There is construction going on in front of our house. So in between all the workers, there was a worker named Jack. He was working with the flooring contractor. He was just labour and used to do things like transferring goods and cleaning up.
He had some mental issue. He used to take more time to understand things. Sometimes he even used to the exact opposite of what he supposed to. The construction owner was getting pissed by his behaviour. He was having so much trouble because of Jack. One or two times, Jack even caused loss to him. Jack mistakenly drilled a hole in a new wall. Another time, Jack threw construction debris in front of someone’s car. So such incidents were happening continuously. The owner complained about him to the contractor many times. But the contractor told him that Jack’s family pleaded him to keep him on work, so I’m just adjusting him.
But the owner was not happy with Jack’s work at all. The contractor was getting complaints about Jack every single day. One day, Jack came, worked for a day and went back home early in the evening. When neighbours begin to shout, the owner got to know that the road is totally blocked by construction debris. He was so angry and frustrated. But somehow he managed to clean the road with the help of other labours. When the contractor came at the site, the owner called him and shouted at him for Jack. The contractor made an apology and told the owner that he already fired Jack and he’ll be no longer with them.
So? Who was at loss now? I could see the one who was at loss was only Jack. The contractor knew that Jack has some mental health issue. Even the owner got to know this by Jack’s actions. But none of them stood out for Jack and adjusted him. That’s how our cruel society works actually. When we see or when we are around a mental health patient, we consider them as a healthy and normal human being. But they struggle badly. Lacking concentration at the work, confusion during the work is their disease only. So they struggle while doing that. So it’s our duty as a human to accept their struggle and help them during it. But we do exactly the opposite. We keep on discouraging them, bashing them as if they are normal and finally end up pushing them in the valley of mental diseases. Actually, we should encourage them. They carry the courage which we can never imagine. Fighting with your own brain to survive the battle of life takes lots of guts. Only these people have this courage. So it’s our duty to accept them as they are, help them in need and the most important thing is to ignore their mistakes. Because now we see them as a third person or maybe a stranger. But who knows if your life events take a dramatic change and you or your loved ones are in the position of Jack. At that day, you will realize your mistake as you’ll also receive the same treatment as you did to someone in past. So let’s take a pledge to consider mental health of each human being. Each life has a value and it’s our social responsibility to make them survive along with us!…

Priya Yadav,

Hindi Day is celebrated on 14 September every year. On 14 September 1949, Hindi was declared as the official language in the Constituent Assembly by vote. After this decision, from 1953 on September 14, India was celebrated as Hindi Day every year on the request of Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti, Wardha, to broadcast Hindi in every region. Hindi is one of the 22 languages ​​of India. Most Indians speak and understand Hindi. Hindi is spoken and understood in the northern states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh.

Many programs are organized on Hindi Day for the promotion and promotion of Hindi. Many cultural programs are also organized on this day in schools and colleges. On 14 September 1953, Hindi Day was celebrated for the first time in the country. Hindi is not only our mother tongue or national language, but it is a symbol of national identity and pride. Without language, no one can express their words, their feelings. Different types of culture can be known only through language. Hindi language is very important in that. In Hindi, you can easily explain your point.

There is also a fact that 14 September 1949 was the 50th birthday of Rajendra Sinha, a pioneer of Hindi, who struggled for a long time to make Hindi the national language. After the attainment of independence, Vayuhar Rajendra Singh worked tirelessly with writers like Kaka Kalelkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Hazariprasad Dwivedi, Seth Govindadas to establish Hindi as the national language.

In the year 1918, Gandhiji had asked to make the Hindi language a national language in Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. Gandhiji also called it the language of the people. In the year 1949, on 14 September 1949, after much deliberation on the question of the national language of independent India, this decision was taken which is mentioned in Article 343 (1) of Chapter 17 of the Indian Constitution. According to this, the national language of the Sangh will be Hindi and the script Devanagari.

In the very long history of Human civilization, many languages have survived, many have thrived, many have died a slow death. Few think that Hindi is pushing other languages to oblivion. But how true is that?

Once upon a time, languages like Sanskrit, Latin and even Persian were thriving. Today, they are confined to a much smaller dominion.Is Hindi causing the death of other languages? First of all, are we really speaking Hindi in our daily lives?

We don’t speak Hindi any more. We speak Hindustani. It’s a language which is a mixture of Hindi, Urdu and Persian. Whenever you speak pure Hindi, you receive a look of amusement even from the so called Hindi speakers.

Now, is Hindustani destroying other languages? Hindustani has thrived mainly due to two aspects – Simplicity and Acceptance. It has slowly given up complicated words from both Urdu and Sanskrit and has adopted easier words. This is also the main reason why English is most popular in the world.

Any simple language will spread on its own. This is the law of nature and nothing can supersede it. It can be slowed down, but never stopped. You cannot get back Latin and kick away English. English was once a language of poor and commoner and was associated with poverty and still it spread because it kept on adopting words from different languages. This acceptance is also the primary reason why English is a phonetically incorrect language.

Due to a multiple reasons, English has been unable to penetrate the rural India, specially in North India. Hence it would be foolish to expect that English can take place of Hindustani in India within a span of a few more decades.

Hindustani is spreading and will keep on spreading as it keeps on accepting words from different languages. Any language which is not open to accepting vocabulary of other languages will die away with time.

Language is essentially the medium of communication and Humans tend to bend towards ease and simplicity.

No matter how much Indian government pushes India towards pure Hindi, it would fail. With time, even the pure Hindi might die.

The beauty industry rakes in over a billion dollar per year. With expendable budgets and promises, these beauty companies spend millions of dollars in advertising as a means to create loyal, life-long customers. With the promise of making you, your best self and give you a forever youthful glow, you start to wonder what the catch is. Every industry has it’s darkside and the beauty industry is no outlier. Humans are visual and social creatures. It makes sense thus that, historically, we have been collectively preoccupied with beauty. Someone’s appearance is the first thing we notice about them upon meeting them. The nature of beauty itself has been the focus of Aesthetics, a major field of study in Western Philosophy, and has occupied the brilliant minds of numerous philosophers, from Plato to the aforementioned Kant.

People have been using makeup and cosmetics since ancient times: the Egyptians’ use of dark eyeliner is present in everyone’s mind through their paintings and deities, while most know that Victorian women often fainted not because of their demureness, but because of the wide-spread use of lead-based creams to “improve complexion” together with constricting girdles.So what is an example of a potentially harmful beauty product you could come into contact with? Well, 1-in-5 products on the market contain traces of formaldehyde, which is known as a human carcinogen. Some signs to be aware of that could contain formaldehyde are that you notice watery eyes, burning of the nose and throat, coughing or skin irritation. This is your sign to stop using these products, immediately. Your body’s telling you it is not feeling great with these products around.


How about the environment? Aerosol sprays where you at?! The wrong answer would be anywhere besides the trash. Just take a moment to think about the last time you went to the store and how many aerosol cans you saw stacked on the shelves. This is not a good thing. Aerosol cans contain hydrocarbons that can contribute to global warming. And don’t think this harm starts and stops with aerosol cans. Fingernail polish, mouthwash, perfumes and roll on deodorants also have the potential to release hydrocarbons into the environment.

Growth in the beauty industry, however, has boomed in recent years, in a trend that many link to a broader generational trend of attention to physical wellbeing (which we covered in our recent article about the growing plant-based market and Beyond Meat). Millennials are often quoted as being the main drivers behind the meteoric growth of the beauty segment. There have been many articles written on this trend, citing everything from the aging of the millennial demographic to a focus on “self-care” as a coping method against a difficult political and economic climate.

As much as difficult it is to analyze creativity, it’s even harder to assess it. Creativity is as difficult to assess as it is fun to analyze. It favours a prepared mind.
According to Albert Einstein -Creativity is … Thinking outside the confines of the situation, being open to unexpected events /chances, allowing the subconscious mind to take over leading to and springing up with surprise solutions at unexpected times.

Research to uncover facts about creative people that are all supported by scientific studies are as follows:

Sleep On It
Research backs this one up. A study published in Nature found that people who were given a creative task to solve and then allowed to sleep on it were more successful than those who remained awake to solve it. Sleep allows your unconscious mind to restructure information, resulting in new and insightful responses. Just make sure to keep a notepad by the bed for when inspiration strikes.


A Person’s Creativity Mostly Peaks During “off” Hours.
Another research shows that your inclination towards being a night or day person affects your creativity in interesting ways. One of the lesser-known facts about creativity is that night owl creatives are smarter and outgoing and early birds are more proactive, persistent, and meticulous. When challenged to create at their non-preferred times, they passed the questions with amazing marks.


DAYDREAMING IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN
According to the science on daydreaming, these moments provide a sort of mental incubation period that can enhance creative thinking, long-term planning, and self awareness. Psychologists have been studying the concept of “positive-constructive daydreaming” for decades and uncovering the various ways in which, as the authors put it, “the mind’s wandering is vital to imagination and creative thought.”

Write During Your “Off Time”
People have what scientists call a circadian preference, which essentially means they are either morning people or evening people. You probably assume it is best to write during your most optimal time (morning people writing in the morning, evening people in the evening), but that’s not true. Although analytical thinking—the kind you use to solve math problems—is better during people’s optimal times, a 2011 study found that creativity was actually better during people’s non-optimal times. Because our conscious mind is groggy during our non-optimal time, it relaxes the reigns on our unconscious mind and gives it more freedom to wander

 Memory Plays a Significant Role in Creative Thought.
Our subconscious immediately takes us to the past, which is very familiar when asked to think of a new idea. Future circumstances are fabricated by details we have retrieved from past scenarios. Hence, having a strong sporadic memory can help in creative thinking.

Creative people are more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder.
From Picasso’s blue period to Van Gogh’s infamous mood swings, the study of why creative individuals tend to get the blues is a widely discussed topic. Although the link between depression and creativity is still disputed, this recent study found that creative people are more likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

creativity must also be recognised and encouraged in the workplace. Because, after all, it’s creative thinking that leads to problem solving and innovation in a range of areas.

“Necessity is the mother of invention”. This proverb is quite common and used by almost all of us. But today, when the whole world is facing the situation of Covid-19 pandemic, we are actually experiencing it. How drastically things have changed from being normal to abnormal and then finally quoted as the “New normal”. The effects of this pandemic on almost each and every sector of the economy has been drastic and Education sector has been the part of the same. Schools, colleges, coaching classes, home tutions everything came to a halt. Both the teachers and the students could not go to school because of which the studies were getting affected. With everything getting digital, education also found it’s way. The blackboard was now not something on the walls of the classroom but turned into screen sharing on your mobile phones. The bench you shared with your friend soon turned into your bed with no friend around. The questions and answers and the debates held in the classroom turned into a chaos because everybody unmuted themselves, and oh! Nothing was audible. The teachers who were too confident about their subjects had to work under a lot of pressure because their kids were no longer the faces they could see in the classrooms, they had turned into icons on their mobile screens with videos off .

Online Education has brought a 360 degree turn in the whole system of education. Online education was indeed the need of the hour. Failing which, students could lose a whole year and things would be more difficult then. As the topic suggests, Online education actually has three aspects : The good ,the bad and the ugly.

Good things first. Online Education has its own advantages.

Flexibility- Online education can be done anywhere and anytime.The hours have become flexible and even the place doesen’t matter. You can be sitting in your balcony having fresh air with earphones plugged in,listening to the lecture.

Safety- In the covid times, this is the best way to protect students, teachers  and their families.

Cost effective- Online education has saved monthly transportation costs of the students. Also, with the help of the availaibility of E-books, the cost for buying books have also reduced.

Access to Expertise- An online college education might give students access to specialized degree courses that may not be available in an easily accessible or local institution of learning. It has gained acceptance over time and is proving to be really beneficial for students.

One can learn whatever they want- With so many courses online,you can learn anything from anywhere. I can sit in Delhi and learn from University of Virgina through various online platforms.

A self paced learning – When we choose an online course we can do it by according to our choices. If I feel it is too much for the day I can simply close it and do it the next day.

Provides weightage to Resumes/CVs- The online courses and degree hold a good position and is effective if the certifications are attached to your Cvs.

BUT, “ALL  THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD” . Just like there are two sides to each coin. Online education comes with it’s set of disadvantages. Few of them are :

Not enough interaction- When a student is in a class with 40 or 50 other students,he gets to interact, to keep his point to talk more. In online education this can not happen to that extent. It starts a chaos altogether.

The atmosphere- A traditional classroom has no comparison with a digital one. Atmosphere plays a vital role in one’s life. It helps you concentrate on your work.

Distractions- The online education comes with a lot of distractions .You are listening to a lecture but chatting on your whatsapp or facebook and nobody knows about it. Thus,leading to a reduced concentration level.

The side effects on the eyes and ears – Because of continuously looking at their mobile or laptop screens the cases of students facing eyesight problems has increased rapidly. Similarily with continuous plugged in earphones the ears are getting affected.

Not all teachers are tech savvy- The online education has created a lot of problems for teachers who are not techagile. They lose their confidence and get conscious.

Lack of accreditation & quality assurance in online education- If online education is to be considered as effective and authentic as traditional learning, it must be ensured that all online schools are qualified and accredited. Unfortunately, at the current point in time, there are still a vast number of online learning platforms which are unaccredited and where all the materials are quality checked by no one besides the instructors themselves.

Losing on network- The aspirants of MBA are losing their contact with seniors and allunus that is really important due to lack of human interaction.

Practical learning is getting affected- Although one is getting oppurtunities of learning in the online platform still the practical learning is far from reachable.

“ THE UGLY” – UGLY comes  in the picture when there are things that are pathetic and out of tolerance or control.

The major drawback is the Cyber crimes and the leak out of certain important documents .The privacy gets affected.

Then there are also times when the students behave in a manner that is just not acceptable .The links get shared and somebody enters the room and does pathetic things like abusing or talking nonsense.

The online education has also caused a lot to the vulnerable groups of the society. The poor people who can not afford to buy a smartphone for their kids to attend the online classes. Their kids have been denied to online learning and they can do nothing about it.

Finally, everything has it’s advantages and disadvantages. Nobody and nothing is perfect. With everything changing ,everybody needs to change, to adopt and adapt in the environment. We need to find solutions rather than crying about the problem, and maybe,Online Education is the solution for the times ahead or the times now.