Caste System in India

Explorers to India have remarked on rank for multiple thousand years. In Indian culture the gathering starts things out, dissimilar to our own general public that gives such a lot of significance to the individual character. After an individual’s family, the station orders a person’s significant steadfastness. Indians still regularly distinguish themselves by the local area they have a place with and rank is as yet a factor in marriage choice. Furthermore, station has permitted incalculable gatherings that have relocated into India to discover a spot and to assume a significant part.

The rank framework, as it really works in India is called jati. The term jati shows up in practically all Indian dialects and is identified with the possibility of ancestry or family relationship bunch. There are maybe more than 3000 jatis in India and there is nobody all-Indian arrangement of positioning them arranged by status. However in every neighborhood positioning exists and is a lot of identified with immaculateness and contamination. Every jati has some interesting position, however not every person in the jati performs it. Accordingly there are stylists who don’t shave, craftsmen who don’t assemble, and Brahmins who don’t go about as ministers. A jati is distinguished in a nearby setting by whom its individuals will acknowledge food and water from and to which jatis its individuals will give food and water. Individuals will attempt to wed their children and girls to individuals from their equivalent jati and will give their significant dependability to their jati. A jati will typically be coordinated into a biradari (a fellowship), and this association completes the business and administers the working of the jati and has the ability to bar a wrongdoer from the jati.

The jati framework isn’t static in which all gatherings stay similarly situated. There is portability in the framework and jatis have changed their situation throughout the long stretches of Indian history. Nonetheless, the jati climbs the social scale collectively and not as people. A jati can advance its situation in the class framework by progressing financially and copying gatherings of people with cash and force. Simultaneously, a jati can likewise climb in the station progression. Portability in the rank framework has been named “Sanskritization” by the researcher M.N. Srinivas. To acquire position in this cycle, a lower jati duplicates the propensities and personal conduct standards of the predominant jati nearby. This might mean a lower jati will change its name to one of a higher jati, receive vegetarianism, notice more standard strict practices, fabricate a sanctuary, and treat its ladies in a more moderate manner. The kind of copying will rely upon the propensities for the predominant jati being replicated. On the off chance that the jati can acquire acknowledgment for its new name, new history, and new status, it will then, at that point wed its girls to individuals from the jati in which it is trying to acquire participation. In due time the new situation on the social scale will be cemented and acknowledged by different jatis. This training isn’t absolutely not normal for that of worker bunches coming to America and replicating the propensities for the WASPs who were in charge. In your own local area you could presumably recognize the most renowned gathering of individuals and notice different individuals from the local area replicating their conduct in manners, for example, sending their kids to moving classes and day camps, and putting supports on their teeth.

The Indian Constitution has prohibited the act of Untouchability and the Indian Government has set up uncommon quantities in schools and Parliament to help the most minimal jatis. Rank segregation isn’t allowed in acquiring work and admittance to instructive and different freedoms. Yet, this doesn’t imply that rank is unlawful or has disappeared. Rank gatherings as political pressing factor bunches function admirably in a vote based framework. Station might offer mental help that individuals appear to require. Financial experts and political researchers are finding that position is no genuine obstruction to monetary turn of events or political majority rules system.

SOCIAL ISSUE IN INDIA

A social issue is a problem that affects people within a society. It is a group of common problems in present-day society and ones that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond and individual’s control. Social issues are the source of a conflicting opinions on the grounds of what are perceived as morally correct or incorrect personal life or interpersonal social life decisions. 

Poverty In India:

Many of Indian civilian are considered as poor and most of them live in the countryside and keep afloat with odd jobs. The unemployment of India is one of the main reason of poverty. There, most of them expect a life of poverty and despair in the mega-slums, made up of millions of corrugated ironworks, without sufficient drinking water supply, without garbage disposal and in many cases without electricity. The poor hygiene conditions are the cause of diseases such as cholera, typhus and dysentery, in which especially children suffer and die.

Malnutrition:

 India is one of the world’s top countries when it comes to malnutrition. More than 200 million people don’t have sufficient access to food, including 61 million children. 7.8 million infants were found to have a birth weight of less that 2.5 kilograms-alarming figures for a country commonly referred to as the emerging market.

Child Labour:

Although child labour for children under the age of 14 in India is prohibited by law, according to official figures, 12.5 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working. Aid agencies assume that in reality, there are many more estimating that 65 million children between 6 and 14 years do not go to school. 

Lack Of Education:

According to UNICEF, about 25% of children in India have no access to education. The number of children excluded from school is higher among girls than boys. Although women and men are treated equally under Indian law, girls and women, especially in the lower social caste, are considered inferior and are oppressed by their fathers, brothers and husbands. Without education, the chance of finding a living wage from employment in India is virtually hopeless.

Child Marriage:

In spite of banning minors from marrying in 2006, it is still widespread in many regions of India. The main leaders in this practice are young girls, who are still children themselves and become mothers too early. Many of them die at birth. According to an investigation by the medical journal The Lancet, 44.5% of girls are still married in India before they are of legal age.

AIDS:

2.7 million Indians are infected with the HIV virus; about 220,000 of them are children, with the tendency rising. The lack of education and the lack of condoms mean that the virus is spreading faster and faster and more and more people are dying of AIDS – especially in the slums of the growing cities. More and more children are living there as so-called AIDS orphans , often being infected with the virus as well.

Expensive Flowers in World

Once Edwin Curren said “flowers are the music of the Ground from Earth’s lips spoken without sound”. Flowers are the most beautiful part of nature. Flower give happiness to people but what about the happiness what comes from expensive flower? Yes, there are some flower which are very expensive and is a worth a fortune. These flowers are expensive due to their special growth, beauty and rareness and for many other reasons. Let’s take a look about these flowers ––

  1. Kadupul flower: It is widely known as the “Queen of night”. Its scientific name is Epiphyilum oxypetalum. The plant of the expensive flower is under the cactus species. This flower blooming time is only night. It is very short-lived flower and very rare. It is native in South Eastern Asia like Sri Lanka, China, India. This flower is priceless for its low lifetime. White kadupul is widely known but it also can be yellow, pink, white yellow etc.
White Night Queen
White Night Queen
Yellow Night Queen
Pink Night Queen

2. Juliet Rose: It is the most expensive rose species whole world. The breeder of this type of rose is David Austin. It is a very pleasant colour of apricot (mixture of light pink, orange and yellow). It first appears at Chelsea flower show in 2006 and the development time was 15 year. It cost almost $15.8 million.

Rose gardens at Old Parliament House, Canberra Sweet Juliet
Rose gardens at Old Parliament House, Canberra Sweet Juliet

3. Saffron Crocus: It is one of the expensive flowers as Saffron, an expensive and important species. Its scientific name is Crocus sativas. The red coloured saffron spice is obtained from this flower. It is a very pleasant purple coloured flower. 500 gram of saffron spices is extracted from nearly 80000 flowers. Moreover, there are some important condition for collecting supports. The cost is $1500 per pound of flower.

Saffron (The red part of this flower is the Saffron Spice)
Saffron

4. Gold of Kinabalu Orchid: Orchid is already rare and expensive flower and this gold of Kinabalu is most expensive among them. The scientific name of this orchid is Paphiopedilum rothschildanum. This flower is also known as Rothschild’s slipper Orchid. It is a very unique type of Orchid with unique colour combination (Browne red and yellow) with unique structure. It worth almost $6000 for every piece of Orchid. It is only available in Kinabalu National Park of Malaysia and a very extinct species of Orchid.

Gold of Kinabalu Orchid
Gold of Kinabalu Orchid

5. Shenzhen Nongke Orchid: It is also one of the most expensive Orchid. It is a rare man-made Orchid and was created in Shenzhen Nongke University laboratory in China. The rare Bloom of this year (once in every four to five years) made it this expensive. It was first invented in 2005. It cost almost 1.68 million.

Shenzhen Nongke Orchid

6. Gloriosa: It is also called flame Lily or fire Lily. It is available in Africa and India. It is a very beautiful flower with the shape of a fire flame and colour in yellow and red. The scientific name of this flower  is Gloriosa superb .It is a very poisonous plant and the most poisonous plant partis its root. It cost almost $10 per flower stem.

Flower Flame Lily or Gloriosa Lily or Glory Lily
Gloriosa
Gloriosa Lily

7. Lily Of the Valley : Lily of the valley is one of the most expensive flower in the list .The scientific name  Convallaria majalis . It is a very unique type of white coloured & sweet scented flower .This bell shaped flower are hanging from a green stick .It only grow in the high altitude mountain area .It actual time of bloom is spring that’s mean this flower bloom March in the year .

Lily Of the Valley flower
Lily Of the Valley plant
Lily Of the Valley stick

Honor Killings in India.

Honor killing is an act of murder by the members of the family. This crime usually takes place when two consenting adults marry or want to marry each other but do not belong to the same religion, caste or gotra. Such marriages bring dishonor to the family and hence their family members punish them or sometimes due to the pressure from society.

   Majorly in the Rural regions, villages are very homogenous. No one is supposed to break the laws/norms of society. If anyone dares to- suffers the punishment that is decided by the villagers or the panchayat. Many a time, this punishment is murder. The family also has to face punishment in the form of a social boycott or many times- eviction from the village. In such a situation, the need to removes the family’s dishonor is palpable. Thus, the family members of these consenting adults kill them. According to the official records, the cases of honor killings are not too many but in reality, every year there are more than 10,000 such killings. Normally, if a person goes missing, the family is the one who runs to the police station but in case of killings related to honor, the family members are themselves the perpetrators. Besides, the villagers also do not report this as according to them, this itself is the ‘justice’. On the contrary, such killings are reported by the relatives as ‘suicides’, with family members destroying evidence. Usually, females are more likely to be subjected to suck killings as compared to their male counterparts. According to a report, women constitute 90%+ of the honor killings.   

  The prime factor of the crime is that the majority of caste members do not accept inter-caste marriages on the pretext of maintaining the decorum of their caste or the status of their family in society. The crime of honor killing is increasing at a high pace due to the complex socio-cultural problems. To restore the honor and respect lost due to the inter-caste love marriage

In 2012, the Law Commission submitted a report outlining a unique legal framework for dealing with honor killings. The Prohibition of Interference with the Freedom of Matrimonial Alliances Bill was aimed at curbing activities and behaviors associated with honor crimes by criminalizing, for example, the unlawful assembly of groups of people for the purpose of condemning a marriage, and criminal intimidation of a couple. It also recommended punishments, protection measures for vulnerable couples, and counseling and legal awareness for couples. Sadly, this Bill was not brought up by an MP in Parliament. 

Honor killing happened in the area where the sex ratio is lower and girls are bought for marriages because of a large disparity in the sex ratio, causing the difference in sex ratio to increase. Illiteracy and lack of awareness of rights to freedom and constitutional rights to safeguard their protection from exploitation are the primary reason for the rising of crimes.

Khap Panchayats: 

Khap panchayats are gatherings impersonating courts, presided over by the caste leaders. These leaders are the judges of these illegitimate courts. Just as legitimate judges pass judgments according to the Indian constitution, these panchayat leaders give judgments in accordance with the village and societal norms and rules. Marrying outside the caste or religion is not allowed as per these so-called societal norms and such couples are hence eligible for punishment. The khap leaders hold supremacy within their cast as custodians of honor. Khap panchayats often nullify marriages that are inter-caste and inter-religion and also separate such married couples. In March 2018, the Supreme Court of India declared illegal any attempt by Khap panchayats to end a marriage between consenting adults. But even today, khaps fearlessly continue to nullify marriages and sentence death to eloped couples. 

Obesity in India

Stoutness is a vexing issue in the created economies. For agricultural nations like India, dreary weight has not yet become a general wellbeing need. For what reason is this so? Indeed, the reasons are still a long way from clear. Likely, India is, in our own eyes, still a nation of neediness, craving and hunger. However, insights recommend something else. India is one of the capitals of diabetes and cardiovascular sicknesses. India’s economy is, apparently, better ready to withstand the recessionary patterns seen across the significant countries of the globe, making it not so much poor but rather more “well off.” Yet, it is this very abundance which carries with it an undesirable pandemic of heftiness, diabetes and cardiovascular infection. Improvement carries with itself urbanization and decrease in active work.

It additionally energizes expansion, which decreases admittance to progressively costly leafy foods. Indian investigations, nonetheless, demonstrate that the everyday environments in rustic regions have improved significantly. Transport offices, clinical consideration and food propensities, instructive status, and family pay have significantly improved, which alongside simple admittance to city and TV watching, result in undesirable changes in way of life. These have at last prompted critical expansion in weight list (BMI) just as stomach stoutness in both genders when contrasted with a comparative report directed in the year 1989. The commonness of overweight rose from 2 to 17.1%. The changing way of life of the provincial tenants was discovered to be a contributory factor for the increasing paces of weight and related metabolic illnesses like diabetes. Traditionally, we have all been instructed that India lives in towns. Around 2 thirty years back, the method of transport in towns was strolling and cycling. Bikes were scant and four wheelers were uncommon. All people used to go to class, office, field, and to welcome water on feet. One can interface automation of provincial and metropolitan regions to the expanding predominance of stoutness. For instance, bike deals have expanded from 50,76,551 of every 2002 to 84,18,626 in 2009. This recommends that there is an expanding utilization of vehicles to drive, with clearly antagonistic ramifications on exercise and energy consumption at the organic level. In the event that we can some way or another bring back our customary custom of strolling, it can hugely affect social wellbeing alongside monetary effect. For instance, if each individual beginnings strolling 30–an hour/day, he/she will spend around 150–300 kcal. This will prompt deficiency of weight of 3–5 kg in a year. A deficiency of around 5–7% weight can forestall the beginning of diabetes by about 58%. Thinking about the current situation of expanding predominance and per capita cost of treatment of diabetes, the investment funds could be colossal. On the off chance that we add the aberrant saving as fuel putting something aside for kilometers strolled each day, one can get sufficient assets for establishing protected and sound climate for strolling.

The principal strategy that we propose is yoga. This is a remarkably Indian arrangement of wellbeing living. Received widely by Western researchers, we are currently awakening to the logical advantages of yoga. As well as working on active work, yoga can help in forestalling stress. Stress has been connected to diabetes, weight and cardiovascular sickness. It isn’t known whether yoga can help in the treatment of heftiness; without a doubt, numerous stout subjects may discover yoga hard to rehearse. A few examinations have demonstrated yoga to be valuable in diabetes. However, whenever supported in schools and universities in India, yoga can help in forestalling pressure and may well end up being a minimal expense procedure in forestalling diabetes, weight and cardiovascular sickness.

We might want to bring up that not all parts of conventional India are sound. For example, numerous conventional Indian food sources are oil rich, carb over-burden, and downright unfortunate. Likewise unfortunate are some conventional Indian traditions like tobacco biting and smoking. We propose that one ought to pick the most wellbeing cordial among our practices and customs, and apply them to forestall heftiness. This might assist with working on the execution of a corpulence avoidance program. The time has finally come for endocrinologists to lead a public corpulence anticipation program in our country, to forestall the approaching danger of expanding heftiness and its complexities like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular sickness, malignancy, rest apnea, and osteoarthritis, to give some examples.

THE HISTORICAL NOVEL

Introduction:

The Historical Novel is a work of fiction that attempts to convey the spirit manners and the social conditions of the past age with realistic details and nearly perfect fidelity to historical facts. The subject matter may compass both public and private events. The protagonist may be an actual historical figure or an invented figure. The historical novel can be The dramatic interest of plot and character with the more or less detailed picture of the varied features of the life of a particular age. The most important feature of the historical novel is its vivid reproduction of the life of a bygone age.

Even before the coming of the historical novel comer writers had used history in their novels. As a result of the impulse to word novelty during the Renaissance and after several writers made use of history. In England, Horace Walpole used a particular period in history as background to his Gothic novels.

First Historical novel:

The passing away of the feudal system created and nostalgia for the past. compared with social and economical changes caused by the French Revolution and the industrial revolution, This nostalgia created the proper climate for the emergence of the historical novel. The first great historical novel in English was Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley published in 1814. A series of novels based on Scottish history appeared. Among them, the most important is “Guy Mannering”, Kenilworth, Old Morality, and “The Heart of Midlothian”. Among the more popular of Scott’s novels are “Ivanhoe” and the Talisman dealing with the Crusades. In this novel, memory and imagination serve Scott’s creative purpose of the central narrative is supported by a strong love of humanity.

The tradition of the historical novel continued into the story and age. Charles Dicken’s “A tale of two cities” Thackeray’s “The history of Henry Esmond Esquire” George Eliot “Romola” and Charles Reade’s “The cloister and the Hearth” is important historical novels of the Victorian period. In the continent, the historical novel florist in the writings of Balzac, Dumas, and Tolstoy. It is generally agreed that Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is the greatest among the historical novel. “Robert Grave’s I Claudius” is another historical novel of significance.

The historical novel marches on one side with the realistic novel and the other side with the national epic. Saintsbury has remarked that historical novelists give only a subordinate position to the actual historical figure and should allot a prominent position to the imaginary figure because the chief object of the novel is the interpretation of the human character.

In the Historical novel, The recreation of the spirit undertone of the bygone ages is more important than other runs to the truth. The historical novel list has to reconcile the clients of history and art.

Conclusion:

The historical novel has limitations for stop it is suffering from the weakness of both history and novel. Unless the novelist is scholarly and unprejudiced, he is likely to give you a half-digested and biased view of historical facts. It is also open to question whether the imaginative recreation of facts is preferably the fact to themselves.

The Humanitarian Movements

The Social Novel

Naturals Icecream

Icecream is been always a part of our sweet craving, company like Amul ice-creams, Baskin Robbins was a great success, but there is a startup that made a footprint in this field with just natural ice cream without any preservatives or artificial flavoring only just fresh fruit pulp.

Naturals Ice-cream, a Mumbai sed startup founded by Raghunandan Kamath, was born in 1954. During summers Raghunandan’s Father a merchant from Mulki, Karnataka used to pick ripened mangoes and sell them to vendors at the market, his father so found fruit he used grew variety of fruits one acre of area near his home, watching his father the love for fruit began in little Raghunanadan’s heart. But passion doesn’t guarantee a profit, he used to belong from the village where health facilities were poor, as a child he used to play and have fun lived the life fully spend most of the time in the kitchen watching his mother cooking which played a key role in decisions of his startup, but the negligence of his studies cost him to fail seventh grade twice.

At the age of 12, he moved to Bombay to stay with his brother, but his inability with coping up with the English curriculum lead pf failing his tenth board exams thrice and giving up. later his brother started small south Indian eateries called Gokul serving ice cream along with idli, dosa, and so on.
Because as young and careless his brother asked him to sell ice -cream, as ice- cream was not an important part of the business. But for ice cream, there was a different value in Raghunandan’s mind. He always wanted to do something different but his brother never took him seriously and he didn’t have the confidence to argue back at that time.
After he got married in 1983, he got the courage to start his own business, he borrowed 3.5 lakh from his brothers and friends to start the venture .he took the risk of starting an ice-cream parlour

Despite this, Kamath made the bold decision to start an ice cream parlour in the main Juhu Koliwada, to hedge against such a risk he also served pav bhaji with ice cream, that how he introduced ice-cream to them this pav bhaji – ice cream strategy succeed and with revenue of 5 lakhs in a year
The Pav Bhaji -ice cream strategy worked he reached revenues of Rs 5 lakhs in year. Initially, he served five flavors mango chocolate, strawberry, Sitpal (custard apple), and cashew-raisin with just three ingredients Milk, sugar, and fruits.


But he was not satisfied by it, his concern was that what if pav bhaji got more fame than ice cream, in 1985 he stopped serving pav bhaji.This decision leads to a recent annual turnover of Rs. 165 crores having 129 outlets in all major cities of India, offering 125 flavours changing with seasons without any changes in the ingredients.

Level Up Your Marketing – 6 Reasons!

“Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.”

· Rebecca Lieb

Hello, today’s article is special as it answers the need to go for Marketing.

Marketing is the process of moving towards the ocean and getting acquainted with the fishes throughout the journey! Of course, this is just an example of personification and hyperbole for a different definition of Marketing. It implies moving forward into the market area to get acquainted with your competitors throughout the journey so as to keep learning new strategies and agendas of business from them.

There are Two Types of Marketing. The First and the most common form of it which was perhaps prevalent before the digitalized era is, In Person Marketing wherein you speak to consumers in person, to sell your commodity. However, this form exists even today and can be traced as the birth of marketing. Owners with concrete structures like shops indulge into this type of marketing wherein they try convincing each and every customer in order to give them a call to action. So, Marketing basically is, appeasing the customer in a standard format.

The Second Type, as we all know today is Digital or Online Marketing. Online marketing is the most widely used today. Even shopkeepers indulge in this method as they advertise the facilities and products provided by them on the internet to attract consumers. Fortunately, today the entire world is on a single social media platform which makes us so close to people that connecting across the globe is no longer a concern.

However, why should you market your facilities, goods, and services?

· For Increased Recognition!

When you market your services out there in the society, your brand, company, or shop receives recognition and interest which eventually attracts more and more consumers towards your business.

· To Make Sales!

Of course, this is intertwined with the first reason because when you receive recognition, and when your business blooms on social media, you are likely to avail benefits in the form of sales. It’s just that the correct form of marketing is required to appeal to customers.

· An Opportunity To Learn From Other Sources!

By this I mean, you get a wider opportunity to sneak into your competitor’s social media profile without the fear of being caught and maybe learn some of the interesting ways of marketing. Don’t worry! You aren’t stealing their marketing strategies because marketing as a general concept doesn’t accentuate plagiarism since most of the strategies are practiced by all. That’s the beauty of online marketing!

· An Opportunity To Learn The Desires Of The Mob Easily!

The best way of Marketing is to learn more about the problems your customers face and to understand their desires. Through Online Marketing, it gets easier to read the reviews of people on a certain business platform and acquire knowledge on the same. You could directly message people and speak to them regarding their problems or create surveys and distribute them to your contacts to learn more about them. This is because, Marketing requires a good understanding of your target audience as to what issues they face and what solutions do they expect to them. Isn’t Online Marketing amazing?

· Availability Of The Creation Of Various Blogging Sites And Other Websites For Developing Free Content!

This is the “luring” section of Marketing which decides the future of your business. This is true marketing through your content. By creating free content, be it in any form: educational, entertaining or testimonials, you try to transform the suspicious buyers into interested customers by providing them the call to action. This is the actual step of Digital Marketing. Just like you welcome guests at home not without your house address, similarly your website is a station or address of your business as to from where exactly viewers are to learn more about you! This too, is made easy by Digital Marketing which helps create this station for you!

· An Opportunity To Analyze Your Business Performance Easily Through Certain Applications!

There are certain interesting applications like Google Analytics that help you monitor your performance. This application helps you understand the higher amount of purchases from a certain social media platform on the basis of which you could decide the acceleration of the creation of free content on that particular platform.

There are certain other Google Extensions like Keywords Surfer that help you keep track of the highest searches of a particular word which you could use as a business name or maybe for your free content. Another mind boggling application is Google Trends that helps you keep up with the trend in the market since all you’ve got to do is search for a word in the search box and voila! A complete stats on the amount of searches in particular cities appears, on the basis of which you could decide the admittance of a specific word for your free content. After all, more the searches in your city, more the possibility of content based on that word being viewed. Popularity counts, doesn’t it?

Thus, I would conclude stating that Marketing is all about selling your commodity but not before making it known to the consumer. When, it comes to online marketing however, you not only make your product known, but also the company or brand you own, in order to make purchasing a comfortable task for the customers. Another step is involved here because of the invisibility of online marketing because of which people tend to have trust issues over the genuineness of a company or brand. That is exactly why, Marketing online requires more persuasion and evidence of worth!

Can Travelling be Therapeutic?

Living the same routine every day is very monotonous and puts us in a bad mood at some point in life where we want an escape for a while. Waking up and going to the same workplace doing the same thing every single day promotes sadness and lead to conflict and clashes that can disrupt the healthy lifestyle. To evade such circumstances we need to take a break entirely from work as well as the society in which we live. And travelling is the best option available, I presume.

Studies showed that travelling is the best form of therapy one can have. Fleeing to a new place having different sight and smells puts us in a very good mood and the more you explore the more your unfold the different aspects of life as well as the quality of life on the other side. Exploring things such as art galleries, Museum, monuments etc helps us renew the perspective of life and it’s elements.

Sometimes escaping into the woods for a day or two can help us rejuvenate our entire outlook. The aesthetic scene and fresh air can fill our soul with immense happiness and gives the reason to smile and appreciate nature and its blessings to which we owe our entire life. The creature in the outer world teach us that slowing down for a while and taking break is an absolute necessity for the soul bearer.

Another spot can be beaches, river banks or lakes where you can sit for an entire day without getting tired. The waves of the surf can fill you with life and develop a sense of gratitude. The soothing water formation can help us to detach from this materialistic world thereby debilitating the negativity and stress.

Cappadocia hot air balloon.

One of the most important aspects before packing your bag and set to your destination is “research”. Research about the place where you want to spend your vacations. What all monuments does it have, what is the quality of food being served that I consider is of utmost importance. Always choose a destination that has lots to offer. Make a planned trip at your convenience like if you’re going on a solo trip or it is with your entire family. There are lots of app, travel agents and guides available that can help make your trip hassle-free.

The Pandemic Times and Mental Health

We all have survived the phase of lockdown and seen a lot during that time. Many life lessons came on the way as the situation became severe. It has been more than a year to the onset of the pandemic in our lives and it is still affecting us. Two waves of the virus had already made life difficult and now we receive alerts for a third one. This is affecting all but more harmful for those who are mentally stuck since the onset of Covid19.

It has been a difficult time for small-scale workers who earned living by working long hours on construction sites, factories, etc. pre-pandemic and then suddenly lost their jobs during that time with no other source of income in hand. Ultimately they left the cities and rushed to their hometowns. Similar was the case of other low income groups of society. All work was shut down and their only source of livelihood was locked up. This made up for the reason of mental breakdown and poor health of the major part of population. There were no means left for interaction and enjoyment with friends and relatives. There was a feeling of loneliness, sitting idle all-day-round in the house and people were continuously praying for the betterment of the situation as soon as possible.

Due to the lockdown, many people were stuck at tourist places with no sufficient amount in hand to spend long time there. This led them to a worse off situation, living apart from family and friends. Even the middle class population was losing jobs due to scarcity of resources with the company and the legal restrictions imposed thereupon. Already there was the emerging issue of unemployment in the country and then the pandemic time brought a hike in its rate. Many had to give up a part of their salary to continue with their jobs . The factories had been shut and the production was stopped for many items of use to prevent the spread of the virus. This led to decreased supply for an increasing demand. People were eager to collect stuff for their household quickly to prevent future restrictions of availability. This was all leading to an imbalanced economy. The source of income for the government also declined. There was a significant reduction in tax collection. Public transport were also kept on hold closing almost all doors of revenue for the government due to which they could not invest much in purchases and free treatments for the public. Overall the whole country suffered loss in one or the other way.

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The media was flourished with depressing news and each hour brought updates of how severe the situation was becoming. Souls were leaving the world on a greater rate than ever due to a widespread reach of the virus. There was presence of some destroying elements(people) as well, in the society, who openly wandered on the streets carrying the threats of the virus and risking lives of many. The spread was so strong that it could affect a person from even a short distance without being in physical contact. The solution was to keep distance in your house as well. No close contacts were advised by the doctors even within a family; which parted people from their loved ones. Those who were employed in necessary fields had to go out for work and hence many of those preferred staying away in separate places to protect their family.

It is much clear how everyone suffered from inside(mentally). Physical health was already deteriorating due to closing of gyms and fitness centres in the cities but mental health also worsened during these times. Pre-pandemic there was the stress of work with atleast holidays to relax but since pandemic the stress is more related to health and hygiene. Everytime they contacted someone or something socially, people feared. There existed a constant worry in the mind of whether they are safe or not. People started migrating to destinations they assumed to be safer but ended up increasing their as well as nation’s problems. Mental distress prevailed across the world. People pleaded for help but unfortunately there was no immediate solution/action in the hands of government. The pain and sufferings are hard to express. All prayers were directed to the end of those difficult times soon. A bad dream would have been better than this harsh reality. Surviving such times is the biggest challenge of anyone’s life. No one could digest even the thought of seeing their family in pain then how could they experience it so nearly. And what about those who were living apart from their family..

With no or minimal source of income and other personal problems, the mental illness started increasing in the world population as a whole. There was no hope left for better future and isolation triggered the effects of the pandemic on health. There was no escape to the problems. Depression and stress took over the thoughts and power of mind. Situations couldn’t be handled and there was need of psychiatrists but people didn’t react. It needs to be made normal to visit a psychiatrist in case of mental issues related to life.

SOCIAL MEDIA:BOON OR BANE🤔

What is Social Media?

Social media has facilitated a lot in reshaping communication industry and redefining the ways in which we communicate and express ourselves.

Social media engages people constantly and accumulate everyone in some or the other trending activity. People have embraced social media so persistently that it has become an integral part of our lives now. It is being used not only by individuals but also businesses, organisations and governments, who are utilising Social Media platforms for constant engagement with the masses.

However, social media has both its advantages and disadvantages.

It’s true that social media has proved to be very useful for everyone and it offers a global platform to share and express, but its constant engagement is affecting individual productivity, relationships and society as a whole.

Let us do a ‘3-Point Analysis’ to help come to a conclusion

Point 1: Background Check

Social networking began in the form of generalised online communities to assemble people having similar interests and sharing any information or ideas.

Google became popular as a principal internet search engine in 1998.

Wikipedia started as an online encyclopaedia in 2001.

Myspace and LinkedIn came into existence as social networking sites in 2003.

•Most popular social networking site, Facebook got launched in 2004.

As of 2017, 45% of the world’s internet users are on social networking sites.

Some examples of worldwide famous social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest etc.

Facebook got launched in 2004 and now has become the largest social networking site in the world. More than one billion people are active users on Facebook on a daily basis.

No wonder it connects people globally and has become a part of so many people’s lives, but it has its own drawbacks.

In a recent study, it was revealed that 33% of divorce cases, ruined reputations, wrecked relationships are caused by Facebook. Suicide attempts even successful suicides caused by cyberbullying are manifested by some social networking sites.

Point 2: Positive Side

Social media provides many advantages for individuals and society:

Increases Knowledge – You can improve and enhance your skills by sharing your ideas, knowledge and information with millions of people even if they are miles away from you.

Easiest Connection – You can keep in touch with your friends at all times from any corner of the world and can find anyone if you lose contact.

Educational Purposes – Educational institutes, teachers and professors can extend their classroom discussions and post assignments, quizzes and tests and assist students with homework.

Common Interests – Social media gives teens with unusual interest and hobbies a place to share information and passion. Social media helps them to enhance and manage their social lives.

Benefits for Businesses – Social media marketing is an excellent tool that businesses are using to get exposure at a much lower cost than any other means of traditional marketing. Everything is just one click and one post away.

Builds your Brand – Social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook help in attracting new customers and engross the customers with products which makes their brand popular. It enables a business to get new information about their customers and improve their customer services.

Point 3: Negative Side

As per 2017 statistics, a person spends an average of 135 minutes per day on social media.

It is distracting for everyone and especially the younger generation. They are always glued to their mobiles, computers, tablets which is a wastage of time and leads to less interaction with family and friends.

Let’s look at some of the disadvantages of social media:

Constant Comparison: People use their social profiles to project their lives as “perfect”, and people increasingly compare their lives with others and think of themselves as low. It decreases their happiness levels and leads to self-esteem issues.

Threat of Hackers: Privacy is a major drawback of social media platforms and their increased use. Hacking accounts and using other person’s personal information for malicious intentions has been an issue since the usage of social media started and it has been only increasing.

Addiction: People are becoming so addicted to social media that they are spending most of their time on it instead of doing any other productive or significant work. Lots of people now prefer online conversations rather than meeting in person, which is weakening their relationships. It also affects communication skill and socialising abilities.

Health Issues – Health is the most important aspect of one’s life, and it is getting badly affected as many people spend all day in front of their computers or on their mobiles phones.

Credibility – There are no reliable measures to check the credibility of the news and videos present on social media. People easily believe and don’t even think twice to check whether the news or piece of information is credible or not. Hence, thoughts of the innocent people get easily shaped and influenced by distorted information.

Online Bullying and Harassment: Also known as cyberbullying, it’s the biggest danger for people and affects them badly, especially teenagers. There is a high risk for children and teenagers from cyberstalking.

Depression – Anxiety and depression is the most underrated disadvantage of social media. Anyone who gets trolled over social media or is harassed easily get into depression. The person who is trolled by social media can’t get out of depression easily.

A latest 2018 poll has revealed that there have so many cases where people were harassed and went into severe depression, sometimes leading to deaths and suicides.

Conclusion:

Whether social media is a blessing or a curse, entirely depends on how we use it. Social media can give you fantastic returns if you use it positively, on the other hand, you can waste a big chunk of your time on social media if you are doing it just to pass the time.

No matter how much information or entertainment we are enjoying through social media, however, life can be great if you spend less time on social networking sites and more time in the real world.

IMPORTANCE OF TAKING BREAKS

Many employees tend to work part-time without taking breaks. An excuse for not taking a leave of absence is a heavy workload, deadline, long-term sick colleague or an urgent request from that very important client.

In order to stay alert and focused, it is very important to take a break even though there are all those emergencies. By the way, the word break can be defined in several ways. It can be a 10 minute break, a long break, but also a holiday (short) vacation. It’s all about what you do or don’t do during that break. More about the benefits of taking a vacation later.

Why are breaks not taken consistently or poorly completed? This is due in part to:

Too much work


Ignorance of the beneficial effects of vacation
Corporate culture where employees feel guilty about their colleagues and management when they leave
According to Forbes magazine, 40% of American workers feel uncomfortable during work breaks.

Taking a break leads to success


When you can’t find it, when your mind gets caught up in the same problem, it’s best to take a break or do something completely different for a while. Trying to do the same thing over and over again will not work. For example:

Clear your inbox or reply to a few emails
Read a book or magazine (not digital)
Wipe your desk or office
Take a simple task
Use the brain training app on your mobile phone

For example, a study of call center employees who regularly took breaks found that their enthusiasm and dedication to their work increased. This has had a measurable impact on sales prices (and thus a company index).

Taking a break therefore improves focus and concentration and provides an opportunity for the employee’s mental reset. After a break, work can continue with a lot of energy and motivation. Working without taking one or more breaks leads to mental and physical fatigue. It can lead to burnout over time.

Do less, gain more


Regular breaks give employees time to refresh themselves and relax. After a break, employees are more motivated and go to work with more energy than before a break.

Decide your times


When the employer provides you with space for that, you can take a break at your discretion. According to scientists, breaks work best when you can find out when a break is taking place. This leads to better understanding and less inclination than when the break is set.

Leave the workspace


When you take a break, you better leave
your workplace and certainly not sit behind your computer screen. If you have the opportunity, go outside to nature or to a city park. According to research, this improves mood and reduces negative emotions. When time is spent on the environment, the heart rate and muscle tone are reduced within minutes. When used for at least 20 minutes in the environment, blood pressure also drops.

Long breaks provide additional benefits


Long breaks provide an opportunity for work-related activities not to take place
done, for example, a specific assignment, arranging a dental visit or even a physical exercise. This creates a better working life balance. It also gives colleagues the opportunity to get to know each other better outside of work, for example while traveling together. This in turn encourages collaboration and communication.

Fit India Movement

On the event of 114th birth commemoration of Major Dhyan Chand India’s hockey legend, India observes the dispatch of the “Fit India Movement”. The occasion got going by a vivid exhibition over the depiction of different medical advantages of India’s local combative techniques frames and games that are played in the country by individuals, at Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex.

PM Narendra Modi addressed the country subsequent to honoring Major Dhyan Chand. In his location to the country, PM stressed the significance of a solid way of life and how we have gotten uninformed about our wellness with the development of present day innovation. He asked residents to take an interest with energy in the development, as the public authority just wishes to function as an impetus in this development and needs residents to take it further and make it an immense achievement. He underscored the investment of each man and lady,

In his discourse PM utilized instances of China’s “Healthy China 2030” and Germany’s “Fit rather than Fat” projects to underline the interest of the worldwide local area’s into a better way of life. The mission was a four-year plan; which will be running on various wellness related points each year. First-year of the development will be centered around actual wellness; for the second, third, and fourth-year dietary patterns, climate amicable way of life, and safeguarding from infections would be the subject of a focal center, separately. The Fit India Movement is expected to promote the way of life of sports and wellness in the country. It urges individuals to focus on wellness in their everyday lives. A warning advisory group of 28 individuals has been framed under the authority of Sports Minister Kiran Rijiju, to prompt the public authority on the Fit India Movement. The advisory group is comprising of 12 individuals from the public authority, including agents from Secondary Education, Ayush, Youth Affairs, Health and Higher Education and so on 7 Members from Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and NSF and 9 individuals from private bodies like Reliance Foundation, JSW Cements and JSW Paints, Tata Trusts, and noticeable wellness powerhouse like Mr. Milind Soman and Mrs. Shilpa Shetty are involved.This mission will begin from the panchayat level and will race to the square, region, state, and public levels. The University Grant Commission (UGC) delivered a letter on 23rd of August 2019, illuminating that PM would dispatch Fit India Movement on 29 August 2019. UGC has requested that the instructive establishments get ready and execute an Institutional Fitness Plan.

This wellness plan ought to fuse Sports/Exercises/Physical Activities for each understudy and staff to embrace and practice. The Vice-Chancellors and administrators of a few colleges and furthermore the schools subsidiary to them have been mentioned to make their establishment’s wellness design and distribute it on their sites and notice boards. Despite the development and prevalence of the wellbeing business in India, individuals actually come up short on the energy and discipline to rehearse a sound way of life. Gympik led statistical surveying in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. The exploration included 1.06 million individuals from all sexes between the long term age bunch. The examination uncovered that 52% of the respondents don’t figure out how to work out, though 36% do not have the inspiration to join a wellness place and 14% guaranteed they are ignorant regarding where to start. The examination further uncovers that just 11% out of 30% of respondents, who had an exercise center enrollment, have been customary for over a half year. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi referenced in his discourse we may discover Diet and wellness in vogue yet we need sufficient inspiration and discipline to proceed with a wellness routine consistently. The Fit India Movement permits those 52% of individuals who can’t oversee time for wellness in their day by day schedule.

As UGC mentioned instructive organizations to plan and carry out a wellness system, we are trusting different establishments would likewise join the development. This cross country development could end up being the push we expected to get on the wellness train. The current Government has made a few strides towards working on the personal satisfaction in India. After Swachh Bharat Mission (a cross country mission to advance clean India) Fit India Mission is Modi government’s second immense mission to work on the nature of living. Despite the fact that Swachh Bharat Mission can’t totally change the location of Indian roads, it certainly was a positive development. Neatness is currently a subject of political and public conversation; public spots are unquestionably more sterile than they were previously. With this new mission of Fit India, we are trusting it will be more fruitful and would get a solid way of life each Indian family.

Water Scarcity around the World

Billions of individuals all throughout the planet need satisfactory admittance to one of the fundamental components of life: clean water. Despite the fact that legislatures and help bunches have helped many living in water-focused on areas get entrance lately, the issue is projected to deteriorate with the destructive impacts of a dangerous atmospheric devation and populace development.

Water pressure can vary significantly starting with one spot then onto the next, now and again causing wide-arriving at harm, including to general wellbeing, monetary turn of events, and worldwide exchange. It can likewise drive mass movements and flash clash. Presently, pressure is mounting on nations to carry out more economical and imaginative practices and to work on global collaboration on water the executives.

Water pressure or shortage happens when interest for protected, usable water in a given region surpasses the stockpile. On the interest side, by far most—around 70%—of the world’s freshwater is utilized for horticulture, while the rest is split between mechanical (19%) and homegrown utilizations (11%), including for drinking. On the inventory side, sources incorporate surface waters, like streams, lakes, and repositories, just as groundwater, got to through springs. However, researchers have diverse methods of characterizing and estimating water pressure, considering an assortment of elements including occasional changes, water quality, and openness. In the mean time, estimations of water pressure can be loose, especially on account of groundwater. “Any numbers out there must be thought about while taking other factors into consideration,” says Upmanu Lall, a Columbia University educator and water master. “None of these definitions are regularly representing groundwater utilization, or groundwater stock.”

What causes water shortage?

Water shortage is regularly isolated into two classifications: actual shortage, when there is a deficiency of water on account of neighborhood natural conditions; and monetary shortage, when there is insufficient water foundation.

The two every now and again meet up to cause water pressure. For example, a focused on region can have both a deficiency of precipitation just as an absence of satisfactory water stockpiling and sterilization offices. Specialists say that in any event, when there are critical regular foundations for a locale’s water pressure, human elements are frequently fundamental to the issue, especially concerning admittance to clean water and safe disinfection.

“Quite often the drinking water issue steers clear of actual water shortage,” says Georgetown University’s Mark Giordano, a specialist on water the executives. “It has to do with the shortage of monetary and political fortitude to place in the framework to get individuals clean water. It’s different.”

Simultaneously, a few regions that experience actual water shortage have the framework that has permitted life there to flourish, for example, in Oman and the southwestern United States.

An assortment of specialists, from the public level down to nearby wards, administer or in any case impact the water supply. In the United States, the greater part twelve government offices manage various parts of water: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) upholds guidelines on clean water, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gets ready for and reacts to water debacles. Comparable specialists exist at the state and neighborhood levels to ensure and regulate the utilization of water assets, including through drafting and recovery projects.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most noticeably terrible off as far as actual water pressure, as per most specialists. MENA gets less precipitation than different areas, and its nations will in general have quickly developing, thickly populated metropolitan communities that require more water. However, numerous nations in these areas, particularly more affluent ones, still meet their water needs. For instance, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) imports practically the entirety of its food, easing the need to utilize water for farming. The UAE and other rich MENA nations additionally depend intensely on the desalination of plentiful sea water, but this interaction is a costly, energy-concentrated one.

In the interim, places encountering huge financial shortage incorporate Central African nations like the Democratic Republic of Congo, which gets a ton of downpour however needs legitimate framework and experiences undeniable degrees of bungle.

Indeed, even top level salary nations experience water pressure. Elements including obsolete framework and quick populace development have put huge weight on some U.S. water frameworks, causing emergencies in urban communities including Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey.

Behavioral Finance

Behavioral finance talks about the psychological influencers and biases affect the financial behaviors of investors and financial practitioners. These influences and biases can be the source for explanation of all types of market anomalies and specifically market anomalies in the stock market, such as severe rises or falls in stock price. The purpose of the classification of behavioral finance is to help understand why people make certain financial choices and how those choices can affect markets. Stock market returns are one area of finance where psychological behaviors are often assumed to influence market outcomes and returns but there are also many different angles for observation. One of the key aspects when it comes to behavioral finance studies is the influence of biases. There are many types of biases such as confirmation bias, experiential bias, loss aversion and familiarity bias. Understanding and classifying different types of behavioral finance biases can be very important when narrowing in on the study or analysis of industry or sector outcomes and results.

Concepts of Behavioral finance:-

  1. Herd Behavior: People tend to mimic the financial behaviors of the majority of the herd. The herd mentality is notorious in the stock market as the cause behind dramatic large scale purchases and sell-offs.
  2. Anchoring: Anchoring refers to attaching a spending level to a certain budget or reference. Examples may include spending consistently based on a budget level or rationalizing spending based on different satisfaction levels gained.
  3. Emotional Gap: The emotional gap refers to decision-making based on extreme emotions or emotional strains such as anxiety, anger, fear, or excitement. Emotions are often a key reason why people do not make rational choices.
  4. Mental Accounting: Mental accounting refers to the propensity for people to allocate money for specific purposes.
  5. Self-attribution: It refers to a tendency to make choices based on overconfidence in one’s own knowledge or skill. Self-attribution usually stems from a flair one may have in a particular area. Within this category, individuals tend to rank their knowledge higher than others, even when in reality, it may not be correct or enough.

The applications of behavioral science to finance are now broad and well researched. They encompass activities such as spending, investing, trading, financial planning, portfolio management and business commerce. It also provides a blueprint to help us make better, more rational decisions when it comes to financial matters. Behavioral finance is still young and is only now beginning to make its way into mainstream academics, industries and society.