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• Top 10 Party Looks
• Top 10 Things That Unite Indians
• Best 10 iPad Social Network Apps
• Top 10 Poets Who Died Young
• Top 10 Books to Read While Waiting for GOT Season 4

Top 10 Party Looks Posted: 22 Jul 2013 04:08 AM PDT Here’s an eclectic mixture of party dresses, one-piece, tops and skirts for a variety of party occasions and moods. From the Wild-Child to the Divine-Diva and the more classic ‘Little-Black-Dress-girl’, there is an party ensemble for every girl, just put on your party glasses to believe us. Presenting Topyap’s Top 10 Party looks: 10. Little Black Dress 9. Divine Diva 8. Emerald Green 7. Jumpsuit 6. Wild Child 5. All Black 4. Baroque 3. Silver Grey 2. Thigh High Slit 1. Cobalt Blue The post Top 10 Party Looks appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Things That Unite Indians Posted: 22 Jul 2013 02:00 AM PDT What unites India? Ask such a question and find yourself drenched in septic arguments. The image of India as a nation is somewhat weird. This country is misgoverned by corrupt politicians chosen by ignorant people, its social structure is divided by castecism and regional politics exploits it aptly to win elections, its constitution spilt the career and education opportunities into categories, and at the same time, cultural differences are high. In Himalayan states like Himachal Pradesh, dialect of language changes almost every 30 K.M. Unification might sound a far-fetched concept here. However, there is some sense of national unification left inside Indian people. Some motivations could be temporary and unintentional, but there are some factors that bring Indians together. Here are top 10 things that unites Indians. 10. Achievements and Sports: For instance, Indian cricket team represents secularism; player from every religion and region play together to represent India. Sachin Tendulkar isn't just a player; he is the unopposed God of cricket. He, with his international records, is the pride of India. Not only cricket, but many other internationally reputed Indian figures from various other fields have done the same. A cricket match on a fine day does provoke impulses of patriotism and nationhood among the people across the nation. It might be temporary, but cricket does bring Indians together, cheering for the team. 9. Social Media/Internet: Under British rule, the building of railway tracks boosted communication between people residing in other parts of the country. It led to a revolution and the fight of freedom from the colonial rule. In the present day, Internet is solving the same purpose. It's letting people connect and share, in text and visuals. And most importantly, all this information reaches our computer screen within a few seconds of dispatch. It's breaking the physical and geographical barriers. 8. Cinema & Mainstream Media: Indian film industry is the largest in the world. It touched $1.86 billion (Rs 93 billion) in 2011 and is projected to rise to $3 billion (Rs 150 billion) in 2016. International giants such as 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros have deals with Bollywood. Although, most of the Indian Cinema and media is about entertainment, but there are such producers, directors, writers and actors, who project the real faces of our society, culture, practices. Most of us know about India's freedom fighters and their struggle through cinema. Indian cinema recreated historical and mythical characters. Indian television is still cashing on epic stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata. Mainstream media has a bent towards TRP, but still it keeps the whole nation informed and aware of what's happening in other unions of India. 7. Indian Army & Battles: Indian army means the finest of soldiers standing against enemies. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and people from every existing religion and caste serve the nation in Indian army. At times, such as Pakistani invasion in 1972 and 1999 in Kargil, India stood unified, and thus, undefeated. Indians did count every drop of blood shed by soldiers while defending the nation and its sovereignty. Recently, irrespective or any discrimination, Indian army rescued over 100,000 lives in flooded Uttarakhand, one of the biggest natural disaster. Indian Army is the only institution that is completely secular. 6. History of India: India's history reveals some instances when India stood together. India's long fight for freedom, under the leadership of freedom fighters belonging to various religions and castes, makes a fine example of that. Even the Muslim invasions and British colonial rule could not erase the cultural heritage of India. Rather, it blended with Indian perspectives. This hint at some force at work that kept India unified or helped it to preserve its own culture and values. 5. Secular Tolerance: Secular status of India is actually quite amazing to observe. More than any other nation, religious tolerance does exist here. Muslims, Hindus, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, and all others have successfully survived and shared opportunities in India for quite a long period. Some political goons do exploit religious beliefs of people, but still temples, mosques, churches and monasteries found space in this country. This tolerance holds a huge value in keeping India unified. 4. Political Unification: How can you call a nation politically unified amidst the chaos that the cheap, regional and caste based politics have creates? But, the thing is that, people of India elect their representatives through a common election method. People vote like a unit for the nation. The dates of election may vary, but the purpose brings India to a common platform. Moreover, the Government in India is often formed in coalition with influential regional parties. Indian government stands on a political platform which brings representative of every group together. 3. Developing Technology & Economy: Political unions of India have one currency and rarely there are any trade barriers between constituent states. States share power sources with neighboring states and sometimes depend on each other to meet the demands of their markets. Developing economy has led to the construction of transportable roads to geographically far reached regions and has paved ways for developed means of communication. Giant web of Indian railways has connected the whole nation. People can travel easily between states to spend holidays, or they can migrate seeking employment opportunities. It's all connected and unified. 2. Constitution: The Preamble of India starts with lines saying," We the People of India", and Indian constitution does play a paramount role in keeping Indian states unified. Nation is disciplined under the same set of laws and the fundamental rights are provided to each citizen irrespective of caste and religion. That's the reason corruption gives a bypass to these laws & regulations. Wealthy and influential political leaders mostly opt to bypass these laws in exchange of huge cash.  In constitution, India is completely secular state. May be, it's forced, but it does keep Indians under the same roof, thus unites India. 1. Culture & Festivals: More or less, cultural beliefs in India enjoy the same concept. People do believe that India is one of the oldest civilizations mentioned in history of the world.  Rich cultural heritage is a treasure-house of music, fine arts, dance, drama, theatre, literature and sculpture. Indian philosophy, Vedic literature, Yoga and its value system enjoys international fame. Many festivals like Diwali, Holi, and Dussehra etc. are celebrated all over the country. Even people settled in foreign counties are connected to India by sharing the celebrations of these festivals. The post Top 10 Things That Unite Indians appeared first on TopYaps.

Best 10 iPad Social Network Apps Posted: 22 Jul 2013 01:12 AM PDT You all have doubtlessly heard of Apple and their might be so many people who are reading this article from their apple device. Perhaps we all know that Apple is one of the most recognizable brand among every age of people. Therefore, we have come up with our amazing list of apps for using social networks to make your interaction towards people in the world more beautifully and smoothly. Below is our list of those apps specially brought to you by Topyaps, Have a look :- 10. IM+ Instant Messenger: Instant Messenger grant you to chat easily on Facebook, Google talk, live messenger and many more. You can do group chat and send multimedia messages to your friends. You can stay connected with your friends and talk instantly to anyone. 9. Twitter: Twitter will give you an interactive and intuitive user experience to cover almost every current unrivalled stories , articles, pictures, headlines and many more. Get your profile their and let people follow you for your interesting updates to increase your circle. 8. Pinterest: Get the latest and up-to-date collection of your favorite stuff  like tattoos, dresses, interior designing, latest footwear’s and anything that you want to discover. Pinterest helps you organize, pin and maintain your important articles/items on board that inspire you a lot. 7. StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon will now help you stay connected with people among the globe via internet to discover and share cool new stuff for your device. You can beautifully StumbleUpon your favorite videos, pictures and many more things. 6. Skype for iPad: Skype offers you free video calls, voice calls within just one click. An awesome app that is used by several users and have got heaps of good feedback. 5. Vtok: Vtok helps you interact with people with free voice calls, text, chat and video. It provides you interesting tools to use your device and get personalized your device with its amazing features. 4. MyPad: MyPad is one of the best app for Facebook. You can easily reach out your important stuff  like free music, games, trending apps, latest streamlines from twitter and many more features that you will come to know using this app. 3. FriendCaster for Facebook: Lets just begin this awesome app by browsing your favorite feeds, photos and check-ins. Quick switching between multiple accounts, full screen photo viewing, beautiful map view and many more such features are composed under this app. 2. AIM for iPad: This app provides you an easiest way to post your status and locations directly with your  Facebook and Google talk friends. 1. GetGlue for iPad: GetGlue is an awesome guide to help you watch your beloved shows and get recommendations for shows from your friends that you would like to watch. You can also easily talk to your friends while watching your shows. The post Best 10 iPad Social Network Apps appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Poets Who Died Young Posted: 21 Jul 2013 11:00 PM PDT They say that great poets die young. While there is a certain romantic appeal to this notion, it might be more than just a myth. New research has shown that poets do indeed die younger than other writers such as novelists and playwrights. It could be because unlike novelists, poets become famous young and therefore when they die young their deaths are noted more frequently than novelists. Whatever be the reason, it is still a fact that the world has lost many a great poet at an early age. Here is a list of top 10 poets who died young. 10. Arthur Rimbaud: Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet who started writing at a very young age. He was a symbolist poet and had a scandalous love affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine. Rimbaud wrote prolifically but stopped writing at the age of 21. He died later at the age of 37 in Africa where he developed a carcinoma in his right knee. 9. Michael Dransfield: Michael Dransfield died at the age of 25 but in his short life wrote more than 1000 poems. He was an Australian who started writing poetry early at the age of fourteen. His poetry was based on his own drug experiences and he published an anthology called Drug Poems in 1972. He suffered from ill health for many years and in 1973 he finally succumbed to the illness and died in a hospital. 8. Rupert Brooke: Rupert Brooke was an Idealistic war poet in England during the First World War. His poem “The Soldier” gained a lot of recognition. He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant when he was 27. He sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force a year later in 1915 but developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite and died on a French hospital ship. 7. Wilfred Owen: Wilfred Owen was a war poet who wrote during the First World War. He was also an English Soldier and unlike his processor Rupert Brooke, his poetry was not idealistic and did not glorify war. His experiences of trench warfare and gas warfare shaped his poetry into descriptions of these horrors. His poetry helped change the common perception of war that was prevalent before the war. He was killed in action in November 1918 at the young age of 25. 6. Keith Douglas: Keith Douglas was also an English war poet that wrote poetry during World War Two. He was only 24 years old when he was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy. He is known for his ‘extrospective’ writing style in which he described the atrocities of the war in an emotionless style leaving all the emotional burden on the reader. 5. Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist. She also wrote short stories. She wrote in a confessional style and won a Pulitzer Prize for one of her anthologies posthumously. She suffered from depression almost all her life and in 1963 at the age of 30 she committed suicide by placing her head in the oven and turning on the gas which caused carbon monoxide poisoning. 4. Thomas Chatterton: Thomas Chatterton was an English poet born on 20 November 1752. He had trouble learning the alphabet as a child and lived in seclusion in the attic. Later on he developed the ability to read far in advance of his age. He read old material from his father’s collection. He wrote in a Gothic revival style and wrote pseudo medieval poetry. He was only 17 years old when he died of arsenic poisoning which could have been a suicide. 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Shelley is one of the most famous English romantic poets. His poetry upheld his own radical political and social views and for this reason many of his works were refused by publishers during his time. It was only after his death that his poetry gained recognition. He died at an early age of 30 when his boat sank in bad weather. Just as his life, his death was also controversial and there were many theories about his death including political murder, pirates, bad navigational qualities and a boat with a flawed design that wasn’t seaworthy. 2. Lord Byron: The third of the famous trio or English romantic poets was Lord Byron. He was the Baron of Lochdale and was notorious for his many scandals involving women. In 1824 he had fallen sick and was using therapeutic bleeding to cure himself which had left him weak. He caught a cold in his weak state but the doctors insisted on continuing with the bleeding which worsened his condition and he died on 19th April at the age of 36. With the death of Shelly, Keats and Byron within 4 years, the age of poetic romanticism is said to have died too. 1. John Keats: John Keats was a contemporary of Shelley and along with Lord Byron these three were considered the best of English romantic poetry. He died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. He knew he had TB and was about to die and so refused to marry Fanny Brawne, whom he loved and instead moved to Rome where he died a year later. The post Top 10 Poets Who Died Young appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Books to Read While Waiting for GOT Season 4 Posted: 21 Jul 2013 09:28 PM PDT Hopefully by now you’ve gotten over the “Red Wedding” massacre and your emotions have calmed down. Maybe you have forgiven Martin and are eagerly awaiting the fourth season of Game of Thrones. But the emotional rollercoaster ride and the anxious wait to see which main character Martin kills off this time has to wait as there is still some time for the fourth season to be aired. While you wait for the next season you may want to whet your appetite for epic fantasy fiction by reading more books in the genre. If you don’t want to spoil the surprise by reading The Song Of Ice And Fire series, I totally understand but there are many other great fantasy fiction books out there that will help you pass the time as you wait for the season 4. Here are top 10 books to read while waiting for GOT season 4. 10. The Acacia Trilogy: David Anthony Durham has written this fine trilogy that follows a group of four siblings of the Akaran dynast that rules the Known Lands. They belong to the island and ethnic group of Acacia and use some very disturbing means to maintain their rule. The trilogy starts off with Acacia: The War With The Mein in a slow manner which reflects the background of Durham in literary and historical fiction. But as the series develops in The Other Lands and concludes in The Sacred Band it gets better and better with a great ending in the third book. It is a great series to experience the fantasy genre a little more. 9. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen: Steven Erikson of Canada has written this epic fantasy series of ten books. The series started in 1999 with Gardens Of The Moon and finished in 2011 with The Crippled God. The series was co-created with Ian Cameron Esslemont who has also written 5 novels of his own based in the same world and they are considered a part of the series. Many novellas have also been written in the same fantasy world. The novels are set in a complicated world of the Malazan Empire and are about the power struggles of that world. They are compared to Martin’s The Song Of Ice And Fire series and so you’ll feel right at home while reading this series. Don’t be afraid of the length as the first 5 books are pretty much self contained and can stand as single pieces of fiction. 8. The First Law Series: The First Law series consists of a trilogy and three stand alone novels set in the same world created by British author Joe Abercrombie. The world is pretty much like medieval Europe where three powers reside called the The Union, The Gurkish Empire and The Northmen. The Union is at war both with The Northmen and The Gurkish Empire and this becomes the setting of the story of a variety of characters as they navigate through this world. The series includes the three books, The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument Of The Kings and three standalone books Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country. This is another fantasy series of modern style with realism and well rounded characters and flawed heroes. 7. The White Queen: The White Queen written by British novelist Philippa Gregory is not really a fantasy fiction but more of historical fiction. It could be interesting though because it’s based on the War of The Roses which is the inspiration for Martin’s The Song Of Ice And Fire series as well. This book, published in 2009 is the first of a series being called The Cousin’s War and portrays the female figures of the war. This book will help you understand Game of Thrones in a new light. 6. The Deryni Novels: Katherine Kutz, an American author has written this historical fantasy series which includes 5 distinct trilogies, two collections of short stories, one stand alone novel and two reference books. This is a great series to get into if you are hooked to historical fiction and want to get lost in one world for a long time. The stories are mostly set in Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. The Deryni are a race of people with inherent psychic and magical abilities and the books deal with the political, personal and religious strife caused by the relations between the humans and the Denyri. 5. The Shadowmarch Tetralogy: Tad Williams wrote this four book series with the first book, Shadowmarch coming out in 2004 followed by Shadowplay in 2007, Shadowrise in 2010 and the last book, Shadowheart also releasing at the end of 2010. The series is set in the province of Southmarch the last human settlement before the shodowline beyond which the immortal Qua live. The Eddon family that rules Southmarch are the main characters that the story follows. The series began as a bi-weekly online serial in 2002 and later returned to normal publishing as a novel. It is an interesting read that will help you get into the fantasy genre. 4. The Prince Of Nothing Series: R. Scott Bakker has written this series of three fantasy novels, The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet and The Thousandfold Thought. This series is distinguished from other fantasy books because of a major role given to philosophy in the books. The plot, characters, metaphysics and setting of this series are unique to the philosophical positions of the series. The series is set in the continent of Earwa where humans live but were preceded by the immortal Nonmen and alien Inchoroi. There is a Holy War going on and the series follows a monastic warrior Anasurimbor Kellhus. It’s an interesting read if you are interested in philosophy. 3. The Chronicles Of The Black Company: This series written by Glen Cook follows a mercenary unit called the black company through forty years of war. The series includes three books in The Books Of The North series, two books in The Books Of The South and four books in The Books Of The Glittering Stone. The book mixes fantasy with gritty military fiction. There is also a spin off novel called The Silver Spike. This book is for you if your favorite part of GOT is the story beyond the wall and the exploits of the Black Brothers and Jon Snow. 2. The Kingkiller Chronicle: Patrick Rothfuss wrote The Kingkiller Chronicle as a trilogy of fantasy novels that chronicle the story of Kvothe, an adventurer and musician. The storyline is divided into two forms, one being the present where Kevath is narrating his story to Devan Lochees who is the chronicler and the other is the past where Kevoth remembers his adventures and exploits. The first two books, The Name Of The Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear were published in 2007 and 2011 respectively. The third book is expected to be published sometime next year. It makes a great read while you wait for season 4 of GOT. 1. The Tales Of Dunk And Egg Series: If none of these books seem appealing to you and you are not really a fantasy fan but rather a Game Of Thrones fan then there is a set of books that you can read that are set in the same world of Westeros. The Tales Of Dunk And Egg is a series of novellas written by the very same George R. R. Martin and set in the very same world of The Game Of Thrones. The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight have been published so far. The stories are set in a time before the story of The Song Of Ice And Fire and covers the adventures of Dunk, Ser Duncan The Tall and Egg, Aegon V Targaryen. It is a great series to read to get a game of thrones nicotine patch while you wait for season 4. No spoilers to be had while you enjoy the world of Martin’s creation. He’s also planning on written  as many as 9 more novellas in this series so it is something to be followed on its own. The post Top 10 Books to Read While Waiting for GOT Season 4 appeared first on TopYaps.

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