you stop running” states Christopher McDougall in his legendary book ‘Born to Run’. Don’t we all remember how easily and naturally running came to us as kids? The sensation of the cool wind on your burning cheeks after an exhilarating run is an unparalleled feeling. Evident as it is, running is not an age-defined activity. Humans are, in the words of the author quoted above, naturally “Born to Run”. This article introduces our readers to some of the veteran pacers in Pune and what motivates them to go the distance.

In the spirit of celebrating independent thought, it becomes important to introduce you to Raju Dabhade, a self-made man who has put Pune’s name on the global map by inventing a new sport- Roll Ball. It is not an everyday occurrence that a new sport is invented. And it is even more singular to note when the game is invented by a Punekar himself. Raju Dabhade, a physical education and sports teacher at the MES Bal Shikshan Mandir English Medium School in Pune talks to Sanika Diwanji about his journey in the field of sports and education.

Suddenly Facebook has gone colourful with rainbow effect display pictures and a lot of discussions about whether those who have done it even understand what it symbolises. No matter what the argument, the question that we all need to ponder on is common- are we open to accepting the LGBTQ identity in our social fabric? Sanika Diwanji talks to queer activists in the city to know what issues they are trying to voice.