So many people out there will start blog for so many reasons. I cannot speak for anyone else but myself, neither I can explain why I want to. There’s always been something in me that wanted to share and maybe motivate others, and that “something” was pointed out by you! I couldn’t be more thankful to you, you made me realize my talent and you pushed me towards it in every way possible. From winning first prize in Durga pooja when I was in seventh standard to this day you never stopped motivating me. Everyone helped me but you saw my ability.
I like to think, I have depth in me. I want to see a thing in as many ways as possible. I am a thousand thoughts per minute kind of a girl and I love it. This thing makes my soul happy and I shine. I have this tremendous amount of happy feeling knowing I can present myself in front of everyone with the power of word!
Do I know what I’m doing? Not really, I guess! And that’s the thing. Does anyone know what they are doing when they try something new? Maybe yes maybe no, but should it stop you! HELL NO! Everything is worth trying for not matter you failed or succeeded because it’s the journey that matters and you gain experience.
My reason for this post is to help anyone out there with a thought to try. Pursue whatever you are drawn to, even if you don’t know how to get started or if you make mistakes along the way. Mistakes create character and strength and not giving up the ultimate weapon. You will always have motivation in one or another way and sometimes it is in the form of a person like I had and I still have!
My answer to “why I blog?” will always be; “because I love to express myself” and it feels good to know people are reading you! I would like to thank everyone who helped me, motivated me throughout but you deserved an appreciation post. So, Thank YOU!
Every year, millions of animals are killed in India either to feed the non-vegetarian population or in laboratories for medical experiments. Cruelty against animals is a cognizable offence under Section 428 and Section 429 of the Indian penal code. There is an urgent need to implement effectively the laws made for the protection of animals. The first step towards which is educating children to have respect for animals and treat with them kindly. Food and shelter should be provided to street dogs by government shelters, and registered firms and NGOs to assure their safety. There is also a need to have stricter laws for protection of animals.
Compassion and kindness are true-blue Indian values. Even the Constitution of India reflects these values in its Fundamental Duties [51 A (g)]. Show your kindness and stand up for the animals.
In the early twentieth century, when the colonial state’s emphasis shifted from the ‘preservation of game’ to the ‘protection of wildlife’ in keeping with the emergence of a global conservationist discourse, the “natives” were now deemed incapable of appreciating the aesthetic value of ‘Nature’ because of their inherently “utilitarian” philosophy of life. Contemporary critiques of the “cruelty” of those people who live in intimate proximity with wild animals, ‘cruelty’ that is believed to be rooted in an inability to appreciate Nature at best and in natural depravity at worst, echo these racialised colonial discourses in disturbing ways. Indeed, the demand that “problem” animals be “humanely” killed with a clean shot instead of explosives (as if shooting does not often lead to debilitating injury for wild animals) is eerily, even if unintentionally, reminiscent of colonial distinctions between “good” and “bad” hunting.
On May 30 2020, Mohan Krishnan, a Forest Officer in Kerala, posted images of an elephant standing chest-deep in a pool of clear green water to his Facebook page. The text accompanying the image described how the elephant, who was pregnant, had eaten some fruit that concealed an explosive. She stayed in the water, presumably to find relief for her injuries, until she eventually passed away. This isn’t the first instance of cruelty that burst into headlines. In 2016, a police horse Shaktiman, died following the merciless thrashing it reportedly received from a BJP MLA during a party rally in Uttarakhand and the ensuing political battle over who deserves blame raises the more important moral battle around our treatment of animals in India. Such incidents have become all too common (just a few days after this tragic incident, a young man was charged with stabbing stray dogs on the streets of Delhi). This pattern of animal abuse across India reveals enduring weaknesses in our country’s laws against cruelty to animals.
While the elephant’s death was an unhappy event, the categories of “cruelty” and “innocence” that were deployed to narrate it are not simply descriptive. Instead, they are the legacy of complex histories and politics. For instance, the supposedly intrinsic “cruelty” of the “natives”, a racist caricature, was a favorite theme in the shikar memoirs of many colonial officials. Colonial hunters condemned most “native” shikaris, who belonged largely to Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi communities, for the lack of “sportsmanship” they exhibited in the method they chose when killing animals, whether it was poisoning carcasses or setting snares and traps for animals.
These practices were criminalised as “poaching” under game-protection laws passed by the colonial state in the late nineteenth century. Ironically, these laws were passed to arrest a steep decline in wildlife numbers that was caused not by “native” hunters, but by what could be described as an orgy of hunting by colonial officials bent on eradicating “vermin” animals (which included tigers, lions, leopards, bears, and wolves among others).
Glimmer of Hope
The onus is only partially on lawmakers – and yes, we have made some progress in the last few years. In 2014, the Ministry for Health and Family Welfare published a draft notification to amend The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, to ban the import of cosmetics tested on animals, as I had proposed. Humane Society International estimates that approximately 100,000 to 200,000 mice, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs, and monkeys suffer and die for the sake of cosmetics — an alarming number, which may be an undercount since many countries do not have reliable statistics or data.
Narratives that emphasise the intrinsic innocence of animals are also problematic in the ways that they construct the object of activism. As the anthropologist Miriam Ticktin notes, figures of innocence – whether the child or the animal – play a key role in driving modern humanitarian projects because they promise a space of purity in an impure world. Much animal-welfare activism, for example, relies heavily on the claim that it is morally good to protect innocent animals, who cannot protect themselves, from human depravity. However, as Ticktin argues, innocence always implies its opposite: non-innocence. Establishing the innocence of the pregnant elephant thus relied on highlighting the ‘conscious, criminal cruelty’ of those who killed her. The danger of these categories, then, is that they create a purity that makes it difficult to understand the complex history of human-animal relationships in everyday contexts where humans are as much at risk from wild animals as the other way around.
As its righlty said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. So, we need to stop animal cruelty at home by not attacking stray dogs. So maybe we should all take a minute to step back and think, before freaking out the moment we see a stray dog on the street? After all, what harm can it really do to us? It has no reason at all to attack us, and there is, therefore, no reason to fear an attack from it. Further, if stray dogs can dauntlessly strut around humans, in light of the torture we inflict upon them, we should also have the courage to not be afraid of them.
It is surprising how such incidents occur in a land that has worshipped animals for centuries. The very core values of Hinduism live in consonance with nature, as vividly demonstrated in the Mahabharata and Ramayana.
Gods have presented themselves as animals in their various avatars, formed partnerships with them and used them as sacred vehicles (vahanas) and companions – from the little mouse that Ganesha rides, to Anantha or Sheshanaga, Vishnu’s snake bed and protector, or Hanuman, Rama’s vassal who plays an integral role in helping him defeat the ten-headed King Ravana. Animals have been celebrated in our lives and culture sice time immemorial. Hence, it is time we stop our inhumane behaviour and let animals live without pain.
Man has been utilizing various natural as well as artificial resources around himself to build essential things required in daily activities. With the need and reliability factor, man has been shifting to metals and material for better durability,consistently, toughness and many such properties. But since the inception of technology, a drastic shift could be seen in utilization of material for various usage. Prominently plastic. Plastic is used in almost everything we think of, including our food. The desired properties of this material make it perfect to be used for different aspects and can be converted to desired shape and size as per the requirement. This surely has made life of man much easier as it used to be. Be it for storing things, irrespective of its state be liquid, solid or gas, for carrying goods, in LCD,LED, even our smartphones, utensils, vehicles and many more. We are surrounded by plastic and material made from them, as a factor of their number of advantages in today’s tough World.
Plastic generally comprises small polymers, long and repeating chains. These polymers can be break down and can be utilized to make new synthetic materials from it. This makes the new material or the synthetic products to be better than the natural ones, be in their properties of light weight, more elastic, long lasting and Moldable. The wide availability and easy production makes it wisely available and at cheaper rates. These factors surely make plastic an important and integral part of our life until we see it’s effect on our nature and surrounding .Plastic being one of the synthetic and durable products with strong bonds between its molecules, it could take 100 of years to get decomposed. The piling up of plastic as cups, carry bags, water bottles and many more in various rivers, and in our surrounding is leading to a harmful effect to our nature. More than 40% of plastic is used for wrapping up of food contents and packaging. This plastic is more oftenly a waste and thrown away with the single use motto of every individual. This waste us piling up and is filling up spaces.
But what are the initials steps to it? As per the survey 9% of this waste is being recycled, while 12% was burnt. Burning of plastic releases harmful gases which might not be suitable for any living being to inhale, also not adds on to the content of carbon in our nature and thus a key factor in global warming. But rest 79% of plastic is still present around us. We are deteriorating our surroundings, ocean, river with these plastics, thus also affecting marine life. But the most dangerous impact these plastics are making is that these get divided into smaller and smaller parts which get mixed up with the water, and it does get difficult to remove plastic completely from these water resources. This is most often consumed by marine animals and results in common deaths, since these contain a lot of chemicals in them and are also not easy to digest. But their main concern is that even we humans eat seafood, and are thus more likely to get affected by this.
So what could be done, while our life is still dependent on this material. Banning of plastic could not be a final solution. But reducing single use and using these for multiple times could definitely reduce its waste. We could reduce the unnecessary production of plastic and shift to more eco friendly ways for the same. The government around the world must come together and find a proper solution for the same and also initially research a better alternative for this material which could prove to be cheaper and not harm our nature. Also the industrial plastic waste must be segregated in a much better way instead of rivers, so as to reduce the plastic and pollutants in our rivers.
“It’s high time to understand the harmful effects of this material and come together to find the better options as we have alternatives to the material but not more alternatives to the planet. We have one planet with us, so with the essence of oneness and unity we need to work in order to make our earth secure”.
In this fast pacing life where we all want to do something big and are working towards it day and night to achieve that, we often tend to forget ourselves. We limit ourselves so that we only focus on that one big thing in life. Thats expected because life is short and there are many things to achieve. Like said in the movie “Bawarchi” In waiting of a big happy moment we miss theses small happy moments. we take many things for granted, we tend to forget that things change with time and they don’t stay there forever, like spending time with family and friends and To be grateful for the things we have. These things may look insignificant but they have a great impact in our lives. Having a heartfelt conversation with your well wishers can bring out solution to any problem one faces, also the support they give can give the strength to face any difficulties in life. When we give importance to the things which makes us happy , it actually adds meaning to our lives this is what makes us different from machines that can’t feel anything rather just work mechanically and rest so as to get charged up to work again.
Like we say love should be just a part of our lives, career also should only be a part of our life rather than the whole life. You can prioritize career over anything else but that does not mean, you stop yourself from doing anything else. Your life is what you define not with what one has to say about it . Its all about adding meaning to your life that actually makes you realize the importance of being alive, and eventually to respect it. Nothing is more important than being alive. Stress and problems do come and go, nothing is permanent taking any step in that rage which will cost life should never be an option. In India over 28 people commits suicide every day and most of them between 15-40 years of age. There are many reasons like pressure of studies, unemployment, and sometimes loneliness. You may wonder how can loneliness kill a person?
When a person feels lonely, thats a the time where he or she feels completely stranded like there is no one to talk to or express his feelings. One thinks no one cares about him and such feelings starts to fill up the mind then one thing leads to other and such people take a harsh step of ending their own life. Its just a thought of one second, if at that time like in Bollywood movie’s hero their conscience hits them and make them realize what they are doing is completely unjustified this can save their life . We just have one life , that would end one day why to end earlier. Its not very difficult to be happy, it just requires us to do things that gives us happiness. When years passes by one would look back and feel how grateful he is to the hero that came on time and rescued him from taking the terrible step, and as it is said life should be big and that should be filled with happiness .
Everyone is aware of the word of rebels, and ones in while many of you are also done in your life at school, colleges, or other public places for gatting rights according to your demands. However, in the past also people have done rebels to get political rights, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Shahid Bhagat Singh, and more freedom fighter also have contributed for getting freedom from the British people. furthermore, a rebel is not the only way to get rights, instead, there is some legal process to do, which is made by the government of all counties.
The famous rebel incident happened between Indian solders and Kashmir’s citizens, this whole incident started from Kashmiri people, they started the attack by throwing stones on Indian soldiers and we all know that soldiers do not have rights to file at the time of the attack they have to wait for the order from the government, and then they can fire when the government gave the order to fire before that two or three soldiers had serious injuries, but when Indian army get the order then they did a great job by killing The 12-hour gunbattle ended with the killing of Junaid Ashraf Sehrai, a commander of Kashmir’s largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, and his aide. Junaid, son of senior separatist leader Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, joined the rebel ranks in early 2018 after graduating in business management from the region’s main university.
However, in Bollywood, many people have done rebel against the nepotism but there some strong pillars, who don’t wont to do changes in the industry, they do not give chance to new people, many people wont to join the Bollywood and they give interviews and show their work buy doing the theater and making small and short films, but the big director and producer always support the famous personalities child-like Varun Dhawan, Ananya Pandey, and many more. But people like from small families and not wall background never chance to show them in front of society and what they can do for the community. celebrities like Pankaj Tripathi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Manoj Bajpai, Johny lever and Sushant Singh Rajput had done exceptional debut in Bollywood by doing small T.V. serials and theater, and look at how they become famous worldwide famous stars without showing their body or fighting skill, which is very common in nowadays movies, but this senior actor always wins our heart by delivering dialogues. people who do not have celebrity background they always have to struggle, and nowadays young personalities share messages they “they have struggled after sign 10 to 20 films and advertisement.” shame on them by spreading fake, abominable and detrimental rumors, we have proof, they said by their own word on a national television show like coffee with Karan, at the beginning of the carrier people say that I admire that person and i follow them, but after getting success they forget, by ignoring and do not talk about them.
if anyone wont to look perfect nepotism then look the last few film awards, where Ananya Panday aka miss.struggle received Zee cine Award for Best Debut Actress, Filmfare Awards for Best Debut Actress, and lately best fresh Talent of the year, moreover on another side Sushant Singh Rajput did not get any award even though, he has done grate lead role in chhichhore.
So, please guys don’t support fake people, instead of support upcoming and real struggle persons, who can motivate us by simply narrating their story, be a lone wolf do not depend on someone to make a clear way.
Today, the whole world is facing huge crisis of global pandemic Covid-19 due to spreading of novel Corona virus.This virus is said to be evolve in China and China constantly denied it.
All the big economies of the world like USA, Japan, China, India and Russia have been victim of this pandemic.
In such situation USA is meeting an another problem that is Racial discrimination ( Black vs White ).The problem is not new but The extrajudicial killing of George Floyd has sparked days of unrest and protest around the United States. What is less well known but no less important is how this event has sparked massive anti-racism protests around the world, including in Nairobi, Lagos, London, Berlin, Toronto and most recently, Paris.
George Floyd, an african american,46, who was pinned under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis,was killed by that white officer.Floyd was constantly saying under his knee” I can’t breathe”.This sentence has prompted more than a week of street protests throughout the states,
The sentence”I can’t breathe” is not new for the African Americans .An another matter was introduced earlier in which a black man was killed by police personnels in USA with words ” I can’t breathe ” and this sentence also hold the meanings of all discrimination taking place there in USA.In jobs ,In schools in society everywhere a racial discriminative surrounding is established there where these poor black african americans are living miserably.
In USA, where the data of covid patients releases failure of USA against the well established health system, this racial dispute is showing it’s weakness in administrative fields too.
USA is burning with the fires of discrimination as well as highest cases of covid-19. USA should be more careful nowadays and should not play any political games .USA is failing to pretend to be the World Power whereas China is also being the victim of not spreading awareness of the virus in the world.
In such situation India can emerge like a Vishwa Guru again but we just need to be self relient to hold our country back to the ancient path of being Golden Bird.We Indians are proud to be resident of such a country, where all the posibilities of human lookings are present but besides of these India is United.
Many people want to break our union on behalf of Hindu and Muslim religion but I’m damn sure that they would never succeed.
Mental health is being understood as one of the primary areas in health protocols around the world and has also been included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Mental Disorders are among the leading causes of nonfatal disease burden in India, but the States lack a systematic understanding like the risk factors, disease burden. In 2017, 197·3 million (95% UI 178·4–216·4) people had mental disorders in India, including 45·7 million (42·4–49·8) with depressive disorders and 44·9 million (41·2–48·9) with anxiety disorders. One in seven Indians were affected by mental disorders of varying severity in 2017. In the same year, India launched the Mental Health Care Act which focused on delivering proper, inexpensive, and widespread permits to mental health care. The proportional contribution of mental disorders to the total disease burden in India has almost doubled since 1990. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in 2001 that about 450 million people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder or brain condition and that one in four people meet criteria at some point in their life. More than 2 million adults in the U.S. are coping with bipolar disorder right now. https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/understanding-bipolar-disorder
Depression and bipolar disorder! Depression and BPD have similarities but they aren’t the same. Depression deals with deep thoughts, emptiness, feeling low, not loving things that you probably used to cherish, extreme sleep problems. Bipolar disorder deals with both ups and downs in moods. One may feel irresistible, energetic in extreme highs, and depressed, awful in extreme lows. What is bipolar disorder? Earlier people used to consider bipolar as mood swing but research showed that a disorder named as ‘Bipolar Disorder’ causes tremendous shifts in moods from extreme low to extreme high. Bi means two and polar refers to the two polarities in the mood. Bipolar disorder is basically a serious mental illness of the brain. An individual can go for periods of depression and boosted moods(extreme low and extreme high). If severely boosted moods then it is known as mania, whereas if not so severe then these are called hypomania. Causes. The exact cause is unknown but there are unavoidable facets that contribute to this epic disorder. The causes can be genetic as well as due to surrounding. Environmental causes include long term stress, childhood abuse, psychological trauma. Genetic facets constitute about 70–90% of the risk of developing bipolar disorder. Symptoms. In this disorder, the individual may go through highs and lows in mood and personality. When they are extremely high they feel on top of the world, can’t sleep, unbeatable, easily distracted with low focus, a lot of energy, showing risky and impulsive behavior. In their major lows, they feel depressed, hopeless, guilty, do not sleep or sometimes may sleep a lot, loss of appetite, loss or gain in weight. While these symptoms go on, they also come up with suicidal thoughts. In severe conditions, they can outdo committing suicide too.
What if not treated? If not treated in due course of time, an individual may indulge in alcohol and drugs. In less serious cases, they may end up losing a job, dissatisfaction with themselves. If a student suffers from BPD, he may face grades declining or may even fail. If the treatment not delivered in proper time, they end up giving on life and commit suicide.
Education can be defined as the process which facilitates learning, gaining of knowledge, values, habits, etc. This process can take place in formal or informal settings. The main aim of education is to give out the skilled students. But nowadays certificates and degrees are given equal importance corresponding to skilled education. Hence the present generation students are marching towards certificates and degrees than education which provides skills. Skilled education is always powerful because it provides the best knowledge to students. Skilled education can also be named as vocational training, carrer education and technical training. It always prepare the students to get job that are based on manual or practical activities, in which the students participate. This education can be at the secondary position. Skilled education is recognised in terms of recognition of prior learning and partial academic credit towards the next step of education. However the labor market becomes more specialized and economics demand higher levels of skill, the level of education should be increased. Degrees or certificates are the documentation of the skill within an individual. This certificate/degree will never judge an individual that whether he/she is skilled or not. Similarly, the skilled students may not manage to attain the degree. Degree can be defined as the authenticate certificate that the person applying for the post is having the knowledge of the work requirement and has the ability to manage the functioning and justify the post. The degree always makes a person more confident in their approach and outlook. It always makes the person more polite, humble and wiser. The certificates which are earned by the students is the recognition for their participation in the particular event. The certificates earned by the individual increases the chance of being reputed/hired. But those certificates will never assure that the individual is skilled in several domains which the certification courses have taught. They can be considered as the record of the learner that he/she have attended a particular course. While comparing the skilled education and degree/certificates, the company which recruits always gives equal importance for both. They always notices the skills which are present inside them and also evaluate them based on their degree and certificates gained. Hence it is important for an individual to gain skill and also the degree, certificates. But the main concept which lies between this comparison is the primary part which is required by an individual is skill. By using those skills, the learner can gain the degree and certificates in several domains. By the above discussion, we can conclude that, the good skills gained by the learner can take them to great position in several companies. Hence the main requirement for being reputed is growing the skills and learn more and more. Inorder to become a good learner, everyone should follow themselves and their teachers. While learning, they should always keep in mind about 2 main things. They are:
1. Ego
2. Trust
Ego can be defined as the mentality of students of selecting the concept which they already know. Trust is the one which provides knowledge to the individual about certain unknown concepts.
We can conclude that gaining skills or certificates always lies in the hand of the students. When they are much more interested in gaining skills then they can easily get certificates by their knowledge.
One way to make a big difference to your life is to gain confidence. From negotiating your salary, to standing up for yourself, to believing you can make your dreams a reality, confidence is often the most important ingredient. But confidence doesn’t come naturally to most of us. For the majority of people, those big moments where you have to believe in yourself usually result in self-doubt and a little anxiety. This is normal.
The good news is that confidence isn’t just a magic quality that some people have and some people don’t. Confidence can be developed, it just takes a few tricks and some practice. It might seem impossible at the start, but if you keep a few things in mind then you really can gain confidence with time. Here’s a few simple tips to get you started.
1. Take care of yourself
One of the best ways you can begin to value yourself and see your own importance more is to start taking care of yourself a little more. Take some time to make sure you are eating a little better or giving your body the exercise it needs. Over time, you will begin to see the improvements you have made to your health and the importance of valuing yourself.
2. Give someone some help
It could be something small, with a neighbour, a friend, a colleague, or a complete stranger. Most of us have a family member who could do with a little assistance in their lives, especially the elderly who need caregiving sometimes. By making a difference in someone else’s life you will see just how impactful you can be, which can be a great way to gain confidence.
3. That voice is not right
We all have voices in our head that tell us things we shouldn’t listen to. Those voices can trick us into doing silly things, but did you know there are some great psychological techniques for ignoring or controlling those voices? The next time you hear the voice that tells you that you can’t do something, or don’t deserve something, just remember “It’s just a voice, that doesn’t make it accurate.”
4.It’s not about what you can do right now
If someone asks you to do something that you can’t do, don’t lose confidence. The only important thing that is that you can find the motivation to learn how to do this thing, or that you can tell the person this is just not possible. Having confidence is not just about who you are right now. It’s definitely not about who you used to be. It’s about who you are going to become.
So, keep these few tips in mind, gain confidence little by little each day, and keep moving forward. This can make a real difference to your life and work, so give it a go. A more confident you starts today.
Mental health is a widely overlooked aspect of a person’s health. People don’t consider it as important as their physical health, mostly because the injuries are not visible. However, they often forget that the signs are always there. Mental health problems are often directly proportional to the day-to-day happenings in our lives. Most mental health problems start developing at a very young age, but parents often ignore the warning signs. At such an impressionable age, children need to be taught about their mental well being too. It is imperative that we address the issue of mental health among children, young people, and families.
Children and Young People
It is seen many-a-times that the physical needs of a child are obvious, but his or her mental needs may be neglected. Even when the red flags are identified, there is a stigma associated with mental illness.
Some problems that children suffer from are ADHD, autism, anxiety, anorexia (eating disorder), depression, and bipolar disorder. Warning signs include intense mood swings, self-harm, substance abuse, sudden appetite loss, fidgeting, and continuous nightmares.
A few suggestions to nurture a child or adolescent’s mental health could include talking to them about their day; asking them if they are facing any problems at school. This strengthens your bond with them and they start trusting you more. As a parent, make sure that your ward eats a healthy and balanced diet, is physically fit, and takes part in outdoor activities.
Provide children with a healthy environment at home; a child should feel secure in his surroundings. Help them build their self-esteem and confidence while talking to them. Encourage their first steps towards new interests. This would enable them to open up more and express their feelings and doubts. And most importantly, don’t condemn them when they do something wrong. Instead, let them know their mistake and work together to improve it.
Families
It is obvious that an individual’s mental health problems will have consequences for others within his social networks and most importantly his family. When it comes to mental illness, the emotional and behavioral consequences for family members go largely ignored along with having a huge impact on their financial component.
Family life often becomes unsettled and unpredictable as the needs of the ill become paramount day by day. The afflicted often feels that he’s isolating those close to him. Children may find it difficult to understand why their parent is not his/her usual self. Therefore, many tend to blame themselves and grow up feeling abandoned, lonely, and isolated.
In case a family member suffers from a mental health problem, you should not let him feel dismissed and disregarded. Instead, you could try to understand what he is going through, his inner turmoil, and try to help him cope with that. Children need special care at this time as they are perplexed by the happenings in their lives.
You should try to mend the broken relations, leave the toxic people in your lives behind, and create a positive impact on others’ lives.
Yet another Monday went by, yet another black man in America dies from a police shooting. As the world saw their eyes open from the sadistic killing of George Floyd, people mobilized and hit the streets to protest. That too during a pandemic unlike any the world had ever seen. One could do well to understand the gravitas of the situation, the frustration of the people down on the streets, the fact that they choose to contract a deadly disease than to continue to suffer under a systemic abuse of their rights not just as a citizen but as a human being.
As the story has been seen, Rayshard Brooks, a black man from Atlanta, was shot dead near a drive thru at a local Wendy’s. The man was probably inebriated when he came by to the drive-thru and subsequently fell asleep. The other customers simply drove past him to place their orders as they weren’t really bothered by a man sleeping in his car. Soon a Wendy’s employee calls the police on Brooks. The police came, took him out of the car and talked to him. In the video, Rayshard can clearly be seen drunk, but still being respectful to the cops, and for a change the cops to were respectful of him and talking courteously. This went on for about 30 mins or so and it seemed it would have a normal ending and not result in the death of another black man. However, what happened next ensured that this was going to be yet another story with an abnormal ending that has become too common place when we see a black man interacting with the police. The police suddenly move to arrest him, and tase him. Rayshard slips from their grip, takes their taser and tries to run away. One of the officers shoots him not once, not twice but thrice and Brooks dies. At this point I guess everyone moves to their battle stations, the right portraying this as a black man being a criminal, and the left showing an innocent man dying at the hands of the police. But that is not the case, the story is messy. The fact that they talked to him for so long and things seemed so calm – he seemed respectful and cooperative, doing everything he could to be reasonable – he probably felt safe and that things would ride out okay. Then suddenly they’re breaking this rapport they’ve built with him, doing a 180 and putting him under arrest. He was drunk, and it upended how he thought things were going – fight or flight kicked in and he panicked. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I do think it was understandable. The officer was unable to retain control of his Taser, but the ability of Rayshard to hurt anyone at that point was pretty minimal. He was running away. Lethal force ultimately didn’t belong anywhere in that equation. It was much more complicated than just a cop killing another black man; however, it was also more than just a case of a man breaking the law, threatening a cop, and dying for it. A situation like this requires close attention to detail and logical deduction to figure out if the actions were justified. In my opinion, this situation was not a hate crime, but a failure of our system to properly train cops to handle scenarios like this one. I ask that people on either side of this argument challenge what I am about to say. Rayshard Brooks broke the law by driving drunk. He resisted arrest, stole a cop’s taser and pointed it at them as he tried to escape. We can all agree that he should not have done this and should have been arrested. But was shooting him really the proper way to handle the situation? To answer this, the details need to be analysed and certain questions need to be addressed: Should the cop have really feared for his life when Brooks pointed a taser at him? How does a drunk man not only escape from the custody of two cops, but also take one of their tasers? What is the worst-case scenario if Brooks escapes? And does tasing a cop warrant a death sentence? I would answer these by saying that shooting Rayshard Brooks was not the proper way to handle the situation. The officer was not in a life-threatening situation and if you are going to shoot and kill somebody, it should only be as a last resort because of a real threat. In regards to his escape, I wonder how two trained officers failed to properly detain a drunk man and allow him to take one of their weapons. And in situations like this, why is the first option to shoot someone? Worst case scenario is he gets away with a taser. Shouldn’t they chase him down, call for backup, or at the very worst shoot him once and not three times? Seriously think about that, why do cops have to instantly shoot someone who is breaking the law? Doesn’t there have to be a trial with a judge and jury to determine if someone’s actions warrant a death sentence? Why do cops get to make this decision on impulse? And why do they need qualified immunity for when they do kill someone? If you are in real danger and need your gun, you don’t worry about the trouble you get in for using your weapon because it is either your life or theirs. If you have to question whether using your weapon is justified, then you probably don’t need to use your weapon.
Now this may have been swept under the rug under normal circumstances, but due to the current scenario it seems vital that this be thought about.
Humans, since forever, have been exploiting the environment in variety of ways. The growing human hunger has led to an increase in environmental destruction. Man, being the smartest of all creatures, has turned almost every resource of the panet, into a so called more usable product, in order to fulfill his never ending needs and desires. We humans have taken over the earth, we’ve encroached on the territory of other living beings. We’ve destroyed habitats, killed other animals, overused resources, deforested areas, polluted water bodies, and the list is never ending. Talking about the prevalent environment issues, there is an endless list of problems caused due to human activities, causing an ecological imbalance, affecting every variety of biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
The intervention of man has caused a major disruption and unevenness in the whole environmental system. Everything comes with a price, and so does are extreme and reckless use of environment. Nature shows its wild face in many ways at different times. From earthquakes to forest fires to greenhouse effect to floods and the extinction of species, environment depicts it’s anger in a variety of ways. This, in turn, harms the survival of living population. The ultimate problem is caused to all the living creatures of the planet. Hence, saving it and protecting it from destruction is necessary for our own existence and growth.
On scrutiny, we realise that there are times when nature wants to tell us something, which we often tend to ignore. In this article, the focus is on how the ongoing pandemic Covid-19, though brought a lot of problems worldwide, but actually proved to be beneficial in a lot of other ways, which no one would have thought about.
Coronavirus that has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization has disrupted all human activities globally. It continues to sweep across the world, bringing pretty much everything to a halt in many countries, as residents are quarantined or decide to self-isolate to stop spreading of virus, and most large-scale events and programs have been postponed or cancelled altogether. Institutions and entertainment centres have stopped, factories have shut down, travel through air is at an all time low, work from home has been implemented at most , lesser vechicles are seen on roads and public places and tourist spots are not overcrowded anymore. It is impacting our lives in every possible manner. Digging a little deeper into the crises, we need to ask ourselves: How all this has affected the environment? Is the universe trying to say something to us? Is there a lesson that nature is trying to teach human beings?
Well, yes! The Covid-19 pandemic has, in a way, given an indirect message to the human species, about slowing down a bit. Since, human beings began retreating themselves from public places in fear of Covid-19, nature has began reclaiming it’s space. It seems like the lockdown had an unintended benefit: Blue Skies. Nature is seen thriving in the times of quarantine. As humans retreat, nature returns!
For instance, dolphins have returned to the Italy coasts, we can now hear birds chirping early in the morning, there are swans in Italy canals, in Singapore otters are roaming freely due to empty public places. There has been a lot of improvements in the environment. These are just few examples which shows what Covid-19 had did to the environment. This has a deeper message to it, environment is precious and is greater than any economic or materialistic benefit and we ought to preserve it. Hence, we don’t own the planet; we share the world with a lot of other living beings. Our lives are as much about co-habitation as about survival of the fittest. Let the coronavirus crisis leave us with this lesson- learn to co-exist or nature will find extreme ways to reclaim it’s place.
Former Indian footballer Hamza Koya has died of COVID-19 in Kerala, taking the death toll due to COVID-19 in the State to 15. The 61 year old Hamza Koya succumbed to COVID-19 today morning. He was a former football player who had represented Maharashtra at the Santhosh Trophy and also an India team member in Nehru trophy. The deceased is a native of Parapanagadi, who had returned from Mumbai recently and passed away in Manjeri Medical College in Malappuram today.
As the Covid cases are on a rise in kerala, the State to conduct extensive antibody testing for COVID-19 surveillance across the State and to detect if community transmission of the disease is happening in Kerala. Presently, the total active Covid cases reached 973.Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also clarified that the complete lockdown on all sundays will be continued as the situation is getting serious. Meanwhile as monsoon intensifies in Kerala, Met dept predict heavy rain and storm to continue till coming tuesday. Fishermen are warned from venturing into the sea.
The head of the World Health Organization, WHO, has said that more than one lakh confirmed cases of Corona virus have been reported worldwide each day over the past two weeks while it took more than two months for the first one lakh cases to be reported. He said that almost 75 per cent of recent cases have been reported from 10 countries, mostly in America and South Asia. WHO added that there have been increases in the numbers of cases in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East as well.
The global public health body said that even the countries that have demonstrated the ability to suppress COVID-19 transmission, must stay vigilant to the possibility of a resurgence.
Briefing the media yesterday, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that China reported a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in Beijing, after more than 50 days without a case in the city. More than 100 cases have now been confirmed in Beijing and the origin and extent of the outbreak are being investigated.
The Union Government today said that the COVID-19 recovery rate has reached 52.46 per cent in the country and a total of one lakh 80 thousand 13 people affected with Coronavirus have been cured in the country. During the last 24 hours, 10 thousand 215 people have recovered from this infection. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is one lakh 53 thousand 178.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that 10 thousand 667 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to three lakh 43 thousand 91 in the country. During the last 24 hours, 380 deaths were registered taking the nationwide toll to nine thousand 900. With this, the case fatality rate reached at 2.88 per cent in the country.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total of one lakh 54 thousand 935 tests of Corona virus were conducted by the various laboratories in the country within the last 24 hours. So far, 59 lakh 21 thousand 69 tests have been conducted. ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 907 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 659 government laboratories and 248 private laboratory chains.
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