Month: July 2021

Google Digital Unlocked -Explained

According to Wikipedia, Digital Unlocked is an initiative by Google in collaboration with the Indian School of Business and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to promote digital awareness and to help small-scale businesses and startups to go digital in India.

In this blog, We’ll try to build a good insight of Google Digital Unlocked and also about its Certification, which you might be planning to appear for.

What is Google Digital Unlocked?

Google has established a platform to assist Startups, business owners, students, and anybody who is willing to understand the process of conducting business online and the online marketing and growth strategies.
It is in cooperation with the Indian School of Business as well as the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is designed to aid small and medium businesses by teaching them the necessary digital knowledge which can be utilized to set up an online presence for companies.

What Courses are provided in Google Digital Unlocked?

It offers a spectrum of courses to choose from. There are 136  Google digital unlocked courses available, as of now. These courses can be grouped together in three categories which are as follows :-

  • Digital Marketing
  • Data and Technology
  • Career Development

Is Google Digital Unlocked Couse and its Certification Free?

Yes, the courses are offered free of cost and so are the certifications, if included.

The only condition applied is that you must finish all the lessons of a particular course in order to unlock the examination which is an evaluation for certificate eligibility. 

To get certified in a particular course, a candidate should obtain a score of 80 percent or more. There are 3 attempts provided, so make sure you make up in these attempts.

Why Google Digital Unlocked?

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The key reason to go for Google Digital Unlocked is the brand value that Google has.

The certification provided will be of utmost value and will boost the individual’s CV.
Moreover, the majority of the courses are free, and are approved by industry experts, top entrepreneurs and some of the world’s leading employers.
So you can be sure that you’re learning an up-to-date, real-world skill that will help you reach your goal.

Key Features of Google Digital unlocked

  • Variety of Courses
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Flexible and personalized training
  • Learn at the comfort of your home
  • Anytime access
  • Get certified

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Fundamentals of Digital Marketing, Basics of Code, Digital Wellbeing, Effective Networking, Business Communication and many more.

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WHAT IS LITERATURE

Literature is one of the fine arts like music and painting. It is fundamentally, an Expression of life through the medium of language. Literature is composed of books that are of great human interest due to their subject matter and mode of presentation.

In Literature, form and the pleasure that form gives are of great importance. The writer is provoked by an urge for self-expression. Literature reflects an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination and our love of form and order. Matthew Arnold one of the prominent writers defined literature as a criticism of life.

We can find four distinct elements in all good Literature which are:

  1. The intellectual element
  2. The emotional element
  3. The element of imagination and fancy
  4. The element of composition and style or (The technical element)

Literary productions can be classified into five categories from the point of view of their subjects or themes:

  1. Literature of purely personal experience.
  2. Literature dealing with the common questions of life, death, Destiny, and God.
  3. Literature dealing with the social world order and its activities.
  4. Literature dealing with nature and man’s relationship with the external world.
  5. Literature deals with Literature and Art’s themselves.

How Literature came into existence:

The study of Literature begins with the reading of books which gradually leads to a familiarity with authors. Every great book has something fresh and original to say and it says this freshly and originally. As Plato says the foundation of all good and lasting work is entire sincerity to oneself and to the truth of things one perceives in life. The purpose of studying literature may be pleasure or acquirement of knowledge and insight or both. In any case, the Readers business is to enter into the spirit of the work and to penetrate the vital forces of the author’s personality.

Features of Literature:

Another important aspect of Literature is style. Literature uses language in various molds. The great writer modifies the language to his purposes and molds it according to his peculiarities. Thus the style of the author is the product of his personality; it is also a record of his artistic, spiritual and intellectual growth.
A proper study of Literature involves the study of its history, the biography of the author, and the ethos of the ages and society in which it is produced. Thus Literature becomes a supplement to the study of history. While history tells us about the externals of a people’s civilization, Literature gives us an insight into their mental, spiritual and moral condition.

Literature helps us to know more about the life of the people and the period of the time. It gives us an enormous study of the works and the mentality of the author and the author reflects the visions of the people. Thus, it expresses the emotional aspects which are locked inside the person and it provokes agony in the paper. However, Literature is a fine art that provides inner knowledge and enlightens people all over the world in different languages.

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How Content Writing helps grow your business .

Haven’t you always been fascinated by those catchy caricatures and witty slogans by companies like Amul and Zomato? Everyday when I pick up the newspaper, the first thing that I make sure to read is the Amul advertisement. I’m not going to lie but I have always admired how they make those with subtle touch of wittiness , the recent trends and also the love of their brand.

Whether it’s a small caricature or a slogan or short articles ; a company’s strategy towards it’s content writing has always worked. How you ask ? Well for starters , I always buy the Amul products , not only because they have this unmatchable quality, but also the way they use their content to market their products and also keep their customers up to date with their accomplishments.

Scoopwhoop, The Quint ; are very popular names right now. I agree that the basic agenda of these companies is content creation, but the way they have build up a blended marketing strategy; has really helped their business evolve. And most importantly , because of their trusted content, many popular brands and organisations join hands with them to get the right exposure in the market . And believe it or not , it really helps!

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Let’s talk about why should a company really invest in its content writing program.

1.Helps put your company on the radar – With regular update regarding the company’s status and also a bit of attention paid to the other relevant issues , people are sure to be talking about it. And this helps put your company on the map.

2.Helps increase the consumer base- When you can very effectively tell the audience about your products and solve all their queries, the customer base is sure to expand. Clearly and effectively mentioning the details about the products and any other related things worth noting, really helps build a relationship of trust between the company and the customer.

3.Words can surely make or break the game– It really boosts the marketing strategy of the company. Many companies approach content writers to pen down their achievements and aspirations that can be imprinted into readers’ minds.

4.Boosts search engine rankings. – Also when your content grabs the public eye, people can’t help but know more about the business and their story. And this will surely shoot those search engine rankings right through the roof.

5.Helps the company become more socially inclusive-It’s the 21st century and it’s more than important to have a voice that to for the right cause.Companies and organisations that keep themselves updated with the recent issues and actively put forth their stand , surely earn the respect of their customers. They can constantly update their websites , social media handles with short but powerful articles to tell people that their customers and their rights matter to them the most . This really helps in building a very healthy relationship between the two.

Netflix and Amazon also evolved with their growing consumer base with help of brilliant content marketing through those catchy slogans or sweet anecdotes. Words really matter, especially when you’re using them to pitch for your brand.

Brown history recently became number 1 Instagram handle for South Asian stories. Now this page further helps the brands connected with it to grow effectively.

Many content writing companies in India have understood the importance of words and are making sure that they put them into use wisely. Companies have to understand that their blogs, posts really impact people. Hence they need to be careful with the kind of information they want to be endorsing.

Having a great rapport with the customers through words – sounds like a very beautiful and effective plan.

Blue Origin Trip: People, Earth, Space and Environment

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, the richest man on the planet and a lot many adjectives that are used for him – finally and quite successfully monetized space travel in the eyes of the Earthlings.

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Commercial Astronaut Bezos in his maiden space voyage.

To begin with, he thanked and congratulated all earthlings for this success. He added that it was we, the people and all the employees of Amazon who had paid for it. Well, he isn’t exactly lying. And we could be thankful to him too, for he has successfully monetized space travel – something we all wanted to hear as kids – well maybe not the monetization part. But it will be this monetization that will fuel more companies to enter into the market. Elon Musk has already worked a lot on reusable space crafts, not to forget that many space agencies – the most prominent being ISRO in India are working to create cheaper means of launching cargo and satellites into space and there are many private space-based start-ups opening up too. Maybe in a decade, space travel will be accessible to at least the upper middle class across the planet.

But should we really thank Jeff Bezos? Opening space for travel opens space for greater amount of debris and maybe a push for institutions all around the world to find out ways to tackle an already existing problem. To add to that, Space travel and Musks’s goal of colonising Mars are but only more incentives to reduce budget on the environment in the long run. Sounds like a dystopian Science Fiction but history points out to the facts that when man was not bound by citizenship laws, forests and agrarian lands have gone barren only because they had options. It is this history that has pushed us towards all the environmental litigations we know of. Will we be as enthusiastic about them if Mars colonies were a reality? As Musk has himself repeatedly stressed that Earth might no longer be livable. Well, scientifically, it is livable upto another 4.5 billion years. But we, the people and the way in which we living beings influence the climate might not allow the planet to see more than 500 years from now. And we are not to be shamed about it. Our education, our governments and our media is more accountable than we are. These are the institutions that tell us what and how the world is. And unfortunately, we believe that is the way the world is.

So, should we or should we not support a scientific and technological advancement?

The answers don’t really lie with anyone. While Bezos travelled to space and Musk revolutionised reusability of the crafts, we still saw public demonstrations in South America against the change in fishing litigations, India against the allegedly anti-environment and corporate-friendly revisions in Environment Impact Assessment Law draft and in Brazil against the government’s decision to not do a lot about the Amazon fires. Humanity still loves this Earth and while in a distant future, capitalism can shame people for doing so, it is increasingly unsuccessful right now. And let us not only keep it that way, but also create ways to add to that love.

Food Pollution.

We, human beings are vulnerable to various types of pollution. And Food is one of the most significant things we need to survive in this world. So, if the food we consume becomes polluted then what are the chances for us to stay healthy? Food Pollution over time has become a topic of concern, so let’s have look at it. 

What is Food Pollution?

Food Pollution is defined as the presence of toxic chemicals (elements or compounds) or biological contaminants which are not naturally present in food or are above their natural background level (for those chemicals which are naturally found in some foods).

What are the effects of Food Pollution?

Food Pollution can affect us by causing mild to moderate to severe food illness and it can also cause various health issues like hormonal and metabolic imbalance, and even various types of cancer. Certain pesticides present in the food can also cause Nervous System problems. Further, in few cases, highly polluted food can cause immediate food poisoning or even death. Approximately, more than 70 million cases of food-borne diseases occur alone in the U.S. every year, resulting in 5,000 deaths per year. 

What are the causes of Food Pollution? 

There are several causes of Food Pollution. Practically, any pollutant has the potential to pollute food just by coming in contact with it.  And vegetables can get polluted by bacterial problems which can only be destroyed by processing the contaminated food at high temperatures. Let’s have a look at situations where toxic chemicals can get into the food:-

★ consumption of polluted water and/or food by fish or other animals;

★ food processing, packaging, and handling;

★ propagation and concentration of pollutants through the food chain;

★ growing of food (e.g. crops, fruits, vegetables) in polluted soils, solid wastes (e.g. mine tailings), or areas with polluted groundwater;

★ irrigation of grown food (e.g. vegetables, fruits, crops) with polluted water;

★ growing of food (e.g. crops, fruits, vegetables) in areas with polluted air;

★ agricultural treatments with pesticides, insecticides, and/or herbicides;

★ agricultural application of sewage sludge and/or polluted fertilizers (which contain ash from power plants). 

Safe Food Alternative

Japan has come up with an alternative for producing safe food, according to which vegetables should be grown in factories that terminate the unpredictable effect of environmental pollution, unpredictable weather, or pests. Also, the process would be all computerized that would control various factors affecting growth. This idea of a safe food alternative was given by OZU cooperation in Tokyo. Can this be the way of future agriculture? Well, this we’ll see. 

Hazards of Food Pollution are everywhere and all can be done on an individual level is; by informing ourselves and taking action. 

Food Pollution.

We, human beings are vulnerable to various types of pollution. And Food is one of the most significant things we need to survive in this world. So, if the food we consume becomes polluted then what are the chances for us to stay healthy? Food Pollution over time has become a topic of concern, so let’s have look at it. 

What is Food Pollution?

Food Pollution is defined as the presence of toxic chemicals (elements or compounds) or biological contaminants which are not naturally present in food or are above their natural background level (for those chemicals which are naturally found in some foods).

What are the effects of Food Pollution?

Food Pollution can affect us by causing mild to moderate to severe food illness and it can also cause various health issues like hormonal and metabolic imbalance, and even various types of cancer. Certain pesticides present in the food can also cause Nervous System problems. Further, in few cases, highly polluted food can cause immediate food poisoning or even death. Approximately, more than 70 million cases of food-borne diseases occur alone in the U.S. every year, resulting in 5,000 deaths per year. 

What are the causes of Food Pollution? 

There are several causes of Food Pollution. Practically, any pollutant has the potential to pollute food just by coming in contact with it.  And vegetables can get polluted by bacterial problems which can only be destroyed by processing the contaminated food at high temperatures. Let’s have a look at situations where toxic chemicals can get into the food:-

★ consumption of polluted water and/or food by fish or other animals;

★ food processing, packaging, and handling;

★ propagation and concentration of pollutants through the food chain;

★ growing of food (e.g. crops, fruits, vegetables) in polluted soils, solid wastes (e.g. mine tailings), or areas with polluted groundwater;

★ irrigation of grown food (e.g. vegetables, fruits, crops) with polluted water;

★ growing of food (e.g. crops, fruits, vegetables) in areas with polluted air;

★ agricultural treatments with pesticides, insecticides, and/or herbicides;

★ agricultural application of sewage sludge and/or polluted fertilizers (which contain ash from power plants). 

Safe Food Alternative

Japan has come up with an alternative for producing safe food, according to which vegetables should be grown in factories that terminate the unpredictable effect of environmental pollution, unpredictable weather, or pests. Also, the process would be all computerized that would control various factors affecting growth. This idea of a safe food alternative was given by OZU cooperation in Tokyo. Can this be the way of future agriculture? Well, this we’ll see. 

Hazards of Food Pollution are everywhere and all can be done on an individual level is; by informing ourselves and taking action. 

Dr. Death (2021)|Review| A completely chilling series

Who is Dr. Death? How did he come to be? How did he continue practicing medicine despite hurting a terrifying number of patients? This series unfolded politics with an operating room, hospitals, and law.

A real-life story about a doctor who maimed and killed his patient relentlessly and without guilt.

Plot:

The story revolves around Christopher Duntsch, a former neurosurgeon who “Intentionally” maimed and even killed his patients. His two fellow colleagues and a prosecutor Michelle Shughart’s journey to stop him and bring justice. The drama miniseries is based on the podcast(by Wondery), with the same name, which covered his heinous crime.

Release date: 15 July 2021

No. of episodes: 8

Network: Peacock

Genre: True Crime

Writer(s): Patrick Macmanus

Executive producers: Jason Blumthal, Marshall Lewy, Steve tisch and more.

Running time: 43-60 minutes.

Let’s start with introduction of characters and their stories!

Christopher Duntsch aka DR. Death or Dr. D.

From the start, it is very obvious that he is a very obnoxious, extremely narcissist with God complex ( someone who thinks they has been divinely blessed or has an exceptional talent compared to everyone else, that they can perform risks to save someone’s life because they can’t make mistakes. Even if they do make mistakes they can either miraculously correct them or it is the fault of people around them which they then discard to take action upon) and who is in denial of his abilities.

“I don’t have complications”, “The attending interrupted which distracted me”, “I can leave kindness and become a stone-cold killer, and the way he slammed every doctor’s procedure to prove his way of surgery screams an insane amount of sociopath vibes and terrifying negligence. These were some of the red flags

He has said to have performed 37 surgeries, out of which 33 have intense complications and some dead. A neurosurgeon who brags about educational accomplishment all the time, doesn’t accept the existence of human error

Roles Portrayed:

Each and every actor portrayed their roles excellently. You could feel their irritation and anger radiating through the screens. Patient’s nervousness, excitement, desperation makes you imagine yourself to be in their or their loved one’s situation. The nonchalance of Duntsch ( By Joshua Jackson), his ability to use charm and threats to remain a doctor and get selected in other hospitals infuriates you to the bone. Dr. Robert Henderson’s (Alex Baldwin) immeasurable patience and Dr. Randall Kirby’s (Christian Slater)relatable impatience and anger take you on a rollercoaster ride.

Review:

The show starts with his patients at Dallas Medical. 3 days, 3 patients. One dead, one woken with extreme pain and no mobility in legs, and one is said to be recovering.  Dr. Robert Henderson had to perform a revision surgery on Madeleine Beyer, who woke up with extreme pain. During surgery he found out that there were many holes which were from the attempted attachment of screws, her fragments of bone dispersed and piercing main nerves. He wonders what did Duntsch do to her since her bones were completely shattered.

Through his course in Dallas, his circulating nurse, Josh Baker(Hobert Point-Du) consults and preps his OR. He is concerned about Duntsch as well as his patients. He questions and tries to protect patients. You get to see how nurses and everyone else except the doctor is treated with so little respect. Their voice of concern went not only unheard but also was looked upon as an interruption. Although one can understand that surgery is complex and doubts by people around us is effective, but in this scenario, the patients lost around 1700-2000 CC’s of blood and the nurses decided to voice their opinion. How can this be disregarded and the voices getting unheard? How can continuing to operate while a patient is hemorrhaging be ignored when these issues were brought to the Texas Medical Board? How is aggressively asking for a procedure like a craniotomy in a hospital where craniotomy is not performed (SO, they won’t have any instruments to do that and to counteract if it goes wrong isn’t there) okay when the situation could have been handled by simply transferring the patient to another hospital? It clearly shows that his intent was either to cover up his harm and to show doctorly care by performing a procedure

While writing the plot, I preferred to choose “Intentionally” since trained doesn’t just mean only that a superior/ attending is responsible for imparting knowledge. The learner/ resident has the equal responsibility to learn and practice what they have been taught. It also means that an attending, as well as a resident themselves, recognize what are they capable of and what are their limitations since it is someone’s life we are talking about. Just like Kayla Gibson said, he should have stuck to research.

Intentionally, because it is no wonder he knew he doesn’t know how to operate and yet he went on to shut everyone off and to continue operating the way he thought was right, i.e. recklessly treating his patients as mere Guinea pigs with little to no regard to human anatomy.

The series had me completely hooked till the end. Waiting for someone to listen to them, wanting to help them even it took place long back, feeling for each character since they seemed so genuine. I hated Duntsch and how calmly he dealt with everything. I hated how he easily went up the food chain and be unscathed. Joshua’s acting got me for real.

Well, let’s look at it objectively. Before, During and After. ( Spoilers ahead, if you haven’t seen the series completely)

He “compassionately” tells his patient about how not getting done a surgery could lead to what-nots, boats about degrees to nervous family members, wears the same scrubs with holes to operations. Then, during surgery, he erratically operates, slices through a vertebral artery takes a piece out of the esophagus, damaged vocal cords, intends to remove a disc but in the end, doesn’t even go near it, and perform surgery around the disc. Keeps asking for more follow-up to perform surgeries. But, would never check up on a patient, ignore their calls, and completely abandon them. He even operates on his best friend leaving him quadriplegia, blames others, and abandons him.

Dr. Kirby and his childlike behavior gets me since that’s how most of us would feel in the moment. The face of disbelief he carried all the way is remarkable.

To imagine that he would be still practicing medicine if his colleagues hadn’t reported and taken every measure to stop him, it is truly horrifying to imagine how many more lives he would have destroyed.

Note:

I applaud each and everyone who took a step against him and try to mend the system which is so broken. This series was so well made. The storyline was continuous, his behavioral relation between present and past, coldness, and the lives he affected out of surgery world; everything was so well thought and executed.

Seeing the series, might help you understand the world of surgery.

Although, the negativity of Dr. D is the main focus, we can always believe that there good doctors out there and we can ourselves support good ones and protect ourselves from Dr. D by asking questions regarding procedures and not being afraid to listen to our hesitation. Don’t let people like Duntsch affect other doctors whose only intention to save lives and help people. Do not get discouraged to reach out to medical care and do everything in our power to treat ourselves and our loved ones. Just remember to ask, have an open mind to all kinds of people, and be mentally prepped to go for treatments.

Gender Incongruence

Introduction

When you discover your state of gender incongruence, every therapist you meet will ask you the same question – when did you know? How did you know? Now, we know what they want; they’d perhaps like to find some deeply ingrained personal hurt, some evidence of pathos, symptoms and signs pointing toward a diagnosis. But what if you first felt gender incongruent when you discerned that your father was somehow never meant to cry? The realization that the most intense emotion he ever portrayed was rage? What if you felt gender incongruent when you got into classroom fist fights you really didn’t want anything to do with? A lot of transfeminine people/trans women will tell you they feel far more emotionally labile when beginning Oestrogen.

Advocacy

Pharmacology aside, I hypothesize that much of it is a visceral disinhibition, the opening of a floodgate, a downpour of everything any human being should be able to feel – only, the privilege of being able to feel is restricted in society. Apparent masculinity comes with great privilege in a patriarchy. They try to toughen up, they hide the playground hurt, they hold sorrow in excruciating lumps in our throats, because they’d like some of that privilege, they’d like safety, they’d like not to be harassed, molested, assaulted. Eventually, they realize that the feigning comes at a cost too great, and they go about resolving the incongruence to become our truest selves. The psychiatrist wants to hear about the distress in not being able to wear pink, play with Barbie Dolls. But I think what we don’t want to hear is that we as a society create the incongruence – we disallow the natural and call it anomalous. They will never know what it is like to live in a society that teaches its men that they may feel just as intensely. That they may cry when hurt. That they may be hurt. That they may be sexually assaulted, that they may experience psychological distress. It’s possible that a less stringently gendered world would result in less intense gender dysphoria. Personalities like Laxmi Narayan Tripathi are trying to tell us exactly that. I truly believe that a less stringently gendered world would mean healthier people, families, societies, nations.

Muthulakshmi Reddy – Death Anniversary – 22 nd July 2021

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Dr. 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗶 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝘆 was an educator, a surgeon, a lawmaker, a social refomer and today 22nd July is marked as her death Anniversary!🕯 She was the first Indian woman 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, a 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀; 👩and the driving force behind one of the biggest 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 in India. She was also a driving force behind major improvements and additions to the 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗔𝗶𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 for which she was honoured with the first active Honorary Secretary and Organiser!! Though she was born in a middle class family, she was the first who completed her school studies in a private school successfully and first 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲n who entered the men’s college which was Maharajas College, Pudukottai! She was also the first and only 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 in the Medical College in 1907. She also became the first 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗻 in the Government Maternity and Ophthalmic 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹! She was associated with Women’s Indian Association from 1917 and took an active part in its activities.!! She was the one who curtailed 𝘁𝗵𝗲 immature culture in Indian society like𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆,𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗶 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺,𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 and supported 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲, and 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 which still was the ugliest controversy which India undergoing still in this generation!! She was the great Iron women who fought for women empowerment and rights!! #𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩!!

Domestic violence during the pandemic

 Domestic violence during the Covid pandemic is a major concern which indicates the negative psychological and social impact of the pandemic on our society. Countries all over the globe, have reported alarmingly high number of cases of violence faced in the households.  

Domestic violence

It refers to any sort of physical, sexual or emotional violence by a partner or any other family member. Women are the primary victims of this sort of violence. It is a crime according to section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The Government of India had passed the ‘Protection of women from domestic violence act’ in 2005. 

Impact of the pandemic

Cases of violence have increased with the rise of Covid-19 pandemic. The National Commission for Women(NCW) received 13,410 complaints of crime against women between March- September, 2020. Out of the complaints received, 4350 were about the problem of domestic violence. Not only in India, but a rise in cases were seen globally. According to a report by the UN in 2020, 243 million women and girls were subjected to domestic violence worldwide.


A drastic rise in cases were seen, even when many of the cases go unreported due to the social stigma attached to it. Research shows that violence tends to increase in conditions of any crisis or disaster. A similar rise in cases of violence in households was seen during the Ebola outbreak between 2014-2020. 

Causes of increase in violence

The pandemic has led to quarantine in many of the countries, it has completely changed the day to day lifestyle of the people. The pandemic has restricted the movement and confined people to their house. It has also economically impacted people with a rise in unemployment and other losses. This has contributed to psychological distress among the people.


Unfortunately the stress, anger and frustration has culminated into violence in some households. There is also a lack of social support or protective network for the victim because of isolation inside the house. Many find it difficult to access timely help or intervention in these situations. 

Solutions

The first and foremost step is to make people aware about it and give them proper knowledge to access help. Most of the survivors have limited information about seeking justice against violence. Many of them hesitate to speak up or register a complaint. Under-reporting of cases is a major problem. Surveys show that only 7% of the victims reach out for help. In such conditions legitimate information and awareness plays a crucial role in raising voice against the crime. Building an easily accessible community support system for the victims and giving them psycho-social support is another important step. 

Various social media campaigns have helped to make support accessible in the times of Covid-19. Often youngsters have actively involved themselves in such awareness campaigns. Recently, NCW had launched a Whatsapp based helpline to ease the process during the pandemic. Some state governments had also started different initiatives like tele-counselling programmes for women. The UN had also launched the ‘Shadow pandemic public awareness campaign’ to raise awareness about the increasing violence. 

Domestic violence is a social evil which needs to be eradicated for the betterment of our society. 


TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) RULES (2021)

The Introduction

1. The government of India has already pushed and continues to push the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and Rules, 2020 as an extraordinarily progressive thing. However, that’s not true.

2. The Rules describing how the Act would be implemented were rolled out for consultation in the middle of a nationwide lockdown, when the trans community was extraordinarily vulnerable and continues to be. Draft Rules were published thrice, the third time being on 25th September, 2020.

3. The community has protested the Act ever since it was a Bill in 2016 for several reasons – poor definition of trans people, reduced sentencing for our rape, no horizontal reservation, criminalizing begging (major income source) and most starkly, the complete absence of the right to self determine your own gender as guaranteed by NALSA vs UoI, a Supreme Court Judgement.

4. The 2016 Bill proposed a District Screening Committee that would screen trans bodies (degree of invasiveness not specified) before allowing them to self identify. This committee was done away with in later versions of the Bill, but the spirit of screening via District Magistrate remains even today, just less invasively. ONLY AFTER sex reassignment surgery, regardless, would you be entitled to the markers ‘male’ or ‘female’, completely disregarding that surgery is expensive and inaccessible to most of the community. Further, surgery doesn’t determine gender. Surgery is a personal choice.

Conclusive Points

5. Over the years, the community protested vehemently against all of the above. No one gets to denude and degrade us to “check” or “screen” our genders for us. Gender identity can be determined by no one but yourself.

6. Extensive, tireless feedback from the community has FINALLY been taken seriously to undo a lot of the damage the Act and Rules could have done. You’ll no longer need surgery before being entitled to binary markers, but you’ll have to provide some proof of medical intervention (includes anything from counselling to surgery). Better than before, but still, nothing to celebrate.

GLOBAL WARMING

GLOBAL WARMING

  Global warming as we know is an increase in the temperature of Earth atmosphere.a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere 
HOW BAD IS GLOBAL WARMING ?
   Global warming is causing the earth average surface temperature to increase causing changes to our natural climate system.The changes are making extreme weather events more likely and more server
GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES
• Most of the causes of global warming to human activities
  –Pollution
  –Deforestration
  –Urbanization
• Greenhouse gases play and enormous role in a global warming as they absorb the heat and causes the Earth’s temperature rise.
PREVENTION FOR GLOBAL WARMING
• Stop deforestation.
• Reduce pollution.
• Reduce energy use.
• Keep lights off when you are not in room.
• Wash clothes in cold or worm not hurt Water.

News channels vs News papers

The importance of news is widespread in our daily lives. They are more obliging by updating our cognition regarding the various events and information revolving around the whole world. It allows us to gain a sense of global perspective. It is a form of communication and keeps us engaged about the outer world. Reading news paves the way to connect with remarkable people and happenings. If someone is not aware of what is occurring around him/her would that life be fruitful? We can perceive news through various forms, mainly with the help of channels in televisions and news papers.

News papers

Many of us would embark our day with a cup of tea and the newspaper and there is a charm in doing so by going word by word in detail. It is an integral part of our life . In 19th century, news papers became very common and were cheaply available. It was the initial means which was very convincing to gather information about the surroundings. Newspaper is a printed media and one of the oldest forms of mass communication. Government and other official announcements are done in a newspaper. It encompasses various categories like weather forecasts, political, economic, international, sports, entertainment and other related information. It also highlights the various job opportunities, vacancies, competitive exams, scholarships and many potent local advertisements that other platforms don’t cover up. It enhances our reading capacity and improves the vocabulary. It helps in cultivating the reading habit from an early stage. Reading widens our mind, aids memory power, focus and concentration. Newspapers provides a special section for puzzles/riddles, painting, quiz etc. that fascinates young children. There also carry with them many editorials which are more obliging. We can resort to them any time we are in need of information for articles and secure them. Reading newspapers and collecting facts is a hobby for many. There are many separate editions in line with our locality / district and this becomes more specific to obtain information. In this technical world, though the newspaper in its original form seems to face a threat of existence it still holds it importance and considered as the authentic source of information.

News channels

In the early 20th century technologies started replacing the old labor method of printing. News channels find its way better that reach the people in a more effectual form in no time. Watching news through various channels on TV are more feasible and expedient for many people than reading it on the paper. We can afford news papers just once a day and we have to await for the news updates till the next day, by the time the news becomes stale but in the news channels news are updated instantly each minute with the flashing news headlines. News channels can deeply dive into collecting and publishing information and distinctly deliver them. It helps us to get an explicit and intense idea as we can hear the news and see them with our bare eyes from the exact real spots live through the help of reporters. In the news papers some may find it hard to put with the small letterings and may have to strain the eyes but the news channels are easily accessible for everyone and aids a better understanding with evident videos and proofs.

News channels come with many innovative segments like, interesting facts, health tips, crime stories, political speeches & interviews, sports, cinema, share marketing, biographies of inspirational people, historical places and up to date inventions which allows us to gather information and knowledge more earnestly. When we some of the pathetic situations faced by people that the news channels discover and exhibit many helping hands come forward, and that’s how we survived many hardships like in the flood times and even in the prevalent pandemic with the help of oxygen supply cylinders, vehicle services, food arrangements etc. that saved many lives. So it acts as a bridge in connecting people and building lives.

To conclude more effectively, a combination of both newspapers and news channels are vital to grasp vast knowledge. Both come up with many interesting segments and factors that fascinate various age group of people and are more effectual with their own significances. It is more prominent to catch up with what is happening around us irrespective of the different platforms.

STEPS TO START YOUR OWN FREELANCING BUSINESS

1. DECIDE A PARTICULAR NICHE OR SERVICE THAT YOU WANT TO OFFER.

Decide exactly what you will offer. It’s helpful when you have a clearly defined service such as logo design, web design, etc. the clients know clearly what you can offer to them.

2. CREATE YOUR  PORTFOLIO

Having a good portfolio of your niche creates a positive impact on your clients and it looks professional. You can either make your own website or there are various other platforms online available to build your portfolio. While approaching a client always give them the links to your portfolio

3. FIND YOUR FIRST CLIENT

Use your existing network to find your first client. Talk to your friends, family, relatives and ask them if anybody needed such kind of services. And if you get any client, after completing their projects you can ask them to recommend you to others.

4. GIVE YOUR BEST TO EACH AND EVERY CLIENT

Quality work is the most effective way to increase your business. It’s essential to do the best job you can so clients will recommend you to others. Doing amazing work will also lead to repeat clients that keep coming back to you.

What is a Wagering Contract?

When we talk about contracts, we come across many different sorts of types of contracts, such as quasi-contracts, implied contracts, expressed contracts, and many more. Wagering Contracts are one form of contract. A wagering contract is one in which two essential parties enter into a contract and in which the first party promises to pay a certain quantity of money to the second party if a certain event occurs in the future and the second party agrees to compensate the first party if that event does not occur. The presence of two parties who are of sound mind to benefit or lose is the essential foundation of a wagering arrangement. In layman’s terms, a Wager is a bet or a gamble. The phrase wager refers to betting in its most fundamental sense. Section 30 of the Indian Contract Act expressly states that wagering agreements are invalid. The section was structured as follows:

Carlill vs. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. (1993): This is the first case law that has described a wagering contract in the most explicit and comprehensive manner. It is written as follows:

“One by which two persons professing to hold opposing views on the issue of a future uncertain event mutually agree that, depending on the determination of that event, one shall win from the other, and that other shall pay or hand over to him, a sum of money or other stake; neither of the parties having any other interest in that contract than the sum or stake he will win or lose.” It is not a wagering contract if any party can win but cannot lose or can lose but cannot win.”

As a result, all wagering agreements are contingent agreements, but not all contingent agreements are wagering agreements. Thus, in layman’s terms, a wagering contract is a futures contract that is dependent on the occurrence of a certain event in the future. Depending on the conditions in the future, a wagering contract may or may not be implemented.

HISTORY OF LAW RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF WAGER:

Since the beginning of time, when there were instances in British India, the law governing wagers was common law in England, but in 1848, the Wagers Avoiding Act came into effect. Previously, it was thought that any wagering activity may be upheld if it did not violate the emotional emotions of a third party and was not contrary to public policy. When we consider the notion of gambling and betting, we know that this type of activity existed in our nation from ancient times, but it was not accepted in England and was shunned. These sorts of acts are prohibited and are not protected by the purview of our Indian constitution under Article 19 or Article 301 since they are not expressly listed in the Indian Contract Act or Hindu law in general.

TYPES OF WAGER:

  1. Moneyline Betting:

This is one of the most straightforward kinds of betting. Money line betting is relatively easy because it is only done on sports contests and games and is only centred on the outcome/result of the match. This form of betting is illegal, and it is most prevalent in cricket, particularly in the Indian Premier League.

2. Spread Betting:

This sort of wager/betting occurs when the person making the bet on the most favoured team competing in the match to win by a specific margin or on the team considered as the underdog to win or even if it loses by a very tight margin.

3. Over Betting:

This form of betting is done in a game where the better places his wager on the total number of points earned or total number of goals scored by both sides through a combination of a specific number and which is completely a speculative event over which no one has control.

4. Under Betting:

This type of betting takes place when the better places his bet on the condition that the combination of the total number of goals and pints that are scored by both the teams will be less or under a certain limit. This type of wager is also related to the final outcome of the game.

5. Prop Betting:

This type of betting is very unique and creative in nature because it is unrelated to the game’s final outcome. In this case, the better bets on something like the first half of the game or whether there will be a super over in a cricket match, for example. As a result, this is also known as prop betting.

ESSENTIALS OF A WAGERING CONTRACT:

  1. Equal opportunity:

One of the most important aspects of a wagering contract is that both parties have an equal probability of winning or losing based on the result of the future event.

2. Uncontrollable:

These are hypothetical occurrences that may or may not occur, and they should be beyond the power of either side, since if any party has influence over it, it is not a wager.

3. No Outside Interest:

Both parties should have a single interest in the event’s profit or loss, and there should be no outside or personal interest associated with the uncertain occurrence, since this will also not amount to wager.

4. Dependency:

The wager agreement is entirely reliant on the outcome of the projected event, whether it be compared to the past, present, or future.

5. Promise:

The wager contract should include an important provision stating that the parties commit to pay the money or money’s value to the other party if the event occurs, and this should be agreed upon by both parties.