INTERNATIONAL RAT RACE.

Globalisation has brought new prospects and faces to human history, global trade, global activists, global entertainment, global culture and tradition and many more. This has also raised a new wing of global politics. It all began after the end of WW2 . The world had lost a lot of people and life but importantly it had reached its end of strength to take war’s horrors. We all know that’s when the UN was established. It was a new era of world integrated for greater purpose without anymore bloodshed but sheer will and intellect. This was the time world politics took its place in making countries with higher ambitions and capacity a world dominant players. 

“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently. -Zbigniew Brzezinski”. Players  of different parts of countries and some different geographical parts, all have the main purpose of having a peaceful life for common people. They have to stop the purpose of every wearing fight between the political heads of the country. New way to spread their power and gain on their ambitions was POLITICS.

So there began the messy or the beauty of diplomacy. The major occurrences are that of the America – Russia cold war, Vietnamese war, Korean war, breaking of Berlin Wall,the rise of china in recent years has led to major shifts in the political landscape.Some of the major was theses diplomacy takes place is are hard power like military and economy this way they can keep good negotiate with countries they want. Some other way is called soft power, this is through the media example as BTS for South Korea.

There is a long debate about the effects of world politics on society. Let’s take a glance at that. The positive influence that has taken is:

1.Climate change awareness: There has been  an immense increase in awareness among the younger generation. It has also been seen national getting together for a genuine reason other than there personal ambitions.

2.Fight for social evils at the biggest levels: women rights have gained a major place in the world. Me too moment has brought justice to many people. Child labour and many indian inhuman practice have been stopped as international pressure.

3.Feeling of oneness: It has been seen that social has been friendly to people and they have faced the same conditions and feel connected to each other.

4.Economic and technology development: United people have progressed and developed new and effective means. With peace by their side humankind reached the moon and Mars and looking for what not.

5.World peace: People are more peaceful than in 50years than in the last 150 years. After world politics have been taking place the politicians fight among themselves than use them people for their cause.

1.Power stagnetation: The power struggle has made an individual hold power rather than trusting as all members together with that. This also increases hunger for power from others. Example, America-Russia tug-of war where it has been inscribed in every way possible in the history of the century.

2.Social media influence:It has both positive and negative impact on society,it has been providing direction to citizens without much effort by them.

But the direction usually flows towards a more vocal person than the right person.

3.Social insecurity rises: People feel overwhelmed by such information available which was in deficit before. The information above their understanding makes people tell decisions without correct understanding or wrongly influenced.

4.Terrorism: Growing defecive strategy of countries have used less powerful countries in their political web to create terrorism so as to stop the other countries from growing

Politics always comes with it’s own advantages and disadvantages, it’s important to understand how and when this political policy should be applied for a win-win situation. Because politics is a true lifesaver when used in it’s limitations and knowing disadvantages. When it involves the world politics in it more or less we hold the history of us and future of coming gen to influence them

Pollution a reality of today

Pollution has became a part of our life. It has became the reality whether we accepted or not. We have to now keep air purifier to purify the air inside our house. Just think of the level of destruction in has caused to just as well as to nature.

We have reduced the resources of nature or either we have misused the resources of nature for our own benefit. We youmans are so selfish that for our benefit we can even take away the things which are meant for everyone. Like we have polluted so many rivers which has caused death to so many aquatic animals that we can’t even imagine of.

We have polluted the air quality so much that we are now facing difficulty to breathe ourselves. We have caused pollution in air, water, soil, noise whatnot. Just think it yourself.

Now there are so many activist and NGOs are coming ahead for cleaning up the message that has been spread by us only. But it is not enough. To remove Facebook devil from our mother nature each and everyone have to contribute towards this.

We can take small steps like using public transport instead of personal one for travelling which will reduce the air pollution. There is no need of very much big-big steps to be taken a small step by each individual is enough for cutting this pollution into half.

It is our nature and we should use net sustainabily so that it is available for other animals and future generation as well.

Education a right of everyone but a gift for poor

Education the solution for every problem in this world. If you are educated you know how to manage difficult time in a better way then others. Education is not only provided in school but it also present all around you.

The context of education is very wide, you can’t say that education is only provided in schools and colleges. By education you’re mean that you learn from your surrounding not only bookcase knowledge. A person who never went to school doesn’t mean that he don’t have knowledge of anything.

At present to the covid-19 situation there are millions of children who had lost the access to education, because they are not having digital devices to have their online Classic in even their schools are shut off.

Today we are having so many excuses for online classes like we’re having strain in eyes, neck, headache etc. I don’t mean mad they are not genuine but, these are not as hard as you are not getting education. You are fortunate in now to continue your education even without going to school but many in this world a not so fortunate.

There are many example synthesis world who had sacrifice a lot just to get educated. One of them is Malala Yousafzai who was ready to get shot from gun just to get educated.

So whenever you feel like you don’t want to study just think about them and you automatically will get an inspiration and a sense of gratitude that you are having so many resources that your education is not getting any hindrance.

We and government together should take step that gift access of education to everyone in your country or in the world. We can donate our old book, pencils and other stationaries to them and that will be a small step from our side but will make a big difference for them.

Grand Parents

Grandparents our first friend since we are born. They are actually the blessing of God. Only summer fortunate enough to spend their childhood and life with them.

It is always said that Grand children are the last friend of their grandparents, and they are our first friend. There is always a strong and friendly bonding between grandchild and grandparents. Having grandparents with you is the best thing in the life.

Only some fortunate grandchild are able to see or live with their grandparents nowadays. They teach the values which help us to grow all over our life. Detail story which are meaningful and helps us to get connected to our culture.

It is our duty to not let them feel lonely if you are there with them. In our busy schedules we often forget that the old citizens actually feeling very lonely and are not happy from inside. They never tell you about their loneliness but you should understand it by looking at their faces.

Did don’t want much from anyone they just need love and care. And if you can’t do that then you probably are are not worth calling a grandchild. Just sit with them for sometime in a day and have normal talk with them they will definitely feel happy about. Being in the company you will also feel relax from your stressful life.

And please don’t ever send them to the old age home they had taken care of you when you didn’t know anything about this world and now it’s your time don’t betray them. Take care of them as if your own child because we know that old age is like the comeback of childhood.

Why the long face? The Scream

The Scream is one of the most famous artworks on the planet. Almost everyone of us must have seen it somewhere or the other. Either in memes or maybe on some educational TV channel but very little population knows the name of the artist or even the name of the painting itself. 

Figure on cliffside walkway holding head with hands

Edward Munch

The Scream is an artwork by the Norwegian artist Edward Munch completed in 1893.

Munch was a painter and printmaker born in Norway in 1863. His paintings were greatly inspired by the expressionism movement and symbolism. All his paintings  had a certain underlying psychological tone to it which is hard to miss. Munch had a miserable childhood, and that misery manifested itself later in his paintings. His mother and sister died of tuberculosis while he was very young and later, still at a young age he lost his father and his brother too. Death and gloom always meandered around him and followed him everywhere. Another sister of his suffered from mental illness too.

To understand a piece of art it is important to understand the artist, his experiences, his life to be able to get as close to meaning the artist was trying to show because there is no possible way that we can fully understand an artist’s psyche at the time of making it even though art is interpretive.Munch depicted raw and violent emotions in his work

The scream is an autobiographical work of art where while he was walking along a path one evening with a fjord below, feeling tired and ill, when looked over the fjord the scene looked to him as if blood was covering the sky. He felt a scream coursing through the clouds. Munch had a history of ill mental health in his family and during that evening it is possible that he heard the scream inside his own head.Soon after painting The Scream abandoned this style and barely went back to it.

Theft 

A work of art doesn’t become famous just because of the beauty or the skill behind it but a multitude of things influence it’s popularity like what it represents, political environment, controversies it was involved in.

Similarly this painting is not just famous for its artistic grandeur but it was in the news a lot due to the thefts.

In 1994 thieves broke into a museum in Oslo and stole the painting also leaving a note that read thanks for the poor security and demanded 1 million USD as ransom which was refused. About 3 months later the two men were caught as a result of the sting operation carried out by the Norwegian police.

In 2004, a 1910 version of The Scream was stolen from the Munch museum in broad daylight by two masked gunmen who stole The Scream and Madonna by Munch. The Munch museum was closed for 10 months after the incident for security reasons. It took about 2 years for the Norwegian government to recover the two paintings with some major damage to the paintings which were recovered later.

Traffic Rules & Regulations 

Travel is an unavoidable piece of human existence. No man can remain in a space for long. So it is important to go to public spots. For that you need to utilize the streets. The standards to be kept on the streets are called traffic guidelines. We as a whole perused here to realize what are the guidelines to be trailed by walkers and drivers.

Rules for people on foot

  • People on foot allude to individuals strolling by walking.
  • They should just stroll on streets, on walkways.
  • Walk just on the highly contrasting lines that are set apart for it in specific places and go across the streets.
  • Walkers should go across the street just when permitted by the traffic police.
  • Without police, vehicles from the right and left should pass just when they don’t show up.

Drivers need to focus

  • Drive just on the left half of the street.
  • Drivers should raise the sound when coming from a brief distance to people on foot.
  • When getting back to the street, the proper markings ought to be given to approaching vehicles without further ado before the predefined area.
  • Never use electric lamps that frown at spectators.
  • Possibly overwhelm on the right when surpassing continuous vehicles. Never overwhelm on the left.
  • Your vehicle ought not overwhelm different vehicles under any condition on thin streets and extensions.
  • Air horn ought not be utilized before emergency clinics or schools.
  • Try not to drive more than the speed determined for every vehicle.
  • You need to drive at a consistent speed and understand that you can just save fuel.
  • Close to two individuals can go in a bike.
  • Protective caps are needed for the two motorcyclists.
  • Try not to drive affected by liquor.
  • Try not to drive while chatting on the telephone or paying attention to music.
  • Four-wheeler drivers should utilize a safety belt joined to the seat.

Vehicle travelers should focus

  • Try not to get on or off a moving vehicle.
  • Try not to converse with the driver.
  • Try not to go on steps.
  • Space should be accommodated boarding and landing travelers.
  • Pregnant ladies, the older and the handicapped ought to be given seating.
  • Need to get the proper ticket.
  • Be deferential to the conductor and individual travelers.
  • Keep away from missteps like smoking inside the transport, spitting, and extending the hands and head out of the vehicle.

The reason for the excursion is just to arrive at the spot we need to go, yet in addition to understand that attempting to go quick and not arriving at death. We will all observe the traffic guidelines cautiously.

Vocational Education is Essential

Instruction is the manual for live as an individual. Since instruction is the honing of human levelheadedness. This instruction can be of two kinds i.e Notebook Education and Vocational Education.

” Learn an industry. Let it be known you have no concerns ” said an artist. It’s undeniably true that the home and nation of the individuals who get professional instruction dependent on journal schooling will rise financially and expertly.

The Essentiality of Vocational Education

It is man’s economy to accommodate man’s essential requirements like food, fabrics and safe house. Making the economy is work. Professional schooling is fundamental for work. The people who have taken in a calling try sincerely and work on their lives.

There are numerous lakhs of youngsters in our country who have quite recently taken in the scratch pad training and left to enlist with the business office and are hanging tight for a task. In the event that they had taken in a calling like the youngsters of Japan, they would not have needed to sit tight for work. So incidentally, professional schooling is fundamental.

Strategies for Providing Vocational Education

The public authority offers in excess of 50 kinds of professional training to understudies. Albeit clinical, designing and PC related courses are at the front line, today because of the improvement of science, a huge number of understudies are exiting in different disciplines in their separate fields. Not just this, with the appearance of car, home apparatuses, apparel, and gems, we can see that cooking has turned into professional instruction today. So low expenses for professional learners, numerous motivators, convenience for ostracize understudies, grants, food would all be able to inspire them on many levels. Alongside these, professional students will be given direct preparing in great production lines and preparing studios and in the wake of finishing their preparation, they will actually want to work in steady employments or foster their own professional schooling through different motivating forces, for example, business fire up help and the benefits from professional training will fill in the country.

Advantages of Vocational Education

Our country with a populace of more than 300 crores. These individuals need a wide assortment of things like food, beauty care products, outdoor supplies, writing material and vehicles. To give this, bungalow enterprises, medium businesses and weighty ventures are being begun. In every one of these, inclination is given to the people who have professional schooling.

Professional learning is the best way to deliver elite items. Professional students can take care of themselves and live with nobility without anticipating anybody’s approval for the work.

There is no high points and low points in the business. Hence, the adolescent should approach to learn and pick the calling that is appropriate for them

Jealousy-A weapon or a curse?

We all are familiar with the term jealousy but what is it exactly? In general words ,it is a feeling developed in an individual for another which acts as a hindrance that doesn’t allow smooth functioning between the two.We knew this, right? But what are the causes, perks, and cons, and how can someone overcome this feeling?Wait a min causes and cons are fine but perks? Does it have any positive side too? Well, let us look into the causes first and then see how to overcome the cons & enjoy utilize the perk.

*What Implants Jealousy?

We all are born as an infant and it takes years to understand things,develop emotions,become mature enough.Behind every emotion there’s some or the other reason that leads to certain conclusion e.g. jealousy.In most of the cases, jealousy occurs due to a lack of blessings,asserts,position,surroundings etc that one person is blessed with while another one is not.Also, excessive comparison and competition may leave a negative impact on one’s mind making them a target of their own thoughts.

*What does Jealousy do?

It is a negative emotion that may land a person to nothing but to “END IN SMOKE”. Yes, it is such a lethal process that despite putting 100% as an input returns 15-20% as an output. The person might assume they’ve given their best but as a matter of fact they have not.Deep down they’re being constantly eaten up by insecurities caused by jealousy.

Then how to deal with it? The answer is same as the perk of jealousy.

*Jealousy as a fuel

The same feeling that caused so many damages can be used as fuel in the process of an individual’s making.Yea,it all depends on the perspective.One should consider the emotion as a motivation to achieve everything that they’re missing instead of burning in their emotion and dwelling in.

SEE IT IS AS SIMPLE! THE THING THAT BOTHERS CAN BE THE MOTIVATION THAT HELPS IN BATTLING & WINNING.

Important Skills Everyone Should Learn

Skills are the expertise or talent needed in order to do a job or task. There are many different types of skills that can help you succeed at all aspects of your life whether it’s school, work, or even a sport or hobby. Skills are what makes you confident and independent in life and are essential for success.

1) Sales

Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period. The delivery of a service for a cost is also considered a sale.A person who sells goods or service on behalf of the owner is known as a salesman or saleswoman or salesperson, but this often refers to someone selling goods in a store/shop, in which case other terms are also common, including salesclerk, shop assistant, and retail clerk.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales

2) Marketing

Marketing is one of the valuable skills to strengthen your passive income. The action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising. Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product or service. Marketing includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to consumers or other businesses. Some marketing is done by affiliates on behalf of a company.https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketing.asp

3) Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychologists are actively involved in studying and understanding mental processes, brain functions, and behavior. There are different types of psychology, such as cognitive, forensic, social, and developmental psychology. A person with a condition that affects their mental health may benefit from assessment and treatment with a psychologist. https://psychology.osu.edu/about/what-psychology

4) Negotiation

A negotiation is a strategic discussion that resolves an issue in a way that both parties find acceptable. … By negotiating, all involved parties try to avoid arguing but agree to reach some form of compromise. Negotiations involve some give and take, which means one party will always come out on top of the negotiation. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/negotiation.asp Good negotiations contribute significantly to business success, as they: help you build better relationships. deliver lasting, quality solutions rather than poor short-term solutions that do not satisfy the needs of either party. help you avoid future problems and conflicts.

5) Communication

Communication is the act of giving, receiving, and sharing information — in other words, talking or writing, and listening or reading. Good communicators listen carefully, speak or write clearly, and respect different opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group to another.

6) Habits formation

Habit formation is the process by which a behavior, through regular repetition, becomes automatic or habitual. This is modeled as an increase in automaticity with the number of repetitions up to an asymptote. This process of habit formation can be slow. All habits proceed through four stages in the same order: cue, craving, response, and reward. This four-step pattern is the backbone of every habit, and your brain runs through these steps in the same order each time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit

7) Decision Making

Decision making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help you make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives. Decision making can also be classified into three categories based on the level at which they occur. Strategic decisions set the course of organization. Tactical decisions are decisions about how things will get done. Finally, operational decisions are decisions that employees make each day to run the organization. https://www.umassd.edu/fycm/decision-making/process/

TECHNOLOGY – A BOON OR BANE

Innovation utilizes strategies to fabricate or make a few items and administrations. In this cutting edge world, Technology is vital and always expanding. Innovation changed every one of our lives in many manner till these last decade. It profoundly affects Big ventures to typical Human creatures. Thus, we can very say that Technology assumed a significant part in changing every one of our lives. Innovation has been Revolutionary. It gave us such countless beneficial things. However, a coin ought to have different sides. It has a decent and an awful side as well. Innovation transformed us, however we can’t to say it transformed us totally decidedly. Innovation, obviously is a shelter just as a plague!

One of the major issue of Technology development is High utilization of Mobile telephones, particularly , advanced cells . Since early occasions, advanced cells have been progressive. PDAs enjoy had such countless benefits, it helped us in such countless ways, however advanced mobile phone abuse is a significant disadvantage. Be that as it may, it isn’t the shortcoming of its engineers as they never foster it to make social issues. It is us, who make it most noticeably awful. Along these lines, Smart telephones make our life simpler, consequently, making us lethargic. Innovation has turned into a fundamental piece of our lives. It has changed extravagances into necessities. I concur with this assertion. In prior occasions, bearing the cost of a PC or even a TV was considered as an extravagance yet, presently a-days, it has turned into a need. The age today needs everything individual T.V., PC, PC, and so forth As indicated by me, innovation has worked on the way of life. Possessing new and most recent contraptions is a superficial point of interest now. Prior, there used to be the postal assistance. like, assuming we needed to advise anything to someone, we composed letters or sent wires. Presently, they are obsolete; and are supplanted by messages, SMS, WhatsApp, and so on without a doubt, it is particularly quicker when contrasted with the more established frameworks. Improvement in innovation has helped individuals, all things considered, understudy, educator, specialist, housewife, finance manager and some more.

Negative Aspect of Technology

In spite of the fact that innovation is something worth being thankful for, everything has different sides. Innovation has both aspects one is acceptable and other is not acceptable Here are some regrettable parts of innovation that we will examine.

With the assistance of innovation, understudies get what they are educated and can apply it, in actuality, without any problem. Because of innovation, school has turned into where understudies love to go.

Indeed, even external the homeroom, understudies can share notes on the web, research, clarify, team up on work, have concentrate on gatherings, share courses and make practically inventive substance online with the assistance of applications like google drive. Indeed, even web-based media stages like Facebook and twitter are where understudies can interface with one another to share thoughts, articles and different assets with one another. Web is the greatest benefit of innovation. We can discover anything or request anything while at the same time sitting at home. It is an extraordinary help to us. In this way, I’ll close by saying that, however innovation has given us numerous things yet we ought to be adequately shrewd to utilize them.

Brother – Best Gift From Mother

A sibling will consistently be an inherent dearest companion forever. He will battle he will chasten however toward the end he will consistently cherish you. A sibling is an individual who will comprehend your predicaments and will consistently remain with you. He is the main individual who will assist you with standing at whatever point you will tumble down. A sibling will consistently have us covered. Life will be loaded up with bliss if our life is gifted with siblings. A sibling is an individual who consistently supports and helps a sister for the duration of her life. Aside from guardians, a sibling is the main individual who will consistently guarantee the wellbeing of a young lady. From playing with us to assisting us with going on in life a sibling will consistently be there. Having a sibling will make your everyday routine worth experiencing. A sibling is someone who plays a numerous jobs . He turns into your dad and offers you guidance , very much like mother take cares of you , and like a companion plays with you . Regardless you request from him he generally satisfies it. He is somebody who shields you from all wrongs on the planet and consistently has you covered

Chandigarh City Planning by Le Corbusier

 Chandigarh is one of the most significant urban planning experiments of the 20th century. Chandigarh was the dream city of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru. After the partition of India in 1947, the former British province of Punjab was split between (mostly Sikhs) East Punjab in India and (mostly Muslim) West Punjab in Pakistan. The Indian Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the partition. 

Therefore, American planner and architect Albert Mayer and Mathew Novicki were tasked to design a new city called “Chandigarh” in 1949. Novicki was tragically killed in an air accident and Mayer decided to discontinue. Thereafter, the work was assigned to a team of architects led by Le Corbusier in 1951. 

The master plan which Albert Mayer produced for Chandigarh assumes a fan-shaped outline, spreading gently to fill the site between the two river beds. At the head of the plan was the capitol, the seat of the state government and the city centre was located in the heart of the city. Two linear parklands could also be noticed running continuously from the northeast head of the plain to its southwestern tip. A curving network of main roads surrounded the neighborhood units called Super blocks. First phase of the city was to be developed on the north-eastern side to accommodate 1,50000 residents and the second phase on the south-western side for another 350,000 people.

Fan shaped plan for Chandigarh by Albert Mayer

The Master plan prepared by Le Corbusier was broadly similar to the one prepared by the team of planners led by Albert Mayer and Mathew Nowicki except that the shape of the city plan was modified from one with a curving road network to rectangular shape with a grid iron pattern for the fast traffic roads, besides reducing its area for reason of economy. Le Corbusier conceived the master plan of Chandigarh as analogous to human body, with a clearly defined part. 

  •  Head (The capitol complex) 
  •  Heart (The city centre) 
  •  Lungs (The leisure valley, innumerable open spaces and sector greens) 
  •  Intellect (The cultural and educational institutions) 
  •  Circulatory system (The network of roads, the 7Vs) 
  •  Viscera (The industrial area) 

Le Corbusier divided the city into 63 “Sectors”. Each Sector (what had been named an “Urban Village” in Mayer’s plan) or the neighbored unit, is quite similar to the traditional Indian ‘mohalla’. The primary module of the city’s design is a sector, of size 800×1200 m. Each sector is a self sufficient unit having shops, school, health centers and places of recreations and worship. The population of a sector varies between 3000 and 2000 depending upon the sizes of plots and the topography of the area. Convenient walking distance for social services like schools and shopping centers are provided.

 Chandigarh plan by Le Corbusier

The roads of the city were classified into seven categories, known as the system of 7 Vs. 

  •  V-1 Fast roads connecting Chandigarh to other towns 
  •  V-2 Arterial roads 
  •  V-3 Fast vehicular roads 
  •  V-4 Free flowing shopping streets 
  •  V-5 Sector circulation roads 
  •  V-6 Access roads to houses 
  •  V-7 Footpaths and cycle tracks 
The residential buildings were governed by a mechanism known as ‘frame control’ created by the municipal administration to control their facades. This fixed the building line and height and the use of building materials. Certain standard sizes of doors and windows are specified and all the gates and boundary walls must conform to standard design. 
Chandigarh has four Main work centers – The capitol complex in the north east – The educational institutes in the north west – The city centre in the heart – The industrial area in the south east. The educational, cultural and medical facilities are spread all over city, however, major institutions are located in Sectors 10, 11, 12, 14 and 26. The Capital complex, Sector 1, comprises three architectural masterpieces, the “Secretariat”, the “High Court” and the “Legislative Assembly”. 
The bus stops are provided each time at 200m so as to serve the four pedestrian entrances into a sector. Thus, the transit traffic takes place out of the sectors: the sectors being surrounded by four wall-bound car roads without openings (V3). All commercial buildings located in the City Centre and commercial or institutional buildings located along V-2 roads were subjected to controls. He allocated nearly 30% of the city to parks and recreational areas. With the development of the city, it is also confronting some problems because population increased in city due to high rate of migration to cities and due to that water supply demand is increased, sanitation problem occurs and slum development get started.

Mother Tongue

Nowadays we are more on speaking in English rather than choosing our own mother tongue for communication, especially in India. This post is not discourage English language but encourage mother tongue

If you are an Indian then definitely your mother tongue is not English, and mind you here I am talking about those Indians who are living in India and I want to Indian parents, not of migrats. You might be speaking Hindi Tamil Punjabi Gujarati Asami Bengali etc. English has now become a language more of showing status rather than just being a medium of communication.

We use our mother tongue only while speaking to family members. All the other official work Arjan in English which is alright because India has very diverse population having different languages. But the problem is where we treat English as as a measurement tool for checking someone intelligence.

We prefer to speak in English in interviews as to give a better impression on the interviewer that you guess we know English and we are intelligent. A person who is living in a remote village can also be has equally qualified and intelligent as the person who knows English but, just because he don’t know how to speak English he is not getting that equal treatment while he goes for any job employment. And this is a reality.

We think in our mother tongue will our comfortable in speaking our mother tongue it’s just that we don’t use it because of the societal atmosphere around us. Through this post I just want to encourage people to be proud of their mother tongue and speak it with their heads up and not to treat english as a qualification of intelligence.

It is a fact that if you think in your own mother tongue then you are getting more effective and innovative ideas.

How we measure extreme distances in space – Light years

In the 1800s, scientists discovered the realm of light beyond what is visible. The 20th century saw dramatic improvements in observation technologies. Now we are probing distant planets, stars, galaxies and black holes where even light would take years to reach. So how we do that? Light is the fastest thing we know in the universe. It is so fast that we measure enormous distances by how long it takes for light to travel them. In one year, light travels about 6 trillion miles. It is the distance, we call one light year. The Apollo 11 had to travel four days to reach the moon but, it is one light second from earth. Meanwhile, the nearest star beyond our own sun is Proxima Centauri but, it is 4.24 light years away. Our Milky Way galaxy is on the order of 100,000 light years across. The nearest galaxy to our own, Andromeda is about 2.5 million light years away.

 The question is how do we know the distance of these stars and galaxies? For objects that are very close by, we can use a concept called trigonometric parallax. When you place your thumb and close your left eye and then, open your left eye and close your right eye. It will look like your thumb has moved, while more distant objects have remained in place. This same concept applies in measuring distant stars. But they are much farther than the length of your arm, and earth is not large enough, even if you had different telescopes across the equator, you would not see much of a shift in position. So we look at the change in the star’s apparent location over six months, when we measure the relative positions of the stars in summer, and then again in winter, nearby stars seem to have moved against the background of the more distant stars and galaxies.

 But this method only works for objects less than a few thousand light years away. So, for such distances, we use a different method using indicators called standard candles. Standard candles are objects whose intrinsic brightness, or luminosity that we know well. For example, if you know how bright your light bulb is, even when you move away from it, you can find the distance by comparing the amount of light you received to the intrinsic brightness. In astronomy, we consider this as a special type of star called a Cepheid variable. These stars will constantly contract and expand. Because of this, their brightness varies. We can calculate the luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light that we received to the intrinsic brightness we can calculate the distance.

The Type 1a Supernovae – Death of a star

 But we can only observe individual stars up to about 40 million light years away. So we have to use another type of standard candle called type 1a supernova. Supernovae are giant stellar explosions which is one of the ways that stars die. These explosions are so bright, that they outshine the galaxies where they occur. So we can use the type 1 a supernovae as standard candles. Because, intrinsically bright ones fade slower than fainter ones. With the understanding of brightness and decline rate, we can use the supernovae to probe distances up to several billions of light years away. But is the importance of seeing distant objects? Well, the light emitted by the sun will take eight minutes to reach us, which means that the light we see now is a picture of the sun eight minutes ago. And the galaxies are million light years away. It has taken millions of years for that light to reach us. So the universe is in some kind of an inbuilt time machine. The further we can look back, the younger we are probing. Astrophysicists try to read the history of the universe, and understand how and where we come from.

“Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step” – William Shakespeare

World of Social Media

Social media a word which is is now probably used by everyone. Social media maybe your WhatsApp, Instagram, snapchat, Facebook etc. These are some of the name of the apps which helps us to interact with whole world.

The power of social media in today’s world cannot be neglected, as there are many examples present where a small startup has grown into big business firm and because of a small post once put on some of the social media apps.

It not only help businesses to grow but it also helps your ideas to reach too many people around the world. It provides you a platform to give voice to your ideas and thoughts. Some of the other social media platforms like LinkedIn helps to create professional relationship.

It has helped each individual to showcase the talent. Earlier days the people who want to actually act in front of the audience were only limited to the film industry but, now even the common people can post their videos in any of the social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook etc.

As we know everything has two sides so, it is also having its Dark Side as well. Today’s youth has now started misusing the social media platform for just waste of time. Day spend a lot of their valuable time just watching wasteful videos for chats. By this I don’t mean that you should not watch videos to refresh your mind you should watch but there should be a time fix for it.

We should always look at the positive thing in life to go ahead, so it similarly applies to the social media too. We should focus on using it positively so that it brings about a change in society in good manner and as well as in yourself as a person by gaining knowledge from other people.