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                                                               Anime - Agastya Kulkarni What is anime? Anime(uh-ni-mae) is a Japanese originated television genre where we can see computerized animations which are animated from manga . When was the first anime released? Astro boy was the first anime ever created on 1 Jan 1963 by Osamu Tezuka . This anime shows a scientist who creates a robot like an incarnation of his own son, and the robot has super powers who fights evil. Who is Osamu Tezuka? Osamu Tezuka also known as the creator of anime was a Japanese manga artist , cartoonist , and animator who was born on 3rd November, 1928 . He wrote many amazing anime like Princess Knight and some adult stories like Black Jack and Buddha but sadly on 9th November, 1989 he died because of stomach cancer. What is Anime currently in th...

  Let's Run With Our "Strings Attached"! ~ By Navneet Iyer (Std X , Abhinav Vidyalay) If you are into fitness and love to exercise, then you will have a workout playlist full of high beat songs which help you get in the zone. I bet you that not one of those songs in your playlist will be of the Carnatic genre. Violinist Kumaresh R and veena artist Jayanthi Kumaresh are here to change that with their new album, Run with SA (Strings Attached).  Carnatic music is a genre of music that is usually made up of slow beats and is soft to our ears. It is not suitable for listening when we do intense exercises or running. But Kumaresh R and Jayanthi Kumaresh are here to change that with their newly released 5-track album of Carnatic songs which are just perfect for our workouts. They have mixed Carnatic ragas with modern electronic beats to create songs for fitness buffs who love Carnatic music.   They had this idea struck their wonderful minds while walking in a garden when they sa...

                                                                                                                                   - By Devanshi Kashyap (10th B, Abhinav Vidyalay) Discovering various genres of music has always been something I truly enjoy. While in process, I came across R’n’B, and ever since then I’ve been a huge fan of this genre. What exactly is R’n’B?   Rhythm and Blues, often abbreviated to R’n’B or R&B, is a music genre first developed by Black artists in America in the 1940s. This genre was called ‘Race Music’ originally, but since it came off as offensive, it was renamed to ‘Rhythm and Blues’ by Jerry Wex...

-Ishaan Deshmukh (Batch of 2020-21) E ver since the Covid-19 Pandemic struck the globe, we all have been forced to stay inside our homes. Due to this, the cinema/film industry has suffered a lot financially. With many theatres being closed in India and all over the world, most new film releases faced bad luck at the box office and were not able to sell many tickets. One film, however, broke all these restrictions. Demon Slayer Mugen Train , or as it is called in Japanese, Kimetsuno Yaiba: Mugen Train is a Japanese anime film released on 16th October 2020 in Japan that shattered all previous box office records amid the Covid-19 Pandemic.   Demon Slayer Mugen Train is a direct continuation of the massively successful anime show Demon Slayer season 1 (released in 2019). Season 1 follows Tanjiro Kamado, as he sets off on an intense journey to turn his sister Nezuko, who had turned into a demon, back to a human. The film picks up right from the ending of season 1 and has our protagonist...