Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’  inaugurated Examination Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC),  Aligarh Muslim University through a video conferencing platform. The examination centre has been built on a government grant of rupees two cores

Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister said that even as the world is facing unprecedented disruption due to Covid-19, especially in the fields of education and learning; the Government is committed that our centres of learning and students do not suffer. He said that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) played a pivotal role in the Freedom Struggle and still it denotes a strong sense of patriotism. Its academic excellence makes it an invaluable national asset. Its Medical College beacons a new ray of hope at a time when the Country is plagued by Covid19 pandemic. He congratulated the AMU Vice Chancellor for ensuring the all-round development with continuous positive transformation despite adverse circumstances due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The phases II trial of COVID-19 vaccinedeveloped by the University of Oxford started in India this week. Three volunteers were given the vaccine on Thursday at Bharti Vidyapeeth’s Medical College and Hospital in Pune. British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca signed a deal with Serum Institute of India to manufacture Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccinecandidate.

Pune-based vaccine maker shortlisted 17 sites in India for the Phase II clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine. At least 1,600 candidates aged between 18 to 55, will participate in the trial.

“On Thursday afternoon, three more volunteers — two females and a male — were administered the vaccine candidate after their reports of RT-PCR test for COVID-19 and antibody test came negative,” said Dr Sunita Palkar, in-charge of the research cell at the medical college.

Two volunteers were given the first shot of Covishield on Thursday. The vital health parameters of the those two are normal, the medical facility’s deputy medical director Dr Jitendra Oswal said

Since yesterday, our medical team is in touch with the two volunteers and both are fine. They do not have any pain, fever, injection-side reaction or systemic illness post-vaccination,” he said.

“They have been given all the necessary emergency numbers (to contact in case of need) and our medical team is also conducting follow-ups with them,” he added. The vaccine dose will be repeated on both the volunteers after one month.

Each participant will administer two doses in a gap of four weeks. First dose will be given on day one and second dose will be scheduled on day 29,” according to the study design by Serum Institute of India.
Phase 2/3 clinical trial will be observer-blind, randomised, controlled study to determine the safety and immunogenicity of Covishield (COVID-19 vaccine) in healthy Indian adults,” the study design mentioned.

“After the completion of phase II trial, reports will be submitted to the Data Safety Monitoring Board, then to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization for stage 3 of the trial,” Dr Hemant Deshmukh, King Edward Memorial Hospital said.

KEM Hospital, another facility chosen for the vaccine’s clinical trials in the country, is also scheduled to conduct a trial on some persons on Thursday, a senior doctor from the medical facility said.

In a well-reasoned, well-analysed, well-balanced and well-articulated judgment, a two Judge Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court comprising of Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua in Sheela Suryavanshi v. State of H.P. & Ors. in CWP No. 511 of 2020 delivered just recently on August 26, 2020 has clearly and convincingly disapproved of employees managing posting in and around urban areas and asked the State to break the cartel! It observed that if the employee has been transferred in order to adjust particular persons with no reasonable basis, then such type of transfers can be termed as “mala fide one” and would, normally be liable to be quashed. Very rightly so!

           To start with, this notable judgment authored by Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan for himself and Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua starts by first and foremost observing in para 1 that, “The petitioner is a Lecturer (English), who joined Government Senior Secondary School, Sanjauli, on 16.08.2017 and was thereafter ordered to be transferred vice private respondent vide order dated 23.01.2020 and aggrieved thereby has filed the instant petition for the grant of following substantive relief:-

(i)                         That the impugned transfer order dated 23.01.2020 (Annexure P-1) may kindly be quashed and set aside.”

                            To be sure, the Bench then points out in para 2 that, “It is argued by Shri Ram Murti Bisht, learned Advocate, for the petitioner, that the order of transfer is not sustainable, as it has been passed on extraneous consideration and with malafide intention to simply adjust private respondent No. 3, who at her own request had been posted at GSSS, Theog in July, 2019 and after short stay of six month, on 01.01.2020, on the basis of D.O. note No. 199274, got herself transferred back to GSSS, Sanjauli dislodging the petitioner.”

                                 To say the least, the Bench then expounds in para 10 that, “It may be stated here that if the transfers are made in order to adjust particular persons with no reasonable basis, such type of transfers can be termed as malafide one and would normally be liable to be quashed.”

                                      No wonder, it is then rightly noted in para 11 that, “On the basis of the aforesaid exposition of law, it can conveniently be held that transfer in the instant case has not been made on administrative exigency but to adjust and accommodate respondent No. 3.”

                          Briefly stated, what para 12 brings out primarily is that record revealed that it was respondent No. 3, who vide letter dated 06.01.2020, addressed to the Education Minister, requested for her transfer on medical grounds. In the letter, the respondent No. 3 points out that presently I am working as PGT (English) in Govt. Girls Sr. Secondary School, Theog Distt. Shimla (HP) from July, 2019. She also points out that I am suffering from Paralytic problems (brain strokes in Dec. 2018) and since then under treatment in IGMC Shimla and it is very difficult to commute between Theog & Shimla daily due to my problem. She then urges in her letter to transfer her on medical grounds from Govt. Girls Sr. Secondary School Theog to Govt. Sr. Secondary School Sanjauli vice Smt. Sheela Suryavanshi, PGT (English) and condone her short stay at GSSS Theog.

                                   More revealingly, it is then brought out in para 13 that, “The medical prescription slip annexed with this application, in fact, is an OPD slip in which it was only mentioned that this is a case of post circulation stroke and the B.P. of the petitioner has been recorded alongwith the details of the medicines. Even after that respondent No. 3 procured another D.O. note on the basis of which she got herself transferred to GSSS Sanjauli.”

                                    Needless to say, it is then made clear in para 14 that, “No doubt, respondent No. 3 was entitled to set forth her grievance including the medical problems to her higher authorities and seek transfer and it was for the authorities, in turn, to accede or not to such request, but under no circumstances, respondent No. 3 could have exercised external influence to have transfer effected.”

                         Truly speaking, it is then also conceded while pointing out in para 15 that, “Now, the further question is whether request made by respondent No. 3 in the aforesaid letter was genuine and bonafide. We really do not think so.”

                                               To put things in perspective, it is then brought out in para 16 that, “The record reveals that even though respondent No. 3 did suffer a paralytic (brain stroke) in 2018, but then it was on her request that she subsequently came to be transferred on mutual basis to GSSS Theog, where she remained posted from July, 2019 till the passing of the impugned transfer order. The request for transfer on mutual basis was probably made to take advantage under the policy of the transfer.”

                             While citing the relevant case law, it is then pointed out in para 17 that, “In Rajendra Roy vs Union of India and Anr. 1993 SC 1236, the Apex Court held that “It is true that the order of transfer often causes a lot of difficulties and dislocation in the family set up of the concerned employees but on that score the order of transfer is not liable to be struck down.”

                          Be it noted, it is then observed in para 18 that, “Off late, this Court has seen a surge in litigation relating to transfer. The State Of Himachal unlike other States is not evenly or uniformly developed in matters of basic infrastructure like education, health services etc. It is for this reason and rightly so that every employee tries to make an endeavour to seek posting in the district or tehsil headquarters where the infrastructure is relatively well developed. This we observe on the basis of the statistics relating to Shimla alone, where floating population is equal to permanent population. Most of these migration in urban areas is directly related with education of children and thereafter it could be for other purposes like better health facilities etc.” 

                      Not stopping here, the Bench then also does not shy away from pointing in para 19 that, “We further notice that because of cartel created by few of the employees serving in the urban and semi urban areas of Himachal Pradesh, the influential employees manage to secure their postings in and around urban areas, leaving practically no room for the other employees.”

                        To be brutally honest, the Bench then also concedes in para 20 that, “The instant case is one such classical example, which reflects the modus operandi being resorted to by these teachers on completion of their tenure by seeking mutual transfer or creating artificial vacancies and thereafter getting each one adjusted in such vacancies.”

                     While taking into account the current situation, it is then enunciated in para 21 that, “It cannot be ignored that not only the State or Country but the whole world is in the grip of pandemic COVID-19, because of which students cannot be taught physically in the class rooms and are being taught through online classes.”

                           Practically speaking, the Bench then also makes it amply clear in para 22 that, “In such circumstances, the respondents are not only duty bound but are mandated by law to ensure that no monopoly in the matter of transfers is created in favour of selected fews but an endeavour has to be made to accommodate maximum number of teachers whose children are appearing for the board examination or examination for professional courses. These students can only study and attend classes online if there is adequate and desired band-width. Even otherwise the facilities of tuition and coaching classes on online are mainly available in these places i.e. the district and tehsil headquarters, therefore, also the State is required to adopt a fair and transparent policy of transfer by calling for the details of all the teachers whose children are to appear in the Board exam or examination for professional courses like MBBS, AIEEE etc. This would not only bring about an end to the monopoly created in favour of few teachers but would also ensure benefit to the student community as a whole.”  

                                     While giving the right and remarkable advice, the Bench then opines in para 23 that, “The Central Government, State Governments and likewise all public sector undertakings are expected to function like a ‘model employer’. A model employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity and expected candour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model employer has obligation to treat its employees equally and in appropriate manner so that the employees are not condemned to feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit the employees and take advantage of their helpless and misery.”

                                   While continuing in the same vein, the Bench then holds in para 24 that, “The action of the State must be reasonable, fair, just and transparent and not arbitrary, fanciful or unjust. The right of fair treatment is an essential ingredient of justice. Exercise of unbridled and uncanalised discretionary power impinges upon the right of the citizen; vesting of discretion is no wrong provided it is exercised purposively, judiciously and without prejudice. Wider the discretion, the greater the chances of abuse. Absolute discretion is destructive of freedom, than of man’s other inventions. Absolute discretion marks the beginning of the end of the liberty.”

                         While citing the relevant case law, it is then pointed out in para 26 that, “Here it shall be apposite to make a reference to the judgment of the Honble Supreme Court in New India Public School vs. Huda (1996) 5 SCC 510, wherein it was observed that when public authority discharges its public duty, it has to be consistent with the public purpose and clear and unequivocal guidelines or rules are necessary and the same cannot be acted at the whim and fancy of the public authorities or under their garb or cloak for any extraneous consideration.”

                        More significantly, it is then held in para 31 that, “It is not in dispute that the petitioner as also the third respondent hold a State Cadre Post, yet the petitioner has not been posted outside the district and has rather served in and around Shimla within a radius of 35 kms, in her entire service career.”

                               No less significant is what is then stated in para 32 that, “The case of respondent No. 3 is also not different, as she except for a brief period from 01.09.2010 to 03.04.2012 when she was posted at GSSS, Bisha (Solan), has also remained posted in and around Shimla and have served within a radius of 47 kms out of which 90% of the commutation is on the main National Highways.”

                            Truth be told, it is then conceded in para 33 that, “Obviously, these postings both in the case of the petitioner as also respondent No. 3 could not have been possible without the active support of the official respondents.”

                                 To put it succinctly, the Bench then candidly goes on to add in para 34 that, “As observed above, there has been a spike in cases relating to transfer and majority of these cases pertain to the respondents-department i.e. Education Department. It is for this precise reason that this Court in CWP No. 1978 of 2019, titled as Sunita Devi vs. State of H.P. & Ors. decided on 18.03.2020 has recommended the State Government to implement online transfer in its Departments, Boards, Corporations etc. having over 500 employees by framing an online transfer policy on similar line as that of the adjoining State of Haryana.”  

                           Fittingly enough, the Bench then holds in para 35 that, “In conclusion, even though we find the transfer of the petitioner to be malafide as it has been made in order to adjust the third respondent with no reasonable basis, but that does not mean that the petitioner would be entitled to be retained at GSSS Sanjauli.”             

                             No doubt, it is then rightly pointed out in para 36 that, “It is well known that, “Hard cases make bad law”.” Para 37 further too rightly points out that, “Robert CJ in Caperton vs. A.T. Massey held that extreme cases often test the bounds of established legal principles. There is a cost to yield to the desire to correct the extreme case, rather than adhering to the legal principal. The cost has been demonstrated so often that it is captured in a legal aphorism “Hard cases make bad law”.”

                               Without mincing any words, it is then pointed by the Bench in para 39 that, “Granting indulgence to any of the parties in this case would be causing manifest injustice to other teachers who are desirous of serving in Shimla and other district and tehsil headquarters but have failed mainly because of the cartel formed by the influential teachers like the parties in the instant case.” 

                                       What’s more, the Bench then adds further in para 40 that, “Even though the petitioner has made out a legal ground for quashing the impugned order, however, this Court is still not inclined to exercise discretion in her favour as “justice” is not on the side of the petitioner.”

                                  To top it all, the Bench then holds in para 41 that, “In the given facts and circumstances of the case as discussed above, neither the petitioner nor the third respondent deserve to be posted in their home district.”

                                  While continuing in the same vein, the Bench then further directs in para 42 that, “Accordingly, while disposing of the writ petition, we direct respondents no. 1 and 2 to transfer the petitioner as also respondent No. 3 outside their home district(s) within two weeks from today. The respondents while effecting the transfers shall bear in mind that the same should not amount to adjustment and should be a meaningful transfer.”  

                      Finally and most significantly, it is then held in para 43 that, “Before parting, we hope and trust that the respondents would take all requisite steps to break the cartel and as far as possible ensure that maximum number of teachers, especially those whose children are to appear in the Board examination and examination for professional courses are afforded an opportunity to serve in the district and tehsil headquarters or wherever requisite infrastructure like adequate band width facility of tuition etc. are available.” 

                          In conclusion, the two Judge Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has taken the right approach in dealing with such cases where influential teachers try to always get plum posting only. It has rightly refused to grant any relief to the petitioner. It also has rightly made it clear that the respondents (official authorities) are not only duty-bound but are mandated by law to ensure that no monopoly in the matters of transfers is created in favour of selected few. 

Sanjeev Sirohi, Advocate,

s/o Col BPS Sirohi,

A 82, Defence Enclave,

Sardhana Road, Kankerkhera,

Meerut – 250001, Uttar Pradesh.

Beauty, for most of us is a perfect build, flawless complexion, silky tresses, perfectly lined eyes, glossy lips, fancy outfits and accessories etc,.

But is it reality what we think it is? True, beauty is said to be in the eyes of the beholder, i.e., evey person has a different view on what he/she considered to be beautiful or in short, perception of beauty is subjective. So beauty does have a lot to do with our perception. Still, human perception of things – let alone beauty – is very narrow.

Beauty is broader concept – it refers to all that exist in the universe, may be material or abstract, which smoothes and pleases our senses and have experienced and everything we haven’t. There’s beauty in music, there’s beauty in literature, in language, in philosophy, in spirituality, in science, in imagination, in emotions etc,. But we don’t know beauty even exist in these spheres. Why? That’s because we are humans and it is human behavior.

a) to overlook things and b) to take things for granted. We must be blind, deaf and dead to not witness this thing called beauty, which is present in every inch of “The Creation”.

There’s so much of beauty, yet to be discovered, that lies beyond the boundaries of over knowledge, as much as within it. And, all we’ve got is just one lifetime, to take in every details of this beautiful world and not for that, we have finally start utilizing our senses properly. We have to actually live, not just stay alive.

And while discussing this particular topic, it wouldn’t be fair to not include the general perception of beauty.

For its humans, beauty is only skin deep. We know looks, and not just that we also JUDGE! And judging is an underestiment. We MISJUDGE, to be frank. Any random person we might come across, first of all, we analyze them and jump to conclusions as to what they are, even though we do not know how they truly are. And almost, the entire process includes this phenomenon called ‘COMMENTING’, it’s never ‘COMPLIMENTING’.

There’d be times when we are like, ‘oh my God! She is such a fashion designer’ or ‘that’s nice hairstyle/dress, but it doesn’t suit him/her. There is no need of elaborating this further, because it’s something we have a lot of experience with.

Let’s come to inner beauty.

Inner beauty may be described as something that is experienced through the character of person. It’s the real beauty of a person that goes far beyond physical appearance. (And unfortunately, this is something we looks – obsessed people never notice) For instance, you speak to someone for a minute or so, and find that person pleasant or not do pleasant initially. But as the conversation goes on, you may start to pick qualities and traits and without realizing it, you may start to find the person more and more beautiful and charming. This is exactly what inner beauty is. Now much of us think so much of the person interacting with? Nil, I guess………… Pathetic, isn’t it!?

Inner beauty is nktnthst popular Ashte entire race of humanity has got it imprinted in their mind that looks equal to beauty. It is one of the “universal truths” for us. And there can’t be s chsnge in that particular approach, unless, all of the human brains are reprogrammed. The result of this ‘outer beauty approach’ of mankind is that, many of us, especially teens are undergoing mental stress and depression, as we think they are ugly, deformed with lots of flaws and such. They opt for make-up, surgery or other beauty treatments. Because they feel insecure about not looking beautiful. But applying make-up concerns the real ‘you’ and your charecter in this world is replaced by some fake doll! So, you aren’t going yourself the importance, the respect that you need to be giving, and upon that, you expect others to respect and admire you. That’s not fair..!

You are imperfect, everyone is. Someone try to conceal it, some others don’t feel the need to. And if you belong to the latter category, NEVER BACK OUT, you don’t have to care about what jobless people have to say about you. Having fewer of so called flaws doesn’t make the other person ‘perfect’. There is no perfect person in this world. ‘Perfection’ is only about time and circumstances. Moreover, your imperfection makes the least difference to all your near and dear ones. How much you mean to them, how perfect you make their lives, your subconscious knows it all. Just think over it and you’d know what you want in life.

The verdict on different petitions filed by students against UGC in demand to scrape off final year/terminal semester university examinations in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic will be pronounced tomorrow by the Supreme Court. It will be presided over by a 3-judge bench whose head will be Justice Ashok Bhushan, who will be ruling the verdict at 10:30 in the morning. UGC (University Grants Commission) had in its July 6 regulation had asked the universities to commence final year exams by the end of September. 

As soon as the guideline came into view, many students and organizations went against it in the wake of the prevalent pandemic. One of the petitioners was a COVID-19 patient himself. Along with then Shiv Sena’s youth wing Yuva Sena also joined the hands against the UGC guidelines. They have been demanding full scrapping of final year exams online or offline, both and also the declaration of results based on previous academic performances or internal assessment. 

On April 29, UGC had published regulations for universities and colleges to follow to hold exams by July, 2020. It was regulated by an expert committee headed by Chairperson of Central University of Haryana, R C Kuhad. According to the guideline’s universities had the authorization of administering exams either in online or offline mode by following social-distancing measures.

As COVID-19 is not abating, UGC issued a new guideline in June, reassessing it by holding an expert’s meeting again and in the fresh guideline issued on July 6, it was mentioned that examinations should be commenced by the end of September. States where the COVID situation was worse, their universities took a step of not conducting examinations, which were – Delhi, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. The Disaster Management Act of 2005 was invoked by Delhi and Maharashtra governments to cancel the exams as they didn’t see it fit for students to undertake examinations. This law renders central and state governments to act and take stronger actions to attenuate disaster situations.    

On the other hand, UGC advocated that final year exams are necessary steps. It implied that “Final-year/ terminal semester examinations are important because the learning process of a dynamic interaction where the only way to figure out what the students know is to seek evidence of their knowledge. Academic evaluation of final-year students is, therefore, a very important milestone in any education system.” So, it is utmost necessary for students to go through exams as degrees cannot be granted without it and to go for exams or not is the power vested to UGC only, state governments don’t have a say in this. The Ministry of Home Affairs backed UGC on this matter and filed an affidavit before Apex Court asserting that educational institutions will be opening for holding final year exams only.

Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced that all the tuberculosis patients have to be screened for COVID-19 and vice-versa according to the new guidelines. People having ILI (Influenza Like Illness) or Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) will be screened for Tuberculosis and COVID-19 as these two diseases share common symptoms mentioned above. 

The guidelines came in the view that since COVID-19 came into existence an overall decline by 26 percent in Tuberculosis was seen as compared to previous year. There have been many studies which indicate that COVID-19 patients showed significant symptoms of Tuberculosis in them which ranges between 0.37- 4.47 percent. There were some studies which showed that there was activity of Tuberculosis symptoms in the patients which is really a twofold risk factor for the patients. 

Now, the patients who are diagnosed with Tuberculosis and COVID-19, will undergo two treatments at a time. The ministry has also asked the governments to facilitate the centers where a patient can go undergo medication for both for better management of patients. 

Wisdom of the head as well as wisdom of heart is most sought after rarities in the world. Wisdom can be linked to divine maturity that I’d gained after a lot experience. The wisdom of head can be linked to short intelligence, whereas wisdom of heart can be inked to super emotional intelligence guided by intuition.

Wisdom of head is generally the rational behavior or thought which concludes the final decision based on scientific data and after analyzing all the pros and cons! A person with biologically-bent mind always prefer wisdom of head before performing any action or drawing any conclusions. This can also mean that wisdom you can attain with your conscious part of your soul. The thoughts you are building in your life about yourself about the people and the world in general.

Wisdom of heart is completely emotion or intuitive in nature. You do what you believe right or what your inner feeling is telling you. You do not care to analyse it’s pros and construction logically before performing the task. This is not necessary wrong. Wisdom of heart means wisdom of your higher self. It is the voice of pure positive higher self speaking to you through conscience and intuition. When you experience a bad feeling, you have negative emotions. You have formulated consciously and subconsciously negative thoughts. The higher self is guiding you with this bad feeling, to signal you to change your thought from negative into positive to feel good again. This is one of the guidance in life that we have to stay on the pure positive path in life. Many have lost touch with this wisdom.

Wisdom of heart some time may well agree with the wisdom of head also but sometimes it seems to contradict. Though emotional nature is generally considered as stupidity in our calculated life style, it has its down value. Sometimes wisdom of heart comes out to be the winner when all head thinkers bang their head……

In this what the writer had brought is he has conflicts between the Heart and the Head. The head always speaks about the things that are not emotionally attached, which have no connection with the emotions.

The descision you take, the choice you make can be of both types but more often than not it will be in the form head, and when it comes to heart your heart does not calculate, manipulate or extract the finance, texts and results rather that it follows your intuition [you heart is nowhere related], your thoughts you will do to something, to go and ask about something.

Sometimes people say, “Take your brain your head with heart”.

But I think heart and emotions can never be wrong. If your heart is as pure as bliss of the sunshine then it will teach it’s pure nature and if your head is out of all the negative thoughts of your own egoistic, greedy and negative ego perspective and tends to grow above the negatives of life, formulating pure positive thoughts in good and bad situations, it will be good for you for all people in the world and good for nature also.

This is the truth, nothing more and nothing less – you can reject it or accept it. It is yout choice after “There is wisdom of heart and wisdom of head”.

After over six months in lockdown doors of colleges could open up once again in Karnataka this October.
Ever since the lockdown began in Karnataka in the month of March, students, parents and teachers have pondered over the question, when will schools and colleges reopen?

Well, it looks like the date is near, as the state govt has decided that the academic year for degree courses will commence from the 1st of September. Initially, it will only be online classes, however, from the 1st of October, the state plans to open the doors of the colleges for offline classes as well. While the state has begun making preparations in this regard as per UGC guidelines, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Ashwath Narayan has clarified that they will wait for a green signal & guidelines form the central government for the same.

“The academic year for degree colleges will commence from the 1st of September via online classes. Offline classes will begin in October. In accordance with the current UGC guidelines, we have already made comprehensive preparations for starting classes. The state government will follow any additional directions from the central government as they come,” the Deputy Chief Minister said.

Now that almost everything has taken the online route it has become necessary that personal informations of people be kept safe. For this every company has to make sure that they have a strong cyber network. And this is is made possible by hiring Cyber Law experts. The work of cyber law expert is to check on the cyber crimes which has affected the customers and to make sure that for the such things don’t happen. They prepare case for the customer investigate it and then advocate for them. Thus, their work is related to both technology and law.

Some of the leading institutes where you can train are Faculty of Law Delhi University, Indian Law institute, University School of Law and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law Lucknow university, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad and National Law University Jodhpur. After completing the course you can become Cyber lawyer, Data Privacy Officer, Data Security Officer, Legal Advisor, Cyber Assistant and Cyber Forensic Specialist.

The second book in the Harappa Series , Pralay opens up with a flashback of what happened in the first book. This made the whole reading process a lot simple for no one would have the time to read the first book all over again and then pick the second one.

Plot 

The plot of this book is similar like the first part. The story takes place in various dimensions and as the pages keep turning we travel to different dimensions throughout the book. The plot is a mix of mythology and fiction and equal weightage is given to both the genres. With the introduction of new characters the plot got interesting and gripping.
However , with too much going on I completely lost interest in the middle and had to keep the book down. It was hard to keep a track and I had to go back to the previous pages and then continue reading.
As compared to the previous book , the end again left me baffled waiting for the next book.

Writing 

The writing is more technical and gripping this time as compared to the previous book. The writer has kept the pace fast this time with the action scenes more vivid and lively which kept me hooked.

Final Verdict 

With new character developments , more action scenes and mythology blended with thriller , you can definitely pick this one up without a second thought.

The book is an autobiography of Helen Keller, who is one of the most respected and internationally recognised visually impaired and deaf ladies, who struggled against all odds to educate herself.

Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was rendered deaf and blind at 19 months of age, when she contracted an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain (perhaps Scarlet Fever or Meningitis). From then on, she struggled to communicate with others. As a child, she would often be frustrated and would go in a rage, as she failed to communicate with her family.

Eventually, after a lot of struggle, her parents find a teacher for her, Anne Sullivan, who goes on to change Keller’s entire life and teaches her how to communicate with her family and the outside world, without depending on anyone.

The Story of My Life is a heart rending story of the challenges Keller and her teacher Sullivan face to communicate with each other until Sullivan tries the method of finger-spelling the words on Keller’s hand. With this method, Keller gets a breakthrough into the world of communication. For the first time, Keller recognises the word ‘Water’ through this method, and as she goes on to describe it in her book, “that living word, awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free.” With the help of her teacher, Keller learns to read and write and speak in different languages, including learning braille.