Inspiring story of Google’s CEO: Sundar Pichai – Must read!!!

Growing up in India, like many of you, Sundar Pichai got my first telephone when he was 12. In case it turned out be a rotary phone, so it wasn’t that great for selfies. But he still loved to call my friends, play with it and sometimes take it apart. That telephone cemented my fascination with technology. Sundar Pichai remember in his parents’ house in Chennai, reading about the invention of the transistor at Bell labs. Of course, that initial invention helped found what became referred to as Silicon Valley and out of that came companies like fairchild semiconductor and Intel and every one the computers and software, that we all use today. You can draw an immediate line from that invention to the technology, that powers your Twitter feed or your WeChat messages today.

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When he was younger, people would say, this person didn’t get into this college or something and that is the end of the road. Sundar Pichai thought life is so different from that, and so he think it is important to you know, keep your hopes, keep your dreams and try to follow them and you recognize he think, most of how life plays out is up to you, not up to what happens outside of you. It’s important to keep that in mind and take the long-term view. As a teenager, jumping on to a crowded train. At Chennai and traveling for 24 hours, to attend my school at IIT Kharagpur and that opportunity changed the course of my life. You want to aim high enough that you fail, you know few times thought it is the natural part of the process. In fact, Larry accustomed say if you’re employed on really difficult things, you’re more happy because you’ve got no competition, others aren’t performing on that difficult a drag . And although you fail, you finish up doing something great within the process.

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You know, working the real world, it is important to be well rounded, it is important to try different things, or you know take some risks, he would encourage people to follow their passions a little bit more. To follow set lanes throughout your career. Getting into an elite institution doesn’t guarantee success, it matters plenty but it doesn’t guarantee success. It is important to stay that perspective in life and life may be a long road, and you know, you would like to require it at the proper pace and luxuriate in what you are doing. Sundar Pichai knew how much hard work it takes to pursue your dream of building a business. The long hours, time faraway from family, the ideas you recognize are brilliant, that just don’t seem to catch on. Reading that and thinking, it is the concept matters. It didn’t matter where you come from or what your background is.
One revolutionary idea, one brilliant invention can unleash other entrepreneurs to revolutionize, industries and ways you could never predict.

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PM Modi to launch ‘Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan’ for migrant workers today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan today which is focused on generating employment for those migrant workers of Uttar Prdesh who recently returned from other states. Today around one crore 25 lakh people will be provided employment in the state in different schemes. The program will be launched at 11 am through Video-Conference in presence of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath. Ministers of concerned Ministries of the state will also participate in the virtual launch.

‘ROZGAR KA NAYA ABHIYAN, HAR SHRAMIK-KAMGAR KO KAM’ – With this motto, the state government will provide employment to 1.25 crore workers of the state in different schemes of central and state government. A loan amount of 5900 crores will be distributed to 2.40 Lakh units under Atmanirbhar Bharat Package today. 1.11 lakh new units will also get 3226 crore rupees as loan amount. Around 5 thousand artists will get tool kits through Vishwakarma Shram Samman yojna under one district one product scheme of state. The Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan will be launched in 31 districts of the state. These districts have more than 25,000 returnee migrant workers. These include 5 aspirational districts also.

On this occasion the Prime Minister will interact with villagers from six districts of state which includes Gonda, Sidharth Nagar, Behraich, Sant KAbir Nagar, Gorakhpur and Jalaun. Villages across all districts of state will join this program through the Common Service Centers and Krishi Vigyan Kendras, maintaining the norms of social distancing in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan is focused towards providing employment, promoting local entrepreneurship and creating partnership with Industrial associations to provide employment opportunities. Nearly 30 lakh migrant workers have returned recently from the other parts of state in Uttar Pradesh.

Facebook or Fakebook?

Facebook is one of the most remarkable names in the field of social networking domains that has evolved to be a brand with no competition whatsoever. Although there are other apps like Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and the like, but literally nothing can be compared to Facebook in terms of the wide range of usage it happens to cover. Facebook has become an option that literally provides a huge range of elements to its users which include but are not limited to news, sports, memes, jokes, promotional posts, motivational posts, current affairs and so on. Facebook has made it possible for us to be a part of the global world with just one click in absolutely no-time!

However, the fact that has come to the surface with the gradual development of Facebook should also be mentioned in this regard. A tendency to pretend to be someone else has come up to be one of the major repercussions of using Facebook in a regular manner. Everyone likes putting their daily lives up there on Facebook without thinking about its consequences. It is not bad to post stuff on Facebook but the fact that it has helped a tendency to evolve out of people that goes on to present a mask-like persona. Everyone pretends to show how happy they are in their real life by posting stuff on Facebook regularly no matter what is going on in their life. It has both positive and negative side effects. Therefore it gets clear how Facebook has contributed in making the digital world a domain of pretentiousness which can be really harmful at times.

Facebook has also caused a rise of the rate of cyber bullying along with a huge number of cyber-crimes in today’s world. With each passing day thousands of people create their accounts on Facebook and the rate of cyber bullying and cyber -crime increase by 5%. Teenagers are the most affected ones who have to go through different kinds of humiliations and harassments on a daily basis due to the heinous crimes committed by the cyber criminals.
Facebook has gradually blurred the boundaries between the digital and the real world. It enables people to pretend what they actually are not and present different versions of themselves which are supposedly a more acceptable one to the others. This way, it has also gone forward to create a huge impact on mental health issues.

The fact that Facebook allows everyone to post their heart out has many repercussions. Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic posts seem to be floating around all over Facebook without having any counter action from the authorities. It promotes different problematic sets of ideologies that affect every one present on Facebook in some way or the other.
Facebook plays a huge role in influencing and eventually controlling the youth of the world. Considering all these aspects that come along with the positive sides of Facebook everyone should start being more careful about their online presence since it has so much power nowadays.

-Suvasree Bandyopadhyay

16 Year Old Tik-Tok Star Siya Kakkar Commits Suicide.

The year 2020 has been a devastating and shocking year for everyone around the world. When it comes to the entertainment platform which mainly includes acting and dancing there had been many shocking up comings in this year which includes the death of the famous bollywood star sushant singh rajput due to poor mental health and depression. When everyone had not gotten over the death of sushant singh rajput there has been another incident where a famous tik-tok star has committed suicide in Delhi. The 16 year old had caught the eye of the audience with her brilliant set of dancing skills. It has been reported that the 16 year old lived with her family and was found dead around 9 pm the previous night. As per the police reports there has been no suicide note found.

It has been come to light that the star had around 11 lakh followers on tik-tok and her last post was 6 days prior to the incident. The news of the stars death was confirmed by her manager who reportedly said “This must be due to something personal…work wise she was doing well.I had a word with her last night for a new project and she sounded normal. Me and my company Fame Experts manage lots of artist and Siya was a bright Talent. I am heading to her home in Preet Vihar.” she said.

It is absolutely shocking that children of such age can take such a drastic step in their life and put an end to everything. It is the parents that have to suffer for the rest of their lives in guilt that they could not save their child irrespective of the situation. The digital world of movie stars and all sorts of actors and dancers have come under the spotlight as what kind of mental and peer pressure they tend to face in their lives.

Word cup 1983

25th June 1983, was the first time that India won the cricket world cup. It was the first time that India had made an appearance in the finals, and they were up against West Indies for whom this was their third consecutive world cup finals appearance. The world cup was hosted by the company Prudential that is why the world cup is also called Prudential world cup .The finals was played in Lord’s cricket stadium also called Lord’s in London which had had hosted world cup for the third time. India defeated West Indies by 43 runs. Kapil Dev lifting the Trophy from the balcony of the Lord’s cricket ground still remains the image of savor for the India fans. Even after 37 years people acknowledge this finals as the most memorable game played by the India cricket team.

India were the underdogs in the tournament, there was not much expectations from the team. However they defeated Zimbabwe in a crucial match, thanks to Kapi Dev who made 175 runs which lead the team to win the match. India was at 78 runs 5 wickets when Kapil dev came for batting his extraordinary innings took Indian team to victory. Unfortunately this historical match was not telecasted as British Broadcasting corporation was on a strike that day. In semi finals England was defeated by India by six wickets with thirty two balls remaining and Mohinder Amarnath becoming the player of the match. West indies defeated Australia in the semi finals by seven wickets with thirteen balls remaining and Vivin Richards became the man of the match.

West Indies and India made it to the finals, at that time West indies had really good bowling attack. So when they won the toss they chose to ball first and allowed India to Bat. First came Sunil Gavaskar but his innings was short as he got out for just two runs but Krishnamachari Srikanth and Mohinder Amarnath had a good partnership and brought the runs to the fifty mark. Then soon Srikanth got out making thirty eight runs, after that as the score was marching towards a hundred Mohinder Amarnath and Yashpal sharma lost their wickets after making twenty six runs and eleven runs respectively. Then came the captain Kapil Dev who stroke three boundaries in eight balls but got out in just 15 runs. Nor could the next players like Kirti Azad and Roger Binny could make runs, they did not even cross the double digit. Then Sandip Patil could only score 27 runs and The all rounder Madan lal came back to the pavilion after making 17 runs. India was all out in 54.4 overs making 183 runs.

Then came India’s turn to bowl, the first wicket was taken in just 11 balls by Balwinder singh sandhu that too of Gordon Greenidge who was really in a great form, he could only take 5 runs. West indies also had a great partnership of Desmond Haynes and Vivin Richards which enabled west indies to cross the 50 mark, but both of them were dismissed by Madan Lal and Kapil Dev respectively. Soon West Indies was all out in 52 overs making 140 runs and India won by 43 runs and Mohinder Amarnath becoming the Man of the match. No Man of the series was awarded that year.

This victory not only made these players a hero but also changed the perception of games in India. This also lead to a high commercialization of cricket as a game, people started to think sports as a career and also many people really got engaged to the game. This win also brought a sense of ” we can do it” for the Indian team.

Effective Leadership

Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders help their team and organization make progress and act in the right way. They can be found at many levels in our communities, businesses, organizations, and in homes across the world. Good leaders should build a vision, set clear goals and directions, and map a dynamic path forward for their team or group. True leadership can be determined, observed and measured by others desire to follow. Leadership means that leaders work with their followers to achieve objectives that they all share. Establishing shared objectives that leaders and followers can consolidate is difficult but worth the effort. Leaders who are willing to expend time and effort in determining appropriate goals will find these goals achieved more effectively and easily if followers and leaders work together. Leader-imposed goals are generally harder and less effectively achieved than goals developed together. Also leadership tends to operate in groups. It is about influencing a group of people who are engaged in a common goal or purpose and works towards achieving their goals. Therefore, leadership is about directing a group of people toward the accomplishment of a task by working skillfully.

Leaders exert influence on the environment through the goals and performance standards they establish, the values they establish for the organization and the business and people concepts they establish. People want to be guided by leaders they respect and who have a clear sense of direction. Hence effective leadership requires certain important characteristics. These include:

1.To be an effective leader, you need to roll up your sleeves and take charge. They must have strong self-confidence and must be confident enough to ensure others follow him. This includes being confident enough to lead, knowing that your plans and vision are not only viable for the team but the absolute best decision possible.

2.If you’re in a leadership role, good communication skills are absolutely crucial. Being able to express yourself openly and build empathy with other people is the foundation of effective leadership. Good communication will increase the rate of work.

3.Integrity is a set of values about which we must never compromise, no matter the circumstances. \We must have a strong handle on those values is critical to the basis of trust and loyalty, and allows people to identify whether or not we are someone they want to follow. An honest leader succeeds when they stick to their word, live by their core values, lead by example, and follow-through. Without integrity, no real success if possible.

4.A good leader must be an excellent innovator. He must display a creative attitude in his work. Most noteworthy, innovation is a guarantee of survival of a group or innovation. Without creative thinking, progress is not possible.

5.Great leadership styles focus on problem-solving and team dynamics much more than self-promotion. A great leader will never be effective if they’re more concerned with themselves than with the well-being of their team. Being humble and vulnerable with their team members will make a leader much more relatable and effective.

Good leaders are made not born. If we have the desire and willpower, we can become an effective leader.

Rajyasabha elections…

The Constituent Assembly, which first met on 9 December 1946, acted as the Central Legislature till 1950, when it was converted as ‘Provisional Parliament’.

During this period, the Central Legislature which was known as Constituent Assembly (Legislative) and later Provisional
Parliament was unicameral till the first elections were held in 1952.

Extensive debate took place in the Constituent Assembly regarding the utility or otherwise of a
Second Chamber in Independent India and ultimately, it was decided to have a bicameral legislature
for independent India mainly because a federal system was considered to be most feasible form of Government for such a vast country with immense diversities.

A single directly elected House, in
fact, was considered inadequate to meet the challenges before free India. A second chamber known as the ‘Council of States’, therefore, was created with altogether different composition and method of election from that of the directly elected House of the People. It was conceived as another Chamber, with smaller membership than the Lok Sabha (House of the People). It was meant to be the federal chamber i.e., a House elected by the elected members of Assemblies of the States and
two Union Territories in which States were not given equal representation. Apart from the elected members, provision was also made for the nomination of twelve members to the House by the President.

The minimum age of thirty years was fixed for membership as against twenty-five years for the Lower House. The element of dignity and prestige was added to the Council of State House by making the Vice-President of India ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha who presides over its sittings.

Only elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies can vote in a Rajya Sabha election.

The legislators send a batch of new members to the Upper House every two years for a six-year term.

A third of Members of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from each State retire once in two years and polls are held to fill up the vacancies.

Vacancies that arise due to resignation, death or disqualification are filled up through bypolls after
which those elected serve out the remainder of their predecessors’ term.

Polling for a Rajya Sabha election will be held only if the number of candidates exceeds the number of vacancies.
Since the strength of each party in the Assembly is known, it is not difficult to estimate the number of seats a party would win in the Rajya Sabha poll. Voting is by single transferable vote and on the principle of proportional representation.

The Rajya Sabha polls have a system of open ballot, but it is a limited form of openness.
As a measure to check rampant cross-voting, which was taken to mean that the vote had been purchased by corrupt means, the system of each party MLA showing his or her marked ballots to the party’s authorised agent, before they are put into the ballot box, has been introduced.

Showing a marked ballot to anyone other than one’s own party’s authorised agent will render the vote invalid.

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Dil Bechara : The Last Magic

Once again the world will witness the death of Sushant Singh Rajput in his last project Dil Bechara. It is the official hindi remake of 2014 Hollywood romantic drama ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ which was based on John Green’s popular novel of the same name.

The Fault in Our Stars is Green’s fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

If you are someone who has already read the book or has watched the original movie, then you must be knowing that it is a story of two cancer patients Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters who met at a cancer support group and embark on an unforgettable journey.

The movie stars Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi as the main leads who will play the role of Augustus Waters known as Mannie in the movie and role of Hazel Grace known as kizie in the movie respectively.

Dil Bechara will mark the directorial debut of Mukesh Chhabra. The hindi adaptation of the movie was done by Shashank Khaitan and Suprotim Sengupta and this adaptation ages up the characters and changes the main setting to India. Amitabh Bhattacharya has given the lyrics and A.R Rahman has given music to the movie. The movie is produced by India’s Fox Star Studios.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic it won’t be possible for us to watch this great work of a equally great actor on the big screen. Even the fans demanded on Twitter to release Dil Bechara on the big screen so they can watch the last work of this amazing personality for one last time but the cinema halls aren’t going to open soon because of the pandemic so the producers have decided to release it on the OTT platform Disney+Hotstar on 24 July 2020. It will be available to both subscribers and non subscribers in honour of Sushant Singh Rajput’s memory.

We never thought that we would watch Dil Bechara in the permanent absence of Sushant. He would have impressed us a little more with his intellectual and candid comments in the promotional events of the movie but all that is not going to happen because he left us with his extraordinary performance.

This is too tragic to accept that after this movie we will not see him any longer on the big screen.We will not see any new posts and stories on Instagram with his killer looks, any new tweets on Twitter.

The exceptional work which has done in little span of time will be remembered forever and the diverse roles which he has played in his eleven movies and two shows will keep him alive until this industry exists. The future generation will know that a middle class boy who became a star without any godfather in this cruel industry lost his life to nepotism and favouritism.

Make your children good decision makers….

We usually think children shouldn’t take decision, as they are small and they don’t know what is right and what is wrong and we wait till they mature and make them include in the decision making, but we forgot if we suddenly force them to take decision, how will they take without any prior experience pr anything.

So it is necessary to let the child involve in decision making since childhood. Teaching your child to make their own decisions has several benefits. If you led them to take small decisions, and when they make good decisions, they gain a great amount of satisfaction and fulfilment because they chose it and if they take wrong decision they may suffer, but they can learn from it and they can make better decisions in future. It doesn’t mean that you give your child the complete freedom of decision making. It may be dangerous sometimes. Give your child freedom to make some decision based on their age, maturity and previous decision making abilities.

To help the child with decision making first educate the about it a little bit. Start withbsome steps if he had done homework of his own so is it a good choice or a bad choice, similarly helped you in household chores. So we can talk about various decisions which led them to think.

Teach them to pause and think before taking a decision. A few second of thinking prevent a lot of bad decisions. Guide them while thinking about options they have and also evaluate the consequences. They need to weigh thr risks and benefits of their decisions both in the short term and long term. Then led them to act upon the best options and allow them to from the experience whether the decision was good or bad.

Allow them to sometime take the decision of their own, which you think may not harm the children. Give them the opportunity to think about their decision, do not overreact on their decision and allow them to learn from their mistakes.

So it is necessary for parents to guide and help their children in developing good decision making skills so that they will grow up and become an independent, responsible and happy adult.

Sanskrit:The new language for computer programming!

Sanskrit is the world’s strongest logical language, one of the oldest language and it was one of the major languages of India but now is a minority language. It’s known as the perfect language and is also known as mother of all modern languages. It’s the language of Gods in India.

It’s an Indic language and holds a significant value till date all over the world, our vedic scripts were written in Sanskrit and there was a time when Sanskrit was even used as a language during conversations, Sanskrit is the official language of Uttarakhand and is very close to every Indian’s heart. Even some of the major texts of Jainism and Buddhism have been written in Sanskrit.

Though it is being understated now and its use is decreasing day by day but experts say it can be the new language which will be needed in technological advances. The structure of Sanskrit is very logical and the precision it offers cannot be matched by any other language due to which it is considered as a god language for computer programming.

Sanskrit is one of the most ancient languages and it is said that the earliest literature was written in Sanskrit. Initially Sanskrit was said to have no traces in the form of written manuscripts, it was widely spoken, it was around 250 years back that people started writing in Sanskrit in their own respective script, hence Sanskrit scripts have been written in various languages and hence Sanskrit is said to have no official (default) script.

Sanskrit is one of the most phonetically sound languages and it has said to improve one’s learning e of Sanskrit skills and speech, many speech therapists make use of Sanskrit while working with different clients and also teachers include Sanskrit as part of school curriculum as it is said to improve brain functioning and has many other benefits.

It’s one of the most sacred languages in the Indian culture and one mostly gets to hear recitations in Sanskrit during holy rituals or wedding ceremonies and it is said to have a an soothing and calming effect on our minds due to the vibrations it produces. In India many schools have abided to teaching Sanskrit as the third language in their school curriculum which is an advantageous move as people have slowly withered away from their mother language and it is going unappreciated, especially with the new generation, most of them are clueless about the importance of Sanskrit and the opportunities it has to offer.

According to many experts Sanskrit is the best language for computer programming and also for artificial intelligence, due to its precision and logical base and also because of certain characteristics it poses as a good option as it can be converted into a machine language and can enhance the working of artificial intelligence. This was stated by Rick Briggs who published his paper in 1985, he was an associate scientist working for NASA and he stated that the strict grammar rules of Sanskrit allow for easy conversion and reduces ambiguity when it comes to the use of the language.

Sanskrit as a language holds a lot of value be it one of the best languages for computer programming or one of the most logical languages to be learnt. It is somewhere or the other going unnoticed in its own country and needs to be uplifted by us!

“Stop Worrying and Start Living” – Dale Carnegie – Book review

Dale Carnegie’s how to stop worrying and start living so the first big idea is ask yourself what’s the worst thing that can happen I remember the first year in college constantly worrying about my grades what was I getting to do if I got a B+ rather than an a well surely my life would be over and that i would never amount to anything in life like that was seriously the thought process browsing my 17 year old head now fast-forward five years.

How to Stop Worrying & Start Living
Carnegie tells a story of this guy in World War 2 who’s stuck in a submarine and basically knows that he’ll be dying in the next few hours and he sits there thinking about all the stuff he used to worry about at home and how absurd it was and makes a promise to never waste his life again like that if he survives now that might be hard to resonate with so let me give you a more contemporary example people are having their heads chopped off every single day every single day the only reason it’s not you is because you are born in a certain place. They weren’t that’s it now going back to my friend I told him look here’s what I want you to do every day you will start your morning by watching somebody’s head being chopped off and then you’ll go about the rest of the day.
He started freaking out about how he can’t do that and how he doesn’t like blood and whatever now here’s the thing. I know that’s really crass and morbid but I don’t care if you don’t worry about stuff great you don’t have to watch anything but if you’re worried about stupid all the time you have a disease so you either treat yourself or you never ask about how you can stop worrying again ever. Here’s what I will guarantee you if you start your day by watching someone else have their head chopped off nothing and I mean absolutely nothing could possibly happen to you for the rest of the day that you could get pissed off about and not feel like a complete retard yes when you’ve seen someone’s head chopped off you will have a weird feeling inside you as soon as you start to complain about how you deserve to be paid more at your job or what you’re going to do now since you bought a B+ rather than an A or how your washer is broken you’ll realize that.

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If the guy had been given the chance to live and wear that same dirty shirt for the rest of his life without ever being able to wash it he would have been the happiest man alive realize the absurdity of it all the third big idea staying busy now I don’t mean the average busy person actually those are the people that worry the foremost the guy who works 12-hour days then comes home and watches Fox all night worrying about whether some guy can marry another guy or about all the foreigners who will come and take his job you know because he’s the only one entitled to that job I’m not talking about that kind of busy here’s how I like to stay busy read a book that I like go to the gym with my girlfriend play around on the piano and compose cook amazing food work on a project. I’m passionate about now here’s what happens when you do that your brain can’t think of two things at one time it just doesn’t have that capability you can try right now if you want you can’t think of your broken washing machine and at the same time think of how much you love playing soccer it’s not how your brain works so the best way to get rid of the negative thoughts in your head is to actually start putting positive thoughts in there get busy with what you love and your brain simply won’t even have the power to stress . Finally, a question that really resonated with me here’s what you’re going to do in your life you’re going to work and worry your entire life so you can gather a bunch of stuff like your house and all the stupid.

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If you’re lucky after 50 years of all that worry and stress all of your stuff could be worth 1,000,000 dollars here’s the question would you sell your legs for a million dollars let me ask you this would you sell your legs for a billion dollars I wouldn’t and you probably wouldn’t either would you sell your arms for another billion dollars no there you go you have already got something that you simply value at two billion dollars actually hopefully more but you do not need to be all Zen you could be a greedy capitalist like me and understand this now here’s what you’re going to do you’re going to ignore and not utilize something worth two billion dollars because you’re too busy worrying and stressing about the things that might amount to 1 million dollars at the end of your life oh and you’ll be considered really lucky if that happens by the way all right.

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So, I don’t know if you’re seeing how crazy that is but that’s kind of like having a huge mansion a personal jet every single car you ever wished for and not using and enjoying those things because you’re too worried about at some point having the ability to shop for a Corolla that’s crazy and sad you have already got everything that you value at billions and billions of dollars so stop ignoring wasting and treating it like for hours and days so you can worry and bitch about how your phone bill went up from a hundred dollars to a hundred and twenty.

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Stray Dogs Stressed Out: The Pandemic Effect

We generally tend to think that only people are in distress for the outbreak of COVID-19. But stray animals are also very much affected due to it particularly during the lockdown. They all were left hungry for several days. Social distancing and restrictive lockdown measures forced people to stay home. This led to the neglect of stray animals in the country. In many cases they are subject to violence— from physical assault to murder. There are over thirty five million free roaming dogs in India. Shutdown of the most vital sources of food, such as restaurants, roadside eateries and markets, deprived them of leftover. Did some of us think about them? When many were struggling with decline in income and even loss of jobs they did not have a chance to think about the stray creatures. Their only source of food were garbage bins and some good Samaritans who ventured out to feed them.

Many hungry stray dogs fell sick amidst the lockdown. The dog-loving locals could not get them to veterinary hospitals due to the restrictions in movement. There was no dedicated ambulance available for them. It forced them to die on roads without any medical help. Puppies who were few days old died mainly because of lack of proper nutrition. Accidents by speeding cars on roads where stray dogs would venture out to look for food from their localities would cause their death. The irregular and uncertain food supply would lead to aggressive behaviour and biting incidents in some stray dogs. This resulted in an increase in rabies infected dogs. India already has the world’s greatest number of rabies cases— 20,000 annually.

At one point a rumour became viral that the dreaded coronavirus can be transmitted through stray animals. The news was found to be fake. But many people thought it to be true. Even some who were helping them out with food started neglecting them. Worse still, some owners discarded their pets to stay protected. Animal welfare NGOs found a rise in rescue cases during the pandemic. The stubborn dog lovers began to face harassment for feeding neighbourhood dogs and cats. There are cases in which volunteers were beaten up by the locals for daring to care about the stray dogs. Some people took the law in their hands to vent anger against stray dogs.

We have seen how much nature changed during the pandemic. People could hear more of birds chirping, see few animals roaming freely on roads. Most animals stay happy on their own— without the human presence. But dogs are an exception. That is why they are called ‘man’s best friend’. Those who are habituated to human touch are missing the feeding, patting and attention towards them. It also affects their mental health. Some dogs are confused, feel betrayed and become depressed. Stray dogs need us not only for food but also for mental support.

Each one of us can also contribute in our own way to protect and help local stray animals. We may reach out to as many of them as possible. We may follow some steps to help them:

To take or share responsibilities of local dogs/cats.
To save some rice or milk and feed them at a fixed time every day.
To keep a bowl of water outside our house to quench their thirst.
To donate some grains or food or any other necessary items to animal welfare NGOs.
To use a bowl or newspaper to feed them regularly.
To quickly contact nearest police station or contact NGO to seek help for any helpless or sick animal.
Not to feed them chocolate or anything cooked with ghee or butter.

There is a positive trend now among many in India to have stray dogs as pets. The obsession with having only high breed dogs seems to be offset by having stray dog as family member. Even if not everyone would like to have them as pets a little more caring attitude towards them makes a world of difference not only in their life but also in ours.

CHAOTIC MIND!

What will be your reaction if I start my story with “once upon a time?”

Oh too old and boring it would be. If you ever listened too close to silence you might have heard the ringing between two adjacent words, “unspoken spells”.

Truth isn’t always the most exciting version of things or the best or the worst; it’s in between somewhere! Deserves to be heard and yet remains unspoken. In this chaotic story of mine

Wondering what does the theory say: Maybe it isn’t exactly about Chaos but a tiny little change in a big system that changes everything! Or maybe it’s just an illustration my mind giving to my heart preventing it from sinking deep down some yards!

Watching life closely, it seemed like no Matter what I did, I kept letting people down. And what does that feels like, it feels like nothing LIKE A DEEP, ENDLESS, ALWAYS BLANK NOTHING!

The fight to free pregnant student activist Safoora Zargar is a battle for India’s very soul

The legitimacy of constitutional courts is imperilled by their tacit deference to indefensible state action.

The incarceration of student activist Safoora Zargar and the obduracy of courts in refusing her bail raises some fundamental questions on which the very survival of the Constitution depends. This is about Zargar first, but as she must, she leads us into the deeper, more searching quest for India’s soul.

Zargar, a 27-year-old research scholar in sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, was arrested almost exactly two months ago, on April 10, on charges of blocking a road and obstructing traffic. After securing bail in that case, she was re-arrested on April 13 under the draconian provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. She was implicated in a conspiracy that allegedly sparked the violence that engulfed Delhi at the end of February and placed in judicial custody.

In reality, Zargar was part of the peaceful resistance against the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act – a resistance led by women and students, notably the women of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood. At the time of her arrest, Safoor Zargar was pregnant.

What does the brutality of the state towards a pregnant Muslim peaceful resister during a pandemic lockdown tell us about the deep perils in which our Constitution is mired at this moment? We have reached a nadir. The use of imprisonment and carcerality under conditions of pandemic vulnerabilities to willfully deny Zargar her right to personal liberty is one part of an exercise of state repression.

Added to this is the move by the state to target her in such a manner as to impose disproportionate punishment that includes imposing the risk of prenatal harms and inflicting injuries that may intergenerationally maim a pregnant resister.

Indefensible state action

It is far more grave than a violation of Article 21, which protects life and liberty. What does it tell us about the technologies of rule of this state, which presses its armed Hindutva civilian foot-soldiers, its supporters in the media, its armed police, and its collusive criminal justice system into service to hold Zargar in custody in the knowledge that she is pregnant, although the case against her is clearly one that is targeted and a display of executive vindictiveness?

Online Learning Platforms And Courses.

What is Online Learning ?

Online Learning, or, e-learning, is the education that is done by, or through the internet. Online learning provides u an institution without the walls, you can learn, study and get certified by just being at your place. It reduces the need of travelling, or the traditional classroom sessions or 8 hours, e-learning gives you the chance to learn from anywhere and at anytime.

Resources you get while learning online:

EBooks
Videos
Recorded Lectured
Live Sessions for query
Journals
Quizzes

Some disadvantages of Online Leaning.

Lectures are not downloadable: The lectures available in the online learning platforms are not downloadable, this is not suitable for those who do not have proper network.
Multiple devices: The same account can be used by multiple users if the id and password is shared.
Only for certifications: Few users opt the courses just for the sake of getting certificate, they do not have to watch the whole lectures, if they have paid, they will get the certificate.

Some Online Learning Platforms.

Udemy: It is an American online learning platform, founded in May 2010. Here, the courses are available in 65 different languages, like, English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and etc. Here are several courses available in the field of design, development, marketing, photography, IT and software, personal development, and many more. Total number of instructors teaching in Udemy: 57K Total number of courses available in Udemy: 150K Total number of enrollments in Udemy: 295M
Coursera: It is founded by Stanford computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller in 2012. You can access it through mobile, and download the lectures and watch them offline, this is a boon for those who don’t have proper network in their area. The courses are available in more than 40 languages with subtitles. Total number of courses available in Coursera: 4,300+ Total number of learners in Coursera: 63M
Skillshare: It is an American online learning platform, founded in November 2017, by Michael Karnjanaprakorn and Malcolm Ong.There are courses available for designing, business, photography, and etc.
Byju’s: For students of class 1st to 12th. It was founded in 2011, in India, by Raveendran. It offers learning programs for the students of class 1st to 12th, and aspirants of exams, like, JEE, IAS, NEET.

BEST ONLINE COURSES WHICH WORTH LEARNING.

Digital Marketing Course: It means the use of internet, mobile, or social media to reach customers.The basics of digital marketing are, social media advertising, social media management, email marketing, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, content marketing, web analytics.
Data Science Course: It is the study of data, which includes, recording, storing and analyzing the data. Work of data scientists is to do data modeling process, create algorithms and predictive models to extract the data.
Advanced Microsoft excel: It refers to the features and functions of Microsoft Excel tools, that are required to perform large and complex calculations, data processing, data analysis and better representation of data. In today’s time, many jobs require advanced Excel skills, which includes, data formatting, power query formatting, tables formatting, conditional formatting, advanced charting, and etc.
Graphic Designing Course: It involves problem solving through typography, photography, iconography and illustrations. in other words, it is the process of visual communication. The graphic designers need to create visual concepts,to communicate ideas with the consumers.
Content Writing Course: It is the process of planning, writing and editing the content, or we can say the web content. It includes, writing blog posts, articles, or content for specific platform.

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