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Nepotism and Bollywood - A Real time love story

Nepotism can be phrased as the act of using power and influence unethically to get the dear ones a good work or job.Remember the good old days when the teachers would send the same group of students to particular competitions? The times when however hard you try to impress your heads in various clubs, the board appointments were given to their best friends? We used to call it favouritism and be upset over it for a day or so, but rather did we know it was happening big time in our country. The Bollywood industry has stepped up to the next level in the past few years. The level of craze for Bollywood movies across the globe is insane. But since the late nineties, there have been several claims that only the star kids of the industry are being promoted, and fair chance is not given to all those who deserve. Such claims have crippled the industry to a fair extent. The concept of Nepotism doesn’t stop with just the Bollywood Industry, it’s present in each and every sphere of our lif...

Cricket a dream of millions

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Cricket- a sport that had created it's foundation in England way back in the 17th century, travelled it's way across most countries around the globe and flourished its best.                              During the initial years of cricket most hadn't recognised it as a sport in India. The Britishers had brought the game to the country in the mid-18th century. Slowly a meagre population began to gain interest in the sport, though they were playing it in and around the local streets of the country but most people did not give much regard to it. When the central government had seen the slow emergence of the sport in the country they came up with an idea to begin an organisation that would handle the sport and it's events on a national level, this idea laid the foundation for the BCCI- Board of Control for Cricket in India on 10th December 1927. T...