As a human being the god gives us beauty and body, we all have different faces with beauty, but this topic of the article is so connected with our hearts. People often read this news but never think about it, this act looks like normal criminal offence but it is one of the heinous crime as like rape, assault which usually girls face in their life. Acid attack is the crime which is described in the Indian Penal Code 1860. This attack is basically with a wrong intention just to torture, or disfigure one’s body even try to kill that person. The acids which are used in these attacks are sulfuric acid and many concentrated acids which are not easily available in the market. The question comes to our mind how these offences take place, what are the intentions behind it and many more. Usually, a few years ago people were not aware of these offences and there was no proper legalization on the sale of the acid, due to which such offences had taken place in earlier times. But as the legislature finds the acid attack as one of the heinous crime, it imposes certain restrictions over the sale of the acid, but before dealing with this we have to know what are the intentions behind the certain attack. These attacks took place when certain wrong intentions were not fulfilled by the individual, like refusal on having sexual intercourse, personal conflict, rivalry, conflict due to immovable property. All these are certain reasons due to which such attacks took place in society. these attacks are not the gender-biased but majorly it took place with the girls. Mostly we have the news of acid attack related to girls only in certain cases we find the acid attack news related to the male. Now the questions come to our mind is this offence take place only in India, or some other country also witnessed the same. The answer to this question is not as much easy as we think, different countries have statutes and offences accordingly but the globally acid attack is considered as one of the heinous crime. While dealing with this issue, the question also stuck in our mind that why it is heinous, the act is heinous because it disfigures or harms one’s body, this act gives grievous bodily injury due to which sometimes death can also take place, and if survive it turns the beauty into the scar for the individual as lifelong. We believe that the face is just the representation of one individual but the beauty is always the inner soul, but here some of the criminal never understand, this line they believe that their ego will satisfy when they harm the other person in such a brutal manner that it creates a danger to one’s life. This offence is not limited to an only single individual but this offence creates terror and fear in the society, people believe that keeping their child either daughter or son in the house is much safer than any other thing such acts bring an initiative to the wrong ideology, it affects the education of the country, which brings discrimination and much more evil activity in the society. Education can reduce such kind of thinking in society. All rape equally liable top have freedom all of us have the right to freedom and liberty and those who perform such acts should be punished rigorously. Offences like rape, acid attack all these offences are not against the individual it is against the society, due to which society as a whole gets deeply influenced by it. Many cases of the acid attack took place in India as Sonali Mukherjee v Union of India and Laxmi Agrawal v Union of India, both these cases are considered as the landmark judgements as these are helpful in bringing the amendment in section 326 and brings 326A with the amendment of the Indian Penal Code 1860. After these cases, the legislature imposes certain restrictions on the sale of the acid as it is not easily available to each and everyone, the person should have to provide specific id proof and reason for purchasing the specific acid. This act of the legislature and restrictions, to save the life of many or even we can say, it saves the life of millions of girls as well as boys. This step taken by the authorities save the life and also reduce the crime rate in the country and this provides safety in the society, as the girls are free to smile and also it brings a kind of relief those who are a victim of these attacks as this attack will not take place with anyone in the future.  

I met Sri Tarun Gogoi ji probably in 2002 in Hyderabad where he came for National Games Meet. I was mesmerised by observing his simplicity and innocent smile.   He was born on 1st April 1936 in an ethnic Assamese Tai-Ahom family at Rangajan Tea Estate, erstwhile Sivasagar District, now under Jorhat district of Assam. His father, Dr Kamaleshwar Gogoi was a medical practitioner at Rangajan Tea Estate and mother, Smt. Usha Gogoi, younger sister of the renowned poet Sri Ganesh Gogoi. Sri Tarun Gogoi was ‘Tarun’ means young by heart and soul and fondly called Punakon by his parents.

He held important positions from his young age inter alia of which were- a) Member, Municipal Board, Jorhat, b) Served six terms as Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha, c) Became political leader with national stature after he was elected Joint Secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 1976 and that time Smt. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister d) He later served as General Secretary of the AICC (1985–90) and that time Prime Minister was Sri Rajiv Gandhi, e) He also served in the Union Cabinet as Union Minister of State in Food and Food Processing Industry (1991–96) under the Prime Minister of Sri P. V. Narasimha  Rao, f) Sri Gogoi was elected Chief Minister of Assam in 2001 after that he led the Indian National Congress to victory in the state elections, g) He assumed the office of Chief  Minister, Assam first time on 18 May 2001, then on 14 May 2006 (second term) and for the third term on 18 May 2011. It is pertinent to mention that he completed 15 consecutive years as Chief Minister of Assam on 18 May 2016,  as the longest serving Chief Minister of the State. He was also Director, Vayudoot; Member, Bar Council of Assam and Chairman, Assam Small Industries Development Corporation. 

His educational qualifications included graduation from Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat, Assam and L.L.B. from Gauhati University.   He was a visionary and had development attitude which is evident from this quote, “Our Government is making all-out effort for development of Guwahati city. Work is on feasibility study and preparation of a detailed project report for the metro rail project. A sewerage project for Rs. 1,700 crore, streetlights for all major roads, affordable houses for 10,000 urban poor are in the pipeline”. Sri Gogoi travelled many countries but his favourite pastime was reading and gardening. He had special interest in golf, cricket, football and tennis. He is survived by his wife Smt, Dolly Gogoi, a post-graduate in Zoology, Gauhati University. They have two children – daughter Ms. Chandrima Gogoi, MBA and son, Sri Gaurav Gogoi, presently, a Member of Parliament. Sri Gogoi always used to celebrate his birthday in a simple manner indicating simplicity of his life.

He although has passed away on 23 November 2020 but he will be in the heart of millions generation after generation. May his soul rest in peace and praying Almighty to give strength to the family members so that they can bear this great loss.  

Dr Shankar Chatterjee, Hyderabad

The following websites have been consulted while writing the article:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarun_Gogoi
2. http://tarungogoi.in/pressrelease.php?displaytype
3. http://www.tarungogoi.in/biography.php

Mr. Albert Einstein has said that, “Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding”. And that quote is relevant even in our “Modern” time, as we walk briskly towards an epidemic of nuclear war, which may even end the world. To analyze the problem and hopefully slow down the pace of this negative technical advancement, a UN conference of the committee UNGA, with the Agenda of Reviewing the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and establishing Nuclear Free Zones in the Middle East, was held on 19^th August 2017.

The discussion started off slow, where the first few speakers didn’t seem bothered, serious about the huge and scary problem, but as time passed, change was visible. Most of the countries were in favor of the NPT, as the Treaty is the most essential in today’s harsh time for maintaining peace and hospitality. However, a pinch of Hypocrisy was sprinkled upon the fellow delegates by the delegate of the USA, where they said that countries should not invade, wage war on other countries just for some resources, which obviously turned the heads of many. Small countries like Paraguay and Samoa said that even though they don’t have conflicts in the Middle-eastern region, they still support the NPT, which is pretty obvious, considering the amendments and features it has to offer. Everyone should agree with the optimistic vision for a peaceful world, that the leaders of many great nations have to offer. That is, if each and every country lets go off their “ego” and decides to sign the Treaty, many lives could be saved beforehand and a lot of blood-shed would be spared. However, it is pretty obvious that something which sounds this good, will not be able to succeed at a very fast pace. Even though dangerous countries like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia have signed the Treaty, there is no guarantee that there would not be any interference from their side at all. If we want Peace and Harmony to be spread across the world, we should ask our kids why do humans keep on making weapons of such high caliber, when we don’t really need them. When the kids fail to answer, you will realize that Humanity isn’t “lost” anywhere, or our world isn’t that bad of a place to live in. Nobody is born greedy, or with a lust for money and power, they’re made to think like that because of our system and the general idea of “living the dream”.Tell the kids about our ancestors. Our ancestors started making weapons, as a means of ease, and for defending themselves from merciless predators. And, as generations passed, our species rose to the top of the food chain, at literally the safest spot in the world. But still, our greed didn’t stop rising, we are so engulfed with our thoughts of rising to supremacy, that we’re killing our own people, by making weapons that could destroy entire states in one go. And for what? Just a stupid throne, which is placed upon burnt ruins of the bodies of the Billions of people, who didn’t deserve any of it, and then talk about Natural Selection.

It is sickening to see that the extreme superpower, the USA is threatening North Korea for a Nuclear war, which could again end everything at once. And worse,North Korea is still opposing the NPT, saying that the Treaty Violates the right of defense of the state, and even if they did sign it, they wouldn’t dismantle their already existing weapons. It has also come in our notice, that USA has violated the Article 4 of the treaty, and they have also not disarmed their weapons completely. Just imagine, if the most wise, old person in the family, whom everyone looks up-to for guiding them and showing them the right way, becomes careless, doesn’t care about his/her children or grand children anymore, tells them to fight with, kill each other, How would that house stand? A similar case of carelessness has been broadcast by the USA. A few countries also believe that the NPT is flawed, and has many loopholes, because not every country has signed it yet, I mean if one doesn’t take initiative himself, how would we improve?

We often see change being promoted in our world, when an idea is showcased and printed in golden letters, but not followed sincerely by everyone. The NPT is one of those ideas, which if supported properly, can bring a huge change.

But..

Covid-19 have largely affected our body and life styles. We have to just stay at our homes and because of this we see the decrease in our day to day activities. As many people have started working from home so sitting for a long time in front of laptops or computer have led to the deduction in working and physical capacities of the people and this process is known as ‘Deconditioning’.

Deconditioning leads to the stiffness and pain in our muscles. It can also cause pain in our joints, which has become a very common problem now a days, not only old age people but young ones also face this problem. People are facing many problems in returning back to their normal routine due to the lack of regular exercise and walk. Deconditioning not only causes pain in muscles and joints but it also affects our breathing, heart and metabolism.   

Doctors prescribe brisk walk or fast walking to prevent the side effects. So, here are some tips you should follow while walking:

• Keep your head up and look forward
• Move your shoulders naturally and keep them free
• Gently tighten your stomach muscles
• Walk smoothly rolling your foot from heel to toe
• Swing your arms freely with a slight bend in your elbows.

 Proper and regular brisk walk can provide important toning to our muscles and it also improves our breathing and cardiac abilities. But sudden increase in walk and exercise can be very harmful for our bodies so take small steps every day and this will result in increase of your strength and working abilities. You can also do other exercises to improve your posture like stretching, walking up and down the stairs, skipping ropes etc. World Health Organisation (WHO) suggests that we should regularly check our sitting posture and try to improve it so as to avoid its side effects. You should also break your sitting and stand up for a couple of minutes while working on phone or watching T.V.     

Not only working people but students are also facing many problems in this pandemic as they have to attend their online classes so they also have to sit in one place for hours so this is affecting their health and energy. There are many other problems that are affecting; not only our physical but mental health too. People are going through depression, anxiety, and other mental problems too. So, try to keep yourself healthy and fit in this challenging phase because our health is most important than anything else.