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10 Things I Wish I Knew in the Start Of IT Career

Pandemic has had drastic effects on the world economy leaving many people jobless, but the IT industry has stood the storm quite well. It has been one of the few most stable fields. The thrashing effects of COVID-19 do not seem to be even touching the IT industry as it is rapidly growing and is all set to hit close to $6 trillion by 2023.

The pace of IT market growth is quite impressive. It is presumed that the IT outsourcing market seems to be growing from a figure of $342.9 billion in 2020 to $410.2 billion by 2027, which is unimaginably high in such a condition of global economic crisis.

This begs for the need for more IT experts in the field and it seems to grow from 24 million currently to over 28.7 million IT experts and developers by 2024. If you’ve responded to this need and want to start a career in IT, here are some aspects of the job, and the learning curve leading up to it, you should be aware of.

Essentials You Should Know Before Starting a Career in IT
Being a beginner at anything can be frustrating. You might be unsure about every single step you take or lack help in choosing a career, programming language, or devising a learning plan.

Following is an account of 10 things that might sound so simple to many IT experts but weren’t so obvious at the start of their IT career.

Focus on Practice-Based Learning
Beginners often place too much emphasis on theory, while programming is a kind of practical skill. So, ensure you’re focusing on the practical part, coding itself. So when you are choosing programming learning sources, keep in mind code practicing availability. Here we have the top five online programming courses and platforms where you can find such courses:

Codecademy
Codecademy is an effective online resource with professional guidance to start off with basics. But make sure to practice the concepts yourself, as their course lacks the practical part to some extent.

Stanford Online
Stanford Online has an excellent number of introductory courses with many teaching assistants that help students understand the Basics of IT thoroughly.

Udacity
Udacity has many courses launched for individuals, for businesses and even government. It offers an extensive learning archive and the assistance of the mentors. Which is quite helpful to learn programming languages.

Codegym
Codegym Java course contains 1200+ practical tasks. It starts with the basics, Java Syntax, and logically moves to the complicated learning. The best part is that 80% of the learning process is based on practical assignments, which helps you grasp programming quite well.

EdX
Tonnes of tutorials on edX help build the useful concepts that every programmer requires to start his career in IT, especially programming.

Communicate
Newbies lack experience and don’t consider seeking guidance from experts. Make sure that you aren’t one of those beginners.

Joining communities such as Stackoverflow, Reddit, CodeRanch and others don’t only have you covered for expert advice and guidance, but also provide you a sense of moral support. Create your account on Github, read and comment on HackerNews and freeCodeCamp… Look for different communities!

You can interact with your fellows who’re facing the same situations, being able to relate to someone else’s progress helps a lot with releasing stress.

The communities have thousands of IT experts with years of hands-on experience who can show you the actual picture of many situations and keep you from taking wrong turns as you head towards your goals.

Here are a few resources you can browse for advice and support:

Develop a Habit of Good Research
Never try to save your time on research. Google is a whole world of information. Superficial skimming about a certain topic won’t help you at all. But do it in moderation, otherwise you risk burying yourself in a heap of informational waste. So, build a habit of diligent research.

Stick to Basics at the Start
Practice is essential no doubt, but you won’t be able to practice without solid base knowledge, so go step-by-step and do not skip learning the fundamentals of programming first before moving on to the concepts of higher complexity. This way learning complicated levels would be easier. Skipping the basics is just like skipping the alphabet and directly heading towards writing a whole essay.

Learn Several Programming Languages
Many beginners stick to one programming language only and deem it sufficient, while others think that learning many of them at once is a good idea. But both of them are wrong.

Taking the right decision regarding what languages to learn and how to order them is important. Do not try to stuff your brain with many languages at a time, though settling for just one programming language for the rest of your career isn’t good either.

Take it in a sequential order, and start from Java, for example. It has a robust structure that helps you develop a very thorough understanding of how programming actually works. After that, grasping other languages won’t be that hectic for you.

Be Open for Changes
Working with a “know-it-all” attitude doesn’t work well with an IT career. No matter how long you’ve been in the field or how well you have trained yourself at it, there’s always a lot to learn about programming as this field is one of the fastest-growing ones. Growth comes with several changes and innovations.

As the programming field is growing daily, do not try to be stubborn about your concepts, never step out of the way of learning. Keep learning new things and stay up-to-date and well informed to the maximum possible level. Because obviously, you don’t want to be somebody with old-school technical knowledge. You need to keep up the pace if you wish to stay in the race!

Organize Yourself
Being a mess can end you up with a mess! And here, mess refers to those unorganized working patterns. Being unorganized can generally be disastrous to not only your work but to your mental health as well. No doubt what you do is important but how you do it is equally important.

Being a programmer and unorganized would only increase your pressure reducing your efficiency. Organize your projects, set reminders, make schedules for yourself accordingly and make sure to follow them. Without schedules all you do is waste your time, ending up all stressed out and frustrated.

Focus on Fewer Things at a Time
Some people can’t help thinking about things they are not doing and need to do while doing other things. Similarly, other people tend to commit to more than one task at a time. They wonder if this might be a good way to increase efficiency levels.

But unfortunately, the reality is the other way around. Trying to handle more than 1 task at a time will just end up messing up all the tasks you’re trying to accomplish. Try to focus on one of your goals, whether it’s a project or learning a programming language, everything takes a lot of individual focus and attention to be accomplished quite well.

Fight the Obstacles
The most heart-breaking part is to see talented people giving up as they see obstacles coming their way.

Don’t give up no matter what, believe in yourself and your potential energy that can help you fight every single obstacle. No matter how hard things might get in your way, be ready to face it. And in no time you’ll gain confidence that will make you simply unstoppable in the field.

Relax and Enjoy Your Work
People say that if you love your work, you don’t work a single day in your life. You’re just having fun every day. And no professional can be good at their work unless they love it and are passionate about it. Similar is the case with IT professionals, no doubt this requires long hours of focus. But the day you fall in love with what you do, you definitely will not want to stop and programming would be your favorite piece of cake.

So, just relax and do not stress yourself about things that get frustrating in the beginning. Just love your work and things will start getting a lot better in just no time.

Conclusion
These 10 recommendations have been deduced by many experts to help newbies see a bigger picture at the start to understand things better and not take steps they might regret taking later on.

Even if you’re not a beginner and regret some moves, it’s never too late to make a change. So stick to these 10 tips to make sure you never end up saying that “wish I knew this in the start!” at some point in your career. Good luck!

Rapes- deathbed for women

We live in a society where it is believed to worship Goddess or you may also say Women, as it is said that, women are like a Goddess. But as we look into today’s situation we can observe that in a society where women are believed to be Goddess are exploited, insulted, raped, discriminated against, and sexually harassed. Is this a manner in which we are worshiping a Women/Goddess? It is actually very disturbing and unacceptable. The rape cases in India are increasing at a very high rate. In 2018, 101,151 rape cases were recorded. Now here comes understanding what rape is, Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration without the person’s consent.

Now the question arises, what is the major cause of Rapes in India?

Wearing short dresses which means, inviting people to take such huge steps as rape, and harassment, late-night parties, or coming late from work alone at night or even in the daytime are the major reason for Rapes in India according to the thinking of some people.

But the major reason behind this is the thinking of the people. It is just a matter of thinking and mentality of the people or the way people approach or look towards women.
It makes me disturb whenever I hear about a girl or a female suffering from this again, whether it be Dr. Priyanka Reddy Nirbhaya or any girl going through this. Now I would like to ask this question to the ones who said that Rape takes place when a girl wears short dresses, so why would a newborn baby girl or an old woman to be raped? Like seriously, the answer to this question from people’s point of view is that they were wearing appealing clothes! What is meant by this? It is how people think and their mentality.

This society is becoming a Rapist Society day-by-day with the rape culture.

There is a need to have a strong and effective law and system to eliminate this. Although the Government is taking certain measures to stop rapes, it is not enough to eliminate them. What we need is more strong, firm, and effective steps to eliminate it, and it will be a big challenge for everyone in society because it’s not that easy to stop. Eventually, it will take time. And if we didn’t start now, then it will be too late. Till then more Dr. Priyanka Reddy and Nirbhaya will be killed.

What punishment do rapists get here in India? The punishment for rape is given in section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. Except in cases provided under subsection 2 of the same section, the punishment will be rigorous imprisonment which is not less than 7 years, which may be extended to life imprisonment and fine.

A man guilty of rape in the United Kingdom is liable on conviction to life imprisonment or for a shorter term. It is a statutory offense in England and Wales, created by section 1 of the Sexual Offenses Act 2003.

Capital punishment of rape is a legal penalty in the United Arab Emirates. Under Emirati law, multiple crimes carry the death penalty, and executions are carried through either a firing squad, hanging, or stoning.

For women, rapes are like facing death. After the rape, most of the girls are killed or burned, but if left alive by any chance then she has to live with what happened to her is more difficult than death. There should be more powerful laws, and systems to stop rapes, as well as strict punishments for the culprit.

Google Word Power- Unleash Your Inner Shashi Tharoor

Want crack IELTS, CAT or any other competitive exam, or just want to improve your language skills, Google word search does all that and much more. It is not just an app, it is a gate to learning new words, expanding your vocabulary and making your vocabulary more Sashi Tharooresque and all this in a fun and engaging way.

It encourages you to explore new words in an engaging way. Perhaps it is the new Word Power Made Easy. The quiz format is especially engaging and breaks the monotony one associates with learning new words. It makes something that many feel laborious a fun experience. The interface is minimalist and user friendly which one can access through browser or via downloading the app.

Widen your mental horizon by leaning new words. Enter into a meditative state where you learn enlarge your vocabulary. Don’t be scared if you were ever left gasping for words in a conversation or an interview your Messiah is here and it is called Google Word Power. Going through Google Word Power is just like working out but in this case, you are working out with your brain. And with each passing day you learn something new.

Written by- Daniel Ayush Mehra

ON SOCIAL RESEARCH

The Nature of Social Research 

Research means a reliable systematic approach that is approved by a community of social researchers, to extend our knowledge of the outside world. It aims to create new ideas and understandings.The fact that social research involves people at both ends is what differentiates it from other kinds of research. The research object is a person(single person or a group or society) in social research, and there is an interaction between the person and the object. A proper research design(explaining the research problem) has to consider this fact carefully to be accurate. The one advantage of this fact is the researcher’s prior insight of the research object. This type of research is used in various disciplines such as psychology, sociology, history, politics, accountancy, nursing, medicine, and subjects involving people. Design is the key to systematic approach, and it has to start with a research question. Strategy and method has to be decided based on the research question. 

Research Strategy

According to Catherine Hakim, design deals with aims and plans within practical constraints such as time, money and staff availability. It is also about style(different styles that researchers prefer and each produces a different result. Two philosophies of research are positivist approach and interpretive approach. Positivist approach relies on scientific evidence and tries to emulate or copy the methods of natural sciences. It uses experiments and survey. It is scientific, hypothetico-deductive(deducing consequences from policies that can be tested), quantitative, and extensive. Interpretive approach is concerned more about language and meanings, and interpreting the world by studying humans as social animals. It does not treat beings independently rather studies human experiences and contexts. It is ethnographic, explanatory, hermeneutic(works by humans that can be interpreted), qualitative, and intensive. It uses case study, participant observation, and interviews. In real world, the research is either positivist or interpretive. However, one can collect a mixture of both data. 

Types of Research Strategies

Survey: It is collection of information in standardized form from groups of people. Here, a sample of population is studied to determine its characteristics. Then, it is inferred from the study that the population has similar characteristics. One can either select samples from known population or survey everyone on a smaller scale. Data from each individual is collected through a questionnaire or structured interview(same for all). The practice of distributing questionnaires in person or web questionairres are common methods, and however, the usage of questionairres is not compulsory. Examples include studying diet habits of teenagers, taste preference surveys etc.

Case Study: It involves complete observation of a social unit. It is usually an in depth study about a single complex object, or of a small number of related objects. It emphasizes on individual events. Robert Yin suggests that a wide range of research is best understood as case studies. It sometimes involves direct participation and study documents to relate an event to a broader issue or aspect, or social context. Examples include case study of E commerce business in India, case study investigating the process of planning and implementing a service in Primary Care Organisations etc.

Experiment: Alteration of one variable can lead to different results, and new relationships. Experimentation measures the effect of manipulating one variable on another. It is done to test hypotheses and discover new relationships. It involves selection of representative samples from known population(rare). Then, it is allocated randomly to different conditions. The next step involves introducing planned changes(manpulation of a variable like trying it with different age groups or people in different conditions), and its effect on the population is measured. Examples include employee skill evaluation, evaluating teaching methods etc.

IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SOCIETY

Covid-19 , the world wide issue , has affected all the sections of the society.The pandemic has put negative impact on the study and education . It has largely affected our mental healths , physiological thinking , memory and social behaviour . It also has ruined both our mental and physical health . People have become emotionally weak , each and every age group is badly affected from pandemic , people are suffering from stress and undergoing depression . This epidemic has changed the state of mind . Human has started fearing of each other , this is observed first time in the universe where there is human phobia as this virus carrier is human itself . Covid -19 has made our life really challenging . Studies are transformed from classroom learning to visual teaching . Exams , vivas , projects , presentations are held online . The students have really stopped studying , they have adopt different ways of copying and getting good scores from online exams . After the survey , it was found that there was downfall in power self learning , intellectual thinking and memorising concept in students . It’s a really serious implication to be mentioned as students are the future of the country and the way they are preparing , the future of our country is really in danger .Further scientific studies revealed that instead of focusing on learning and self development , the screen time of students is increased , children are more found on social medias rather in playgrounds , the social behaviour of the children has really changed, they are irritated, frustrated and are depressed throughout the day .Initially it was found that the online mode of education is really relaxing for students but now it’s a curse for students to sit for 6-7 hours and in front of screen and study that totally lacks enjoyment , music , dancing , art and craft and other cultural activities held in school premises . It’s really very hard to listen and concentrate on screen and this method has made the students lazier . Ultimately it has lead to increased level of stress , anxiety and depression in youngsters .Education is the primary agenda that’s affected, there are many secondary things too that are badly affected due to outbreak of covid -19.There is downfall in our economy, people are suffering from unemployment , many have lost their jobs . The vacancies in both private and government sectors has dropped , people have started doing work from home as per observing the condition of work in market . Covid has badly affected the lives of children , adults and old age people . There is drop in tourism and social interaction , people started to live in their house itself as due to fear of virus .Today the world is in really tough times , everyone wants that the things get normalize and live their lives to the fullest again . Although pharmaceutical companies and doctors are working day to night to deal with mental stress , healthy management is manufacturing immunity booster every new day , government is too working hard and working on new health policies to eliminate the negative impacts due to covid -19 . So , it’s our role too to stay calm and control our minds and boost our health and have faith on government , so that we can escape through virus as we all believe is that HEALTH is WEALTH .

How Educational Psychology Help Children’s Learning?

Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology includes the investigation of how individuals master, including showing strategies, educational cycles, and individual contrasts in learning. The objective is to see how individuals learn and hold new data.

Educational Psychology draws from different fields like neuroscience and frequently includes government sanctioned testing to acquire data about youngsters’ mastering abilities.

This part of brain research includes not simply the learning cycle of youth and pre-adulthood yet incorporates the social, enthusiastic, and psychological cycles that are associated with learning all through the whole life.

Child Development

As your child grows, they go through reformist formative stages, from birth into adulthood. Natural, hereditary, and social variables would all be able to influence a youngster’s turn of events, and how rapidly they progress starting with one phase then onto the next. It’s hard for kids to clarify what they’re going through, considerably less to examine their sentiments. That is the place where kid brain science can help give you exceptionally significant and important data.

Everybody needs their children to have sound turn of events, yet it’s anything but in every case clear if a kid’s conduct is a manifestation of an ordinary stage being developed or an indication of an anomaly. Kid therapists and child psychologist can assist you with understanding the distinction. Understanding the ordinary and unusual mental examples of a youngster can assist guardians with seeing how to best impart and interface with their kid, instruct their kid methods for dealing with stress for overseeing feelings, and help their kid advance and flourish in each new formative stage.

Educational Psychology and Child development

At the point when you notice brain research the vast majority consider advising a treatment for intense subject matters, like uneasiness or sorrow… And keeping in mind that all clinicians have preparing here, our group has explicit postgraduate preparing in Educational and Developmental Psychology, which is a part of brain science zeroed in on learning and improvement.

Is educational psychology a hypothetical and applied branches at one of the parts of general brain research , which is characterized as the examination and comprehension of the standards of conduct of people in various instructive circumstances, where he is keen on investigations mental hypothesis and how to transform them right into it and commonsense strides in the instructive field bunch, ie the utilization of the laws and standards of brain science in the instructive angles, adjusted to the instructive climate wherein they identify with the viable childhood of positive and powerful, to raise the degree of capacities and capabilities, abilities and characters of the understudy bunch engaged with the cycle Altali Yeh.

Importance of educational psychology

  • The educational psychology profits by the encounters of analysts and their encounters in the field of schooling and training, to foster special hypotheses of learning and techniques, and to introduce the fundamental standards and laws for the use of these speculations.
  • So Educational Psychologists work with children to discover HOW they learn and measure data and search for approaches to improve their exhibition. What’s more, it’s difficult knowledge that influence learning results.
  • Intense subject matters, perspectives, inspiration, self-guideline, conduct and confidence all add to learning.
  • Educational clinicians acquire significant data by attempted individual appraisals with youngsters to decide what their hidden psychological cycles are meaning for their degrees of educational accomplishments.
  • It is imperative to comprehend the kid’s instructive history and whether the current concerns have been creating over the long haul. The foundation data is typically given by guardians finishing a poll, and preferably, from a survey finished by the youngster’s educator.
  • These appraisals may likewise uncover certain trouble spots like memory or passionate variables that influence learning, like uneasiness.
  • Educational Psychology offers systems and strategies that will assist the educator with understanding the understudy’s brain research and brain science through the advancement of instructive educational plans in the light of the understudies’ capacities and aptitudes so as not to over-burden them and to investigate the mental issues confronting the understudy at various age levels.

Conclusion

Alongside all the over, an educator should know about their conduct around youngsters and should be a good example for them. Kids gain so much from perception; they likewise will in general do it unwittingly. In this way now and again, it’s anything but important to really instruct the youngster but instead show them by doing it without anyone else’s help. This article concludes the importance of Educational Psychology on Children’s learning.

increasing chaos of traffic.

A recent survey predicts that every human in a day waste at least 2 hours in traffic jams, delaying their important processes.

A man sitting for minutes and hours in a car, is no less than a human bomb, increasing the cases of road rage, impatience, anger, stress etc. which is an eye opening and gravest issue for the population of metropolitan cities.
Chaos rules the city roads | Cities News,The Indian Express
Chaos rules the city roads.

According to the people, commuting in metropolitan cities, at least two accidents take place every day showing the startling truth of the psychology of human mind, which is short tempered and lacks patience with pace of modernization. The instances of a bullet shot when way is not given or traffic police person killed by a school boy cannot be ignored in the history of road accidents, predicting the unsafe environment to everybody. The basic question is that why man is losing the basic ethics of patience and wit. Rage, abuse and impatience is never the solution for any problem or delay.

Also, the traffic police department is also to be blamed for the chaos of not operating traffic lights properly and for improper sign boards, which leads to menace. Only the challans or fines are not solution for jumping the signal or breaking of traffic rules. No other stone should be left unturned for failure of themselves.

Some of the solutions can be pondered upon, which can hinder the process of rage i.e., one should be prepared to avoid jam before 10 minutes, honking should be done by self and awaring others also.

Moreover, joining stress and anger management session can prove fruitful. Therefore, solution lies within oneself. It is WE, the aware and responsible citizens who can curb the root of road accidents.

Autistic pride day

Autistic Pride Day is celebrated on June 18 around the globe, this day is dedicated to people who are suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) . Autism is a development disorder that affects a person’s ability to interact and communicate, it has direct impact on one’s emotional as well as physical health . Autistic Pride Day was initially celebrated by Aspies for freedom in 2005, the main moto behind this day is to make autistic people take part in the event and share their experiences , have a day to celebrate their identities demonstrating their ability to advocate for themselves.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in 160 children have Autism Spectrum Disorder. People with autism are often subjected to human rights violations and stigma. So, this day is marked to stop this discrimination and raise awareness among people. WHO encourages families to have an environment, which supports children with autism. Treating them as equals and engaging them in routine activities like cooking, shopping and cleaning will give them a happy life. Autistic Pride Day is represented by the rainbow infinity symbol. This symbol is intended to represent the diversity of autistic people and the infinite possibilities and variations within the autistic community.

The other major factor because of which Autistic pride day is to spread awareness. While some of us are aware of Autism there are many others who are still unaware. Many parents think the reason behind the child’s abnormal behavior is the rudeness of the child but it’s our responsibility to know that every behavior has its back story and we need to be cautious about it. It is essential that we realize that the child might be suffering from ASD and provide him all the support and help he needs. Anyone from a child to an adult person can have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism people are more sensitive and even simple things like light being too bright can cause them to have a meltdown, so it is necessary for others to treat them with patience and politeness.

It is important for everyone to know that people suffering from autism are not diseased but different . They don’t require any treatment or cure. All autistic people are needed to be given an equal importance , it should be ensured that there is no violation of their basic human rights. Studies shows that they have unique positive traits and have the potential to do something which others can’t. Dr. Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism as a young child and was eventually able to speak. Finding her voice, she went on to publish Emergence: Labeled Autistic, a ground-breaking book which is widely regarded as the first real insight into the life and thoughts of someone with autism. She inspired millions of people and in 2010 Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Each one of us is special and beautiful in our own way so rather than discriminating autistic people let’s take a stand for their pride and support them. Happy Autistic Pride Day.

What is the answer to your solution? PART 1

We all come through various obstacle in our life of which we are not aware; they come to our life without any warning which are either unexpected or we try to take them as unxpected. We human beings whenever are in any such kind of situation we looses our control and the stability of our mind It happens!

And we know this too that what people can say, they can never feel at a moment!

If a lie is for a good sake, then than lie is a good lie.

 Every lie is not a bad one. We must lie in our life for various reasons. The purpose of this is explained below let in form of a story

      There was a vast river which had many streams which is one of the oldest in the earth. Due to water need of people living in that area they blocked various streams of that  river and made various dams for the purpose. They have been utilizing it and extracting the natural resources available in the deepest depth of the river for years and misusing it. After years of human being using the river  and extracting its resources the dam suddenly broke and the force of water was such huge that resulted in the complete vanish of the town and death of many people.

                  Whose fault was it?

  • People who wanted water and blocked the streams of river for their purpose.
  • People who extracted the natural resources indeed.
  • Or the dam which broke suddenly resulted in the death of many people .

Can you guess?

It is not the fault of people who always wanted water for their livelihood, or people who extracted  natural resource or damn which broke.

  • It is fault of people who broke the streams of water rather than taking water flowing from that streams only.
  • It is the fault of people who extracted natural resources over their need.

It is the fault.

As we know that it is destiny which governs everything

The destiny of people was to go and take required amount of water to their need.

The destiny of river streams which flows a way.

The destiny of water force because whenever something is been captured when releases generated tremendous amount of force.

“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”

Mahatma Gandhi

So whenever we are in any such situation, where we know we are in need of it, do not let this overcome our self because we’re are never in need of anything to completely let it vanish we are capable of making ourself let us complete our need according to he availability of our need.

Try to understand everything around yourself and take the moves forward carefully  with our full control and stability of mind try not let it overcome yourself.

Cheques and its types

A cheque is a piece of document/paper which orders the bank to transfer money from the bank account of an individual or an organization to another bank account.

TYPES:

Bearer Cheque- The bearer cheque is a type of cheque in which the bearer is authorized to get the cheque en-cashed that is the person who carries the cheque to the bank has the authority to ask the bank for encashment.

Order Cheque- This type of cheque cannot be endorsed, i.e., only the payee, whose name has been mentioned in the cheque is liable to get cash for that amount.

Crossed Cheque- In this type of cheque, no cash withdrawal can be done. The amount can only be transferred from the drawer’s account to the payee’s account. Any third party can visit the bank to submit the cheque.

Account Payee Cheque- This is the same as the account payee cheque but no third party involvement is required. The amount shall be transferred directly to the payee’s account number.

Stale Cheque- In India, any cheque is valid only until 3 months from the date of issue. So if a payee moves to the bank to get withdrawal for a cheque which was signed 3 months ago, the cheque shall be declared a stale cheque.

Apart from it there are some other types of cheques too. Like the post dated cheque,self cheques,blank cheque and multinated cheques.

Being an LGBTQIA+ ally

LGBTQIA+  is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, The “plus” represents other sexual identities including pansexual and Two-Spirit or any other sexual identity not included in the acronym. A stands for asexual and ally. today we’ll be focusing on the latter.

First, let’s understand what is the meaning of an ally. 

An ally, straight ally, or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and cisgender person who supports equal civil rights, gender equality, and LGBT social movements, challenging homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

We don’t have proper sex education in our schools or at homes, as a matter of fact, it’s considered a taboo and a violation of our deeply held religious values.

but Traditional Hindu literary sources do speak of homosexuality even though indirectly, changes of sex, homoerotic encounters, and intersex or third gender characters are often found both in traditional religious narratives such as the Vedas, Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Puranas as well as in regional folklore.

Homophobic memes and slurs that have been normalized in our daily life further increase and normalise the existing homophobia, and even after knowing the right facts people do not want to unlearn their previously learnt bad belief systems.

Today’s article will be about unlearning these wrong belief systems and deciphering the ultimate guide to be an ally.

Step 1 is to gather up the courage and to start talking about the things that are considered taboo in your friend circle and with your friends. yes, This can be really uncomfortable and awkward. But the fact that you are uncomfortable can be a good thing. That discomfort can be a sign that you are growing and changing as you learn. Trust it.

Step 2 is to listen, It is not uncommon for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) young people to spend years working up the courage to come out to their parents, family and friends. LGBT youth tend to fear rejection by those closest to them and feel isolated as if they are the only ones who feel the way they do. They often fear being “discovered” at school by saying the wrong thing or dressing a certain way. And they feel pressure to fit in by laughing at homophobic jokes even when it hurts their sentiments deeply. Being an ally you should be there for your friends who belong to the LGBT community. listening to them talk about their experiences can be difficult. It can be emotionally intense to hear people talk about the hurt and suffering they experience. There are very few places and groups in India where people can talk freely about their sexual identity and not having a space to talk about things that are going on in your mind can make anyone feel overwhelmed, by listening you can reduce that feeling of being closeted and overwhelmed.

Listening as an ally requires that you make space for others to talk and that you trust and believe what they tell you. and Remember: just because you can’t see the evidence for something right away doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

Step 3 is learning from people who experience oppressions is important, but it’s not fair to expect them to teach you everything you need to know about it. As an ally, it’s your responsibility to spend your own time and energy learning more. Reliable resources tend to be ones created by people who are knowledgeable on the issues, either through research or lived experience Learning about social injustice can be complicated and difficult. Most of the learning that you do as an ally is about letting go of what you thought was true. Often times this is called “unlearning” because it involves questioning and rejecting oppressive beliefs that you may have held for a long time. Family, friends, media, and community beliefs are the sources of some of your most deeply held knowledge about the world, but they can also be the places where you learn prejudiced and oppressive things too. When unlearning, dig deep and be honest with yourself about what you believe and how it informs your actions. As you learn about your privilege as a non-oppressed person, try to be honest with yourself about how that privilege has affected your life and who you are. It can be really uncomfortable to realize that stuff and that’s ok. Again, trust your struggle.

Step 4 is speaking up when you hear people say things that are wrong or prejudiced is another way to act as an ally. Having social power or privilege means that you have a social responsibility to use and acknowledge that power in ways that are for the good of others. The ability to stay silent and not acknowledge oppression or speak out about it is one of the stolen advantages that you inherit as privileged people.

Sometimes it can help by starting to say even just a few words in response to an oppressive or disrespectful comment. You can try saying things like, “That’s not cool,” “That’s disrespectful,” or “Why’d you say that?” to try and let people know that their actions are oppressive/prejudiced/disrespectful/wrong and that you noticed. Applying your knowledge in real-life situations is going to take practice. Not everyone is comfortable speaking up in all situations with everyone. It can take time to learn how to say things in the way that you want them to be heard. The more comfortable you get at speaking out, the closer you might get to teaching others about oppression and social justice which is an important part of being an ally.

Step 5 is educating Others as an ally, it’s your responsibility to use what you’ve learned to educate others in your own privileged communities (e.g., think straight people educating straight people, men educating other men, etc.). You have the power to stop resist prejudiced and oppressive beliefs in your family, friends, communities, and the media. Information is often better received when it’s peer to peer, and being a member of a privileged group means that your voice and opinion are more often heard when you speak on an issue. Basically, when people see you as part of their community they’re more likely to listen to you! You can use that advantage to speak about what you believe is right; challenge others when they say something oppressive or take the time to teach others what they may not know about oppression.

In conclusion, being an ally is not always easy, but it’s always worth it. Using social privilege to oppress others is one of many terrible injustices of our world, but just having privilege doesn’t make you a terrible person; it’s all about how you use it. Allyship is a journey. It never really stops or ends, but continues as a constant opportunity for growth and learning in your life. Being an ally is really about nurturing a sense of humility within yourself. Allowing yourself to be a learner can be a fulfilling role. Being an ally is about showing love and recognizing a sense of community. Knowing you made the world a more loving or accepting place is worth it in the end.

Art and culture

As we know India in famous for its culture and traditions. India is a land where there are full diverse cultures. Even geographically the cultures and tradition are suitable to India. The physical of India is so much matched with its cultures and tradition that I became forced to talk about the geographic region of India. Well, Indian art can be defined as the theological, hieratic or is the best of all as traditional. As India is a multi religious country so each religious has its own kind of arts and paintings. I would like to talk about some kinds of paintings in India. Mughal Paintings, Heena paintings, Acrylic paintings and painting texture. If there is a quality, richness, and innovativeness then Mughal paintings are highly admired. I liked Mughal paintings because of its style and unique.
Art & Culture plays an important role in the development of any nation. It represents a set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices. Culture and creativity manifest themselves in almost all economic, social and other activities. A country as diverse as India is symbolized by the plurality of its culture.
India has one of the world’s largest collections of songs, music, dance, theatre, folk traditions, performing arts, rites and rituals, paintings and writings that are known, as the ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (ICH) of humanity. In order to preserve these elements, the Ministry of Culture implements a number of schemes and programmes aimed at providing financial support to individuals, groups and cultural organizations engaged in performing, visual and literary arts etc.

poverty in india

INTRODUCTION– Living a life free of poverty and hunger is a basic human right. One of the paradoxes of our swiftly rising and increasingly progressive world is that poverty remains prevalent and rampant, and the disadvantaged population appears to be becoming increasingly vulnerable. The number of underprivileged and oppressed people in India is a source of great worry for policymakers and scholars. Poverty in India is mostly caused by a lack of adequate government policies and the upper class’s exploitation of the financially weaker part. India has one of the world’s largest economies, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $1,644 billion US dollars. However, only a small portion of India’s population has benefited from the country’s amazing economic success thus far, with the bulk of the population still living in abysmal poverty. Two-thirds of the Indian population is impoverished: 68.8 percent of the Indian population lives on less than $2 per day. Over 30 percent live on less than $1.25 a day, classifying them as extremely poor. As a result, the Indian subcontinent is one of the poorest countries in the world, with women and children bearing the brunt of the burden.

MAIN REASONS– The population has grown at a staggering rate of 2.2 percent per year during the last 45 years. Every year, around 17 million individuals are added to the population, significantly increasing demand for consumer products, which is followed by low productivity in agriculture due to lack of capital, subdivided and fragmented holdings, use of traditional methods of cultivation, illiteracy, etc. Low productivity results in an increase in price rise and the poor becoming poorer. The price rise benefits a smaller section of people and persons with lower income find it difficult to fulfill their basic requirements. In India, there is chronic unemployment and underemployment as a result of the country’s ongoing population growth. Rather than an increase in work prospects, the number of job seekers is expanding at a faster rate. There are two types of unemployment: educated unemployment and disguised unemployment. Poverty is simply a symptom of unemployment. Our country’s social structure is very backward in comparison to the rest of the world, and it is not conducive to faster progress. The caste system, inheritance law, inflexible traditions, and customs are impeding speedier progress and exacerbating the poverty problem. From the outset of our independence, our development plans have been influenced by political objectives.

NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD MISSION
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STEPS TAKEN AND WHAT CAN BE DONE– Since India’s independence government has taken various steps to eradicate poverty. This includes programs to provide subsidy, bank credit, employment, food security, housing, good economic infrastructure, and pensions. But a numerous more steps can be taken to make India poverty free. Goovernment should reduce inequality of income and keep a check on concentration of wealth followed by monetary policies. The present Public Distribution Systems(PDS) should be reorganised and extended to rural parts of country, Government should offer special discounts to attract private capital investment to backwards region. The government should take care of basic requirements like healthy food, clean water, primary medical facilities of the poor. Public sector should make expenditure on uplifting the weaker section. With this goverment should focus more on providing education, generating employment, and uplifting the agriculture sector as majority of population is dependent on agriculture.

CONCLUSION-Many initiatives have been developed by the Indian government.
schemes/programs to improve the lives of those who
falls into the BPL category However, the situation remains the same, with the poverty rate increasing year after year. India’s government
has to pay more attention to the poorer members of society
across the country in order to identify human fundamentals
right and a higher quality of life.

Men’s Health

Heart Health:

Heart disease comes in many forms. All of its forms can lead to serious, fatal complications if undetected. More than one in three adult men have some form of cardiovascular disease.Stroke targets more than 3 million men. High blood pressure is common in males under the age of 45.Routine checkups can help keep that heart beating.

Your doctor can calculate your risk for cardiovascular disease based on several risk factors, including your cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking habits.

COPD and other respiratory diseases:

Many respiratory diseases start with an innocent “smoker’s cough.” Over time, that cough can lead to life-threatening conditions, such as lung cancer, emphysema, or COPD. All of these conditions interfere with your ability to breathe.each year more men are diagnosed with and develop lung cancer than in years past. African-American men have a higher risk of dying from the disease compared to other racial or ethnic groups. While exposure to occupational hazards like asbestos increases your risk, smoking remains the leading cause of lung cancer.

If you have smoked for more than 30 years, a low-dose CT scan maybe prudent to screen for lung cancer.

Alcohol: Friend or foe?

Men face higher rates of alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations than women do. Men binge drink twice as much as women. They are also prone to increased aggression and sexual assault against women. Alcohol consumption increases your risk for cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, and colon. Alcohol also interferes with testicular function and hormone production. This can result in impotence and infertility. men are more likely than women to commit suicide. They also are more likely to have been drinking prior to doing so.

Depression and suicide:

Researchers at The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimate that at least 6 million men suffer from depressive disorders,including suicidal thoughts, annually.

Some ways to combat depression include:

1.Getting regular exercise, even just going for routine walks around your neighborhood

2. Journaling or writing down your thoughts, communicating openly with friends and family

3.Seeking professional help

Guidelines for suicide prevention

If you think someone is at immediate risk of self-harm or hurting another person:

• Call 911 or your local emergency number.

• Stay with the person until help arrives.

• Remove any guns, knives, medications, or other things that may cause harm.

• Listen, but don’t judge, argue, threaten, or yell.

Unintentional injuries and accidents:

Unintentional injury is a leading cause of death for men in 2006. This includes drowning, traumatic brain injuries, and fireworks-related mishaps.

Motor vehicle death rates for male drivers and passengers ages 15 to 19 were almost twice that of females in 2006. Male workers incurred 92 percent of the 5,524 total reported fatal occupational injuries. Remember, safety first.

Liver disease:

Your liver is the size of a football. It helps you digest food and absorb nutrients. It also rids your body of toxic substances. Liver disease includes conditions such as:

Viral hepatitis

Autoimmune or genetic liver diseases

Vile duct cancer

Liver cancer

Alcoholic liver disease 

Diabetes:

If left untreated, diabetes can lead to nerve and kidney damage, heart disease and stroke, and even vision problems or blindness. Men with diabetes face a risk of lower testosterone levels and sexual impotence. This can lead to increased depression or anxiety. The best way to control your diabetes is to eat healthy and exercise. If you have a family history of diabetes, it is important to see your doctor to have periodic screenings for diabetes.

Influenza and pneumonia:

Influenza and pneumococcal infection are two leading health risks for men. Men who have compromised immune systems due to COPD, diabetes, congestive heart failure, sickle cell anemia, AIDS, or cancer are more susceptible to these illnesses. Men are about 25 percent more likely to die from these diseases than women. To prevent against influenza and pneumonia, it is recommended to get vaccination.

Skin cancer:

According to the Skin Cancer Foundation,two-thirds of melanoma deaths in 2013 were men. This is more than twice the rate of women. Sixty percent of all melanoma deaths were white men over the age of 50. You can help protect against skin cancer by wearing long sleeves and pants, hats with wide brims, sunglasses, and sunscreen when outdoors. You can also lower your risk of skin cancer by avoiding exposure to UV light sources, such as tanning beds or sunlamps.

Become proactive:

Now that you know about the top 10 health risks that affect men, the next step is to change your habits and become proactive about your health.

Addressing your health can be scary, but avoiding it altogether can be deadly. The many organizations cited in this slideshow offer information, resources, and support if you are experiencing any symptoms, feel you may have a condition, or just want to get a checkup.