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CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterised by the ability to express the world in new ways, to find hidden ideas to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. By this process we can change our world totally. Their are a lot of inventions discovered on daily basis.

If you have ideas but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. So be creative, don’t stop after imagination, execute your imagination. Make it working, and see how your imagination work.

“Creativity is a connective force: it’s our ability to tap into our ‘inner’ pool of resources – knowledge, insight, information, inspiration and all the fragments populating our minds.

“Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and dedication. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life with new innovative ideas.

Creativity is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be managed. Creativity begins with a foundation of knowledge, learning a discipline, and mastering a way of thinking. You can learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, questioning assumptions, using imagination and synthesing information.The creative process allows a child to gain cognitive skills, scientific method, dexterity and exertion, problem solving and the ability to identify symbols, patterns and shapes. The most important aspect of creativity is the process of self-expression or apply your ideas. Being creative helps you become a better problem solver in all areas of your life and work. your creative side can approach a situation from all angles. Creativity helps you see things differently and better deal with uncertainty, and you see the world from new vision.Creativity is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be managed, it is not inherited it is acquired. Creativity begins with a foundation of knowledge, learning a discipline, and mastering a way of thinking. You can learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, questioning assumptions, using imagination and synthesing information.

Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.

What is Innovation?

Innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product, service or process that creates value for business, government or society.

Some people say creativity has nothing to do with innovation— that innovation is a discipline, implying that creativity is not. Well, I disagree. Creativity is also a discipline and a crucial part of the innovation equation. There is no innovation without creativity. The key metric in both creativity and innovation is value creation.

Creativity and Economic Development:

Creativity is the Most Crucial Factor for Future Success.Creativity begins with a foundation of knowledge, learning a discipline, and mastering a way of thinking. You can learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, questioning assumptions, using imagination and synthesing information. Learning to be creative is akin to learning a sport. It requires practice to develop the right muscles and a supportive environment in which to flourish.

Spread the Flowers of Happiness

“Never become someone’s happiness, instead add happiness into their lives”. You must be a teenager, an adult or maybe a 70 year oldie, but do you really know what happiness means, what things gives you the spark of happiness or what all things make the butterflies dance in your stomach. We human beings tend to find happiness at every step of our lives, be it our crush, our pets, cooking or be it any other thing, we always think of being happy at every stage of our lives. Now the thing which I am talking about is different, it’s not about being happy it’s about spreading happiness, making the others happy and contibuting something to the society. Money is a materialistic and perishable which will not stay with us forever and which can only make us happy for a short period of time, but happiness is immortal, we will remember the moments of happiness till the last breath of our lives and it will always add a spark in us. In the same way if we follow the ” give and take” rule, contribute happiness to the society, we can master the art of living, we can live with a happy heart and hence look at the society with a different perspective.

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If you are busy or confused about how to spread happiness follow these steps to enlighten your lives with different colours.

1.Be happy inorder to make someone happy: First step starts with changing yourself because if we will change ourselves, we will be able to change the others. Be happy, find happiness in small things, have patience in every situation and do not lose hope. This will give you the power to fight with every obstacle and will help you to overcome it.

2.Smile: The best mantra to be happy and to spread happiness. Don’t wait to be happy, think of the moments that make you smile, watch shows that will make you happy and just turn your rough day into a happy happy day.

3.Appreciate others: If your wife makes tasteless food with extra salt, don’t scold her or taunt her, she had put in extra efforts and gave her precious time just to make food for you, appreciate her, infact make another dish for her and spend a lovely happy time. This will not only bring a smile on her face but will also show a sign that you love her and care for her.

4.Be a good listener: There are endless problems going on in everyone’s family these days but what can we do is become a good listener and listen to their problems patiently, guide them, give them a solution or else just tell them that their problems will end soon, you just have to be happy and never lose hope in the situation of crisis.

5.Be a hero for the others: Wish everyone with a smiley face and turn their dark sad days into happy days. This will help you to relieve their pain and bring a sigh of relief in their lives.

6.Feed the stray animals or help the poor: Lat but not the least, the most important part of being happy is by feeding others, is by never letting them sleep with empty stomach and always helping them as a saviour.

As you know that these are the days are of pain and suffering where people are surrounded with endless problems, depression, anxiety and other things and in this time we as a human being can help them by sharing their burden, by always telling them that no matter what happens we are like the pillars of happiness who will never leave you alone. Follow this for once and you will see the difference.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer someone else up- Mark Twain

The Emergency: Recalling the horror of sterilisation that took place after the declaration of national emergency on 25 June 1975.

Declaration of The Emergency

On this day, 45 years back, on 25 June 1975, the then President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a State of Emergency at midnight after a meeting with Indira Gandhi who was the prime minister of India back then. The ordinance issued by the president granted all the powers to the prime minister without any restriction. The decision of National Emergency was taken the next day after Indira Gandhi was convicted and unseated from her MP post by the Supreme Court against the charges of exploiting the government machinery and staff for her election campaign. Indira Gandhi sent all her political rivals to prison and reduced the power of the judiciary after imposing emergency all over India. Though the emergency was welcomed by the public at the beginning, this belief changed after they witnessed denial of fundamental rights and human rights violence. One of the cruelest human rights violations that took place during the emergency was forced sterilization.

Population threat to developed nation

The pressure for mass sterilization in India began far earlier before the emergency was imposed. It all started when “The Population Bomb,” a 1968 book by Paul Ehrlich convinced the Industrialised and developed countries that India and other developing countries would pose a threat to their Food security. The author mentioned that population explosion in India can lead to famine in India while it can have indirect effects on other developed countries too. The rising population of India was seen as a threat by the developed countries. Hence, through the financial help of the World Bank and a few American based Philanthropic foundations the Indian Government agreed to control its population vigorously. 

Implementation of mass sterilisation by the Indian government

In 1970, the government followed ‘the camp approach’ which stressed on district authority for intensifying the sterilisation campaign. This campaign saw an all time high in sterilisation number exceeding 3-million in the year 1972-73. However, ‘the camp approach’ was abandoned by the government in the following year. But this number skyrocketed during the period of emergency. Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, spearheaded the sterilisation campaign. The campaign which previously used incentives to convince the people for sterilization was forcing people to undergo sterilisation process against their will. The most affected people by this scheme were the poor peasants because of their economic vulnerability. While the patients were charged extra if they didn’t possess the sterilisation certificate, the government servants were threatened with transfer punishment if they didn’t procure any sterilization cases. Steps like this pressurised both the authorities and the poor to take part in aggressive sterilization goals.

Brutal human rights violation

But the scene became brutal when the government authorities forcefully captured people returning from late night shows, work etc, They even raided the public transport buses to catch people to conduct vasectomy on them. Vasectomy is a sterilization process for the men. The main targets were men because they were more likely to come out of their houses. It is reported that at some places, the police took all the men from a village to conduct vasectomy on them. It is estimated that around 7 million such victims were affected during the emergency throughout the country.

End of brutality 

The tragic situation came to end when the national emergency was withdrawn on 21 march 1977. This was one of the significant reasons for the fall of Congress in the following election. Since then the population of India has doubled while India has never witnessed any famine till date.   

Earth’s Eight lost continent Zealandia found

An underwater continent whose existence was discovered 25 years ago named as Zealandia by a geophysist in the year 1995. It ranges about nearly 2 million square miles. It is located at 3500 feet under south Pacific Ocean. The land had been submerged years ago and scientists found it in the year 2017 and it took them nearly 3 years to figure it’s breadth.

Scientists from GNS science in Newzealand officially announced the range and size if the continent accurately. They had also launched the map of our eight continent. “We’ve made these maps to provide an accurate, complete, and up-to-date picture of the geology of the New Zealand and southwest Pacific area — better than we have had before,” Nick Mortimer, who led the work, said.

Map of earth’s Eight continent

We can’t survive there because only 6% of continent lies above the sea level and rest submerged under the sea. It is predicted that this continent is 85 million years old. The person coined the term for eight continent said that “The reason I came up with this term is out of convenience,” Luyendyk said. “They’re pieces of the same thing when you look at Gondwana. So I thought, ‘Why do you keep naming this collection of pieces as different things?'”

How are continents formed?

Pangea splited into two halves namely Laurasia and Gondwana which eventually breakers into Europe,Asia, North America and Africa, Antarctica, South America and Australia respectively. These continents rearranged themselves and formed a structure that we see in our maps. In the mean time this division caused some of the land to mere itself underwater 30 million years ago. The rearrangement of the continents made one of the continent to merge in water. Untill 2017 Zealandia was considered to be a microcontinent because its range was unclear. After discovering it’s size now it has been able to fit into the features and descriptions of a continent.

If we could pull the plug on the world’s oceans, it would be quite clear that Zealandia stands out,” he told science news in 2017 adding, “If it wasn’t for the ocean level, long ago we’d have recognized Zealandia for what it was a continent.”

We may have a chance to live underwater if we scientists could research there. Government can rather spend it’s money on underwater survival rather than spending it on space and research. Research where you live before you leave. Hope someday someone will find a way to live underwater when there is no life above the ground.

Gyms are going to open from July- Good or Bad decision

A gym after two months lockdown open for cleaning

Due to Covid 19 , in our country, the gyms are closed since March 2020. But now may be they will be going to reopen from next month. Many bodybuilders already showed their anger on social media platforms. Many online movements also run down in this period.


Dumbles really needed to be sanitize properly

But the question arises with masks the heavy breathing how can be achieved. And how the social distancing can be possible. With wearing masks, the inhalation process also too much disturbed. This can create a problem related to respiratory system. All these questions are major issues. And it’s very needed to do the exercises with proper precautions regarding Covid 19.

Although it is very necessary to be fit but through gyming it can be dangerous in this pandemic situation of Covid-19. Instead of going to gym, people should make home gym and also do yoga for fitness.

Love marriage vs Arrange marriage

Their are different kinds of people in this world and everyone has different mindset, different opinions and views over things. Some people prefer love marriages while some prefer arrange marriages. Everyone thinks about the pros and cons of these two and chooses one for them accordingly. Everything is planned by a person for their future.
But the life donot goes on according to our plan, it always shows twists and turns on the very moment we feels everything is going on according to our plan.

Marriages don’t goes according to your plan. Those who wants to do love mariage often ends up doing arrange marriage and vice versa. It’s all about the entry of right person at right time in your life. Even if you don’t want to love a person, but falls for them that was not in your plan but it occurred. Many times you wanted to do love marriage it’s your family who tells you marry as soon as but you don’t have any partner at that time and ends up doing arrange marriage that was also not your plan.

Everyone has their own views on the advantages of type of marriage they prefer and disadvantages of the other one. But in actual both types of marriages has proven to be very successful in history, in present and will be in future.

In love marriage, we knew that person already, we knows that weather we are compatible for eachother or not, weather we can live a happy life together forever and sometimes it is found to be difficult between couples to manage things because adjustments are needed as it’s not the same after the marriage as it was before while in arrange marriage, we don’t that person clearly but we gets some time to know that person before marriage, and after marriage we slowly comes to know more about our partner, however a littel bit of more adjustments are needed in a less amount of time to make eachother happy.

Hence, the most crucial thing in a relationship is adjustments which can only be possible when we love the person and our main priority becomes to make them happy and comfortable and this priority makes it easier to do adjustments in the starting and one’s we get used to of our partner then no more adjustment things comes to our mind, automatically everything happens which is needed for a happy life.

Hence, in a relationship love is needed the most to live a happy and successful marriage life.

Class 12 boy handles bodies of coronavirus patients

Introduction

The spread of Corona Virus has resulted in World-wide lockdown and India too has implemented lock down in all its states for last few months. This led to closing of the major industries like automobiles, infrastructure, tourism, manufacturing etc. which are biggest stakeholders of organized and unorganized sectors in India. Most of the people working in these sectors are daily age workers who do not have fixed income or benefits but solely relies on everyday wages. The closure of all these sectors has led to one of the biggest crisis which we will face in future. Here’s an article on class 12 boy handling bodies of coronavirus patients to earn living.

About

In a hunger for job to ease living, 12 class boy haunted a dangerous job of handling bodies of corona patients. A class 12 student, wants  to study medicine, to supply for his siblings’ school fees and his mother’s treatment he is doing this job. Chand Mohammad’s mother suffers from a thyroid disorder and needs her medicines urgently, but the family doesn’t have enough means for the treatment. They are barely making their ends for living . As his elder brother lost his job at a merchandise store in Krishna Nagar market during the lockdown. Chand Mohammad is from Seelampur in Northeast Delhi. He and his family has been surviving on ration provided by neighbors. And whatever his brother could earn doing odd jobs. 

Where Chand joined for work?

 A week ago, Chand joined a corporation as a sweeper at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in New Delhi. The job requires him to handle bodies of corona patients. The shift is from 12 noon to eight pm. He took this work after he got exhausted from all options to seek out work. Though this is a dangerous job, as he is at a better risk of getting engaged with the infection, but he want the work and earn. His family, including three sisters, two brothers and fogeys, is struggling for living. Right now, they had food and medicines for my mother. On many days, they cooked food only once. There’s an opportunity that they may fight the virus, but they cannot run away from hunger. Chand’s three sisters are still in school. He, himself is in 12 standard and have to pay the varsity fee. They need money to study. He hopes that his first salary will set things right to a particular extent. He read namaz before he exits his home for work. He even have faith within the almighty. God will look after  him and will surely show him the way. 

How he is handling bodies of coronavirus patients?

 Chand, who wants to study medicine, says But what bothers the youngster is that employees like him who are into high-risk jobs don’t get any insurance from the private companies employing them. “The most dangerous job within the world immediately handling bodies of corona patients  pays around Rs 17,000 per month. Every day, Chand handles around two to three bodies along side another sweeper. They are required to place the bodies inside the ambulance, take it to the crematorium and put it down on a stretcher once they reach the crematorium.They also have to remove all wearing the private protection equipment, which is extremely heavy. It limits movement and suffocates an individual. During this heat, one can finish up bathing in their own sweat. 

An incident he shared with media

 On Tuesday evening, Chand handled a body on his own. There was no helper with him, So, it took him a while. He gathered his breath at the top when he heard, a doctor saying the body had been lying within the mortuary for a month which nobody claimed it. Once he tried taking the body down from the ambulance, the duvet came off and a few liquid spilled on his thighs. As he is desperate to get some money, Chand has approached people giving money on low interest rates and he took his Aadhaar card and voter card, hoping to urge some money on low interest rates. His family is worried about his safety. Perhaps they also know that this is the only way for them to survive at the present. His parents inquire about his work daily. They pray for his safety. His mother cries tons daily, but he make her understand. Chand takes a shower as soon as he reaches home and keeps a distance from his family members. He is taking all precautions.For now, he would like some help in order that the family remains afloat. But we may never know what is in our destiny! 

Conclusion

 As this pandemic has made many people to suffer a lot. They are unable to have one time meal. Many don’t have money, they have migrated.We should help poor and needy as much as we can. This boy Chand Mohammad has to opt this job in which he is handling bodies of coronavirus patients. Just because he don’t have enough money he is doing this dangerous job.

How do Teenagers perceive Religion???

When you think of teens today, “religious” might not be the first word that comes to mind. A common perception might be that teens are too shallow to embrace something as complex and introspective as spirituality. But why is this? The teen years are a time for self discovery on a deeper level. Shouldn’t religion be a part of the discussion?

We have known for years that parents are key influences on teens religious lives. Despite the tendency of parents to say they are helpless in this area, three out of four religious teens consider their own beliefs somewhat or very similar to those of their parents (they are more similar to their mothers’ beliefs than to their fathers’). In choosing friends, teens tend to surround themselves with people who reinforce the shaping influence (religious or nonreligious) of their parents. Here are two important messages: First, peers may be important to teens, but parents are still primary when it comes to religion. Second, “teenagers are not a people apart, an alien race about whom adults can only shake their heads and look forward to their growing up.”

Religious traditions understand themselves as presenting a truth revealed by a holy and almighty God who calls human beings from a self-centered focus to a life of serving God and neighbor. Adherents are understood to be reared or inducted into a historically rooted matrix of identity, practices and ethics that define selfhood, loyalties and commitments. Main central points regarding religion:-

1. A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth.

2. God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.

3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.

4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.

5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

Teens made few references to traditional religious concepts such as justice, grace or resurrection. “When teenagers talked in their interviews about grace, they were usually talking about the television show Will and Grace, not about God’s grace.” This shows that teenagers are not that much into religion, it is there age of exploration.

The connections between religion and family life are receiving renewed attention from scholars. Recent work has examined the role religious practices and beliefs play in parenting behavior, marriage, intergenerational ties, and demographic behavior. Scholars are finally turning their attention to the role of religion in the lives of adolescents and young adults. Religious practices and beliefs also have been shown to powerfully shape adolescent sexual values and practices. Finally, some recent work has begun to address the role of religion in the post-teenage years, when youth are laying the foundations for their subsequent adult lives by making decisions about romantic relationships, cohabitation, and marriage.

Although religious practices differ by culture, political boundary, local community, and individual, some form of religion is influential, even central, in the lives of many people across the globe. Religion is an important context for development because it provides a means of socialization in areas such as moral behavior and offers emotional support to individuals from the cradle to the grave. Given cognitive advances during adolescence including increased abilities to think abstractly and understand symbolism, it is important to study the impact of religion during this stage. 

Part of being a teen is exploring different aspects of identity for the first time. Religion is one aspect of that, and while it might not be as important to teens now as it was a few decades ago, it definitely still plays a role. Though teens hold many different beliefs on the subject of religion, many agreed that simply experiencing the world around them and respecting others are the most important values.

Refrences:

  1. http://www.huffpost.com
  2. http://www.religion-online.org

Timing & Learning

The result of anything depends on how we judge timing of the task. Even in every sports team hits the opponent based on fine tuning of timing and yes on efforts. In recent case of Patanjali’s Corona Kit, in my opinion they missed timing by hurrying for being the first. They could wait before announcement. We don’t doubt on their efforts, we are feeling proud at least they have tried, but sorry for their missed timing.

Continuing conflict, instability in Libya is matter of international concern: MEA

India has said the continuing conflict and instability in Libya is a matter of international concern. In response to media query on recent developments in Libya, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said New Delhi supports efforts towards immediate cessation of all hostilities in Libya.
 
He said, India acknowledges the recent international efforts in this direction, including the Berlin International Conference held on 19th January and the Cairo Declaration of 6th June. He said, country hopes that these initiatives will promote the peaceful resolution of the conflict through an intra-Libyan dialogue taking into account the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people, while preserving Libya’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. 

Continuing conflict, instability in Libya is matter of international concern: MEA

India has said the continuing conflict and instability in Libya is a matter of international concern. In response to media query on recent developments in Libya, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said New Delhi supports efforts towards immediate cessation of all hostilities in Libya.
 
He said, India acknowledges the recent international efforts in this direction, including the Berlin International Conference held on 19th January and the Cairo Declaration of 6th June. He said, country hopes that these initiatives will promote the peaceful resolution of the conflict through an intra-Libyan dialogue taking into account the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people, while preserving Libya’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. 

MSDE Ministry, IBM unveil Free Digital Learning Platform to reach job seekers

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in partnership with IBM has unveiled Free Digital Learning Platform ‘Skills Build Reignite’ to reach more job seekers and provide new resources to business owners in India. Directorate General of Training, DGT, under the aegis of MSDE has also announced a 10-week duration Skills Build Innovation Camp for students, providing hands on project experience, enhanced learning and increased employability.
 
Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey has congratulated DGT and IBM India for their collaborative efforts. He said, it marks a significant milestone in supporting Centre’s efforts in accelerating Indian economy’s revival from the adverse effects of COVID-19 with the launch of SkillsBuild Reignite and Innovation Camp. He further said, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Skill India Mission, the Ministry has been working relentlessly to strengthen the skilling ecosystem and leverage the rise in demand for new-age skills by expanding industry cross-collaboration and creating learning pathways through digital learning platforms.
 
He said, IBM‘s expertise in providing multifaceted digital skill training in the area of Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence will strengthen the efforts in the recovery of local workforces, communities and economies by supporting job seekers, entrepreneurs and small businesses. IBM has committed to provide multifaceted digital skill training in the area of Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence to students and trainers in National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs) and ITIs.
 
Even in this pandemic period, DGT is lining up with the industry partners for enabling blended, e-learning with a combination of multimedia and similar digital resources for the students, trainees, trainers and the administrators, by providing anytime, anywhere online digital content through its BharatSkills learning platform.

Recovery rate of COVID-19 improves to 56.70 per cent in country

Government today said that the recovery rate of COVID-19 has improved to 56.70 per cent in the country and 2,58, 685 people have been cured so far.

During the last 24 hours, 10,495 people have recovered from Covid-19.

Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 1,83,022.

Health and Family Welfare Ministry said 15,968 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 4,56,183.

Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that 2,15,195 tests were conducted by the various laboratories for coronavirus  in the country in the last 24 hours.

This is the highest number of tests conducted by  laboratories in one day.