Types of Poetry.

If you like to read poetry, you may as well like to know more about it. Poetry can either be subjective or objective. In subjective poetry, the poet expresses his own feelings and reflects his thoughts. Whereas in objective poetry, the poet talks about other things other than himself – like external objects, sceneries, events and so on. Though poetry is classified as above, it doesn’t completely belong to one type. This is to say that even the most objective poetry may contain some of the poet’s feelings. Poetry is further divided into several types as follows.

LYRIC:

This is of Greek origin and is a song often sung by a single person backed by a lyre in the ancient times. It carries a single emotion and is musical in composition. Later ages found that this form of poetry can be made musical just by the use of words without any music to back it. Vowels and consonants were arranged musically for this purpose. A lyric tends to be quite short for its effect is weakened by huge length. 

ODE:

 It is also of Greek origin. The subject and treatment is serious and exalted. It often addresses something or someone. The opening lines either contain apostrophe appeal. Eg: Shelley’s ‘Ode to the west wind’ starts with ‘O wild west wind…”. There are two types of odes namely the Dorian or Pindaric ode and the Lesbian or Horatian ode. 

SONNET:

As everyone knows, sonnet is a short poem. It is divided into two – the Italian Sonnet and the English sonnet. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet contains fourteen lines concerning one single feeling or idea. It is divided into two parts – the Octave (contains eight lines) and the Setset (contains six lines). At the end of the eight line, there is a Caesura (a pause) followed by a Volta (a turn in thought). When this form was adopted by the English, it was altered. The fourteen lines were divided into three quatrains (stanzas of four lines) with a couplet to end. This is the form practiced by Shakespeare. 

ELEGY:

 Though this form bore a different meaning in older times, in modern connotation, it refers to a poem which takes up grim and doleful themes. It is often written in the memory of the dead but it can also take up other sorrowful subjects. There is another form called the Pastoral elegy in which the poet represents himself as a shepherd mourning the death of his friend. As the word ‘pastoral’ indicates, the setting and language are borrowed from countryside and country people.

EPIC:

 It is a long story told in verse with all the character, language, setting and treatment exalted. It often has a lofty theme and has divine interventions for most parts. The classical examples are Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’. Mock Epic, as the name suggests, treats the most trivial theme in an epic manner. 

BALLAD:

It can be considered as one of the oldest forms of poetry as it developed during the early stages of civilization. The ballad is a short story in verse containing simplest subjects and themes. It takes its subject from the external world and nothing of the poet is known through the ballad. It is an objective poetry.

SATIRE:

It is a composition intending to attack a folly or vice. It attacks the sin and not the sinner. It is to create a light atmosphere even when it is scornful.  Some of the best English satirists were Dryden, Pope, and Byron.

This is just a basic introduction to the types of poetry. The study of poetry is exciting and engrossing. The book referred for the purpose of the article is ‘A Background to the Study of English Literature’ by B. Prasad.

YOUR SECOND VACCINE DOSE IS CRUCIAL

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Very nearly 150 million portions of Covid immunization have been regulated in the United States. Most grown-ups are presently in any event in part vaccinated, and the sky’s the limit from there and more individuals are deciding to get vaccinated each day. In any case, a few groups might be contemplating whether their second shot is fundamental. The appropriate response is yes. 

In the event that you got one portion of a mRNA antibody (Pfizer or Moderna), don’t avoid the second portion. Without it, your antibody-prompted security will not be as solid or durable. The second portion extraordinarily supports the assurance your safe framework began working after the first shot. 

With new variations in the blend that are more infectious and likely deadlier, being completely vaccinated is considerably more fundamental. Albeit by far most individuals who start inoculation get the two portions, 8% of individuals who have gotten their first portion hadn’t yet gotten their second, as indicated by information delivered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

A few groups may fear the symptoms of the second portion, which could be more grounded than the first. Others may have needed to drop their second arrangement or experienced challenges booking it. A couple have a serious dread of needles. What’s more, a part of the populace is deceived, accepting that the one portion of antibody gives sufficient security. (It doesn’t in case you’re getting Pfizer or Moderna’s antibodies.) 

In a significant genuine investigation, CDC found that mRNA antibodies were 80% compelling after the first portion, and 90% viable after the second. Although 80% successful appears to be acceptable on a superficial level, a few examinations have discovered a lower adequacy after just one portion and others recommend that Covid antibodies don’t stop until after your second portion. Presently, plainly security endures in any event a half year, and likely more when you’re completely vaccinated. Be that as it may, we don’t have a clue how solid or dependable the security is from only one portion. 

Regardless of whether you’ve effectively had Covid, proof shows the immunization helps your antibodies. The “characteristic insusceptibility” you acquire subsequent to recuperating from a Covid disease is acceptable, however inoculation is super-human. Getting vaccinated supports the assurance your safe framework has effectively assembled and lessens the danger that you’ll get reinfected. 

The CDC gives rules on which Covid antibodies require two portions, the circumstance for the second shot, and when you’re considered completely vaccinated. 

There’s been a great deal of spotlight on crowd resistance—when enough individuals inside a populace are secured against an illness, either through immunization or common disease. It’s imperative to consider crowd insusceptibility more as a dimmer dial instead of an on-off switch. Primary concern: The greater number of us who get vaccinated, the more secure we as a whole are. 

To stop the spread of the Covid and save a huge number of lives, we should get completely vaccinated. Try not to allow your gatekeeper to down too soon. It requires fourteen days after the first portion for your safe framework to start building insurance, and if it’s been under about fourteen days since your second portion, or on the off chance that you’ve just had one portion of a two-portion immunization, you’re not completely vaccinated. 

In the United States, we’re gaining huge headway against Covid and we’re nearer than at any other time to continuing life obviously. New CDC demonstrating shows that on the off chance that we keep up our inoculation speed and proceed to cover and distance for two or three months, we’ll have the option to get to the new ordinary. Our test currently is to arrive at those at this point unreached with immunizations by making it as helpful as feasible for everybody to get vaccinated and keep on battling the weariness large numbers of us feel with covering, social removing, and other assurance conventions. By summer, we’ll be fit as a fiddle, and by the fall, at the new typical in the United States. 

The government just carried out vaccines.gov, another site where you can discover where to get Covid antibodies close to you. Look at it and timetable an arrangement to get vaccinated straightaway!

Want to Do ETL With Python?

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Present day associations depend on gigantic pools of data accumulated utilizing the top tier apparatuses and methods to remove data-driven experiences that help in settling on more intelligent choices. Because of the upgrades brought over by the now business standard innovative progressions, associations presently have a lot simpler admittance to these pools of data. 

Yet, before these organizations can really utilize that data, it needs to go through an interaction called ETL, short for Extraction, Transformation, and Loading. 

ETL is answerable for not just making the data accessible to these associations yet in addition ensures that the data is in the correct design to be utilized productively by their business applications. Organizations today have heaps of choices while picking the privilege ETL device, for example, the ones worked with Python, Java, Ruby, GO, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg yet for this review, we’ll be focussing more on the Python-based ETL apparatuses.

What is ETL?

A center segment of data warehousing, the ETL pipeline is a blend of three interrelated advances called Extraction, Transformation and Loading. Associations utilize the ETL interaction to bind together data gathered from a few sources to assemble Data Warehouses, Data Hubs, or Data Lakes for their venture applications, similar to Business Intelligence devices. 

You can think about the whole ETL measure as an incorporation interaction that assists organizations with setting up a data pipeline and begin ingesting data into the end framework. A concise clarification of ETL is underneath. 

● Extraction: Involves everything from choosing the correct data source from numerous organizations like CSV, XML, and JSON, extraction of data, and estimating its exactness. 

● Transformation: It is the place where all the transformation capacities including data purifying are applied to that data while it holds up in a transitory or arranging region for the last advance. 

● Loading: Involves the genuine loading of the changed data into the data store or a data distribution center.

 

Python ETL tools for 2021

Python is presently surprising the world with its straightforwardness and productivity. It’s presently being utilized to build up a plenty of uses for a scope of areas. Really intriguing that the energetic local area of Python is effectively producing new libraries and instruments making Python quite possibly the most energizing and adaptable programming dialects. 

Since it has now gotten the top decision of programming language for data examination and data science projects, Python-constructed ETL devices are altogether the rage at the present time. Why? 

This is on the grounds that they influence the advantages of Python to offer an ETL instrument that can fulfill the easiest of your prerequisites as well as your most unpredictable ones as well. 

The following are the best 10 Python ETL devices that are making a commotion in the ETL business at the present time.

1. Petl

Short for Python ETL, petl is an apparatus that is assembled simply with Python and is intended to be very direct. It offers all standard highlights of an ETL apparatus, such as perusing and composing data to and from databases, documents, and different sources, just as a broad rundown of data transformation capacities. 

petl is likewise incredible enough to remove data from different data sources and accompanies support for a plenty of record designs like CSV, XML, JSON, XLS, HTML, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. 

It likewise offers a helpful arrangement of utility capacities that can allow you to envision tables, query data structures, check lines, events of qualities, and the sky’s the limit from there. As a fast and simple ETL apparatus, petl is ideal for making little ETL pipelines. 

Despite the fact that petl is an across the board ETL instrument, there are sure capacities that must be accomplished by introducing outsider bundles.

2. Pandas

Pandas has become a monstrously mainstream Python library for data investigation and control, making it a record-breaking top choice among the data science local area. It’s an amazingly simple to utilize and natural instrument that is loaded up with advantageous highlights. To hold the data in memory, pandas brings the exceptionally productive dataframe object from the R programming language to Python. 

For your ETL needs, it upholds a few ordinarily utilized data document designs like JSON, XML, HTML, MS Excel, HDF5, SQL, and a lot more record designs. 

Pandas offers all that a standard ETL device offers, making it an ideal device for quickly extricating, purging, changing, and composing data to end frameworks. Pandas likewise play well with different instruments, for example, perception devices, and more to make things simpler. 

One thing you should remember while utilizing pandas is that it places everything into memory and issues may happen on the off chance that you’re coming up short on memory.

‘Walking Tours’ by R L Stevenson.

“It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country.”

R L Stevenson’s ‘Walking Tours’ guides us to the method of enjoying a ‘walking tour’. The essay which starts with relishing the ‘walking’ ends on an unexpected note of self reflection.

Miles and miles of walk may sound exhausting but it is not so when one reads this essay. If a tour is all about viewing landscapes and picturesque places, then a train would make for a satisfactory travel. But a walking tour starts with hope and spirit and ends with replenishing ourselves with peace and spirit. A person will find pleasure after pleasure during the walk.

When going on such a tour, one shouldn’t be an ‘over walker’ for they will not comprehend the purpose of the travel. To cover a long distance by walking fast is merely to brutalize one’s own body. An over walker will neither enjoy the evening sky nor the journey and his physical exhaustion will put him to sleep. 

“It is the fate of such an one to take twice as much trouble as is needed to obtain happiness and miss happiness in the end…”

To enjoy the walking tour to the fullest, one has to go alone. For if one goes with a company or as pairs, it will be more like a picnic. In a walking tour, one should enjoy the liberty to stop and then continue. 

“…you must be open to all impressions and let your thoughts take color from what you see. You should be as a pipe for any wind to play upon.”

In the beginning of the tour, it might be difficult and one would have the urge to give up. In this case, one is to take off their knapsack, enjoy a short break and “ give three leaps and go on singing”. This will improve the mood and soon the spirit of the journey will enter them. If one constantly ponders over their anxieties and worries, which like the merchant Abudah’s chest never empties, they will never be happy about the walk. 

There are instances where one will be joined by other wayfarers. Of them is this one who walks fast with a keen look all concentrated on setting the landscape to words. There is this one who stops at each canal to look at the dragonflies and each gate to look upon cows. There is another who is busy talking, muttering, laughing and gesticulating to themselves; definitely composing the most passionate oration and articles.

There will also be that person who will sing even though he is not a master in that art. It is all fine until he comes across a stolid peasant. This person may be misunderstood for a lunatic for no reason can explain their gaiety to the passers-by. This is completely possible in a walking tour for when surrounded by pleasant things, a person will definitely skip, run, and laugh out of nowhere. Here the essayist quotes Hazlitt who had said,

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me,…I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.” 

Though the essayist had quoted it, he is against leaping and running because these actions breaks the natural rhythm of respiration and break the pace. But when one is on an equable stride, there requires no conscious thought to keep one going and it neither does engage the mind. A walking tour gives us a sense of physical wellbeing, a delightful play of fresh air, contraction of thigh muscles and makes him relish the solitude. 

“He becomes more and more incorporated with the material landscape, and the open air drunkenness grows upon him with great strides, until he posts along the road, and sees everything about him, as in a cheerful dream.”

The essayist stresses on bivouacs as a necessary part of the walking tour. One may dally time as long as one wishes to. It feels like prolonging the time and slowing it down. This is what we people in the industrial era miss. Being in a constant race with time, we have forgotten to live the time. 

“You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer’s day, that you measure out only be hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.”

The essayist draws near conclusion with a talk on an evening’s rest after a long walk. We throw ourselves into the hands of nature and bring down all our guards.

“And it seems as if a hot walk has purged you, more than of anything else, of all narrowness and pride, and left curiosity to play  its part freely, as in a child of a man of science.”

When the night leaves us alone, we are free to reflect on the way we have led our lives. We are all running after our desires and greeds, we have failed to understand how ephemeral life is.  The essayist puts out lines which makes the readers to question themselves. 

“We are in such a haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in a derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts — namely, to live.”

“We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if … to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are — is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness?”

These lines make us reflect on ourselves. It urges us to ask ourselves when was the last time we were happy, are we happy, are we living, what have we left for the world. These profound questions are for us to think. Maybe there will be no answer. To think and to live our life from here onwards is all that matters. When times get better and when you are to live, go on a walking tour.

“And whether it was wise or foolish, tomorrow’s travel will carry you, body and mind, into some different parish of the infinite.”

AN INTERVIEW WITH NOVELIST-FILMMAKER TRISHA DAS

Trisha Das, a filmmaker and bestselling author, has just published Misters Kuru: A Return to Mahabharata (HarperCollins India priced Rs 350), her latest work of feminist mythological fiction.

Ms Draupadi Kuru: A Novel is a sequel to her book. After the Pandavas, the racy, sassy roller-coaster ride full of action, adventure, romance, and comedy is set in modern-day Kalyug in Delhi as a kind of continuation of the Mahabharata.

Das has previously written and directed over 40 documentaries in her filmmaking career, winning an Indian National Film Award (2005) and being named the International Artist of the Year at the UGA (2003).

She discusses the significance of reimagining and rewriting myths from a female viewpoint, her early influences from Indian mythology, and the use of humour in mythology.

The Kuru novels are a kind of sequel to the Mahabharat, rather than a retelling. Thousands of years after the conclusion of the original Mahabharata, the storey of Ms Draupadi Kuru picks up in modern times. Draupadi and her companions descend from heaven to Delhi. The Pandava brothers accompany their women to Delhi in The Misters Kuru.

When asked the question “How were you motivated to write a feminist retelling of the Mahabharata in a contemporary setting?” She replied saying, “My motivation was simple- I wanted to give these characters another shot at their lives, at reshaping their destinies. So many of them were forced into living lives they didn’t want to- being stripped of their kingdom, exiles, et cetera. I though it would be fun to see what kind of lives they would choose, given the choice.”

A mythological woman apparently only has power over men if she has a small waist and lotus eyes, or if she is their mother.

It’s a pain. Women are celebrated for their sacrifices or their appearance rather than their accomplishments. Any form of resistance to being punished or attempt at self-determination is severely punished, and women are constantly punished for their menfolk’s dumb decisions. Ask any attractive woman wanting to take a bath in the woods. Consent is practically non-existent.

She said once, “My maternal grandfather started my fascination with mythology as a young child. He was religious, but in an inclusive way, and he told the best stories from both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. I read various versions and interpretations of the Mahabharata growing up and, as an adult, delved into the Ganguli and Debroy translations, alternate versions like Bheel Mahabharata and mythological fiction. I used to watch the TV series every Sunday on Doordarshan and point out mistakes, which everyone in my house found thoroughly annoying.”

Feminism is a relatively new phenomenon, but female dominance has always existed in some form or another. Even when the official narrative did not endorse it, women have always been strong. They worked in the shadows or exercised influence by dressing up as men, being saints, or a thousand other ways to get around the machine. Feminists are now working to shift the narrative and modify- same result, different approach.

“Expectations – Leads to heartbreak

In this world, we should never ever expect something from others because if they will not be able to fulfill, then it literally hurts like hell. I’m talking about this topic because it’s really really important for us to know, don’t be dependent on anyone either they are important or not.


What is expectations?
Let me answer to this question, expectation is something that we want others to do, what we think of. Sometimes expectations looks like dominance that you are dominating & forcing someone to do what you want. So the simple thing is – “Don’t expect anything from anyone”.

Why we expect from others?
Okay, so the answer can be because we are so close to them that’s why we have expectations from them. But the thing is that, to expect someone is not wrong but over expectations and to be sad or upset when they are not gonna live on our expectations is pretty wrong.


Is expectations right or wrong?
See, I feel expectations from others is really not wrong because what I think is , it connects people much better than before, sometimes we feel happy while fulfilling the expectation of that person. But  it really hurts when we have a lot expectations from others and they don’t even give a damm.
So according to me, we should never ever expect something from anyone, just expect from you. You are enough for yourself.

Eid Mubarak!

Know about Why and How Eid-al-Fitr is celebrated by Muslim community.

Eid-al-Fitr (also pronounced as Eid-ul-Fitr) is one of the two Eids of the Islamic Calendar. It comes after the holy month of Ramadan. This holy month is observed by Muslims every year to acknowledge the revelation of Quran to Prophet Muhammad by Allah. It falls it always falls on the first day of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar, which date does not always fall on the same Gregorian day because the date for the start of any lunar Hijri month varies based on when the new moon is sighted by local religious authorities.

It is the day when Muslim start eating their meals in the sunlight again. This festival is also known as ‘Festival of breaking Fast’ as on this day Muslims break their fast which they have been doing in the month of Ramadan.

On this day Muslims gather to express gratitude for every possession they have. They also perform donations in the form of zakat. Every Muslim contributes to the zakat according to their situations. On this day they also come forward to help the ones who are less fortunate.

On Eid, Muslim men attend the prayers (Namaz) at their local mosque while women offer their prayers from home. They all wear new clothes and visit their relatives with sweets. One of the most famous dishes of Eid is ‘Sewaiya’. On this day children receive Eidie and blessings from their elders.

Muslims typically decorate their homes, and are also encouraged to forgive each other and seek forgiveness. In countries with large Muslim populations, it is normally a public holiday with most schools and businesses closed for the day.

In the Islamic countries like Unites Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., the festival is celebrated with firecrackers and large Eid parties are held.

On this day every person greets each other with ‘Eid Mubarak’; Loosely translated: ‘Blessed Eid’. So wish all of you who fasted for a month; a happy and safe Eid. Eid Mubarak…!!!

Reel to Real Hero

Then, Known as an acting hero
Now, known for your act of hero
You saved people from sorrow
Without you many lives would have been zero
Of course the time was narrow
But your pace was an arrow
You are a saviour sparrow
Let your love be borrowed
      Salute to you Super Hero

Journalism

Communication is the exchange of information between people. It doesn’t mean verbal or non – verbal, every field of work needs a good communication. When communication is better, there’ll be no misunderstandings that lead to wrong directions. In field of Journalism, a news piece is communicated to huge audience, even the slightest miscommunication leads to grave consequences. Journalism is therefore called mass communication, which imparts and exchange information to a large section of people via mass media, newspaper, Tv, Web etc. Since most people rely on mass media to know what’s happening around them, Journalists ought to communicate facts and not opinions to the people. This must be done without any bias or motivation for profits, so that people can interpret what is based on facts and truth by themselves.

Positive effects of technology on Kids.

There’s no denying technology has an impact on a child’s development, but it is not a catastrophe if your children are using it for learning and development.

Ways how technology helps in child’s development:
Magnify creativeness
Technology helps the kid to develop researching skills and they help in growing interest such as
Animate videos and write content.
Stargazing with help of websites available online.
Can access communities and share knowledge.

Improving Language and vocabulary.
E-books and stories available online with upgraded vocabulary and language help kids to enhance their learning skills. Also, the internet provides the pronunciation of every word.

Socializing and Establishing relations.
Technology and social media are fruitful platforms to build relation later in life. Gradually people from the same fraternity come together and learn how to code, play games, etc.

Technology helps kids to grow cognitively and socially. However for the safer side li, it the interaction of technology with kids and regulate them.
If used efficiently and wisely technology can help ki9ds to grow immensely.

Robots in Healthcare

1.AI-enabled therapy

AI as a device in healthcare is utilized on various levels. It tends to be utilized to make better diagnostic instruments, improve prescriptions, and help with research (Jabbar et al., 2018). Of late, it has likewise started to be utilized as a semi-autonomous direct contact interface with the patient which is alluded to in this article as AI-enabled therapy. Since such words that used to be restricted to specialized language are in boundless use these days, they can allude to different things. Focusing on what they mean for the extent of this article; 

AI here would be misleadingly evolved algorithms that hold the ability to copy at least one psychological capacity of people somewhat. For instance; getting language (voice discovery programming) which a large number of us have encountered with ‘Siri’, or perceiving pictures (arrangement algorithms). It falls under the wing of software engineering, nonetheless, has wide applications in different fields too. 

Enabled as generally utilized in registering is characterized by Oxford as ‘adjusted for use with the predefined application or framework.’ 

Therapy is just characterized as the remediation of a medical issue. 

Hence AI-enabled therapy signifies “some misleadingly evolved algorithms which copy common human capacity to remediate medical conditions, regardless of whether they be clinical, social, psychological, or something else.” Here we will start with a wide outline of the numerous sorts of frameworks this can discuss and afterward dig further into Social Support Bots.

A simple method to characterize the sorts of AI in therapy that work at the front end, so to say, prompting human-machine corporations, is to separate between the frameworks dependent on the sort of encapsulation they use and the self-governance that they are permitted to apply. The ‘Encapsulation hub’ separates between frameworks that are computerized instead of physical. Self-rule then again infers the level of self-administration or self-activity a bot can practice without outside or hard-coded impact. 

Note that these classes are neither discrete nor supreme in their division. Self-rule, for example, is required to be fractional or restricted to their nearby climate in practically all AI-bots for at any rate a couple of years down the line. It is likewise generally a mixture of contents and self-reactions and once in a while either. Consequently, this framework has not been utilized here for great, particular order, rather it is required to consider simpler perception of the contrasts between the horde AI-empowered frameworks as of now working. The negative sign demonstrates zero adaptability of the framework being referred to and an extremely restricted scope of exceptionally unsurprising reactions which has been pre-coded. The positive sign demonstrates a generally higher scope of reaction and a more extensive space of usefulness.

Kinds of AI-enabled therapies

  • Controlled exoskeletons are wearable machines that utilize electrical, pressure driven, pneumatic, or a mix of these and different procedures to expand, help or restore appendage development. They have been utilized widely for individuals experiencing development or engine problems, paraplegia, and loss of motion, to give some examples
  • Analysis is a significant objective of any therapy and AI in finding has taken jumps and limits to make the framework more proficient. This has been additionally utilized as an immediate client contact by conveying it into application structure. Otherwise called symptomatic applications, these don’t practice any independence, they work on pre-taken care of data or through a publicly supported information base. Such applications that are open through cell phones or over the web commonly react to side effects seen by the client with a potential conclusion of the ailment that might be prevailing. They were at first acquainted as a path with ease clinical faculty of various case requests and responsibility. They have gotten significantly more advocated in the new pandemic
  • Social Support Robots:In conclusion, there are social help bots. These are physical, three-dimensional robots that apply some self-sufficiency over their reactions, which are prearranged as well as emerge to a degree because of coherence and context oriented comprehension of the circumstance around them. A more distinct terminology is given here in an investigation by Čaić et al. (2019). 
  • In a quick moving universe of expanding social distance, to some degree because of the infection yet in addition generally to a worldwide shift towards computerized innovation, social help robots might be significant in their errand help and in giving a genuinely necessary break from forlornness and social segregation. Along these lines, this specific class offers a wide extent of assistance that one with canning AI-based specialists.

OOP vs Functional Programming

You’ve likely known about Object Oriented Programming, as it’s the most famous type of programming today, yet numerous individuals appear to need information on the lesser known method, Functional programming. For this it will be going over how it varies from object oriented programming, and what are the advantages of the two methods.

Object Oriented Programming

To comprehend the contrasts between functional programming and object oriented programming, first you need to comprehend what precisely is object oriented programming. In object oriented programming you are gathering gatherings of related variables and capacities, into a particular unit, also called an “object”(this can be considered as a gigantic advantage, as you have an unmistakable method of organizing everything, and can help when managing complex frameworks). These objects can have properties, and strategies. You can consider a property a variable, and each of the variables focuses on a worth. For instance, in the event that you needed to make ” var car = ‘ABC’ “as a property with a worth, rather you would compose this as var car = {model: ‘ABC’}. Straightforward right? Presently a technique is basically a capacity that may be identified with that object. For instance, a car can likewise have a technique for ‘start’. on the off chance that you needed to compose this in an object.

One of the enormous advantages to OOP is that you can limit repetitive/rehashing code by inheritance. for instance, on the off chance that you had a lot of vehicles, you wouldn’t need to compose techniques for each and every one of them, as the strategies for start(), stop() can be acquired by all vehicles. This identifies with the last point for OOP, which would be polymorphism. In OOP you can have a beginning() technique for vehicles, however the strategy may act diversely relying upon the vehicle you are referring to ( A vehicle may be electric, beginning the battery, over a customary vehicle, which will turn on its motor).

Functional programming

Functional programming varies in a couple of various ways. In functional programming, you should have what’s designated “pure functions” which implies that a capacity should have no side effects(the work itself should have nothing that doesn’t assist with yielding its return esteem), and should not highlight any global variables, as the capacity ought to have the option to chip away at its own. Some may say this is an advantage of functional programming as you don’t need to consider or allude to whatever is outside the capacity. Something else present in functional programming would be what’s classified “immutable data”, which in straightforward words implies, try not to have the option to change any of the variables made (you can reenact this impact in JavaScript with the freeze method). On the off chance that you need to, you make another variable, however never change the current one. One more typical thing you will see in Functional programming is functions that yield different functions. A basic model might be, if you somehow happened to deduct two distinct numbers you may have a capacity that creates another capacity that will take away numbers. This can rapidly get exceptionally mind boggling, however this article here goes into it in more detail. 

In spite of the fact that OOP is “lord” right now, Functional Programming is filling in prominence, and more highlights are being carried out in dialects that permit an ever increasing number of individuals to work with this training (like the freeze method). This article doesn’t go into outrageous detail of both programming methods, however I trust this has at any rate motivated you to test, and accomplish more examination for the two ways to deal with see which you may like the best.

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Hollowness: that I understand. I’m starting to believe that there isn’t anything you can do to fix it. The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.

-Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

This is for all the girls who have just experienced a breakup. I just want you to understand that it was not your fault, so stop blaming yourself.

Breakups can be a shambles. Breakups can be excruciating. People also use memes to mask their pain and turn it into a source of amusement. They are aware, however, that it will not be easy. The agony you’re experiencing is indescribable, and no one could possibly comprehend it. You’re stuck in a rut, unsure of what to do next. Is it time to move on or not? Was he going to return or not? Is it better if I call or if he calls? Is he going through the same thing I am right now?

All of these questions have the same answer: ‘It doesn’t matter.’

What matters is how you’re keeping things together. Is it fair to be so harsh on yourself? You weren’t solely to blame. Perhaps you should set aside some time for yourself. What if he doesn’t return? So, what’s the point? You’ve got your friends, family, and, most importantly, you’ve got yourself. “But I just want him,” I know you’re wondering right now. You don’t want him, that’s the truth. YOU DON’T WANT HIM, BELIEVE ME. He abandoned you in this mess. He said he wouldn’t, but he did anyway. He deceived you. It’s time for you to do the same. He walked away without looking back, and it’s time for you to do the same. It’s past time for you to forgive yourself.

This is just like the girl on the train. Rachel, who recently experienced a breakup, is unable to accept the harsh reality. She also believes Tom loves her and that he will return. Everyone assumes she’s just a drunk girl who’s lost her job and has a broken heart.

Is anybody a fan of suspense novels? If you answered yes, you should probably read this at least once. It’s not great, but it’s not horrible either. You won’t be able to figure out who the killer is.

Apart from that, there is a lot of lying in this storey. All is deceiving one another. Many secrets are kept locked in the recesses of their minds. Loved ones are kept in the dark about secrets. However, with all of the lying, I began to doubt the confidence. Who could be trusted by whom? Rachel had faith in Tom. Scott had faith in Rachel. Anna had faith in Tom. Megan had faith in Kamal Abdic. Despite this, they all ended up rejecting each other. Okay, well, Rachel trusted herself in the end.

That’s one of the things I loved about this book: she wanted to see the whole picture and trust her intuition over Tom’s words. This is a tale about three women who were once strong but had become vulnerable as a result of their circumstances. Don’t let it happen to you as well. Have faith in yourself. Fight for your own interests. Because you are the best, girl.

‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

This is the opening line of the book ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens. Set in the time of French Revolution, this historical novel gives an insight of the cause and outcome of the revolution. The revolution, which was expected to be the kickstart of the new era and new hopes, turned out to be a bloody massacre. Dickens has intricately woven his plot to align with the timeline of the real events. 

A fiction which is set in the past is Historical fiction. Such a genre mingles the fact, events as in the recorded history, and fiction, the author’s imagination. As the novel is set in the past, the characters, the places, the language, the conflict should all accord to those of that period. The plot doesn’t completely depart from the records.  All these characteristics are observed in the novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

The novel features two cities London and Paris and which in turn bridges two countries England and France.  The French Revolution which occurs in France also casts its shadow on England.  The novel traces the causes of French Revolution. Though a part of it may be fictional as in the part of St. Marquis Evremonde, the novelist brings out the cruelty of the aristocrats in the embodiment of Evremonde. It brings out the horror of the age and how inhumanely the third estates were treated.  

“The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere.”

The conduct of the characters is also in congruence to the period. The time period and the cruelty of the age justifies the actions of the Defarges and the other revolutionaries. The conflict in the novel is also a parallel to the period of the revolutions. The novelist foreshadows from the very beginning of the impending terror in the novel. 

“The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.”

But the conflict is not only between the aristocrats and revolutionaries but also between the innocent whose lives were claimed by the revolutionaries. This is portrayed through the misfortunes of Darnay and his family. Though they were innocent, they were pulled into the political storm of France. By providing many sides of the history, the author makes us think to which degree the revolution was successful and to which degree it was a failure.

The novel doesn’t just bring out the themes of revolution, class division, poverty but also the themes of love, hatred, self-hatred, mental health and other complex themes. The character which makes the most impact in the reader is Sydney Carton. He doesn’t fail to move the readers to tears and a character with a lot of inner conflicts which is worth analyzing. No other words can give such a powerful ending as these.

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

Thus, by going beyond the expectations of readers and by enchanting them with a descriptive language, Dickens has produced a timeless classic – ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

Read more about Historical fiction at https://awriterofhistory.com/2015/03/24/7-elements-of-historical-fiction/

Read the novel at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/old/2city12p.pdf

‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’- Book by Khaled Hosseini

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

Book Review - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Author: Khaled Hosseini
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • Genre: Contemporary, Historical Fiction
  • First Publication: 2007
  • Language: English
  • Major Characters: Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, Tariq
  • Setting Place: Herat and Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Theme: History and Memory in Afghanistan, Suffering and Perseverance, Shame and Reputation, Love, Loyalty, and Belonging, Gender Relations and Female Friendship.
  • Narrator: The story is told in the third person, alternating between Laila’s and Mariam’s points of view.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a Heartbreaking story of Mariam and Laila. It represents the stereotypes against women and also implies the common quote, ‘Woman is woman’s worst enemy and a best friend’. The Storytelling is perfect and at no moment the reader feels bored or thought of putting it away.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini stretches over decades and talks about the Afghan history in which the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took over and time after that. It revolves around the story of two heroines: Mariam and Laila. Both are born and brought up differently but the severity of the war and their fate brings them together.

While all the characters are fictional in this novel, the reader feels sad after reading it. The story of both the women is heartbreaking, I myself was shoving nails into my head while reading this book. It is a great melancholic representation of the sufferings of the Afghan people.

It deals with various injustices done against women. Most of them are portrayed through Rasheed. Khaled Hosseini explicitly deals with domestic violence, Discrimination in providing education to the girl child (Aziza; Laila and Tariq’s daughter), Exploitation of women’s right to freedom, and many more. He has also glorified the qualities of motherhood and sisterhood among the women.

This novel includes the romance of Tariq and Laila which shortly turns into a tragedy. But maybe Hosseini felt a little pity for his readers and thus united both of them towards the end of the novel.

‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is a disheartening novel and it may not be a good choice for sensitive readers. Almost 3/4th of the novel is following a melancholic theme. The reader cries at the agonies and miseries faced by these two women. It is indeed a masterpiece by Khaled Hosseini. If the reader is okay with the gloomy factor of this novel then definitely should give it a try. You can purchase your own copy of this novel from here.

DAILY TECHNOLOGY

Technology is basically the way we execute the discoveries of science and blend it with our own needs. Technology is a general term used to refer to the different tools, machines and equipment we use in everyday life. These tools and equipment have been invented by man to make the tasks faster, easier and more comfortable.

Advancements of Technology:

Since the invention of the wheel to the use of microchips in computers and mobiles, technology has come a long way. The man has reached the moon and explored the outer space just because of the advancement in the aeronautics field. Even in primitive occupations such as agriculture, there have been so many technological advancements with modern tools such as traction engine and steam tractor technology which has helped us make progress.

Prominent Examples:

Although there have been countless examples where technology has changed our lives, there are some which are considered as revolutions for mankind. The technology used in the field of robotics in one such fine example. Nowadays robots are being used by people and industries all over the world for various purposes. They are also used in places which are otherwise considered harmful for humans thereby protecting us. One such area is the cleaning and managing of radioactive waste.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is another field which is a classic example of the technological advancements man has achieved. Who could have imagined that a machine would be capable of thinking like us? That is what AI has been successful in doing. It is an intelligent machine capable of behaving like us. It can do activities such as problem-solving, planning, learning and even reasoning. Today AI is used in all major areas such as warfare, security, healthcare and communication. On top of this, it is far more efficient than us and has a lower rate of error.

Importance of Technology:

Technology has its own importance in our lives. Without technological advancements, our lives would not have been simpler and faster. The modernisation that the world is witnessing today has all been possible because of the technological developments in different fields. Moreover, it has helped in reducing the risks people had to undertake in many sectors such as mining. With new tools available, the tasks are less risky and are more efficient as well.

Drawbacks of Technology:

Although technological advancements are important for us, it is also true that we seem to be over-dependent on them nowadays.

The drawbacks of technology can be seen in the following ways:

1. The use of mobiles was meant to be able to keep in touch in difficult times. But now we see kids too much involved in the different applications on mobiles and killing their valuable time.

2. Many crimes have been reported through the misuse of digital technology.

3. Also, it has been seen that many people lack the basic education required to ensure the proper use of the technology available today. In fact, most of them use it for the sake of fashion and hence end up misusing it.

4. People have been so dependent on technology that they no more want to do any kind of manual activity. Even for small works that can be done manually, people prefer to do it through technology. This has resulted in making humans mentally as well as physically dormant.

Technology is surely a boon for mankind. It is all the more important for the economic growth of a country. Modern technologies have in fact succeeded in reducing the human effort and the risk in doing a lot many things. But, still, it is for us to see how best we make use of the technology available to us.

While on one hand we can make use of technological advancements of nuclear energy to generate electricity and help many villages lighten us, at the hand the same nuclear energy can be used to create bombs which can cause mammoth destruction. Similarly, robots and other technological advancements have served as a good servant to us but the moment it becomes the master it can wipe off humanity from the Earth.

“RAMADAN”

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting(sawm), prayer, reflection and community. A commemoration of Muhammad’s first revelation,the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next.


Fasting from dawn to sunset is fard (obligatory) for all adult Muslims who are not acutely or chronically ill, travelling, elderly, breastfeeding, diabetic, or menstruating.The predawn meal is referred to as suhur, and the nightly feast that breaks the fast is called iftar.

Although fatwas have been issued declaring that Muslims who live in regions with a midnight sun or polar night should follow the timetable of Mecca,it is common practice to follow the timetable of the closest country in which night can be distinguished from day.


The spiritual rewards (thawab) of fasting are believed to be multiplied during Ramadan. Muslims refrain not only from food and drink, but also tobacco products, sexual relations, and sinful behavior,devoting themselves instead to salat (prayer) and recitation of the Quran.

History

Muslims hold that all scripture was revealed during Ramadan, the scrolls of Abraham, Torah, Psalms, Gospel, and Quran having been handed down on the first, sixth, twelfth, thirteenth (in some sources, eighteenth) and twenty-fourth Ramadans, respectively. Muhammed is said to have received his first quranic revelation on Laylat al-Qadr, one of five odd-numbered nights that fall during the last ten days of Ramadan.

Although Muslims were first commanded to fast in the second year of Hijra (624 CE) they believe that the practice of fasting is not in fact an innovation of monotheism but rather has always been necessary for believers to attain taqwa (the fear of God).They point to the fact that the pre-Islamic pagans of Mecca fasted on the tenth day of Muharram to expiate sin and avoid drought. Philip Jenkins argues that the observance of Ramadan fasting grew out of “the strict Lenten discipline of the Syrian Churches,” a postulation corroborated by other scholars, including theologian Paul-Gordon Chandler,but disputed by some Muslim academics.

‘Travel by Train’ by J B Priestly.

“I can pass, at all times, for a quiet, neighborly fellow, yet I have sat more than once, in a railway carriage with black murder in my heart.”

This quote is for you if you had ever hoped for your train journey to end fast, if you had met with passengers who roused your inner devils and had your patience tested by them. We are not always gifted with best travel companions and J B Priestly gives an account of different types of fellow travelers we meet during our journey in his essay ‘Travel by  Train.’

The first type of a traveler is the one who often arouses hatred in others.

“She is a large, middle-aged woman, with a rasping voice and a face of brass.”

Carrying heavy packages in all shapes and varying sizes, she pushes her way into smoking compartments. She glares at everyone around her until a poor victim gives their seat to her. She comes along with a ‘whining cur’ which is only less offensive than the lady by one degree. She wedges herself into the seat and the mood of the whole compartment is completely spoiled by her entry. It will be not long before she gets into trouble for there are few who are bold enough to call her out. 

“From the moment has wedged herself in there will be no peace in the carriage, but simmering hatred, and everywhere dark looks and muttered threats.”

The most common among the travelers who annoy us to varying degrees are those as follows. Firstly, the person who comes with a myriad of luggage packing every old chattel and household utensil. They buy baskets of fruits and bunches of flowers adding weight and misery to themselves and others. Then there are those who forever eat and drink during the journey. As soon as they take their seats, they pass sandwiches and pastry to each other. They talk with their mouths full, scattering food crumbs on those around them. 

“Some children do not make good travelling companions, for they will do nothing but whimper and howl through a journey,…”

Some children either weep throughout the journey or keep smearing their faces with chocolate and try to climb out of the window. There are also these ‘cranks’, as the author calls them, who insist on opening the windows on a cold winter day and on closing the windows on a hot summer day.

There are also these ‘innocents’ who always board the wrong train. Halfway through the journey, they ask if the train is going to their destination. When proved contrary, they get off at the next station looking clueless.

“I have often wondered if these simple voyagers ever reach  their destinations, for it is not outside probability that they may be shot from station to station, line to line, until there is nothing mortal of them.”

The author envies the ‘mighty sleepers’ the most who fall asleep the moment they settle in their seats. While other passengers have to spend their journey in a boring way, they go on adventures and quests in their dreams. But no matter how deep asleep they are, they always wake up two minutes before their destination and get off at the right station.

The author remarks that the Seafaring men are the best companions for they have the best stories to tell. But they are hard to come across. As a contrast, we meet the ‘confidential stranger’ who compels us to listen to his ‘interminable story of his life’ and some boring hobbies. Lastly, there is this elderly gentleman who starts the conversation by telling that “the train is at least three minutes behind time.” On the cue of the slightest interest, he recites the whole railway time table and the essayist warns the readers of such an elderly gentleman.

“Beware of the elderly man who sits in the corner of the carriage and says that the train is two minutes behind the time, for he is the Ancient Mariner of railway travelers,…”

Have you come across any of these travelers? Or do you belong to one of these travelers? Which is your worst train travel? It’s time to think about it.

The Dire Need of youngsters in politics

Despite being one of the world’s youngest democracies, the percent of young people participating in Indian politics is negligible.


The youth plays a vital role in the country’s politics. The participation of young members can help in reforming things in society. Nowadays the youth tries to participate in politics via social media posts. But there is a dire need for young people to come out and participate more actively and professionally

With the growing up corruption, nepotism, criminalization in politics, lack of responsibility, shifting the onus towards the people, etc. The youth has
lost interest in being a participant in politics. They have materialized politics as a dirty game.

The young politician we have currently in our country mostly belong to influential families. They are in politics just because their ancestors were a part of it. I firmly believe that the veteran in politics should promote youth participation and guide them to a path to bring reformation to society. The youth can be a torchbearer and can comprehend contemporary youth problems which can ensure a greater sense of inclusiveness in our democratic system

The right balance of youth and experienced politicians can bring dire changes to the collapsing democracy.

What Is Patriarchy?

Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage.

Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas, a patriarchal ideology that acts to explain and justify this dominance and attributes it to inherent natural differences between men and women. Sociologists hold varied opinions on whether patriarchy is a social product or an outcome of innate differences between the sexes.

Historically, patriarchy has manifested itself in the social, legal, political, religious, and economic organization of a range of different cultures. Most contemporary societies are, in practice, patriarchal.

How Patriarchy Affects Men

Toxic masculinity begins when a child is born. The blue outfit and blue beanie atop their head says, “male”. As a male child grows they are often told that they cannot play with “female” toys, and that if they are hurt they must not cry or show emotion. The phrases, “man up” and “act like a man” are typical, toxically-masculine phrases that are consistently said to young boys. As a child gets older the toxicity grows, men that do not fit into patriarchal norms are called “faggot” and “pussy”. “The socialization of young boys often prepetuates this violence and bullyig by claiming that boys will be boys” ; alluding to men that it is okay to be violent and aggressive.

The term “toxic masculinity” is not meant to demonize men, but rather to show the harmful effects of conforming to traditional “masculine” traits such as dominance, self-reliance, and competition.

Patriarchal society perpetuates toxic masculinity, which perpetuates, sexual assault, sexual aggression, substance abuse, negative mental health, domestic violence, and negative parenting techniques and expectations. For example, being a stay-at-home dad is not “normal”, but being a stay-at-home mom is both normal, and encouraged. For a woman to make more money than her male partner is frowned upon, and thus the male partner feels less than. These two examples are all directly linked to the fact that our culture sees parenting and childcare as a feminine activity.

Conclusion

If we don’t begin by raising our children to understand that traditional gender roles are antiquated and unnecessary, we will have another generation of women, and society as a whole, living in a rape culture. By not understanding how patriarchy impacts men, we are negating the entire message of feminism: that there should be equality amongst all genders.

‘With the Photographer’ by Stephen Leacock.

“Is it me?”, I asked.

Have you had an instance where you had wondered if the person in the picture is you? Has your photo been photoshopped to the point where it departs from resemblance to you? If so, the quote will be relatable. 

Stephen Leacock, a Canadian writer, is best known for his humor. Through his light-hearted and humorous writings, he brings out the follies in people. His essay ‘With the Photographer’, as the title suggests, gives an encounter between the narrator and a photographer. The narrator enters the studio and takes his seat. The photographer remarks on the narrator’s face and how he doesn’t like it.

“The face is quite wrong,” he said.

“I know,” I answered quietly, ”I have always known it.” 

The photographer further instructs on how to pose and this forms a funny narrative in the essay. This also reminds us how we are often told by the photographers when we go to the studio. The photographer keeps stressing on the narrator’s face which makes him angry. Unable to withstand such remarks, the narrator utters these words.

“Stop,” I said with emotion but, I think, with dignity. “The face is my face. It is not yours, it is mine. I’ve lived with it for forty years and I know its faults, I know it is out of drawing. I know it wasn’t made for me, but it’s my face, the only one I have–”…”such as it is, I’ve learned to love it.”

The passage also makes us think about ourselves. Instead of resenting ourselves for not reaching the so-called beauty standards, we should learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are. We may not be beautiful but there is no fault in it. It is no mistake. Learning to love ourselves is the first step to a happy life.

Not heeding to his words, the photographer takes a picture of the narrator when he was speaking. The photographer asks the narrator to come again on Saturday to get the picture. When the narrator visits the studio on Saturday, he is bewildered at the photograph of him. The photo no longer looks like him and the reason is because the photographer had retouched it. This ‘retouch’ can be considered as a photoshop of that age. He had used chemicals like Delphide and Sulphide to ‘retouch’ the picture. The photographer is proud of the changes he made in the photograph and how he made the ugly features of the narrator look good. This only angers the narrator.

“Listen! I came here for a photograph – a picture – something which would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heavens gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been. I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss. It seems that I was mistaken. What I wanted is no longer done. …”

Spilling these words, the narrator leaves the studio with tears. Though the essay seems funny, it leaves a room for profound discussion.

RELATOS SALVAJES

Name : Wild Tales/ Relatos Salvajes (2014)
Director Damián Szifron
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo
Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas
Genre: Anthology, Drama
Language: Spanish (Argentina)
Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video

Wild Tales is a collection of six stories set in modern Argentina and linked by a popular theme of vengeance. The film is a character study of seemingly ordinary people, much like you and me, who are forced to the breaking point by extraordinary circumstances. It is the past that haunts them at times, and external stimulation that pricks them on the head at other times that drives them insane. The film does a fantastic job of introducing the protagonists, setting conflict, and, most importantly, eliciting empathy – making you care for the characters and their circumstances, which is a common complaint in an anthology since there is less time to set up the characters and make them relatable. Despite the fact that the segments are set in Argentina, the conflicts that the characters face are similar – they are dealing with socioeconomic, political, and class problems.

The film lives up to its title, with each successive segment becoming more ferocious, culminating in a mayhem with more tonal changes than your average Korean film. What’s the best part? It’s successful! The segments are more about the characters than the storey, demonstrating the heights to which they can rise given human tendencies. While they can be extreme at times, you understand why they are acting the way they are, and you would have acted similarly if you were in their shoes.

This leads us to perhaps Wild Tales’ most effective technique: including the viewer in the storytelling. You don’t get 4, but you do get 2+2. The director does not spoon-feed the plot and instead leaves it to the viewer to link the dots, which allows for an enjoyable experience.

There’s nothing quite like the rush you get when you’re able to link the dots and feel intelligent. The film is also very approachable, with plenty to offer both general audiences and film buffs.

‘Where is my BEST HUSBAND Award?’

“She’s not even appreciating me for doing the household chores and managing the kids myself for the whole day…!!!”

Excuse me, What? Are you asking for an award just because you did the work that women have been doing almost everyday since ages? 

This might sound astonishing to you but this is what our society has been fighting for. By ‘Our Society’, I indirectly mean to point out ‘Our patriarchal Society’. 

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We hear this word ‘Patriarchy’ on a day-to-day basis now, but what is the meaning of this word? Patriarchy simply means the supremacy of the male members of the family. What it indirectly hints at is the inferiority of the female members. We have witnessed this patriarchy since we were kids. Don’t tell me you did not. When you were asked who your superhero is, Didn’t you respond- Dad? We have always seen our mothers working day and night at home doing all the household chores, managing the kids, cooking the food and yet no one has ever appreciated her work. This is a very minute example for the patriarchal system that continues to be passed on as a legacy to every next generation. 

But didn’t patriarchy exist before? And if it did then why was it not so much talked about? The simple answer to this is the lack of awareness among the women to acknowledge the wrongs being done to them. And one cannot fight the issue which is not even accepted as an issue. In the times of our grandparents, everyone believed this is how life ought to be and thus women accepted every dominance done by the opposite gender. 

Today the means of communications have excelled and it has become quite easy for us to know what is going on in the other parts of the world. Because of the developed communication, social media and other sources, the women are aware of what is wrong and as the common proverb of hindi says, ‘Bardaasht karne ki bhi hadd hoti hai, jab sanyam ka ghada bhar jaata hai toh wo toot jaata hai’ Loosely translated: There is a limit to tolerate and when enough of the patience is tested, it breaks. This can also be the reason why women are raising their voices against the patriarchal norms. 

While there are so many patriarchal customs being followed in our society, there are still many who deny it exists. For those denying these, some of them are listed below:

Dowry System: 

  • This is one of the major reasons why women are considered as a liability on the family. There’s a celebration on the birth of the boy child whereas the family mourns when a girl child is born because when she’ll be married the family will have to arrange the dowry. As a solution to this many girl children are killed as a foetus whereas others are drowned in the milk vessel after birth. 
  • If somehow the girl manages to escape the cruelty from their paternal family, she is killed by her in-laws if they are not satisfied with the dowry. This is termed as ‘dowry death’ in our Indian constitution. According to Indian National Crime Record Bureau, there were 8,239 dowry death cases, 1,285 cases of attempted dowry deaths, and another 4,890 cases with pending investigations in 2009.

Sati Pratha: 

  • ‘Shave her head, break her bangles’; ‘Who will take care of the child, you must remarry’. These are two different cases- First, when the husband dies; Second, when the wife dies.
  • It has always been believed in our Indian society that a woman’s life is nothing after her husband. After the death of a husband, a widow is seen as a public property by other men and as unluck by her own family. She is not allowed to enter holy events because her presence is considered inauspicious. Imagining the atrocities of this, many women wilfully gave up their lives by sitting alive on the burning pyre. 

Ridiculous, Isn’t it? But many of these customs have been eradicated with the help of new laws and orders regulated by our constitution. In modern India, people have derived modern ways of formulating the patriarchy. Some of them can be listed as:

Unequal Pay: 

  • When there is no inequality found in assigning the tasks to women, there is a major difference found in their pay-scale. This is one of the major issues found in the corporate world and even the movie industry. This issue needs to be spoken of. 

Lack of policies: 

  • While many companies offer paid maternity leave, there are still many companies who fail to provide the same. Left with no option, women have to leave their jobs. There is still the lack of creche facilities in every domain of the work sector. While fathers enjoy their fatherhood, we need to ask the mothers who lost their careers for their child. 
  • Many companies lack the policies to safeguard women’s right resulting in the rise sexual harassment cases at work place. Due to the lack of these policies today only 6% of urban women enjoy employment. 

Overburdening: 

  • Some years ago, women used to manage the household. With the increasing inflation rate, it has become almost inevitable for women to not work. Women are stepping forward to share the responsibilities of their husbands, but this case isn’t vice versa.
  • With women stepping into the work-sector their workload seems to just have increased. Now they have to manage their work at the workplace and also complete their household chores. Too unfair!

For how many is this overburdening going to continue? It is high time for every woman to speak against injustice. Our Society really needs to understand that, ‘Women are not the goddess of sacrifice neither are they a sexual toy to be played with.’ As our former Prime Minister said: You can tell the condition of a Nation by looking at the status of its Women, Women are not a liability for the nation, instead they are an asset.

DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE

You may have heard about ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Divergent’, ‘The Maze Runner’ but have you noticed the elements they have in common? All represent a wretched state of society characterized by oppression, unhappiness, and rebellion. They all belong to the genre of dystopian literature.

In the 16th century, Thomas More dreamed of Utopia – an ideal state of things, people and society are happy and peaceful deprived of sadness and destruction. The following centuries proved it impossible for such a state to prevail. There were endless wars, revolts and rebellion,exploitation,unprecedented scientific discoveries, and disruption. All these provided endless materials for the new form of literature – the Dystopian literature.  

Dystopia is contrary to Utopia. Dystopia characterizes a complete havoc and a wrecked state which is beyond repair. It portrays an imperfect world. The main themes of such a literature are extreme divisions in society, rebellion, environmental destruction, disaster and dehumanization. 

As seen in the above mentioned fictions, there is an organization or a character with a propaganda to dictate people of the state. In such a state, there is a difference of power leading the citizens to an unfair treatment and are left to live in poor conditions. President Snow in The Hunger Games has complete control over the people and people lead their life adhering to his regulations. And so, there is a clear difference in the standards of living between the people of Panem and other districts.

There is no independence, free access to information and all are expected to be uniform leaving no place for individuality. People of the state idolize an authoritarian or an idea. The characters or the people live in an illusion that their society is an utopia. In the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, the state, which is set in Chicago, is divided into five factions namely Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, Dauntless and Candor. It is expected of all people to fall into either one of the factions. But we see that the protagonists Beatrice and Tobias, who don’t belong to any of these factions, are ostracized. In the beginning, the characters in the story believe such a division in society as ideal and necessary for an order in the state. 

The characters are often monitored by some authority and nothing misses their watch. Being confined to their own little world, characters fear entering the outside world. They are ignorant of what lies outside their state. The outside world is either banished or not allowed to interact. In The Maze Runner series by James Dashner, the Gladers are constantly watched by some mysterious authority which is later found out to be WICKED. Being shut in the Glade, the characters don’t know what lies outside the maze for none has reached it and came back alive. They accept the challenge and make it out of the maze. They later notice that the outside state is in a state of ruin with a dangerous virus called Flare affecting people. So, the immune Gladers are not allowed to interact with the outside world.

Dystopian literature is also speculative literature. They hypothesize of a future which present conditions may lead to and warns of the imminent dangers. It also criticizes those aspects of society which may cause the downfall in the near future.  Now look around and ask yourself if you are living in dystopia.

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Also watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6kbU88wu0 

Armed with PPE kits, Sisters protecting their netizens.

An article to pay tribute to all the frontline nurses on this INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY.

When we have always celebrated the Raksha-Bandhan tying the Rakhi on our brother’s hand, we need to understand that in this pandemic it is not just the brothers who are protecting us but the Sisters who wear their armor as PPE kits and are battling against the virus. Today is the day we pay tribute to them, Yes today is International Nurses Day.

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International Nurses Day is an annual event celebrated on 12th May every year. It marks the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, an English nurse, a social reformer, and a statistician who founded the key pillars of modern nursing. It is commemorated every year by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) who also decides the theme of the event. The ICN’s key pillars are Professional practice, Regulation, and Socio-economic welfare. The theme for International Nurses Day 2021 is ‘Nurses: A Voice to Lead- A vision for future healthcare’.

While declaring the theme for IND 2021 on 15 October 2020, ICN President, Annette Kennedy said, ‘This global COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world the important role that nurses play in keeping people healthy across the lifespan, While there has been significant disruption to healthcare, there has also been significant innovation that has improved access to care. In 2021, we will focus on the changes to and innovations in nursing and how this will ultimately shape the future of healthcare.’

According to the WHO, ‘nurses account for more than half of all the world’s health workers, yet there is an urgent shortage of nurses worldwide with 5.9 million (2020) more nurses still needed, especially in low and middle-income countries.’ As reported by INC on 31 December 2020, more than 1.6 million healthcare workers have been infected by the virus while battling against it.

Though being at the forefront since the pandemic started, many people fail to appreciate the services of a nurse which leads to the inhumane behavior towards the nurse. They forget that if doctors are able to save lives, it is because of the equal assistance given by the nurses. Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. Let us not forget their selfless devotion and dedication to saving lives. Here is a video of frontline workers raising the spirits of patients:

This day comes of great significance in the middle of the pandemic. It is a great opportunity for us to pay a tribute to these heroes and express our gratitude for their noble work. Let’s laud them for their service towards humanity; ‘Respect and Gratitude…!!!’

Let’s conclude this article with the following lines from Muskurayega India:

Phir se sadakon pe sab naachenge (The roads will again be filled with dances)
Patri pe pahiye bhaagenge (The wheels will bustle again on the tracks)
Goonjege khelon ke maidaan (The Playgrounds will feel lively again)
Baatenge sab khushiyan (Everyone will share the happiness)
Gham bhi hum milkar baatenge (and will also share the griefs)
Phir se hogi sapno ki udaan (The dreams will catch a flight again)

Are you neglecting the Little Things in your life?

We are so much consumed in achieving the big goals of our life that we forget to appreciate the small moments which can provide us immense happiness. After all, the big moments are comprised of hundreds of small decisions and moments of our life.

Having big goals and being dedicated towards them is great, No doubt!. But if you get too caught up in getting to the destination you might forget to appreciate the journey. These little moments are like the journey when you enjoy the journey you achieve fulfillment. There’s a quote by Bruce Burton that says” Sometimes I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

When you neglect to enjoy the little things in your life, you are left with struggles, stress, burden, and challenges.

Life moves so fast that we are on autopilot mode. We are in a state of the perpetual task of life. But sometimes you gotta halt and look around yourself for a moment and enjoy the little things you come across in your way.

When you have an appreciation for little things in life, you experience a sense of happiness and fulfillment. So pay attention to the little moment and be thankful for them.

Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the displaying and reproduction of the manner in which people think and act. Antiquated civilisations in Greece, Egypt and China have concocted the possibility of mechanical men and robotization. Scholars as far back as Aristotle have attempted to concoct various strategies to portray human ideas and information. Man-made intelligence draws on the innovative work from different orders including reasoning, science, financial aspects, neuroscience, brain research, semantics and PC designing. Through reproducing the manner in which people think and act, we can utilize machines to assist us with tackling a considerable lot of the issues people face. 

The introduction of artificial intelligence 

The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a technique used in AI for deciding if a machine is equipped for having a similar outlook as a person. The test stays important today and in his proposition, six controls of AI were depicted: 

  • Regular language handling 
  • Information portrayal 
  • Mechanized thinking 
  • AI 
  • Computer Vision 
  • Robotics

Symbolic AI techniques are based on high-level “symbolic” (human-readable) representations of problems, logic and search. Symbolic AI was the dominant paradigm of AI research from the mid-1950s until the late 1980s. One popular form of symbolic AI is expert systems, which uses a network of production rules. Two main areas continue to be highly researched are robotics and computer vision dealing with image processing and spatial awareness.

Robotics

The Babylonians developed the clepsydra in around 600BC, a clock that measures time using the flow of water. It’s considered one of the first “robotic” devices in history. Subsequently, inventors like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph Marie Jacquard have come up with various designs and implementations of robotics.

Computer Vision 

Marvin Minksy was one of the initial individuals to connect computerized vision to AI through a computer during the 60s. He educated an alumni understudy to associate a camera to a computer and have it portrayed what it sees. During the 80s, specialists began to investigate various strategies for picture acknowledgment. Kunihiko Fukushima constructed the ‘neocognitron’, which is the forerunner of current Convolutional Neural Networks. Notwithstanding, because of absence of handling power at that point and helpless comprehension of neural organizations, improvement in this space was hindered as a component of the AI winter period. 

During the 90s, we started to see expanded utilization of computer vision in the space of observation. Going into the 21st century, examination and business utilization of computer vision saw a remarkable development. Google had a major influence in utilizing its enormous ranches of computers to create picture acknowledgment neural organizations and other huge players followed. Today, computer vision is essential for our regular day to day existences from the applications we use on our telephones to assembling, reconnaissance, craftsmanship and transportation.

Machine Learning 

Machine learning includes calculations that empower programming to improve its presentation over the long run as it gets more information. This is modifying by input-yield models instead of simply coding and is a type of example acknowledgment. In this field, there is a need to take care of machines with a great deal of information for the machine to learn and make forecasts. Machines can learn in numerous measurements and interact with a lot of information.

Deep Learning 

Deep learning is an AI work worried about calculations propelled by the construction and capacity of the cerebrum called neural organizations (NN). Deep Learning utilizes layers of calculations to handle information where data is gone through each layer, with the yield of the past layer giving contribution to the following layer. The principal layer in an organization is known as the info layer, while the latter is called a yield layer. Every one of the layers between the two are alluded to as covered up layers. Each layer is regularly a basic, uniform calculation containing one sort of actuation work. Learning can be administered, semi-managed or unaided. The three primary sorts of NN are artificial neural organizations (ANN), convolutional neural organizations (CNN) and repetitive neural organizations (RNN).

Powerful Web Development Tools in 2022

Web Development Framework

Web development frameworks are programming frameworks utilized by engineers to facilitate a web application measure that incorporates web assets, web administrations, and web API. They help engineers focus more on their undertakings as opposed to the intricate coding part. Web system helps in the: 

It works on the upkeep and improvement of a web application. 

A system intends to let planners or engineers center around building a special element for their web-based ventures. Presently, in view of your task, you may pick one web structure that satisfies every one of your necessities.

  • Frameworks help engineers save time and energy during application development as they don’t have to zero in on meeting taking care of, blunder dealing with, information sanitisation, and so on 
  • Frameworks that as of now have a decent skeleton design to utilize can make efficient web applications all the more without any problem,
  • Facilitates troubleshooting, application arrangement, and support 
  • They offer apparatuses to cover the basic CRUD cases like make, read, update, erase 
  • They have implicit security includes that naturally shield the website from both present and future security dangers 
  • Improves Database Proficiency 
  • Decreases Code Length

1. React.js

It is in fact not a framework. Indeed, React is a library for building composable UIs. It is a revelatory, proficient, and adaptable open-source JavaScript library that assists with making quick, straightforward, and versatile frontends of web applications. 

React.js was made by Facebook in 2011, and in 2013, Facebook made it open-source. At first, the engineer local area dismissed it, as it utilized Markup and JavaScript in a solitary document. Be that as it may, when more individuals began trying different things with it, they began inviting the segment driven methodology for isolating concerns. 

An ever increasing number of organizations perceive the significance of a decent User Experience, and React.js fills in as the most straightforward approach to smooth out your application experience. All things considered, we should see its advantages.

benefits

  • Is flexible: Compared to other front-end frameworks, the React code is easier to maintain also due to its modular structure, it is flexible. This flexibility saves a huge amount of time and money to businesses.
  • It makes complex apps run extremely fast: React.js was designed to provide high performance in mind. The core of the framework offers: A virtual DOM program and Server-side rendering. This makes complex apps run extremely fast.
  • Easy to learn: Compared to Angular & Vue, React.js is much easier to learn. This is one of the reasons why React gained popularity so fast. It helps businesses build their projects faster. Many businesses and big brands are more likely to use React as it is a simple framework that is easy to learn and get started with.
  • Helps build rich user interfaces: Today, the user interface (UI) quality matters a lot. If your application’s UI is poor, chances are that your application won’t succeed. At the same time, if your application is of top-notch, then there are better chances that your users will love to use your application. And, React.js can help you create such kinds of applications.
  • It is SEO-friendly: If you don’t know, let me tell you, for online business, SEO is the gateway to success. Page loading speed is one of the critical factors that help your site rank high in search engines. When faster a page loads, the chances are more your app will rank better on search engines.

2. Angular

Precise is a sought after open-source advancement JavaScript framework kept up by Google. Google works this framework and is intended to be utilized for creating rich Single Page Applications (SPA). It can make every one of the intelligent components we ordinarily find on a site. Over a large portion of 1,000,000 sites like Google, Youtube, Netflix, and so forth, utilize Angular.

benefits

  • Supports SPA features: SPAs are a web application type that loads a single HTML page. The page is updated dynamically according to the user’s interaction with the web app. SPAs provide a better user experience as no one likes to wait too long for reloading the whole webpage.
  • Has a declarative UI: Angular creates templates using HTML. It is a declarative language that is popularly used. Thanks to its scalability and innate intuitiveness.
  • Has a two-way binding feature: Angular has a two-way binding feature. The benefit of two-way binding is almost automatic retrievals from (and updates to) the data store. When the data store updates, the UI also immediately gets updated.
  • Real-time testing: Angular allows for both end-to-end testing and unit testing. It offers a testing feature such as dependency injection that helps to oversee how the components of your web application are generated.
  • Cross-platform: You can use Angular to make web applications, native mobile apps desktop apps.

3.Vue.js:

Vue.js began as an individual task, and it immediately began getting perhaps the most moving JS frameworks out there. It is an open-source JS framework for making an imaginative UI. The reconciliation with Vue in projects utilizing other JS libraries is improved as it is intended to be versatile. 

Right now, in excess of 36,000 sites are utilizing Vue. It is a much trustworthy stage for creating cross-stage. At the point when you need to assemble reformist web applications (PWAs) or web applications that must be more modest in size, you can pick Vue.js.

Benefits

  • Exceptionally little size: The accomplishment of the JS framework descends to its size. One of the huge benefits of Vue.js is its little size (18–21KB). Because of its more modest size, it takes no effort for the client to download it and use it. 
  • Designer well disposed: Developers love Vue.js in light of the fact that it is created in view of them, and it is an extraordinary innovation. 
  • It makes refreshing simple: After you have conveyed your application, you need to stay up to date with bug fixes, extra highlights, and different upgrades. It upholds two-way information restriction due to its MVVM (Model see Model) engineering. In this way, whatever refreshes you make in your UI, it will be reflected back to the information and the other way around. 
  • Well known and picked by the best: While it’s simpler to discover designers who are as of now with React or Angular, the expectation to absorb information of Vue makes it simple to prepare your workers to utilize the innovation. That is to say, on the off chance that you as of now have a group of engineers, you don’t really need to enroll new ones.

We shall overcome

Covid 19 second phase
Is quite a serious case
It took so many days
Without leaving still it stays
Listen to what the government says
Or you will not be found in trace
Do not roam around like a craze
It’ll affect you like a fire of blaze
We have to run through this difficult race
Till we find some other way to chase
It’s spreading very pace
So Stay safe in your place
Have some courage to face
For you’ll get some grace
Bend your knees to Pray
Or you’ll become a prey

CBSE Launched ‘Dost for life’ App

The Central Board of Secondary Education has launched a counselling app for class 9 to class 12 students. The counselling app is named Dost for life. The purpose of this app is to improve students’ psycho-social wellness.

Through this app, live counselling sessions will be conducted free of cost on Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the trained counsellors. The app will also provide students information on suggestive course guides after ten plus two, tips on mental health and well-being, a corona guide and rap songs. India’s education system has been hit very hard since April 2020, when schools and colleges shut down due to infection worries. Most were not open even in May 2021, creating a huge break in education continuity for crores of students.

ATTITUDE

My attitude is my unique gift which i am not obliged to explain to anyone.

4 Different Types of Attitudes of People As Per Psychology | Styles At Life

Our attitude defines our mood or behaviour towards things, situations and individuals. All humans are made up of different vital statistics, features , mental abilities and nature . While every human is similar in structure what makes them unique is your attitude. Attitude does not only depicts your behaviour but it also includes emotions, feelings and the way you look at things.

Having the right attitude is essential for a human being to keep moving successfully in life. Not every situation is the same but what matters is your attitude towards it. By feeling positive and taking things forward with the right attitude one can change their life.

My behaviour depends on your attitude and my attitude depends on your behaviour but my personality doesn’t depend on anything.

– Anshuman Sharma

Attitude refers to one’s behaviour and thinking . A person’s attitude is quickly analyzed by anyone by reading their body language, communication, skills and facial expressions. Since every human being has a different perspective on life, the attitude also differs in each individual . Some take life positively and lightly, while some do not believe in this agenda and tend to take too much stress in their daily lives which causes anxiety and depression. In simpler words, attitude is one’s behaviour and approach towards life. When you are positive, you tend to take everything with the right attitude and the right perspective which leads to fruitful things in life.

Their is the belief that when people have the right attitude they mostly succeed in their lives and every outcome comes out with flying colors . Having a positive attitude towards life can help you make the right decision even in the hard times. We can only drive our goals when we know how to take things with a positive spirit and let poor situations outside from life with a healthy frame of mind. If someone is making fun of your thoughts, looks, belief and more and you are positively taking up each challenge, then nobody can stop you from getting success in life. Moreover, if you think that you will not be able to do anything , you are pessimistic about life and skills. Thus, being optimistic plays a major role in driving through life with the right attitude.

All human creatures have different skills, which a person should explore themselves if you are thinking you’re not the right person by hearing some bad reviews about you. You’re making a wrong decision because this thing will not give you the success that you deserve. So, believing in your looks, skills and yourself is something that stands you out from the crowd. Some people believe that being rich or having money in your pocket can give you a chance to show yourself. Suppose you have talent that doesn’t just press it under your mouth . Show the world who you are and people will accept you when you have the right talent, the right platform and the right attitude to show them.

60 Best Behavior Quotes And Sayings

It does not matter if you are wealthy or jobless, it is only your attitude and outlook towards life that makes a difference. It is said that when there is calmness inside you, the outer circumstances fail to affect your peace of mind. Following this advice, many entrepreneurs, speakers , teachers and monks have fulfilled the purpose of their life. If you have everything such as good wealth, health, supportive friends and family but have an arrogant attitude towards people, nobody will respect or appreciate you. So, the moral for “Attitude is great” is that it is necessary to opt for a healthy and positive attitude to strive through life and difficult situations we face as we age. Keep up with the positive attitude and see your life unfolding for the better in the near future.

Make everything right with attitude… with right attitude!

Curfew Vs Lockdown

Difference between curfew and lockdown:
CURFEW
Curfew is an order or law that commands people to stay indoors after a certain time at night. In a curfew the Police Commissioner and the Collector holds the power. In addition to the act 144 all the other things are shut even the essentials except from emergency services like hospitals. The essentials such as grocery stores, vegetables, milk shops, ATM’s will also be shut during curfew. The district administration is free from the action once the curfew is implemented. Only the cops and the administrative people are allowed to come outdoors. The police have got all the rights to arrest a person who violates the curfew.
LOCKDOWN
Lockdown is under the control of the chief medical officer in a particular area under epidemic diseases act 1897. In a lockdown there should not be more than five people in closed quarters. All the essentials such as grocery stores, milk shops, ATM’s and vegetables will be open. In a lockdown the police don’t have the rights to arrest anyone who violates the lockdown, instead they can warn and advice the people to stay home. But if the person adversarial then the police have got all the rights to arrest the person under the section 269 and 270 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Be it Curfew or Lockdown please stay indoors. The world is facing the biggest crisis now and as humans we hold the greatest responssibility to save our own people. Amidst this pandemic people lend their helping hands just to save the fellow beings and keeping all these in mind and heart we should stay home. Stay Home Stay Safe..

DIET ANT NUTRITION DURING COVID-19

There is little doubt that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting every aspect of our lives—from virtual classrooms to telecommuting to early restaurant closing times to outright quarantines. Observing public health measures and reducing exposure to the virus are required to slow the spread of this disease. No one knows how long these virus safety measures will need to stay in place, but it presents a perfect time to protect and improve your health while practicing social distancing. Healthy eating is especially important for keeping your immune system in top condition. Here are some steps you can take to eat healthy in the times of COVID.

THREE STEPS TO STAY HEALTHY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

1.Minimize the trips to the supermarket and eat healthy

Plan ahead. Visualize breakfast, lunch, and dinner for at least 5 days. What will you serve? What do you need? Consider the foods your family likes, your food preparation methods, interests and skills, and the time and energy you will have for preparing meals. Working from home may not mean there is more time to cook—especially if you are now responsible for teaching your kids and doing the work your employer expects.

Have children at home? Include children in meal planning, preparation, and clean up while teaching them writing, math, reading, and science. 

  • Reading/Writing: Ask your kids to make a list of what’s in the pantry and refrigerator. Then, have them look through cookbooks or online recipes sites to find meals and snacks that use up what is on hand.  Have them share their breakfast, lunch, or dinner meal ideas.
  • Math: Find math in measuring spoons and cups, counting out numbers of ingredients, taking stock of pantry items, or planning the time it will take to prepare, cook, eat, and clean up a meal. 
  • Science: Get kids involved in baking bread, cooking an egg, or creating a homemade salad dressing—then, search the internet to discover the science behind why ingredients change when they are combined, heated, or blended

Think nutrition. The healthiest meals emphasize whole grains, vegetables, and fruits—serve them in the greatest amounts.  Meat portions should be smaller—this will save money and help keep dietary saturated fat in check. 

Make a shopping list—and use it!  You’ll be less like to forget items or buy impulse items.

Stock upon nutrition packed foods that stay fresh longer

  • Breads—corn tortillas, whole grain English muffins, bagels, breads, wraps, frozen whole wheat waffles
  • Grains—instant oatmeal, quick cooking pasta, frozen brown rice, couscous, refrigerated pizza crust
  • Fruits—sturdy fresh fruit (apples, citrus), dried, plain frozen, canned in juice or water
  • Vegetables—sturdy fresh veggies (celery, broccoli, onions, potatoes), plain frozen, low sodium canned, sun-dried
  • Sauces—tomato pasta sauce, salsa
  • Soups & Broths—canned, frozen, shelf-stable cartons
  • 100% Juice—refrigerated, frozen, canned, boxed
  • Milk—fresh, canned, shelf-stable packages
  • Eggs—fresh eggs, egg whites in cartons
  • Cheese—sliced, cubed, shredded, crumbled, grated hard cheese
  • Beans/Legumes—canned beans (black beans, chickpeas), dry beans
  • Nuts and seeds—bagged, canned, nut butters
  • Chicken—frozen or canned
  • Seafood—frozen ready-to-cook fish fillets, frozen shrimp, canned tuna, salmon, and sardines
  • Beef—pre-made frozen lean ground patties or meatballs
  • Flavorings—add zing with dried herbs & spices, vinegars, mustard, hot/steak sauces, lemon/lime juice, light dressings, honey, Greek yogurt

Go easy on the frozen dinners—most are high in sodium, fat, and calories.

Limit purchases of tempting foods like chips, sodas, cookies, and ice cream. They are high in empty calories and run up your grocery bill.

Keep costs down—consider low cost alternatives. Instead of buying ready-made hummus, pureed a drained can of chickpeas to make your own. Try a meatless meal, like chili with beans instead of beef. If fresh fruits and veggies are too costly—remember, canned and frozen fruits and vegetables provide the same nutrients as fresh. Best bets are plain frozen veggies and fruits. Go for low sodium canned veggies and fruits canned in juice or water—if these are in short supply, buy regular canned fruits and veggies—drain and rinse before use.

Think about friends and neighbors, especially older adults or those with health conditions. Could you save them a trip to the grocery store?

Try online shopping—it will save you time and let you keep your social distance. Be sure to play ahead, many stores need a day or two from order to delivery or pickup.

While at the supermarket during the Coronavirus pandemic…

Use a disinfecting wipe—wipe your hands and grocery cart handle, then put the wipe in the trash.

Prepared for the unexpected—supermarkets are running low on many items. Be sure to take your own bags. Be ready with a back-up plan if an ingredient you need is unavailable.

Keep the less fortunate in mind—contribute to local pantries and soup kitchens now. Then, when it is all over—donate extra food you stocked up on that is still fresh and safe to eat.

Use contactless payment or credit cards. If you use the payment keypad, tap the buttons and screen with your knuckle—then use hand sanitizer after completing your payment. 

2.Eat out safely with restaurants curfews

If you want to have take-out meals, take the food home right away and eat it while it is hot. Store leftovers safely—wrap tightly and refrigerate any dishes with meat, fish, poultry, or dairy products—be sure to reheat these leftovers thoroughly before eating.

Make eating together at home a positive experience

Whether it is homemade or takeout, eating more meals at home is a new routine for many families. Keep the stress down by making mealtime fun.

  • Get the family involved—kids can help set the table, pour the water, make the salad, or grate the cheese. Make mealtimes a family affair.
  • Try some new recipes—if you have never made homemade pizza, roasted a whole chicken, or cooked meatballs from scratch—now is a good time to try!  There are lots of great recipes on the internet! Look for those that call for only a few ingredients and use common kitchen tools.
  • Reconnect with the family—eat together at the table or spread a blanket on the floor and have an indoor picnic. Be sure to separate mealtime and TV time—watching while eating makes it too easy to pay attention to TV and not your food, so you are likely to overeat. Wonder what to talk about at mealtime? Chat about things you will do this summer, tell jokes—just keep the conversation upbeat and fun.

3. Think positively -Mental health is more important

  • Practice positive stress management strategies. Walk the dog, call a friend, soak in the tub, or cuddle your kids. Skip the alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.
  • Stick with your routine as much as you can. Go to bed and get up in the morning on your usual schedule. Eat meals at regular times. Find ways to exercise away from the gym—do yoga in the living room, trim the hedge, have a scavenger hunt in the backyard with your kids, or just toss a ball or play tag as a family.
  • Manage boredom. Stay busy and engaged—resist hanging around the fridge or mindlessly watching TV. Enjoy your hobbies, read, cook, make videos with your kids, start a scrapbook, help your kids with their virtual schoolwork, and stay in touch with family, friends, and colleagues.

When you do go out, wash your hands before you leave home and as soon as you return.

Have a dry cough? Feeling feverish?  Hard time breathing? Don’t hesitate to reach out to your health care provider for further instructions.

We are all in facing this together. Let’s make the most of it to come out stronger and wiser and ready to enjoy all the wonderful times to come!

Life Lessons from ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde.

“The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.” 

The quote sounds ironic when one completely reads the short story, ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde. The short story is a beautiful tale of love, tears and a portrayal of cold reality. The statue of the Happy Prince is erected in the city.

“He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword hilt.” 

Though all conceive the Happy prince to be happy, the Sparrow catches him weeping. When asked why he was weeping, the Happy Prince tells,

“When I was alive and had a human heart, I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter….And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.”

Sometimes, we too, like the Happy Prince, turn a blind eye to people in misery around us. We are intent on satiating our own greed and desires that we don’t hear the wailing cries for help. 

So the Happy Prince asks the Swallow to help him and the people by taking the rubies and sapphires out of him. When the Swallow helps the poor mother and child for the first time, the Swallow says,

“It is curious but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold”.

Although the night was freezing, the Swallow felt warm because he had done a good deed. Nothing equals the happiness we get from committing a good deed. Share with others and serve for a good cause and so no matter how sad you are, you will be embraced by the warmth of love. 

The Happy Prince gives away his eyes, beauty and luster for the welfare of the people in the town. So the Swallow becomes the Prince’s eyes for he tells what goes on in the town. The Swallow instead of joining his friends in Egypt remains by the Prince and tells him of Egypt. But the Happy Prince tells him to tell what he sees in the town for

“more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

Misery, as Wilde says, is mysterious as it is sometimes caused by external factors and sometimes by ourselves; we don’t know how long it will last and how bad we will be affected; we don’t know what we will gain and what we will lose. All we can do is cling on to hope as no dark sky rains forever.

The story also brings out the theme of class difference. It shows how the rich are busy making merry in their luxurious houses while the poor and the needy suffer for a morsel. The greediness of the Town Councillors shown in the story proves that nothing had changed in our society since then. 

The story ends with the death of the Swallow and also of the Happy Prince who though a statue had his leaden heart broken into two. Though they both helped people, there was no one to bid them proper farewell. But they were given the best merit – the place in Paradise. We shouldn’t expect honor, fame and laurels in return for our good deeds. For we won’t be awarded by worldly standards but by Heavenly standards. Don’t wait for the Happy Prince to change the society but become that Happy Prince to promote goodness and welfare in the society.

All the quotes are taken from the short story “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde.

Read the short story at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/902/902-h/902-h.htm

TRANSHUMANISM: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN

What is Transhumanism?
The idea of altering or augmenting the ancient human body is ancient. Humans have evolved drastically. From nothing to the wisest creature on the planet.

Transhumanism is about taking augmenting or replacing biology with technology for eg to straight teeth with help of braces and lenses for poor sight.

The upcoming years will herald numbers of body augmentation capability that will enable humans to be smarter, stronger, and enhance them utterly. In the future, we can prospects arrival of contact lenses that can capture pictures and videos or a translator which is universal and will help you to communicate in any corner of the world. Implantation of chips or neural lace to mind. These body augmentation capabilities will give rise to humans that are more resilient, accurate, cognitive, and optimized.

However, this technology needed to achieve these goals relies on yet unrealised development in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and another field of science and this is for sure going to take ample time to reach fruition.

Learn it all about Editing here.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done you have to stay back and look at the forest.

STEPHEN KING, Author of ‘It’, ‘Misery’ and many other horror fiction novels.

For a writer, Editing is one of the most important elements in their article. It revises the article and makes it accurate. While writing, the author may not be able to focus on the grammar or correctly using the punctuation marks, which makes editing an almost inevitable activity for the writer. But how can editing be done properly? Let’s find the solution from the following questions.

Before we start the first question which arises is ‘What is Editing?’ Editing is a preparation of written material for publication by correcting, condensing, and modifying it. It follows the principle of 3 Cs i.e., Complete, Correct, and Consistent. It ensures that the work is complete, it does not contain any type of typographical errors or grammatical errors, and it also makes sure that the pace, narration, and the flow of the subject are consistent.

After understanding the meaning of editing, another question we find ourselves asking is, Why is Editing so much Important?’ Many times when we write, we are unable to detect grammatical mistakes. We continue writing with our flow without identifying the basic mistakes we are producing in our work. Here by ‘our work’ I do not point towards our daily journal, Instead, I’m talking about the work that is supposed to be read by a third person. No one is going to read our daily journal and thus we don’t have to be grammatically correct in it. But when we are writing for another pair of eyes then it becomes necessary for the writer to be precise with every letter he types/writes. It is also necessary that the work must be without errors because errors are those enemies of the writer who divert the attention of the reader, which may end up with the reader losing his interest to read further.

I am writing a first draft and reminding myself that I am simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles

SHANNON HALE, Author of ‘Princess Academy’, ‘The Goose Girl’, etc.

How can we start editing? There are two stages of editing. One, When the author edits his work himself. Two, When a second person edits the work. We may wonder that when the editing has been done by the author then why does it become necessary for the work to be edited by a second person? The answer to this question is many a time our eyes can’t detect errors in our work because of the flow our brain follows. Therefore it becomes really necessary for the work to be analyzed by a second person. For Editing, many authors even hire freelancers as a second person who can edit their work.

If your budget is low (like mine) and can’t hire a freelancer then here are some following tools and tricks I like to use before publishing my article:

  1. Keep on checking the punctuation marks and other basic grammars while writing the article.
  2. Make sure that there are no typographical errors.
  3. Checking the correctness and accuracy on Grammarly App.
  4. To find if the pace and narration in the article are consistent, I like to re-read my article at least 4 times.
  5. Sometimes the hard words may distract the reader and so I make sure to use an easily understood and exact word. For this, I sometimes take the help of OneLook Dictionary.
  6. After completing the above steps, I let my work settle for at least one day before publishing it.
  7. On the day of publishing, I read the article once again.
  8. After being fully assured of its correctness, I publish it.

This article which you are reading currently is written by me on 9 May 2021. Let’s see for how many days will it cool down before I publish it.

What is Plasma?

Plasma is the clear, straw-colored liquid portion of blood that remains after red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and other cellular components are removed. It is the single largest component of human blood, comprising about 55 percent, and contains water, salts, enzymes, antibodies and other proteins.


• Composed of 90% water, plasma is a transporting medium for cells and a variety of substances vital to the human body.

• Plasma carries out a variety of functions in the body, including clotting blood, fighting diseases and other critical functions.

• Source plasma is plasma that is collected from healthy, voluntary donors through a process called plasmapheresis and is used exclusively for further manufacturing into final therapies (fractionation). Source plasma donors may be compensated for their time and effort.

• Recovered plasma is collected through whole blood donation in which plasma is separated from its cellular components. Recovered plasma may be used for fractionation. 

Importance of Donation

• The plasma protein therapeutics industry supports volunteerism donation in all of its forms. Source plasma donation and blood donation are critically important activities that contribute to saving lives. 


• Source plasma and recovered plasma are used to produce therapies that treat people with rare, chronic diseases and disorders such as primary immunodeficiency, hemophilia and a genetic lung disease, as well as in the treatment of trauma, burns and shock.


• Plasma donation requires a commitment both in the amount of time for each donation and frequency of donation. 


• Typically it takes between one and three hours to donate source plasma, and plasma can be donated twice within a seven day period. 

VSCode best Extensions

1.LIVE SERVER- it launches a local development server with a live reload feature.

2.PRETTIER: it is an code formatter that works particularly well, if you have multiple people working on the single project. it make coinvent to read the code.

3.BRACKET PAIR COLORIZER: it gives the opening and closing brackets matching colours, making it much easier to know which brackets belong together.

4.AUTO RENAME TAG: automatically renames tags that you change.

5.CSS PEEK: It also allows you to quickly jump to the right CSS code if you know the class or ID name.

6.Bookmarks: Allows you to add bookmarks to your code, helping you quickly navigate and easily jump back and forth.

7.Snippets: best way to save time and increase your productivity. This is not a single extension but a collection of extensions with various snippets for different programming languages.

8.Icons: Having descriptive icons can help you differentiate between files and folders

AND MANY MANY MORE

THANKYOU

Unsung heroes

What is a hero? Is it an astronaut who gets a big parade when they come home? Is it a firefighter who risks their life to save a child from a burning building? Is it a social worker who helps people put their lives together? All three could be considered heroes because they do difficult things, often in dangerous situations. The dictionary says that a hero is a person who is admired because they did something great. Heroes are people who show strength, courage, and grace under fire.

so, what is the unsung heroes, the one who does the greet deeds but receives little recognition. they aren’t the movie heroes, they are real heroes, the real hero, who is responsible for making better person. they can be anyone, means anyone, your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teacher, anyone, the person you inspire, you make a better version of yourself. They are the unsung heroes of our life. We learn form them many things. we improve and progress. make our willpower strong.

so, lets become a better person, so that someday, we can become, unsung hero for someone else.

Read Again! It isn’t what you think it is…

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It was 10 a.m in Mumbai when Anjali rushed towards the fishermen’s bridge, Most fishermen have left the shore by this time making the place quiet and solitary. In haste, she lost track of her brown leather bag clinging to her right hand. Her eyes held more moisture than the sea, she couldn’t stop thinking about Nick.

‘How can he do this to me? How can he kill—’, she screamed to herself at the end of the bridge.

She couldn’t stop blaming herself for what her eyes had transpired a few moments ago. Her legs were not in her control as she kept walking from one end to the other of the bridge.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a voice, ‘Hello, Can you hear me?’ She turned back and saw an old man waving at her. He was having her bag in his hand. At that moment, the bag was aught to Anjali, her thoughts continued and she started running in the direction of the sea.

The old man was confused and tried to approach her. His doddering legs couldn’t match the motion of her. After running a few blocks his legs trembled and he fell on his knees. The crashing sound reached Anjali for her to look back. She had always been a person who liked to help others. She reached out to the old man and acknowledged his name to be Shantilal. He was a local fisherman who had come to the sea with his fishing hook to catch a fish. Anjali assisted him in getting back to his feet.

‘Are you ok kaka?’, she asked.

‘I am fine, beta but how are you? What’s wrong? Why are you crying?’, Shantilal inquired as he saw her moist eyes.

‘No, No, I am fine kaka—’ Her eyes could no longer hold her tears. Weeping she only muttered two names- Nick and Rajesh.

Shantilal sensed the distress and stayed back with her. He tried to calm her down and ask her whereabouts but her weeps only got vulnerable with every question. He feared the worst that might occur if he left her but he also had no idea of how to console her and decided to summon his wife. He stepped a few steps away from the weeping woman and dialled his landline number from his Nokia 3310 to describe the situation to his wife, Meenakshi.

Meenakshi reached the spot in a rickshaw and paid the amount shown on the meter. She saw Shantilal and walked towards him.

‘Kai Zala? (What happened?)’, She asked Shantilal. Shantilal pointed towards Anjali. She recognized her as the daughter-in-law of Sharma’s where she used to work as a maid. She rushed towards her and hugged her to calm her down. Seeing a familiar face Anjali’s emotion had no control but to flow out. After getting Anjali back to her senses, Meenakshi asked, ‘What’s the matter bibiji, why are you crying? Rajesh baba did something? Sharma Aunty said something to you? Tell me please….’

‘Sab khatam ho Gaya maushi— (Everything is over, Aunty)’, Anjali continued after catching her breath ‘Rajesh destroyed it all’ Meenakshi started assuming the extra-marital affair Rajesh might be having which was breaking Anjali.

There was a sound of a ship sailing which got the attention of Anjali who was calm now. After looking at it for some time, Anjali asked Meenakshi to get her bag. Meenakshi asked for the bag from Shantilal who was standing there trying to understand the situation. Shantilal took the bag and handed it over to Meenakshi.

Anjali opened the bag and took out a picture of herself with a man, ‘I loved him so much, I don’t know how will I survive in this world without him.’ Meenakshi and Shantilal were shocked. Meenakshi found herself thinking if her Rajesh Baba has left them all and felt a moment of guilt for assuming him having an affair. Less did they know a larger shock awaited them.

Consoling Anjali for her loss Meenakshi said, ‘I’m so sorry to hear about this. God is examining you. Just have faith everything will be fine.’ Saying this Meenakshi took the photograph from Anjali’s hand and hugged her again. Meenakshi always admired how good Anjali and Rajesh looked together and glanced at the picture only to find out it wasn’t Rajesh in the picture. It was Nick, Anjali’s colleague.

Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming

At the point when the main adumbrations of another technology show up, smart individuals attempt to perceive the probable future ramifications. Today, a great deal of smart individuals are agonizing over the effect of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Occupations will be lost. Individuals will feel burglarized by the office. What are the moral ramifications of programming settling on critical choices? 

While such significant inquiries do merit some idea, they are indeed totally insignificant to the selection of AVs. 

We people are developed to look for the easy way out on the grounds that for 98% of our developmental history that was the technique that would in all likelihood help endurance. Using abundance energy on a superfluous undertaking consumed calories that could be required for snapshots of exigency. So we are adjusted to do as little as could be expected, both truly and intellectually. This is the reason today, encircled by an overabundance of calories and a plenty of excitement, the greater part of us are fat and lethargic and our heads are loaded up with fleeting random data. Moreover, we have an implicit predisposition to continue to do whatever is recognizable in light of the fact that that is by and large the most effortless activity. 

So how are individuals going to be convinced to embrace AVs? 

The Dunning-Kruger impact implies that 99% of drivers massively over-gauge their skill, envisioning themselves to be “better than normal” drivers, even as they update their InstaSnap accounts on their cell phones while endeavoring to cross three paths of suburbanite traffic through one wrist flaccidly hung across the highest point of the guiding wheel. AVs would burglarize the normal individual of their feeling of organization. AV advertising people stress over this a ton. 

It is, be that as it may, not an issue. Rather than endeavoring to address the deficiency of organization, sharp AV advertisers will just dodge the issue completely. We have the case of Orwell Boxes to show this marvel. Today, a large number of individuals have energetically gone through their own cash to put outsider observation gadgets into their own homes. Why? Since these were intended to engage human instinct. They are charming, they gleam in beautiful shadings, and they copy human responsiveness. Nobody who gets one of these gadgets thinks briefly about the way that in a real sense anybody with a couple of dollars and some extra time can utilize them to catch each discussion inside range, record those discussions, and store them away for sometime later. 

Individuals download handfuls — or even hundreds — of applications to their telephones, not even once thinking about that a considerable lot of these applications adequately track each and every thing the client does: each call, each message sent, each Google search, each course given by the GPS framework. For the most part this information is utilized to present advertisements yet the truth of the matter is that anybody able to put in a couple of dollars can in this path develop an extremely exhaustive image of someone else’s life — without the objective monitoring it in any capacity (and no, your iPhone doesn’t secure you, regardless of what the showcasing messages guarantee). In the following not many years we are sure to find out about pedophiles utilizing this effectively accessible information to track and target weak young people. Be that as it may, and still, at the end of the day, nobody will quit utilizing their telephones and nobody will quit downloading many applications. Individuals will only disturb, for a brief timeframe, for “better security” while guaranteeing by their own behavior that such requests are useless. 

For what reason do individuals burn through cash on things that can hurt them? Since it’s elegant. Individuals were educated to smoke cigarettes by the motion pictures and today the Internet is considerably more impressive at instructing individuals. On the off chance that an influencer circulates around the web with a tattoo video, millions surge out to cover themselves in ink. On the off chance that somebody says “board” or “ice pail challenge” millions respectfully go with the same pattern. Individuals are designed to follow the crowd, to do what others are doing, and give the matter no idea at all. The best promoting ploys guarantee whatever they’re attempting to sell appears to be both popular and fun! 

Creators of AVs would do well to zero in on this basic condition. 

Rather than attempting to sell advantages like improved wellbeing, diminished contamination, and the remainder of the things nobody really thinks often about, AV makers need to zero in on the shallow parts of their items. Structure a showcasing organization with Disney for AVs that take kids to class. What seven-year-old wouldn’t very much want to be shipped to class in a Frozen-portable or an AV dependent on whatever new fleetingly well known character is flavor of the day? What youngster wouldn’t very much want to show up in a science fiction vehicle, particularly if the time twixt home and school can be filled by playing some fierce and appropriately misanthropic computer game? 

Concerning grown-ups, envision AVs with screens all over and encompass sound. For some the monotony of the regular drive can be changed into a satisfying visit spent among the pushes and groans of Internet erotic entertainment; for others an excited grouping of online media posts will empower the minutes to pass unregarded. On the off chance that an arrangement with Starbucks can be masterminded so drinks and edibles can be given inside the AV during the excursion, AVs will immediately get fundamental in individuals’ lives. 

Given enough influencers, motion pictures, and TV shows siphon out the correct messages, individuals will race to accept AVs. Stresses over AI morals and loss of organization will disappear as individuals prattle joyfully to one another about the wondrous advantages AVs present. Maybe some will accompany tremendous vanity reflects so that individuals can take care of their appearance as the vehicle conveys them to their objective. Others will presumably enlist AVs containing rich beds that give freedoms to discrete contacts both arranged and off the cuff. Without a doubt some venturesome content author will evoke Sex and the AV, consequently promising millions to encounter the delights of “your best ride ever!” 

Every one of these applications accept on-request administration, so the Japanese model of public latrines should be concentrated cautiously. No client will need to move into an AV to discover a pool of regurgitation in the footwell or organic liquids adhering to the seat covers. However, this is an issue manageable to arrangement by suitable technology thus will, besides in a couple of outrageous cases, be unproblematic. 

For individual AVs where proprietorship is held similarly as the family vehicle of today, the stunt will be to recollect that (in the USA at any rate) the car is less a method of transportation and more a method of wish-satisfaction. Paunchy moderately aged men try to sport vehicles in a vain endeavor to convince the universe of their secret virility. Hesitant soccer mothers love to imagine SUVs for the figment of confidence they cultivate. By and by claiming AVs will in this way possibly be fruitful on the off chance that they can in like manner center around inducing alluring hallucination. Luckily there are various sorts of deception, going from the exemplary “save the planet by purchasing our hunk of metal” (Toyota Prius) to the “be cool by purchasing our most recent toy!” (Tesla, following the case of Apple). So the field is totally open and can undoubtedly be loaded up with a wide scope of various vehicles, each interesting to a specific specialty. 

Sometimes, promoting divisions will get a handle on the essentials and thus the streets of the created countries will progressively be populated by AVs. We people, notwithstanding, will stay unaltered thus a periodic blip will definitely happen. The broad communications will keep on depending on sentimentalist jabber to produce incomes, so the exceptionally uncommon AV-related passing will be advertised messed up and nobody at all will recall that consistently almost 1,500,000 individuals used to bite the dust in street car crashes emerging from conventional human ineptitude. An alarm story will guarantee individuals will briefly be terrified out of utilizing a specific brand of AV, or maybe a specific tone, however everybody will before long neglect and resume utilizing that brand on the grounds that the media will at that point push some new panic story because of the reality there’s just such an excess of mileage that can be made out of accidents, similarly as there’s just such an excess of mileage that can be made out of superstar tattle or political follies. 

If we’re engaged and given we don’t need to put forth any attempt, we will receive all way of toys and shape our shallow conduct in a manner. Inasmuch as AVs are advertised to speak to our inward youngsters and are intended to oblige steadily expanding traveler circumference, their appropriation is guaranteed.

Couple

Faced all the struggle
Together as a Couple
When something else Muddle
You move things Subtle
Even when problems Juggle
You bring each other Snuggle
Life is like a Puzzle
And you solve it with a Chuckle!.

“Love is like two people holding a rubber band on either side, Even if one leaves it will hurt the other one the most” This is a known phrase and it hits hard. There is nothing in this world greater than love and when it comes to marriage and family the couple in the family holds the most responsibilities. And when something turns up and when troubles come they should make important decisions in family. And this needs mutual understanding to solve everything that comes their way. Love is the base to live a beautiful life. Being a couple is not about one’s dreams and achievements to succeed but it’s the both of them. To lead a peaceful life the fundamental qualification is love and understanding each other. This comes with life’s experience and the things you face together.

What is HTTP/3?

 History on HTTP

The primary rendition of HTTP delivered was HTTP/0.9. Tim Berners-Lee made it in 1989, and it was named HTTP/0.9 in 1991. HTTP/0.9 was restricted and could just do fundamental things. It couldn’t return something besides a website page and didn’t uphold treats and other current highlights. In 1996, HTTP/1.0 was delivered, bringing new highlights like POST solicitations and the capacity to send some different options from a website page. Be that as it may, it was as yet far from what it is today. HTTP/1.1 was delivered in 1997 and was reconsidered twice, once in 1999 and once in 2007. It brought many major new highlights like treats and associations that continued. At last, in 2015, HTTP/2 was delivered and took into account expanded execution, making things like Server Sent Events and the capacity to send various demands all at once. HTTP/2 is still new and is just utilized by somewhat not exactly 50% of all sites.

HTTP/3: The newest version of HTTP

HTTP/3, or HTTP over QUIC, changes HTTP a ton. HTTP is generally done over TCP, Transmission Control Protocol. TCP was created in 1974, toward the start of the web. At the point when TCP was first made, the creators of it couldn’t anticipate the web’s development. As a result of how TCP is obsolete, TCP restricted HTTP for some time with both speed and security. Presently, in view of HTTP/3, HTTP isn’t restricted any longer. Rather than TCP, HTTP/3 uses another protocol, created in 2012 by Google, called QUIC (articulated “speedy”). This acquaints numerous new highlights with HTTP.

Features

Prior to HTTP/2, programs could just send each solicitation to the worker in turn. This made site stacking fundamentally more slow on the grounds that the program just stacked one resource, as CSS or JavaScript, at a time. HTTP/2 acquainted the capacity with load more than each resource in turn, yet TCP was not made for this. In the event that one of the solicitations fizzled, TCP would cause the program to re-try every one of the solicitations. Since TCP was eliminated in HTTP/3 and supplanted by QUIC, HTTP/3 tackled this issue. With HTTP/3, the program just necessities to re-try the bombed demand. Along these lines, HTTP/3 is quicker and more dependable.

Faster Encryption

HTTP/3 enhances the “handshake” that permits programs HTTP solicitations to be scrambled. QUIC consolidates the underlying association with a TLS handshake, making it secure as a matter of course and quicker.

Implementation

Standardization

At the hour of this composition, HTTP/3 and QUIC are not normalized. There is an IETF Working Group that is presently dealing with a draft to normalize QUIC. The adaptation of QUIC for HTTP/3 is somewhat changed, utilizing TLS rather than Google’s encryption, yet it enjoys similar benefits.

Browser Support

Presently, Chrome upholds HTTP/3 of course because of Google making the QUIC convention and the proposition for HTTP over QUIC. Firefox additionally upholds the convention in forms 88+ without a flag. Safari 14 backings HTTP/3, however just if an exploratory component flag is empowered.

Serverless/CDN Support

Up until this point, just a few workers support HTTP/3, however their offer is developing. Cloudflare was one of the main organizations other than Google to help HTTP/3, so their serverless capacities and CDN are HTTP/3 consistent. Furthermore, Google Cloud and Fastly are HTTP/3 agreeable. Shockingly, Microsoft Azure CDN and AWS CloudFront don’t appear to help HTTP/3 right now. In the event that you need to evaluate HTTP/3, QUIC.Cloud is an intriguing (albeit exploratory) approach to set up a reserving HTTP/3 CDN before your worker. Cloudflare, Fastly, and Google Cloud likewise have great HTTP/3 help and are more creation prepared.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites- Madhya Pradesh


Madhya Pradesh, often called the “Heart of India” is a state located in the central India. Tourism in Madhya Pradesh has been an attraction of India because of its location in the centre of the country.The heart of Central India is a treasure trove of natural richness, wildlife, history, heritage & beauty. Overall, there are three UNESCO world heritage sites in Madhya Pradesh.

These three sites in Madhya Pradesh have been declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO:

  • The Khajuraho Group of Monuments
  • Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi 
  • The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments:

Photo by Yogendra Singh on Pexels.com

Khajuraho was the principal seat of authority of the Chandella rulers who adorned it with numerous tanks, scores of lofty temples of sculptural grace and architectural splendour. Temples of Khajuraho are world famous for their architectural art. Most Khajuraho temples were built between 885 AD and 1050 AD by the Chandela dynasty. Historical records note that the Khajuraho temple site had 85 temples by the 12th century, spread over 20 square kilometers. Of these, only about 25 temples have survived, spread over six square kilometers. Of the surviving temples, the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple is decorated with a profusion of sculptures with intricate details, symbolism and expressiveness of ancient Indian art.

The Khajuraho temples are made of sandstone, with a granite foundation that is almost concealed from view. The builders didn’t use mortar: the stones were put together with mortise and tenon joints and they were held in place by gravity. This form of construction requires very precise joints. The columns and architraves were built with megaliths that weighed up to 20 tons. The Khajuraho and Kalinjar region is home to superior quality of sandstone, which can be carved precisely. The surviving sculpture reflect fine details such as strands of hair, manicured nails, and intricate jewelry. These temples are exiqusite example of medieval India’s architecture.

Sanchi Stupa

Sketch by Mahima Jain

Sanchi is located in west-central Madhya Pradesh state,near the city of Bhopal.The town of Sanchi is synonymous with Buddhist Stupas – hemispherical structures typically containing relics of the Buddha or his followers. The Stupas of Sanchi were constructed on the orders of Emperor Ashoka to preserve and spread the Buddhist philosophy. Sanchi has been protecting these beautiful and sacred architectural wonders, just the way these wonders have been safeguarding ancient history and art of the Mauryan period.

The numerous stupas, temples, monasteries and an Ashokan pillar have been the focus of interest and awe for global audiences as well.

The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 

Bhimbedkar Caves

Bhimbetka rock shelters, series of natural rock shelters in the foothills of the Vindhya Range, central India. They are situated some 28 miles (45 km) south of Bhopal, in west-central Madhya Pradesh.

The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that consists of seven hills and over 750 rock shelters distributed over 10 km (6.2 mi). At least some of the shelters were inhabited more than 100,000 years ago. The rock shelters and caves provide evidence of, according to Encyclopædia Britannica, a “rare glimpse” into human settlement and cultural evolution from hunter-gatherers, to agriculture, and expressions of prehistoric spirituality.

Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters feature prehistoric cave paintings and the earliest are about 10,000 years old (c. 8,000 BCE), corresponding to the Indian Mesolithic. These cave paintings show themes such as animals, early evidence of dance and hunting. The Bhimbetka site has the oldest-known rock art in India, as well as is one of the largest prehistoric complexes.

A TIMELINE OF INDIA’S MOST PROMINENT AGRARIAN PROTESTS

The four-month-old farmer’s protests in India took a violent turn on January 26, 2021, when farmers stormed the streets of Delhi, demanding the abolition of the three new farm bills. Farmers were greeted with tear gas, water guns, and abuse as they rode their tractors onto the roads. These agrarian demonstrations, on the other hand, are not the first in India’s history. For a large portion of India’s independent existence, farmers have been protesting. The majority of protests arose as a result of promises of economic growth eluding farmers and general disillusionment with a government that is unresponsive to their plight. “Large-scale protests have been taking place against a background of widespread and growing unrest in India’s vast countryside, often rooted in the discontent caused by agricultural stagnation and unemployment,” writes Alf Gunvald Nilsen, professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria. Here is a timeline of some of India’s most significant and large-scale agrarian protests.

1988, BOAT CLUB PROTESTS, DELHI

The protests of 1988, in which Mahendra Singh Tikait, a Jat farmer from Uttar Pradesh and the chief of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), stormed the Boat Club Lawns of Delhi with a charter of demands, are recounted by writer Rakesh Sinha in The Indian Express. This sit-in drew over 5 lakh farmers who demanded a rise in sugarcane prices as well as loan forgiveness. They were within hearing distance of the legislature and made their voices known just before the winter session began. It was one of the most significant farmer demonstrations in the 1980s and 1990s.

Farmers with tractors, hookahs & chaupar — rare photos of protests at  Delhi's Boat Club – ThePrint

2017, MANDSAUR PROTESTS, MADHYA PRADESH

Five farmers were shot dead in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, in June 2017, while seeking higher MSPs for the onion crop and grains, as well as loan waivers for farmers who were experiencing firsthand the negative effects of the 2016 demonetization on the rural economy, according to an article in India Today.

Mandsaur News: Read Latest News & Live Updates on Mandsaur, Photos, Videos  at CNBCTV18.com

TAMIL NADU FARMERS PROTESTS, 2017

Farmers from Tamil Nadu staged a dharna in Delhi in 2017, led by P Ayyakannu. They demanded a 40,000-rupee drought relief package from the federal government, as well as an increase in retired farmers’ pensions. When protesting, they performed grotesque acts such as staging suicides and wearing skulls around their necks. They said that these skulls belonged to farmers who committed suicide because they couldn’t cope with their overwhelming debt. Sunaina Kumar, a journalist, dubbed it the “skull protest,” which was at the time the “longest continuous demonstration of nonviolent demonstrations.” Farmers with half of their faces shaved as a form of protest are depicted in iconic photographs from these demonstrations.

Will the Tamil Nadu farmers' protest in Delhi go beyond theatrics to  translate to action?

THE 2018, KISAN LONG MARCH, MUMBAI

In 2018, 50,000 farmers marched 180 kilometres barefoot from Nashik to Mumbai in favour of drought relief, better minimum support prices (MSPs), and crop insurance. This peaceful protest came to an end after the Maharashtra government gave these farmers assurances, which, according to a Scroll paper, have yet to be fulfilled.

Kisan Long March: Over 30,000 farmers reach Mumbai's Azad Maidan; gherao  Maharashtra Assembly

Why do Indian farmers feel compelled to use violent tactics in protests that began peacefully?
Rakesh Tikait, the son of the aforementioned Mahendra Singh Tikait, is leading the latest farmer protests that have ravaged the country for the past six months. This may reflect generations of farmers’ resentment of India’s deep-rooted agrarian crisis and the negative consequences it has had on the agricultural sector and our Indian farmers. “India’s agrarian crisis—a crisis that has resulted in over 3,00,000 suicides among farmers and farmworkers in the last twenty years,” writes Nilsen.

“To say that protesting farmers are misled or confused is to evade critical issues,” writes Sudha Narayanan, Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. She emphasises the importance of farmers being included in discussions about the implementation of new agricultural laws, as well as the role they play in Indian democracy through demonstrations, which are an important way to keep a democratically elected government in check.

Alternative fuel vehicle

Alternative Fuel Vehicle refers to a vehicle that runs on a fuel other than traditional gasoline or diesel; any method of powering an engine that does not involve petroleum.

Due to a combination of heavy taxes on fuel, particularly in Europe, tightening environmental laws, particularly in California, and the possibility of further restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, work on alternative power systems for vehicles has become a high priority for governments and vehicle manufacturers around the world.

Current research and development is largely centered on “hybrid” vehicles that use both electric power and internal combustion.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

Both ethanol and methanol have been considered for this purpose.

While both can be obtained from petroleum or natural gas, ethanol may be the most interesting because many believe it to be a renewable resource, easily obtained from sugar or starch in crops and other agricultural produce such as grain, sugarcane or even lactose.

Since ethanol occurs in nature whenever yeast happens to find a sugar solution such as overripe fruit, most organisms have evolved some tolerance to ethanol, whereas methanol is toxic.

Other experiments involve butanol, which can also be produced by fermentation of plants.

A hybrid vehicle uses multiple propulsion systems to provide motive power.

This most commonly refers to gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, which use gasoline (petrol) and electric batteries for the energy used to power internal-combustion engines and electric motors.

These powerplants are usually relatively small and would be considered “underpowered” by themselves, but they can provide a normal driving experience when used in combination during acceleration and other maneuvers that require greater power.

A hydrogen car is an automobile which uses hydrogen as its primary source of power for locomotion.

These cars generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or fuel-cell conversion.

In combustion, the hydrogen is “burned” in engines in fundamentally the same method as traditional gasoline cars.

In fuel-cell conversion, the hydrogen is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then powers electric motors.

With either method, the only byproduct from the spent hydrogen is water.

A small number of prototype hydrogen cars currently exist, and a significant amount of research is underway to make the technology more viable.

A solar car is an electric vehicle powered by solar energy obtained from solar panels on the car.

Solar cars are not a practical form of transportation; insufficient power falls on the roof of a practically sized and shaped vehicle to provide adequate performance.

TOO MUCH SALT

Eating too much salt could mess with your immune cells.

High salt diets have been linked to many different problems in the body.

A tipped-over salt shaker with spilled salt.

Eating too much salt may reduce the amount of energy that immune system cells can make, preventing them from working normally, according to a new study.

Eating an excess of sodium has previously been linked to many different problems in the body, including high blood pressure and higher risk of stroke, heart failure, osteoporosis, stomach cancer and kidney disease, Live Science previously reported.

“Of course the first thing you think of is the cardiovascular risk,” co-author Markus Kleinewietfeld, an associate professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, said in a statement. “But multiple studies have shown that salt can affect immune cells in a variety of ways.” If salt disrupts immune functioning for a long period of time, it could potentially drive inflammatory or autoimmune diseases in the body, he added.

A few years ago, a group of researchers in Germany discovered that high salt concentrations in the blood can directly impact the functioning of a group of immune system cells known as monocytes, which are the precursors of Pac Man-like cells called phagocytes that identify and devour pathogens and infected or dead cells in the body. 

In the new study, Kleinewietfeld and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments to figure out how. First, they zoomed in on that link in the lab using mouse and human monocytes. They found that within three hours of exposure to high salt concentrations, the immune cells produced less energy, or adenosine triphosophate.

Mitochondria, the cells’ power plants, produce ATP from energy found in  food using a series of biochemical reactions, according to the statement. ATP then fuels many different cellular processes, such as powering muscles or regulating metabolism, according to the statement. 

Specifically, the researchers discovered that high salt concentrations inhibit a group of enzymes known as complex II in the chain reaction that produces ATP, which leads the mitochondria to produce less ATP. With less ATP (less energy), the monocytes matured into abnormal-looking phagocytes. 

The researchers found that these unusual phagocytes were more effective at fighting off infections. Still, that’s not necessarily a good thing, the researchers say, as an increased immune response can lead to more inflammation in the body, which in turn, can increase the risk of heart disease. 

The researchers then conducted multiple experiments in people; in one, healthy male participants took daily salt supplement tablets of 6,000 milligrams — nearly three times the recommended amount — for two weeks. In another experiment, a group of participants ate a whole pizza from an Italian restaurant.

They found that after eating the pizza, which contained 10,000 mg of salt, participants’ mitochondria produced less energy. But this effect wasn’t long-lasting; eight hours after the participants ate the pizza, blood tests showed that their mitochondria were functioning normally again.

“That’s a good thing,” Dominik Müller, a professor at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association and the Experimental and Clinical Research Center in Berlin, said in the statement. “If it had been a prolonged disturbance, we’d be worried about the cells not getting enough energy for a long time.”

Still, it’s not clear whether mitochondria are affected in the long-term if a person consistently eats a high-salt diet, according to the statement. The researchers hope to understand whether salt can impact other cells, because mitochondria exist in almost every cell in the body, according to the statement.

“Born To Fly”

Without faith, you are as a crow who has forgotten his ability to fly; you peck at the dark, muddy earth when the bright mountains lie before you.

– Seth Adam Smith

We are born to fly, don’t forget your ability and qualities. You are strong enough to change the world. You can fight your battle alone and defy everyone. If you’re gonna think yourself weak, then you will be weak but if you’re gonna think yourself strong, you will definitely be strong, it’s just a matter of thinking.

If you are not gonna trust yourself, nobody will ever trust you. Yes, you are born to fly high in the sky.
Have you listed the song “Toota Toota Ek Parinda”, it motivates me to try hard to achieve my goals because always remember one thing – if you are gonna try, then you will be broken, you will learn, you will accept your failure but if you are gonna try, then you will never be able to change you and your destiny.

We watch motivated videos but don’t you think we should watch failure one rather that? Failure one teaches us about those mistakes what we shouldn’t do.
So everyone is “BORN TO FLY” in their own field and has their own capabilities and abilities.

The Knight who gave up his Knighthood for India…!

The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilised governments…The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of my country men.

From a Letter written to Viceroy, Lord Chlemsford; RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
Image Source: Hindustan Times

The writer of our National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana is also the Knight who once renounced his Knighthood for India. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian as well the first lyricist to receive the Nobel prize in Literature. He played a significant role in building up the base of Literature in India. His 161th Birth anniversary was celebrated on 7 May 2021.

Today when India is facing a pandemic and every political leader is trying to maintain their supreme image, Rabindranath Tagore is being remembered for how he renounced his Knighthood against the wrongs done to fellow Indians. After the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919, every Indian leader was shocked and the whole nation was mourning the act done by the British Officer, General Dyre. At that time of mourning every great leader of India condemned the atrocities. And in response to the Massacre, Rabindranath Tagore renounced his Knighthood.

Tagore always opposed the idea of Imperialism. He supported the Indian Nationalists and criticized the presence of British administration as ‘political symptom of our social disease’. He also wanted the youth of the nation to develop and thus established ‘Santiniketan’ in 1901. He wrote the songs like ‘Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo’ (Where the Mind is Without Fear) and ‘Ekla Chalo Re’ (If They Answer Not to Thy Call, Walk Alone) presenting the tensity of the Indian Independence movement to the British Administration.

Rabindranath Tagore is very well known for his poetry collection, ‘Gitanjali‘ (was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1913), his poems like ‘Manasi’, ‘Sonar Tori’ (Golden Boat), ‘Balaka’ (Wild Geese). He has also written many songs like our National Anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana’ which is first of the five stanzas of the Brahmo hymn ‘Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata’ that Tagore composed. The song which was written to criticize the partition of Bengal in 1905 was later adopted as the National Anthem by Bangladesh. Sri Lanka’s National Anthem is also inspired by Tagore’s work.

Every leader must learn from Rabindranath Tagore that it is not the prestige and the awards that matter but our brothers and sisters of the Nation. Amidst this pandemic, the leaders must pay heed towards the people of the nation and not on creating or announcing different propagandas.

Here are a few lines from the famous song written by Rabindranath Tagore to keep you motivated through the day:

Jodi shobai phire jae, ore ore o obhaga, shobai phire jai [If everyone walks away, O unlucky one, everyone walks away]
Jodi gohon pothe jabar kale keu phire na chae, jodi gohon pothe jabar kale keu phire naa chaai—
Tobe pother kata
[If no-one looks back towards the (your) unpredictable path, then with thorn pricked (of the path) bloodied feet]
O tui roktomakha chorontole ekla dolo re [walk alone
If no-one heeds your call – then walk alone]

Jodi tor dak shune keu na ashe tobe ekla cholo re [If there is no-one responding to your call – then go on all alone]

Tears

Don’t shed tears
When you are in fear
Don’t shed tears
When you are not clear
Don’t shed tears
When you lovedone is a liar
Don’t shed tears
When death comes near
Don’t shed tears
When false is on fire
Do shed tears
When you reach higher

Procrastination: “I”LL DO IT LATER”

Procrastination is delaying work for no reason. We all procrastinate. Every time we decide to complete some task but hit the snooze button and find an excuse for not finishing the task. But postponing your work to the next day or not finishing it on due is not gonna affect anyone other than you.

Delaying work

Because you are the one who is accountable for your life. We try to escape work. You know what has to be done but you don’t do it. Instead, you were your times on crappy things which aren’t important at that moment.

How to Beat Procrastination?
Make yourself mentally tough so you don’t rely on your thoughts and let them control you. Read books that have lessons on mindfulness.


Keep yourself physically fit. You don’t go on a war unprepared right?
So to beat procrastination we have to be physically fit and energetic for any upcoming tasks.


Schedule your day. Prioritize your work and align according to that. Do not waste unnecessary time on social media.

Whatever it is, Work on it, Stop Delaying it anymore.

A मातृ प्रधान देश is Celebrating Mother’s Day!!

Primarily India is a मातृ प्रधान Country, where Sita called before Ram “SitaRam”, Radhe called before Shyam “RadheShyam” , Lakshmi called before Narayan “LakshmiNarayan” because Women enjoy the Most Respectful status in the Hindu Religion.

Inspite of having this status respect, Do we need to celebrate Mother’s day in a country like India?

Any day is celebrated in memory of some happenings, whether good or bad, and also which is not going to happen no. of times in that time span or normally in a year.

In the country like India each and every women is respectful(whether she is a mother/Sister) each and every day of a year or we can say each and every moment, not for a single/special day.

I really feel very ridiculous when someone puts a whatsapp status/Instagram posts/facebook/twitter for mother’s day to show their gratitude. I found many times that they even don’t talk to his/her mother respectfully, Even sometime they don’t have time to ask to his/her mother how are you? but they never miss to update their social media profile.

In my Opinion, plz stop these stupid things to follow, and also stop copying blindlessly anything, first know the reason and facts about that.

Love your Maa unconditionally each and every moment, don’t wait for a specific day. Don’t forget you are here because of your Maa. Maa is everything in this Universe.

Thanks.

Eternal Love

Can somebody love you more than the sand on the seashore?
Can somebody love you more than the waves in the sea?
Can somebody love you with all your imperfections?
Can somebody love you with all your flaws?
Can somebody love you even if you hurt that person?
Can somebody love you even if you hate that person?
Can somebody love you without any expectations?
Can somebody love you until their last breath?
Finally I have found that somebody
And that somebody is nobody
None other than my best buddy
Called as MOM.

MOM

To all the selfless mom’s in this selfish world… Happy Mother’s Day

To be the support system for me
You have sacrificed much of what you need
To be the best mom in the world
You have struggled more to bring me up
To keep me blooming
You lost your health
To make me the superlative
Yoy did not mind losing ur time with a relative
To put me in peak on my life’s graph
You went through troughs in your life
After all that you have been doing for me
I could give you in return is this alone
The guardian angel of our family
Thank you for what you are..

What is Ethereum Blockchain

Blockchain

Blockchain is the most renowned technology, many misjudge blockchain, individuals accept that Bitcoin and Ethereum have seme highlights and qualities, blockchain is the assortment of different frameworks for instance agreement algorithms, responsibility verification instruments, advanced marks, unknown exchange components, twofold spending, since the introduction of blockchain technology individuals befuddle over contrasting blockchain and the well known cryptocurrency Bitcoin. 

Bitcoin is only a straightforward cryptocurrency that enemies of inflationary needs include in regard to monetary resources, our monetary field requires numerous sorts of sub-models that bring more worth-added administrations in installment, credit, money dissemination, and different parts of the monetary world. 

Blockchain technology contains the qualities of decentralization, non-altering, discernibility, and takes care of the trust issue, customarily trust among individuals and establishments relies upon definitive control actually like an incorporated bank or different organizations, yet to produce trust among individuals for a monetary framework take such a lot of time and cash and conversely with blockchain technology which quickly substantiates itself as another confided in framework just as advance innovative system 

Bitcoin is appropriate for encoded advanced money situations and deals with an enormous issue in effectiveness related issues and wastage of costly registering assets brought about by the PoW component, monetary world requirements a framework that equipped for productive agreement instruments and backing for numerous application situations like savvy contracts, in this manner Etehreum was conceived.

Ethereum Blockchain

Ethereum isn’t just an all inclusive worldwide blockchain yet additionally the total stage for monetary turn of events, Its programming language strength, and money Ether, both help to construct and distribute the appropriated application known as shrewd agreements, DApp, and the NFT. 

Ethereum has a solid blockchain module structure like blockchain record, agreement instrument, center hubs, P2P organization, programmable rationale, and brilliant agreements, Ethereum virtual machine did the execution of the keen agreements all around on the Ethereum blockchain.

Using smart contract, an engineer can put complex monetary rationale in the Ethereum organization, designers can fabricate framework for non-business purposes, crowdfunding frameworks, advanced monetary standards, monetary rent resource the board, multi-signature secure records framework, and store network following just as checking framework, savvy contract empower the engineer to affixed the customary framework joins the solid administration capacities that generally difficult to accomplish, conceal the intricacy of the organization and spotlight on additional toward application and business rationale. 

The brilliant agreement runs on EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) which is fundamentally the sandbox of the Entereum organization, the keen agreement stores on the EVM sandbox and assemble through the bytecode of EVM, it likewise conceivable that engineer can make a savvy contract on different dialects like C and incorporate with the EVM.

At first, when Ethereum dispatched, to forestall incidental or deliberate boundless circles and misuse of organization assets the organization put the cutoff to every exchange on the organization, the quantity of determined advances should pay the expense of the exchange, the Gas charge is controlled by the quantity of computation performed by the organization and this sum is charged over the use of organization assets for instance in the event that one requirements the execution of SHA3 hash calculation, the Gas charge will be charged against this execution is 20 and some other typical exchange of cash is identical to 21,000 Gas charge, the littlest unit of the Gas expense is Wei which is augmented more than 1000.

The applications run on Ethereum are run on a stage explicit cryptographic token, ether. During 2014, Ethereum had dispatched a pre-deal for ether which had gotten a mind-boggling reaction. Ether resembles a vehicle for moving around on the Ethereum stage and is for the most part looked for by engineers hoping to create and run applications inside Ethereum. Ether is utilized comprehensively for two purposes: it is exchanged as an advanced cash trade like other digital currencies, and it is utilized inside Ethereum to run applications and even to adapt work. 

As indicated by Ethereum, it tends to be utilized to “arrange, decentralize, secure, and exchange pretty much anything.” One of the huge tasks around Ethereum is Microsoft’s association with ConsenSys which offers “Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) on Microsoft Azure so Enterprise customers and designers can have a solitary snap cloud-based blockchain engineer climate

What is Stuxnet?

It’s been over 10 years since security researchers in Belarus previously recognized an infection that would come to be known as Stuxnet, a refined cyber weapon utilized in a multi-crusade assault focusing on a uranium improvement office in Natanz, Iran. Presently, new foundation assaults in the unpredictable area are reestablishing the conversation about Stuxnet, its beginnings, its techniques, and its commitments to the current abstract of ICS defenses.

What did Stuxnet do?

First released in 2009, the Stuxnet infection had different parts including a forceful malware tuned to discover and ruin measures run by Siemens STEP7-based PLCs. Its goal was to subtly control the speed of the delicate improvement rotators — causing wearing down instead of obtrusive physical annihilation. The Stuxnet worm was supposedly infected in excess of 200,000 machines in 14 Iranian offices and may have destroyed up to 10% of the 9,000 rotators in Natanz. 

A second Stuxnet variation delivered a while after the primary contained different Windows zero-day weaknesses, utilized taken authentications, and misused known reproduction usefulness in the Siemens PLCs. The more forceful Stuxnet variety discovered its way into non-Iranian conditions, be that as it may, fortunately, didn’t bring about much harm. 

From a chronicled viewpoint, the Stuxnet worm flagged that exceptional, country state-supported entertainers had progressed capacities that would make way for more genuine cyber-physical attacks like those in Ukraine, Estonia, and Saudi Arabia. 

In reality, progressed country state attacks are uncommon contrasted with normal, astute interruptions brought about by things like ransomware. Yet, Stuxnet shows the significance of a very much designed climate complete with satisfactory ICS cybersecurity. Such a climate requires an intensive comprehension of resource stock and security act, Windows framework solidifying, network division and checking, segregated cycle observing, sufficient interaction instrumentation, inventory network and outsider danger the executives, appropriately prepared administrators, and good operational security (OPSEC).

How Stuxnet works: The air gap myth

Back in 2010, Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, in the same way as other others previously and since, depended on the idea of non-associated and separated organizations as a type of digital protection. Advocates of this methodology — named an air gap since it suggests actual space between the association’s organized resources and the rest of the world — trust it gives adequate insurance to offices that don’t need Internet access or pervasive IT/undertaking administrations. 

They’re off-base. 

Depending on air gaps as a solitary type of safeguard remains however one in a rundown of deplorable false notions used to legitimize a lazy way to deal with ICS security. Others incorporate frequently exposed convictions like: 

Attackers need adequate information and motivating force to target ICS and SCADA frameworks. 

Network safety is significant generally for IT and endeavor frameworks. 

Demonstrated security methodologies don’t matter to most operational innovation frameworks in light of the fact that the danger of interruption is too high in OT. 

Occasions, for example, those at Natanz exhibit that once an ICS border, even an air-gapped one, is penetrated (signal Maginot line), attackers appreciate almost free rein inside such delicate conditions. 

While very little is openly thought about how Stuxnet and its variations advanced into the offices at Natanz, it’s broadly estimated that the malware entered through tainted removable media, for example, a USB stick, by means of a PC utilized by a worker for hire, an external seller, or covered in a contaminated document like a degenerate .pdf adaptation of a specialized manual. 

These surely knew assault vectors are a realized danger to practically any facility and, in themselves, are not excessively modern. Transient resources like professionals’ PCs, outsiders coming nearby, contaminated installers, and auto-play misuses on removable media are not really novel. The remarkable point in the Stuxnet case is that a decided entertainer figured out how to invade a purportedly secure facility, conveying malware that at last discovered its assigned objective.

How its spread

Stuxnet came in two waves. Less is thought about the main wave, which was to a greater extent a gradual process and less boisterous, making it more averse to be found. The subsequent wave was the one that stood out as truly newsworthy with its more expressive and emphatically less careful methodology. 

This second Stuxnet variation probably didn’t spread from an underlying contamination on a helpless PLC or regulator, but instead accessed one item Windows framework using zero-day misuses. From that one tainted item Windows have, the malware moved along the side starting with one Windows box then onto the next across the unsegmented organization.

BITCOIN

Bitcoin often referred as Cryptocurrency, a virtual currency or a digital currency – is a type of money that is completely virtual. It is like an online money in cash form. You can use it to buy products (or) services, but many shops would not be aware of bitcoin and do not offer such facility. Some countries have banned the service of bitcoin. It is considered as an illegal money. Because this is not handled by the Government, it is only handled by the players.

In October last year, online payments service, Paypal announced their customers that they could buy and sell their products by using bitcoin facility. The physical photos you see in the photos are novelty. They would be worthless without the private code printed inside them.

Each bitcoin is basically a computer file which is stored in digital wallet app on a smart phone or computer. People can send bitcoin to your digital wallet, and you can also send the bitcoins to other people. Every single transaction is been recorded in a public transaction called block chain technology. The facilkity to operate bitcoin is that, there should be good internet facilities to operate.

Bitcoins are valuable because people are willing to exchange them for real gold and services and even cash. People can also spend their Bitcoins, fairly anonymously. Although all transactions are recorded, nobody would know which account number was yours unless you tell them.

Every transactions is recorded publicly so it is difficult to copy bitcoins and lose them forever. There have been thefts from websites that let you store your bitcoins remotely. Many market place called bitcoins exchange, which allows people to buy and sell bitcoins using different currencies. Coinbase is a leading exchange, along with Bitstamp and Bitfinex. No one knows what will become of bitcoin. It is mostly unregulated, but some countries like Japan, China and Australia have begun weighing regulations. Governments are concerned about taxation and their lack of control over the currency.

Balances of bitcoin tokens are kept using public and private “keys,” which are long strings of numbers and letters linked through the mathematical encrypt algorithm that was used to create them. The public key (comparable to a bank account number) serves as the address which is published to the world and to which others may send bitcoins.

The private key (comparable to an ATM PIN) is meant to be a guarded secret and only used to authorize bitcoin transmissions. Bitcoin keys should not be confused with a bitcoin wallet, which is a physical or digital device that facilitates the trading of bitcoin and allows users to track ownership of coins. The term “wallet” is a bit misleading, as bitcoin’s decentralized nature means that it is never stored “in” a wallet, but rather decentrally on a blockchain.

Bitcoin is one of the first digital currencies to use p2p technology to facilitate instant payments. The independent individuals and companies who own the governing computing power and participate in the bitcoin network—bitcoin “miners”—are in charge of processing the transactions on the blockchain and are motivated by rewards (the release of new bitcoin) and transaction fees paid in bitcoin.

“Few things left unsaid”

“Few things left unsaid

Simple because I knew that

You will understand and that would have ruined many beautiful stories”

– Sabina Yesmin

Sometimes someone leave us without any prior information and that time we get to know their importance in our life. It happens when we take things for granted because yes, we assume that person will never leave us but when they leave, we suddenly realize their importance. Isn’t it so selfish to take people for granted?


I’m not only talking about myself but also emoting your feelings too. It happens to me too that few things left unsaid, those people who plays a significant role in our life leave us for no reason even after not taking them for granted. You can better understand the situation when these things happen. Some people who are not able to overcome from it, will automatically get depressed and live their life with their memories because they are unable to accept the truth.


I can understand the situation when a person ignore you in Present days who have already said that you were important for them in past. It really hurts to see hatered feeling on their face who used to care us a lot.
But we should overcome from it and it’s not much hard, just try to focus on your self-respect that’s all.

“FEW THINGS LEFT UNSAID FOR PARTICULAR REASON”

Love Doesn’t Need Any Special Day

It’s Mother’s day right? Have you wished your mother? Is it just for one day or everyday?


I simply don’t believe on these days because for me my mother deserves this love and respect each single day. It’s not like, that I never shouted at her. Yes I have done it but I too made her understand that it was just a reaction what I did.
I don’t like to put status of her and wish – ‘Happy Mother’s Day, I really love you’ etc. There is a simple reason of it, my mother doesn’t use smart phone and I feel those who puts status almost 50% of their mother’s doesn’t even know about it because same reason smart phone and I feel those who put status almost 50% of their mother’s doesn’t even know about it because same reason smart phone. They just try to show off for sure because love doesn’t need any special day.

SELF HEALING CONCRETE

Bacterial concrete or Self Healing concrete fills up the cracks developed in structures by the help of bacterial reaction in the concrete after hardening. In modern days , the use of technology has taken the standards of construction to a new high level. Different types of procedures, methods and materials are used to attain very good , sustainable and economic concrete construction but due to human mistakes , incorrect handling and unskilled labors an efficient building is hard to sustain its designed life. Many problems like weathering , cracks, leaks and bending etc,. arises after the construction . To overcome this types of problems, many remedial procedures are undertaken before and after the construction.

The common problem found in buildings is cracks. Crack may be due to many reasons. Some reasons are listed below;

  • Concrete expands and shrinks due to temperature differences
  • Settlement of structure
  • Due to heavy load applied
  • Due to loss of water from concrete surface shrinkage occurs
  • Insufficient vibration at the time of laying the concrete
  • Improper cover provided during concreting
  • High water cement ratio to make the concrete workable
  • Due to corrosion of reinforcement steel
  • Many mixtures with rapid setting and strength gain performance have an increased shrinkage potential

This common problem of cracking in building has many remedies before and after the crack. One of the remedial process is Bacterial Concrete or Self Healing Concrete. The process of self healing of cracks or self filling up of cracks by the help of bacterial reaction in the concrete after hardening is known as Self Healing Concrete. It can be observed that small cracks that occur in a structure of width in the range of 0.05 to 0.1mm gets completely sealed in repetitive dry and wet cycles. The mechanism of this autogenously healing is the width of range 0.05-0.1 mm act as capillary and the water particles seep through the cracks. These water particles hydrate non or partially reacted cement and the cement expands, which in turn fill the crack. But when the cracks are of greater width , need of other remedial work is required. One possible technique is currently being investigated and developed was based on application of mineral producing bacteria. These types of bacteria can be in dormant cell and be viable for over 200 years under dry conditions. These bacteria acts as a catalyst in the cracks healing process.

Various types of Bacteria used in concrete

There are various types of bacteria were used in bacterial concrete construction are;

  • Bacillus pasteurizing
  • Bacillus sphaericus
  • Escherichia coli
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bacillus cohnii
  • Bacillus balodurans
  • Bacillus pseudofirmus

Mechanism of Bacterial Concrete

Self Healing concrete is a result of biological reaction of non-reacted limestone with a calcium based nutrient with the help of bacteria to heal the cracks appeared on the building. Special type of bacteria known as Bacillus is used along with calcium nutrient known as Calcium Lactate. While preparing concrete, this products are added in the wet concrete when the mixing is done. This bacteria can be in dormant state for around 200 years. When the cracks appear in the concrete, the water seeps through the cracks. The spores of the bacteria germinate and starts feeding on the calcium lactate consuming oxygen. The soluble calcium lactate is converted to insoluble limestone. The insoluble limestone starts to harden. Thus filling the crack automatically without any external aid. The other advantage of this process is that the oxygen is consumed by the bacteria to convert calcium into limestone , it helps in the prevention of corrosion of steel due to cracks. This improves the durability of steel reinforced concrete construction.

Bacterial Concrete or Self Healing Concrete For Crack Repairs

Preparation of Bacterial Concrete

Bacterial concrete can be prepared in two ways,

  1. By Direct application
  2. By encapsulation in lightweight concrete.

In the direct application method, bacterial spores and calcium lactate is added into concrete directly when mixing of concrete is done. The use of bacteria and calcium lactate doesn’t change the normal properties of concrete. When cracks are occurred in the structure due to obvious reasons, the bacteria are exposed to climatic changes. When the water comes in contact with this bacteria, they germinate and feed on calcium lactate and produces limestone. Thus sealing the cracks.

By encapsulation method the bacteria and its food i.e,. calcium lactate are placed inside treated clay pellets and concrete is prepared. About6% of the clay pellets are added for making bacterial concrete. The concrete structures are made with bacterial concrete when the cracks occur in the structure then the clay pellets are broken and the bacteria germinate and eat down the calcium lactate and produce limestone, which hardens and thus sealing the crack. Minor cracks about 0.5mm width can be treated by using bacterial concrete.

Among these two methods, Encapsulation method is commonly used , even though it is costlier than direct application.

Chemical process of Bacterial Concrete

When the water comes in contact with the unhydrated calcium in the concrete, calcium hydroxide is produced by the help of bacteria, which acts as a catalyst. This calcium hydroxide reacts with atmospheric carbon dioxide and forms limestone and water. This extra water molecule keeps the reaction going.

CaO+H2O——>Ca(OH)2

Ca(OH)2+CO2——>CaCO3+H2O

The limestone then hardens itself and seals the cracks in the concrete.

Tests on Bacterial Concrete

Standard test were conducted on normal concrete and self healing concrete. Tests conducted were Compressive test and Flexural strength test on a concrete cube for 7 and 28 days.

SL. No.DAYSNORMAL CONCRETE [N/mm2]BACTERIAL CONCRETE [N/mm2]
1720.8527.10
22830.0038.95
COMPRESIVE STRENGTH TEST RESULT FOR 7 AND 28 DAYS FOR BACTERIAL CONCRETE
SL.No.DAYSNORMAL CONCRETE [N/mm2]BACTERIAL CONCRETE [N/mm2]
173.904.60
2287.057.80
FLEXURAL STRENGTH TEST RESULT FOR 7 AND 28 DAYS FOR BACTERIAL CONCRETE

From the results, we can see that both the compression and flexural strength of the bacterial concrete is greater than that of normal concrete.

ADVANTAGES OF BACTERIAL CONCRETE

  • Self repairing of cracks without any external aid.
  • Significant increase in compressive strength and flexural strength when compared to the normal concrete.
  • Resistance towards freeze-thaw attacks.
  • Resistance in permeability of concrete.
  • Reduces the corrosion of steel due to cracks formation and increases the durability of steel reinforced concrete.
  • Bacillus bacteria are harmless to human life and hence it can be used effectively.

DISADVANTAGES OF BACTERIAL CONCRETE

  • Cost of bacterial concrete is double than the conventional concrete.
  • Growth of bacteria is not good in any atmosphere and media.
  • The clay pellets holding the self-healing agent comprise 20% of the volume of the concrete. This may become a shear zone or fault zone in the concrete.
  • Design of mix concrete with bacteria here is not available in any IS code or other code.
  • Investigation of calcite precipitate is costly.