Black lives matter is one of the most significantly important movements to have taken place against the continuous systematic oppression on the Black people across the globe. It originally emerged as a rebellious movement by the African-American population in 2012 when an African-American teenager named Travyon Martin was shot and murdered by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida.

This movement was apparently inspired by the 1980s Black Feminist movement along with the movement of Pan-Africanism. Both these movements emerged from the continuous socio-political oppression towards the Black people. Pan-Africanism also focused on developing a sense of solidarity among all the native cultural communities residing in Africa.

With the growing amount of violence and oppression, the chief significance of this movement has been proved over and over again. In 2013 #blacklivesmatter developed to be a popular hashtag in different social media forums. Their first in-person rally was organized by its members in August, 2014. In the same year, Michael Brown was killed by the cops, contributing to the systematic violence against the black community.

On May 25,2020 another African-American man named George Floyd was brutally murdered by a white cop, who pressed his knee on Floy’s neck for nearly 10 minutes which led to a lack of oxygen in his body due to the continous choking and eventually he died. After this heinous incident, people from different parts of the world started protesting against this continuous process of oppression by the police generals towards Black people.

However, another group of people started another movement called All lives Matter in a generalized form which, according to them, covers a wider range of perspective including all human beings residing on earth. Several people even talked about how animal cruelty is a certain problem that is being overlooked by Black Lives Matter unlike All lives Matter.

The problem with this movement is that it fails to grasp the original essence and the true meaning of the former movement. It shows how lack of knowledge and ignorance towards a particular matter can lead to such movements that lack the very concept of the main ideology.

All lives Matter is not only a misleading one, but it also goes on to establish itself as a racist one since it totally overlooks the systematic hegemony followed by brutal violent incidents towards the Black people which have been going on since the beginning of time. This internalized racism is not identified by ALM promoters who seem to completely disregard the specific issues that Black people have been constantly dealing with. It also fails to show solidarity and unity but rather brings about a sense of generalization and obliviousness of the BLM movement.

The basic objective of BLM is to fight against the oppressive violence imposed upon them and it never aims at belittling the struggles and abuses other people/animals go through. However, this notion seems to have been misinterpreted by the ALM promoters who have taken up the responsibility of promoting the importance of every organism without even comprehending the origin of the BLM movement.

Another movement called Blue Lives Matter (BLM) has evolved as a countermovement by some retired law officers in the United States of America promoting the importance of reserving law officers along with a demand to punish those who seem to oppose the preconceived so-called law orders under hate crime statutes.

However, these countermovements go on to prove to what extent this internalized racism and ignorance have taken over people’s lives, that they choose to be blind and deaf whenever it comes to violent occurrences towards Black people. The fact that these movements have so many promoters and followers further shows the level of idiocy, lack of knowledge and sheer ignorance towards the real violence that so many people, even today, seem to possess as an internalized systematic approach within their behavioral system.

– Suvasree Bandyopadhyay.

Although most of us take compulsory communication lessons in schools/colleges/coaching centres, many people still find it difficult to communicate with other people freely in order to express their point of views and needs. There have been several studies by psychologists who have come up with various reasons that cause these problems following with several tips that can be followed in order to improve communication skills. If you are one of them who finds it not-so-easy to communicate with other people, this article is for you!

1. Take Sufficient Time before Responding

A study shows people who face the difficulty to communicate often tend to make the mistake of not taking enough time before giving a reply. If you are one of them who has been making this mistake, try to stop. Take your time, think and then reply.

2. Be attentive!

If you start thinking of a reply as soon as the other person asks something, you are making a big mistake that is eventually causing misunderstanding in the conversation. Being attentive is a skill that everyone must acquire. Listen to the other person carefully, take your time to process what they are saying, think and then start replying. This will help you to become a better communicator.

3. Maintain Eye Contact.

Never forget to maintain eye contact while having a conversation for it enhances self-confidence and helps the conversation to be more engaging and intimate.

4. Maintain a flexible body language!

Do not make the mistake of standing like a statue while having a conversation. It makes you look static and rigid. For the betterment of the conversation, start loosening it a bit. Casual hand gestures and movements make it way easier and smoother. Try it!

5. Use simple words and phrases.

Do not make the mistake of using jargons and unnecessary complex phrases to create a cool intellectual image. It simply does not work. Use simple sentences to communicate. It makes the communication smoother and the other person finds it easily comfortable to have the conversation with you.

6. Ask questions.

Instead of being the one who is there only to reply/answer, start asking questions. The questions do not necessarily have to be intellectual or tricky, simple casual questions can make the conversation better. Do not forget you also have to get the other person engaged. So try being the listener sometime. It works!

7. Focus on earning respect

There is a misconception everywhere about the funniest person in the room to always be the smartest one. To some extent it needs to be rephrased. Being the comedian/memer who can make anyone laugh is someone who is humorous, yes. But, the smartest person in the room is always the one who manages to earn the most respect from anyone and everyone in the room. Try being that guy who everyone respects. It will help the other people to have more engaging conversations with you. Therefore, While having a conversation do not forget (timings are important) to mention the achievements that you are proud of.
If you are one of those people who finds it difficult to haqve good conversations, do follow these simple steps to see a rapid transformation in your communication skills.

– Suvasree Bandyopadhyay.

Since the time immemorial, the Shivlings are being worshipped in the Indian subcontinent.These days, several excavations, conducted by the archaeological department, unearthed the life-size Shivlings from various sites. Some of them are- 1. A 9th century Shivling from Vietnam. 2. A 5 feet tall Shivling from Ayodhya 3. A 4000 years old Shivling from Bhabhaniyav village near Varanasi 4. An 18 feet tall Shivling from Bhiraveswara Swamy Temple atop the Mopuru hillock in Kadapa district 5. An ancient Shivling from Faridpur village near Karnal 6. An ancient Shivling from Sinauli near Baghpat

With this link, I will today talk about Shivling and it’s concept in today’s era.

The Holiest Shivlings of India

There are 12 Jyotirlings and 5 Panchabhut-lings in India –

• Jyotirlings:  Kedarnath, Kashi Vishwanath, Somnath, Baijnath, Rameswar, Ghrishneswar, Bhimshankar, Mahakaal, Mallikarjun, Amaleshwar, Nageshwar, and Trayambakeshwar
• Panchbhuta-lings:Kalahastishwar, Jambukeshwar, Arunachaleshwar, Ekambareshwar of Kanjivaram, and Nataraja of Chidambaram

Let us now figure out what a Shivling is and what are the concepts associated with it. A Shivling is an aniconic representation of Lord Shiva – the Destroyer. The term aniconic means a symbol that is associated with a deity. For example, the Dharmachakra is associated with the Budhdha. Similarly, it’s identifiable that Shivling is associated with Lord Shiva only.

History of Shivling

The Shiva Purana describes the origin of the Shivling, as cosmic pillar or a stambh of fire and the cause of all causes, neither having a beginning nor an end. However, few scholars have thrown ample amount of light on the fact that Shivling was referred to ‘Prayapas’ by the Romans who introduced the worship of Shivling in the European countries. The statutes of Shivling have been also found in the site of Babylon, a city of ancient Mesopotamia. Furthermore, the archeological findings in Harappan Civilisation, which yielded numerous Shivaling statutes, have disclosed the existence of a highly evolved culture existing before the immigration of the Aryans in the subcontinent.

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The concepts associated with Shivling

The Shivling represents the Brahmanda (the cosmic egg). It signifies that the creation is acquired by the union of the male (Purush) and the female (Prakriti) powers of nature. Scholars have identified the ling as a Phallic representation of Shiva, associated with fertility in some sense. Further, it has been analysed that Shivling has a scientific concept. The structure of the Shivling is extremely close to the construction of a nuclear reactor. It is composed of two parts :- the first part is a cylindrical structure, which is made of smooth black stone. The second part is the one that’s around the cylindrical structure.

The concept of Shivling and nuclear science- the above mentioned fact clearly highlights that the Shivling is actually the representation of a nuclear reactor.The Shivling has a pot of water hanging over the cylinder. It drips water upon the cylinder at a continuous pace. It flows out through the spout of the cylinder’s grooves.This water is not consumed as holy water in Shiva’s temple. The pot of water hanging above the cylinder is similar to the water that is needed to cool down a nuclear reactor.

This water is applied to the nuclear reactor as it heats up while generating energy.

The grooves around the cylinder of the Shivling signify the structures that are built to dispose of the polluted water from the nuclear reactor. Again, this water cannot be consumed, since it is polluted with nuclear waste and radiation.

In this picture, it is crystal clear that the nuclear reactor depicts a Shivling-type structure. This also reflects the fact that perhaps the Shivlings were models of nuclear reactors, apart from having some religious, philosophical, metamorphical and aesthetic contexts, hence.

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being yourself

“Being yourself” isn’t always easy. It means being honest about who you are – how you think, feel, and act – and sometimes that may turn people off.

In this way, being yourself comes with costs. People will see you. People will judge you. Some people will like you, some people will hate you, and plenty of people won’t even care about you. Ouch.

In the classic book On Becoming A Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy, psychologist Carl Rogers goes in-depth about the importance of being true and authentic to yourself, and why sometimes this isn’t always an easy and pleasant experience.

“In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not. It does not help to act calm and pleasant when I am actually angry and critical. It does not help to act as though I know the answers when I do not. It does not help to act as though I were a loving person if actually, at that moment, I am hostile. It does not help for me to act as though I were full of assurance, if I actually I am frightened and unsure. Even on a very simple level I have found that this statement seems to hold.”
Being open to others about who you are means being open about both the “good” and “controversial” aspects about yourself – which can be painful – but what’s most important is that people will know you and understand you better.

Thus, the people who like you will actually like you for who you really are, not what you pretend to be. And having one real relationship with someone who “gets you” is more fulfilling than a hundred fake relationships with people who like a “pretend you.”

In theory, most people agree that “being yourself” is a good thing. But what does it really mean? Is it even possible to be anything else?

Technically, you can never be anything but yourself. It’s whatever you are – right now – in this present moment. Yet that doesn’t stop people from struggling to “be themselves” on a daily basis.

What do people usually mean by that?

Many people walk through life feeling as though they are constantly “putting on an act” for others. Sometimes we put on masks for others and hide our true face. We try to meet countless expectations. And we hide the parts about ourselves that don’t seem favorable.

We do this mostly for the sake of social appearances and social reputation. It’s tremendously important to be accepted by others and to have strong relationships. So we think, “Why risk showing parts of myself, if that could mean threatening my relationships and losing people in my life?”

It’s a question we all ask ourselves in some way: “How much of myself should I really show this person? How much of myself should I really hide?”

You don’t need everyone to know your life story, but the deeper your relationships are, the more a person should know who you are.

We all struggle with dealing with superficial relationships. These are most common at work, school, and environments where we need to be professional and “down to business.”

However, we need realness too. We need people we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings with. And most importantly, we need to be real with ourselves.
On Becoming A Person is a classic book by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers, the founder of “client-centered therapy.” It’s a highly influential work on the importance of being true and authentic to ourselves.

“Being yourself” and person-centered therapy

Carl Rogers is most well-known for starting the “person-centered therapy” movement.

According to this type of therapy, one of the most important things a therapist can provide is unconditional positive regard. Instead of judging the client, or trying to fix their problems, the goal of the therapist is to provide an avenue for the individual to express themselves in a free and unlimited way.

By exercising “unconditional positive regard” – accepting the person for who they are, without trying to change them – the person is given the opportunity to grow on their own terms and discover who they really are and what they want to be.

One of Carl Rogers most famous quotes is:

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
The goal of person-centered therapy is to make this process easier for the client by providing them a space to explore themselves and discover more about themselves without judgment.

A good therapist must be accepting, empathetic, and able to listen to a client express their innermost thoughts and feelings without always needing to provide a solution or explanation.

Interestingly, this approach to therapy is very consistent with a theory in psychology known as common factors theory.

According to “common factors” theory, all specific therapies are equally effective (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, etc.) and what matters most is the relationship between the client and the therapist.

Basically, it often doesn’t matter what type of therapy is being used as long as the therapist and client have a strong, trustworthy, and accepting relationship. That’s what’s most important.

“Being yourself” is a process of becoming

One of the keys to truthfully and authentically “being yourself” is recognizing that you’re a dynamic process – not a fixed thing.

Who you are today is probably different from who you were 10 years ago. And who you will be 10 years from now will likely be different than who you are today.

You are always changing. From moment-to-moment, day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year.

So when you think about “being yourself” or “discovering yourself,” recognize that you aren’t searching for a fixed thing, but a process that is always changing and unfolding.

Here Carl Rogers reflects on this “process of becoming” as it relates to therapy:

“When he enters the therapeutic relationship, the client is likely to wish to achieve some fixed state: he wants to reach the point where his problems are solved, or where he is effective in his work, or where his marriage is satisfactory. He tends, in the freedom of the therapeutic relationship to drop such fixed goals, and to accept a more satisfying realization that he is not a fixed entity, but a process of becoming.”
This is one of the major themes throughout On Becoming A Person: it’s important to understand that you are a “process of becoming” and to recognize the changing nature of yourself.

Similarly, the therapist must also view their client as a “process of becoming.” And according to Rogers, this is why we must also be careful of using labels or diagnoses:

“If I accept the other person as something fixed, already diagnosed and classified, already shaped by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a process of becoming, then I am doing what I can to confirm or make real his potentialities”
It helps in all of your relationships – both with yourself and with others – that you recognizing the changing nature of people, and everyone’s ability to grow into a better person, especially yourself.

This attitude often helps us to maximize our relationships with others.

“Being yourself” and real relationships

Here are some final thoughts from Carl Rogers on the importance of “being yourself” and why it’s essential for keeping your relationships real:

“Being yourself doesn’t ‘solve problems.’ It simply opens up a new way of living in which there is more depth and more height in the experience of your feelings, more breadth and more range. You feel more unique and hence more alone, but you are so much more real that your relationships with others lose their artificial quality, become deeper, more satisfying, and draw more of the realness of the other person into the relationship.”
Like he says, sometimes being yourself can make you feel more unique and more alone.

When you are yourself truthfully, that may turn some people off who you are incompatible with. But that’s okay, because you’d rather have those few real relationships instead of a bunch of fake ones.

In this way, the rewards for “being yourself” far outweigh the costs.

The Education system has changed thouroghly through this pandemic situation. Before this crises also we were motivating the system to be worked with the help of digital world. But In today’s scenario this platform provides the strength of Education system. From the primary education to graduation level , it helps out students to keep them engaging and they also understand the things too.

The question arises after the Corona, are student go back to accept the offline medium. They definitely say yes, but although it makes them disturbing . So after this situation this system has to keep this platform on for the betterment of Education. Afterall Education is the most important thing for any individual.

But we dont had to forget that how much this platform is helpful also it is dangerous if they try to escape the steps , so under careful observation only, this platform helps out. For Exams, this platform may be a controversial issue, but through special apps ,we easily vigilance student and check their ability.

Overall we can say that in this pandemic situation of COVID 19, the use of digital platform provide the connection between teachers and students, which is vital for their Educational growth. So, through the effective use of digital platform , we are saving the world from illiteracy. And it also helps student to be updated about their Academics.

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There’s no questioning the fact that the universe is weird. Just look outside and you’ll see all manner of strange, self-reproducing flora and fauna, crawling upon a blue ball of semimolten rock covered in a thin, hard shell and blanketed by a tenuous film of gases. Yet our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at some of the most outlandish objects in space.

Beauty of the universe
Is in the Nature’s serenity
Preserve it and protect it
For the everlasting eternity
The wrath and fury of Nature
As result of man’s arrogance
To win over the Planet
Has to be stopped immediate
So that we have our Mother Earth
Shining and saving us for
An assured future to find
For the benefit of mankind

Mysterious Radio Signals

Since 2007, researchers have been receiving ultrastrong, ultrabright radio signals lasting only a few milliseconds. These enigmatic flashes have been called fast radio bursts (FRBs), and they appear to be coming from billions of light-years away (they’re not aliens, it’s never aliens). Recently, scientists managed to capture a repeating FRB, which flashed six times in a row, the second such signal ever seen and one that could help them unravel this mystery.

Nuclear Pasta

The strongest substance in the universe forms from the leftovers of a dead star. According to simulations, protons and neutrons in a star’s shriveled husk can be subject to insane gravitational pressure, which squeezes them into linguini-like tangles of material that would snap — but only if you applied to them 10 billion times the force needed to shatter steel.

Haumea Has Rings

The dwarf planet Haumea, which orbits in the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, is already unusual. It has a strange elongated shape, two moons and a day that lasts only 4 hours, making it the fastest-spinning large object in the solar system. But in 2017, Haumea got even weirder when astronomers watched it pass in front of a star and noticed extremely thin rings orbiting around it, likely the result of a collision sometime in the distant past.

A moon with a moon

What’s better than a moon? A moon orbiting a moon, which the internet has dubbed a moonmoon. Also known as submoons, moonitos, grandmoons, moonettes and moooons, moonmoons are still only theoretical, but recent calculations suggest that there’s nothing impossible about their formation. Perhaps astronomers may one day discover one.

Dark-Matter-Less Galaxy?

Dark matter — the unknown substance comprising 85 percent of all matter in the universe — is strange. But researchers are at least sure about one thing: Dark matter is everywhere. So team members were scratching their heads over a peculiar galaxy they spotted in March 2018 that seemed to contain hardly any dark matter. Subsequent work suggested that the celestial oddity did in fact contain dark matter, though the finding paradoxically lent credence to an alternative theory positing that dark matter doesn’t exist at all. Get it together, astronomers!

The Most Bizarre Star

When astronomer Tabetha Boyajian of Louisiana State University and her colleagues first saw the star known as KIC 846285, they were flummoxed. Nicknamed Tabby’s star, the object would dip in brightness at irregular intervals and for odd lengths of time, sometimes by as much as 22 percent. Different theories were invoked, including the possibility of an alien megastructure, but nowadays, most researchers believe the star to be surrounded by an abnormal ring of dust that’s causing the darkening.

Highly Electric Hyperion

The title of weirdest moon in the solar system could go to many celestial objects — Jupiter’s overly volcanic Io, Neptune’s geyser-spewing Triton. But one of the strangest looking is Saturn’s Hyperion, a pumice-stone-like irregular rock pockmarked with numerous craters. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which visited the Saturn system between 2004 and 2017, also found that Hyperion was charged with a “particle beam” of static electricity flowing out into space.

A Guiding Neutrino

The single, high-energy neutrino that struck Earth on Sept. 22, 2017, wasn’t, on its own, all that extraordinary. Physicists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica see neutrinos of similar energy levels at least once a month. But this one was special because it was the first to arrive with enough information about its origin for astronomers to point telescopes in the direction it came from. They figured out that it had been flung at Earth 4 billion years ago by a flaring blazar, a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that had been consuming surrounding material.

The Living Fossil Galaxy

DGSAT I is an ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG), meaning it is as big as a galaxy like the Milky Way but its stars are spread out so thinly that it is nearly invisible. But when scientists saw the ghostly DGSAT 1 in 2016, they noticed that it was sitting all alone, quite unlike other UDGs, which are typically found in clusters. Its characteristics suggest that the faint object formed during a very different era in the universe, back just 1 billion or so years after the Big Bang, making DGSAT 1 a living fossil.

Double Quasar Image

Massive objects curve light, enough so that they can distort the image of things behind them. When researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope to spot a quasar from the early universe, they used it to estimate the universe’s expansion rate and found that it is expanding faster today than it was back then — a finding that disagrees with other measurements. Now physicists need to figure out if their theories are wrong or if something else strange is going on.

Infrared Stream from Space

Neutron stars are extremely dense objects formed after the death of a regular star. Normally, they emit radio waves or higher-energy radiation such as X-rays, but in September 2018, astronomers found a long stream of infrared light coming from a neutron star 800 light-years away from Earth — something never before observed. The researchers proposed that a disk of dust surrounding the neutron star could be generating the signal, but the ultimate explanation has yet to be found.

Rogue Planet with Auroras

Drifting through the galaxy are rogue planets, which have been flung away from their parent star by gravitational forces. One particular peculiarity in this class is known as SIMP J01365663+0933473, a planet-size object 200 light-years away whose magnetic field is more than 200 times stronger than Jupiter’s. This is strong enough to generate flashing auroras in its atmosphere, which can be seen with radio telescopes.

The beauty of the sea!
The beauty of nature,
The beauty of the ocean,
The beauty of life,
The beauty of love,
The beauty of the sky! !
The beauty of the rainbow;
The colours of life,
The beauty of the colours on earth;
The beauty of mankind,
With the beauty of the minds when,
The right thing is done.
The beauty of the universe!
The beauty of every positive thing;
Praying always for the peace of the earth. My mind! !
I am who i am with my identity;
Born on earth to carry on peace to the world.
Trust!
The beauty of true love;
With servitude and attitude,
With the joy of the hearts,
Having positive morals! !
The beauty of righteous laws,
The beauty of righteous works,
Going along with my mind;
For peace and love,
To bring joy to all.