“The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over” This is an excerpt from “A tryst with destiny” delivered by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on the eve of Independence towards midnight on 14th August 1947. What exactly is the path laid here? What ambitions is the first prime minister of independent India talking about here? The unending quests filled with the grandeur of success and failure has led India a long way, but how close are we to build the nation like they dreamt of? The contemporary India built with the blood, tear and sweat where the millennials and Generation Z are ready to take over has innumerable flaws and holes. Talking about contemporary India, we majorly have three religions- Bollywood, cricket and politics, being a fatal flaw we all have grown up with. Your underlying love for the bolly town has probably ...
The birth and growth of eSports in India As I sit down to write this blog, over 30 thousand people are glued to the livestream of Sc0utOP, and thousands more are finding ways to improve their spray, close range fights and movement, as someone who has been gaming for quite a while, this culture and love for gaming wasn’t prevalent in India for a long, long time. Only a small percentage of the gamer community, took it outside the scope of merely entertainment and time pass. So what changed over the course of these few years? What was the breakthrough that shaped how the gaming scene or eSports if you may, has emerged today? Join me, Rishabh Pandey in a quest to find the answers to these questions. T he Breakthrough Gaming was never bigger in India than it is right now, owing mostly to the unavailability of gaming setups, be it consoles or gaming PCs, which is the reason why eSports, or competitive gaming never took off the way it should have, in India, compared to Indi...