Online classes: A burgeoning career option

The article highlights how you could evolve as an online educator.

The present scenario originated by the coronavirus pandemic has seen a booming rise in digital platforms predominantly ZOOM, GoogleMeet for various tribes. Irrespective of their professional background, the pandemic has cultivated and launched a nascent stage for individuals to resume and process their work. Transmuting themselves to online platforms was not a cakewalk for anyone especially for educators in India where the majority of the audience find online teaching unrelieved, monotonous, inoperable, and less engaging. Therefore, it becomes challenging and testing for teachers to conduct online lessons when the motive is to curb drop out ratio at schools and colleges and simultaneously deliver lesson objectives adequately and productively.

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Through this article, some techniques and courses of actions are highlighted which will  assuredly be profitable for distinct instructors.

1. Understand and diagnose the mood of your audience:

The online platform is like farmland where the proper areas are to be identified for learning speeds to sprout. These proper areas are identified in the mood of your audience /students. Are the learners ready enough for the current learning? To understand the discernment level of students, at the commencement of online classes following strategies could prove advantageous:

• Usage of Chat Box:

Use the chat box to know the mood of your students utilizing emoticons. These emoticons would help instructors in analyzing students’ readiness for the lesson.

• Interpretation of emotions by reading their faces: 

Unquestionably, students who just woke up before the class will be less lively and zestful for the class comparatively. Thus, it becomes very significant from an instructor’s end to differentiate such a clan of students by making them turn on their videos. Subsequently, creating two breakout rooms ; one set for more energetic students and another one for dormant students will be useful. Having contrasting audience based activities or energizers in both rooms will make them prepared for the class.

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2. Setting the target for the class:

Instructors before delivering the lesson must set a target or goal to achieve by the class as a team. It is synchronized with the situation where the instructor, like a football coach, splits the class into two or three teams and instigates them to contest for the best team trophy. For instance, if the class is interested in football leagues, it could be divided into the names of Real Madrid, Juventus, etc, and make them fight for the trophy Spanish league or English Premier League. If the majority of the students are interested in the IPL tournament, the class could be dissected under the names of Chennai Superkings or Mumbai Indians, etc, and make them contest for the IPL Trophy in the class. By setting up the target, the instructor will proficiently achieve the objective of the lesson for the majority of the students. Instructors could include some performance parameters to decide the best team at the end of the week. This will impart team spirit, leadership, and goal achievement skills.

3. Mastering up the standardized online platform for learners:

Unlike physical classrooms, online platforms have diverse and profuse features to engage students. Comprehending and becoming adroit of these available features will aid educators in achieving the self target for the class. Online coaches must get proficient in the available learning resources and tools such as raising hands, screen sharing, and when to employ a chat box during the class to ensure the smooth running of online classes.

4. Customizing lessons as per the audience: 

Scenario 1: Keep the video stagnant at one scene and let the audio play in the cinema hall. Will the audience be interested enough to watch the movie? Certainly, No.

Scenario 2: Allow the video to be played at some gaps and let the audio play unceasingly. Will the audience still be interested enough to watch the whole movie? Perhaps, No.

Similarly, in one hour class if students don’t have anything engrossing and fascinating to look at, most probably students will not turn up for the next sessions. Therefore, personalizing the presentation considering the aptitude level and age group of the students will play a cardinal role in achieving the objective of the lesson.

Working and relentless practicing on abundant online boards such as miro, Interactive liveboard, etc. will assist educators to introduce variations and fabricate learner-oriented lessons. These whiteboards allow online tutors to avail of the use of gif files, images, and various multimedia through which both instructors and learners will overcome the hurdles of the online class.

It is advisable for the online tutors to always include a surprising factor in their lessons which they believe their audience most probably don’t know of. This will assuredly leave an everlasting impact on the audience of the lesson conducted.

5. Providing effective feedback for students’ advancement:

The optimal efficient instrument for ceaseless students’ assessments and tracking their progress is having a constructive and functional feedback sheet. The feedback plan will enable students to understand their areas of strengths and areas where they need to focus more on upcoming classes. This will help them in setting up targets for their personal growth too. Utilizing Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc for tracking students’ progress will help instructors to set up target focussed sessions.

In defiance of various challenges, these online platforms offer the following advantages:

1. Comfortable learning area:  Online classes provide flexibility to students to attend classes from their comfort areas in their attires.
2. Becoming technical sound: Online classes will inculcate technical skills in students and they will be developing computer skills as they learn to navigate different learning management systems and programs.
3. Discard the reason for commuting and bad weather: During bad weather conditions, schools or colleges may cancel their classes. But online classes provide opportunities for students to log in to their classes from anywhere despite having bad weather conditions.

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Digital platforms, though a strenuous and arduous platform for Indian educators, especially as they are trained for conventional teaching style it offers teachers to boost their career in the online teaching field. It inaugurates a new learning era and concurrently it widens up the horizon of upgrading skillsets for educators and learners both. Despite being a novice and tough platform of engaging learners, it has many add ons which accords instructors to polish their teaching style. The online platform is altogether an amalgamation of effective presentation style, online learning attributes, and techniques of audience engagement.

Will India transform after commencing a new education policy?

A short analysis of new educational reforms in India.

Education is one of the most essential, salient, and powerful tools to upgrade one’s life. Education certainly determines the quality of an individual’s life. A good education opens up the possibilities of high paying jobs and employment for an individual to make a decent living. Not only this, but education also imparts the necessary life skills as people become more mature and sensible with the help of Education. It teaches individuals the importance of time, discipline, and much more as sophistication enters the life of educated people.  

Therefore, Education constitutes an important step in the country’s development ladder. And to ensure the community’s advancement and evolution, the National Policy of Education was formulated in 1968 and later its reforms were modified.

With an idea to improve and improvise the quality of education in India, the National policy of education in 1968 was prepared. It was focussed on providing basic education facilities to all citizens of the nation.

According to the National Policy on Education-1968, the government of India had formulated certain principles to promulgate the development of education in the country.

These principles are:

• Free and Compulsory Education:

   According to Article- 45 (Indian Constitution), education should be free and compulsory up to the age of 14. Steps should be taken to ensure that a child who is enrolled in the school should complete the course.

• Education of Teachers:

   The quality of education in any state is dependent on the caliber and standard of an educator. Therefore, it is crucial to have tutors on whom proper attention is given in the form of increment in emoluments and service standards. As the constitution of India distinctly mentions the freedom of expression to all, thus teachers should also get academic freedom to write, to study, and to speak on national and international issues.

• Language Development

   The policy had also emphasized language building skills through the development of Indian as well as foreign languages in the country. In a way to promote regional languages,  the three-language formula should be introduced in which a student at the secondary level should know Hindi, English, and the regional language of his state. The language Sanskrit has been included as an optional subject at the secondary level.

• Education Opportunity for all

   Under this policy, every child of the country should get an education irrespective of caste, religion, region, or whatever the case may be. Special emphasis should be given to backward classes, minority children, girls, and physically challenged children to avail of the education facilities.

• Uniform Education Structure

   The structure of education should be uniform throughout the country. It should be a 10+2+3 pattern from higher secondary to college level.

• Uniform Education Structure

   During the study, each student should get an atmosphere for sports and games. He should also develop the quality of work experience and should also participate in programs related to National construction and Community services.

• To review the progress

   The government should review the progress of education in the country from time to time and should present guidelines for future development.

The first NPE promulgated in 1968 during the reign of prime minister Indira Gandhi and the second by prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986.

With an idea to promote national cohesion and work ethics NPE is divided into 12 essential parts:

• Introductory definition
• The essence and role of education
• The national system of education
• Education for equality
• The reorganization of education at different stages
• Technical and management education
• Making the system work
• Reorienting the content and process of education
• The teacher
• The management of education 
• Resources and review
• The Future

It was evident that the governance of 1985 wanted to curb the parochial communal interpretation of composite culture through textbooks and curriculum.

Despite having some advantages such as educational works, the national system of education, uniform pattern of education, delinking degree from jobs, the establishment of Navodaya schools, equal educational opportunities, following are the demerits noted:

1. The NPE 1986 failed in suggesting measures for reducing the differences in educational standards of poor children and privileged ones.
2. The education policies did not address the condition of those schools which run throughout the country on commercial lines by certain bodies or persons.
3. The education policy of 1986 has recommended the starting of an All India Educational Service. If this suggestion is implemented, the existing gulf between teachers and bureaucracy will be further widened. The All India Educational Service was stopped during the British days. The propriety of starting it again was inconceivable. 
4. The various education policies stand for admission to university classes based on capability. These features will deprive many youths in university education. According to some critics, the Open University can never be a good substitute for regular university classes.
5. Basic education is neglected at the school stage.
6. No suggestion is given on the reservation of policy for admission, but the economic condition should be the criterion for the reservation.
7. Primary, secondary, and higher secondary schools are not working in unison and there is no linkage envisaged among them.

New Education Policy 2020:

The last modification in Education policy took place in 1992. It has been more than three decades since the formation of Education policy. During this period,  significant changes at social, economic levels have taken place not only at the National level but at the international level too. Therefore, the Education sector needs to be accelerated to meet the demands of the present scenario.  To achieve the same, the Government had initiated the process of formulation of new education policy through the consultation process for an inclusive, participatory and holistic approach, which takes into consideration expert opinions, field experiences, empirical research, stakeholder feedback.

The new policy aims for universalization of education from pre-school to secondary level with 100 percent Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in school education by 2030 and targets to raise GER in higher education to 50 percent by 2025.

Some of the key highlights of the new Education policy are:

1. Expansion of mandatory age group schooling:

The new system will have 12 years of schooling with three years of Anganwadi/pre-schooling which was earlier from the age group 6- 14 years.

The 10+2 structure of the school curriculum is to be replaced by a 5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years respectively to provide emphasis on Early Childhood Care and Education.

2. Mother Tongue as a medium of instruction:

In NEP, the focus has been on mother language as a medium of instruction even being stuck to the three language formula. But, it mentioned that no language would be imposed on anyone.

The reason behind putting this clause that students learn and grasp nontrivial concepts more quickly in their home languages.

“Wherever possible, the medium of instruction until at least Grade 5, but preferably till Grade 8 and beyond, will be the home language, mother tongue, local language, or the regional language. Thereafter, the home or local language shall continue to be taught as a language wherever possible. This will be followed by both public and private schools,” the policy states.

3. Universal body for higher education (Dismantling of UGC):

Public and private education institutions will be governed by the same set of rules and regulations, accreditation, and academic standards by having one governing body (no UGC, AICTE, NCTE).

Govt will phase out the affiliation of colleges in 15 years and a stage-wise mechanism is to be established for granting graded autonomy to colleges.

4. No more demarcation of Science, Commerce, and arts:

Under NEP 2020, there will be no rigid separations between arts and sciences, between curricular and extracurricular activities, between vocational and academic streams. Students can select subjects of their liking across the streams. Vocational education will start in schools from the 6th grade and will include internships.

5. Efforts to curb dropouts and making students employable:

Under the NEP, undergraduate degrees will be of either a 3 or 4-year duration with multiple exit options within this period. The college will be mandated to give a certificate after completing 1 year in a discipline or field including vocational and professional areas, a diploma after 2 years of study, or a Bachelor’s degree after a 3-year program.

The Government will also establish an Academic Bank of Credit for digitally storing academic credits earned from different HEIs so that these can be transferred and counted towards the final degree earned.

6. Setting up of a National Research Foundation.
7. Discontinuation of the M.Phil program.
8.  A new National Assessment Centre, PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), will be set up as a standard-setting body.
9. NEP emphasizes on setting up of Gender Inclusion Fund and also Special Education Zones for disadvantaged regions and groups.

Implementation of these reforms:

The NEP only provides a broad direction and is not mandatory to follow. Since education is a concurrent subject (both the Centre and the state governments can make laws on it), the reforms proposed can only be implemented collaboratively by the Centre and the states. This will not happen immediately. The incumbent government has set a target of 2040 to implement the entire policy. Sufficient funding is also crucial; the 1968 NEP was hamstrung by a shortage of funds.

The government plans to set up subject-wise committees with members from relevant ministries at both the central and state levels to develop implementation plans for each aspect of the NEP. The plans will list out actions to be taken by multiple bodies, including the HRD Ministry, state Education Departments, school Boards, NCERT, Central Advisory Board of Education, and National Testing Agency, among others. Planning will be followed by a yearly joint review of progress against targets set.

How the New Education Policy would benefit generations to come?

1. Evidently, the New Education Policy would provide a strong structural basis of society by promoting regional languages.
2. Anganwadi and pre-schooling will be given much importance as NEP 2020 will give thrust on early childhood care and education. This will further broaden the thinking skills of students at an early age and make them competent enough for future academics
3. The bar of dropouts at school and colleges would see a downfall as the government aims to provide internship opportunities at school and college level.
4. Internationalization of education will be facilitated through both institutional collaborations and student and faculty mobility and allowing entry of top world-ranked universities to open campuses in India. Therefore, Indian Universities would touch the International standards of education.

Thus, it is hoped that the New Education Policy will bring revolutionary changes in the education standards of India with a target of educating everyone.

When the International health alarm fails then whom should we rely on?

The stance of WHO during major pandemics across the globe.

With the evolution in technology and probable out-turn of globalization; the era of the 20th and 21^st century has witnessed mutation of viruses into various genomes. This unceasingly leads to national and international health emergencies across the globe which directly attacks the healthcare system and the worst sufferers are developing nations that don’t have adequate facilities to face off such disasters. Thus, the World Health Organization plays a significant and crucial role in not only aiding nations to curb epidemics and pandemics but also issuing salient alerts worldwide to notify people of imminent disasters to lessen the figure of fatalities.

Let’s have a look at how many times the globe has been hard hit by deadly pandemics or epidemics since the establishment of WHO.

Since the creation of WHO, the globe has been stormed by plenty of influenzas.

·                     1957-58: Asian Flu Pandemic

·                     1961- Present: Cholera Pandemic

·                     1968-69: Hong Kong Flu Pandemic

·                     1977-80: Smallpox

·                     1981- Present: HIV/AIDS Pandemic

·                     2002-03: SARS Virus

·                     2009-10: Swine Flu Pandemic

·                     2014-16: Ebola Virus

·                     2019- Present: COVID -19

Role of WHO in handling major pandemics across the globe:

With an agenda to universal healthcare, monitoring public health risks, coordinating responses to health emergencies, and promoting human health and well being, and stating in its constitution as well ”the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health”, the WHOs response to pandemics since its establishment has upgraded and enhanced over the years. However, amidst COVID-19 its reputation declined by not alarming the world at the early stages of the virus outbreak.

1957-58: Asian Flu Pandemic

A new influenza H2N2 was spotted in East Asia with China its epicenter during February 1957, sparking a pandemic “Asian Flu”. The first case was reported in Singapore during February 1957, then detected in Hong Kong by April 1957 and slowly this influenza landed on coastal areas of the United States. After the first case was reported in Guizhou province of southwestern China in February 1957, it took nearly three months to gulp nearly 10 percent of the population of the same region who were receiving treatment, as reported by The Times. It was later recalled that in declaring 1957 Flu Pandemic an International Health Emergency got missed by WHO. It was Dr. Hilleman’s research and prediction which mitigated the Virus effect in the US.

The axis of the virus gradually shifted from East Asia to the USA, in response to which Dr. Maurice Hilleman commenced investigating this virus with his research team as they studied the flu virus in a lab at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. By gathering knowledge about previous deadly pandemics such as Spanish Flu, 1918  Hilleman announced through a press release that a new flu pandemic had arrived, and would reach the United States by September 1957. Because of Hilleman’s correct predictions, the country was well prepared with the vaccine by the time the flu strain hit the nation. As per reports, an estimated 70,000 to 116,000 Americans and one to four million people worldwide were killed, but experts suggest it would have killed many more if not for the vaccine.

1968 Influenza Pandemic: Hong Kong Virus

The 1968 influenza pandemic popularly referred to as Hong Kong Flu whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people worldwide, fewer than the 1957 flu pandemic. The first case was reported on July 13, 1968. Within a short period, outbreaks were reported in Vietnam and Singapore. Instead of WHO, it was The Times that alarmed other nations about the evolving pandemic.

By September 1968, the flu reached India, the Philippines, northern Australia, and Europe. By December, it became widespread in the US as the American troops were returning from the Vietnam war. It would reach Japan, Africa, and South America by 1969. By 1969, a peak was observed in worldwide fatalities During the course of its transmission, The National Influenza Center at the University of Hong Kong immediately came in contact with World Influenza Centre, London, and International Influenza Centre, Atlanta, Georgia by isolating the new influenza A(H3N2) virus on July 17 and resultant confirmation that the virus strain was a distinct antigenic variant of contemporary influenza viruses prompted a World Health Organization (WHO) warning on August 16. The situation was further aggravated as there was no travel ban subsequently nearly 160 million people worldwide facilitated the rapid transmission of flu.

The Hong Kong virus is suspected to be the evolution from the strain of influenza that caused the 1957 pandemic and the same virus proved calamitous a year later, in late 1969 and early 1970, and 1972.  This pandemic occurred in two waves and the second proved to be more disastrous causing a greater number of deaths than the first wave.

2009 H1N1 Pandemic: Swine Flu

The pandemic in 2009 observed better and timely response from WHO comparatively in alarming nations for imminent disaster. This influenza virus originated in the US and began to spread in Mexico and the United States during early 2009. Unlike other viruses, this virus afflicted children and younger people to a higher level.

On April 15, the first human infection was reported in California. By April 18, the first novel H1N1 flu infection was reported to WHO through the US international Health Regulation Programmes. Correspondingly, WHO took 10 days to declare a public health emergency of international concern. On April 27, WHO Director-General raised the level of the pandemic from phase 3 to 4, based on reports of detection of human to human transmission. Within 2 days, WHO raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to 5, signaling that a pandemic was imminent and requested all countries to gear up their preparedness plan to combat influenza. Even after the early warning issued by WHO, the virus reached more than 70 countries as there was no ban on air travel. By the time WHO raised the level of the virus to phase 6, indicating the virus was spreading to other parts of the world, many countries advised against travel to North America, china amongst the one inflicting mandatory quarantine for patients and their close contacts

COVID- 19: 2019- Present

The ongoing pandemic COVID-19 has posed not only a threat to human lives but a  bigger threat to the national and international economies as well. The COVID-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis; it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a security crisis, and a human rights crisis., as stated by the UN. The disease was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. However, the first confirmed case has been traced back to 17 November 2019 in Hubei.  COVID 19 has cracked badly the world’s best healthcare system also since there was no proper direction and guidance from the International organization in efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19. As of 19 July 2020, there have been reports of  more than 14.3 million cases across188 countries and territories, resulting in more than 6 lakh casualties. With the number of rising cases each day, one can make an idea of its perilous nature. The response of WHO in handling this pandemic is not apprehensive and the role of WHO has been criticized by various countries where it has been accused of not providing timely information and pleasing the authoritarian People’s Republic of China. On December 30, 2019, WHO received a Chinese report of aberrant pneumonia. By January 5, 2020, WHO after its probing, notified member states of this unusual virus. By January 10, 2020, WHO confirmed the risk of human to human virus spread.

The Chinese government allegedly knew the disease was spreading before the tweet was sent, according to the South China Morning Post. WHO entirely relied on information given by Chinese officials who have already been attributed to concealing and mystifying the data and information related to the prevention of this disease.

The questionable stand of WHO amidst COVID-19:

A lot has to be questioned from WHO for their mishandling of Virus. Since December 2019 it took WHO nearly 4 months to finally announce it as pandemic WHO Director-General in his statement on February 3, 2020, condemned the travel ban and found it an irrelevant and redundant step to beat Wuhan Virus and denounced some countries for putting travel restrictions to China. WHO forthrightly supported China at a time it was facing international isolation due to restrictions of flights to and from the country.

Defying its primary objective of communicating timely information with the public to ensure better health, WHO failed to execute this amidst COVID-19. Due to this reason, the WHO has sabotaged its credibility by exposing its unreasonable bias towards China. In various press releases, the WHO Director-General was heard lauding China for its transparency in handling this outbreak.

After the confirmation of human to human transmission, WHO despite taking an evident and obvious step to prevent the spread of infections urged nations not to close their boundaries. The organization is being blamed for exemplifying its political bias by supporting China’s communist parties’ agenda by isolating Taiwan and refusing to address any questions related to Taiwan.

The part played by WHO is facing intense criticism across the globe due as a result of which in the 73rd World Health Assembly on May 18, 2020, nearly 50 nations have signed the pact for recalling the constitution of WHO, transparent investigation of the outbreak, in questing WHO’s strategic and preparedness response plan. The pact will help the worst affected sections of society in particular in low- and middle-income and developing countries by strengthening of Primary Health Care.

What’s the probable solution?

With its continuous amendments, WHO in 2005  rewrote the new rules to provide collective defenses against global health challenges and enhance pandemic preparedness and response plans by stating that states should notify WHO of potential global health emergencies. It also grants the WHO Director-General the authority to announce a public health emergency of International Concern or, PHEIC, to mobilize a global response. It is hoped that the pact signed would bring further changes in the constitution of WHO to provide timely health services to all the sections of society and ensure transparency, by keeping itself away from the political influences which could prove disastrous in terms of health for everyone, the way it has been seen in COVID -19. During health emergencies,  global health governance requires significant WHO leadership and effective enactment of WHO’s core global functions to offer health security and ensuring better effectiveness of all health actors.

In the 21st century, globalization has accelerated the spread of infectious disease and the sudden outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Therefore, it’s high time that WHO needs to revise and review its policies to establish proper elucidation with its member states for timely research and analysis of any probable pandemic or outbreak and act as a safeguard for the general public’s health in following ways.

•Promoting establishment of the robust healthcare system in developing countries with the help of developed nations.

•On the basis of previous pandemics and epidemics origin’s, harmful and indigestible species need to be identified in order to stop their consumption.

• To cease any outbreak, travel ban should be imposed primarily.

Will we ever overstep our proclivity for blood relations?

Nepotism: The murderer of burgeoning talents.
India, the country of diverse customs, relations, food, ethnicity, linguistics espies the similarity in bracing its generations for the position and stance for they are undoubtedly tagged as unfit and inappropriate. The sudden demise of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has once again not only set Bollywood tribe but every clan in an intense and vehement argument of nepotism. Nepotism is not merely a word but the deadliest abstraction for flowering talents.
” In a garden full of roses, a sunflower couldn’t bloom since it belongs to the contrasting clan”
How would this locus lead to a healthy competition for the society to grow? How would this lead to the self-realization of individual knacks’ for persistent improvement? Should someone be penalized on account of not having any association with the successful tribe of this country? Is it justified to set the success bar on account of the family name?
As a society, Indians have evolved and well transmuted themselves to the needs of technology, yet wistfully we are strained and gripped in a rope of nepotism. Let’s figure out the purposes and implications of having such a scenario.

Why does nepotism prevail in India?

Pre Independence, the throne of the kingdom was occupied by a dignitary belonging to the royal clan or any potentate from a state itself used to disown the authority. In either case, power relied on the royal family. Indians seem disinterested to unsubscribe themselves from this system still. Evidently, India being the largest democratic nation couldn’t process with this succor at the executive level, however, such a system finds its patches in other sectors whether it is politics, where simply adopted ” Gandhi ” surname would guarantee your success in bureaucracy or Bollywood sector.
The critical question is have we grown as a society where talent is supreme than ancestry? Nepotism is an aftermath of a long and rigorous process, that we all unknowingly go through since childhood where often we used to fall in a trap of favoritism within the family itself.
The quality that most of the Indians lack i.e., empowering and entrusting their kids right from childhood. Their willingness to be an eternal shadow of their kids proscribed them to implant and infuse self-dependence skills in their children. On being compared with some developed communities such as the USA, the UK a young lad will be abandoned by parents so that he becomes competent and efficient for upcoming challenges and hurdles in life. On the contrary, in India parents tend to forfeit and devote their whole lives for the happiness and prosperity of their child.

What shall be the implications of nepotism on the Indian Economy?

Nepotism poses threats to the economic advancements as it restricts the promotion of highly qualified and deserving candidates. There is no dearth of highly equipped and meriting nominees who may have higher education, upgraded skills, and work experience in the market, still, they are not remarked upon.
Nepotism unquestionably plays significant and substantial role in widening the radius of lawlessness and corruption in the state. There are various reports from all over the world such as Korea, Russia stating nepotism as a decelerating force for economic growth, and inviting stagnation in the country’s development. The research papers published by University College of International Management, Republic of Kosovo and Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Federation Russia elicits the destruction brought by nepotism not only to the economy but vandalizing structural virtues of the society by promulgating the feeling of antipathy amongst each other. By only favoring people of certain houses fabricates imbalance, inequity, and mistreatment in a society that may lead to grave and drastic results.
Let’s understand, this ” favoritism” is not only sabotaging an individual’s growth and innovations but repulsing the Indian Economy too. The implications of nepotism could lead to unfair and bias treatment and losses to the company’s performance and broaden up the horizon of corruption in an organization which certainly drops the nation’s GDP and affect its advancement rate.

References :

1.https://theprint.in/opinion/nepotistic-privilege-should-be-a-matter-of-social-shame-it-holds-India-back/455481/
2.https://www.indianfolk.com/nepotism-in-india/
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4.https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/world/asia/12iht-letter12.html
5.https://edtimes.in/this-world-is-unfair-in-many-ways-nepotism-is-another-way-of-keeping-it-the-same/
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Journalism to a new dip!

A thin line difference lies between what is true and what seems to be true. In this modern era of 20th century, social media appears to be formidable and overwhelming platform for spreading rumors and hate speech resulting into surge in mob attacks and lynchings in this country. Undoubtedly, social media platforms and dip in journalism impactfully influence the society skeptically.

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Democracy shall win and abiding by the rights of freedom of speech, journalism shall prevail potently. But, the way journalism is moulding 20th century would have devastating aftermath for forthcoming generations.

The key factors by which journalism is sabotaging the society are :

1. Playing on deaths

2. Gardening unnecessary limelight to irrelevant issues

3. Polarizing society on the nature of harassment of victims

4. Giving voices to dominant sounds in society

Let’s understand that behind the curtain, the script for spreading fake news is drawn and drafted. Here’s the course of action of some media houses in dismantaling society,

Quoting the fact, that these media houses are being paid and aided by either party of country to bloom their seeds of propaganda amid society.

From polarizing the society in Ramjanam Bhoomi’s case to Tablighi Jamat’s case, media has undoubtedly and efficaciously proven themselves to be the harbingers of disruption in society. Defying from it’s primitive role of presenting truth to the society, media has transmuted it’s demeanor to intrigue people.

Does freedom of speech give anyone any right to surface any violent or riots in country? Under pressure from government and regulators such as the Election Commission, social media platforms have introduced numerous restrictions on sharing of posts and blocked many accounts for spreading misinformation. Why are we so susceptible and reactive to any news? Can’t we use our reasoning and wit in filtering these news?

Let’s not give anyone’s power of words a shape of menace in country!

Courtesy: https://www.altnews.in/top-fake-news-stories-circulated-indian-media-2017/

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/fake-news-still-a-menace-despite-government-crackdown-fact-checkers/articleshow/72895472.cms

https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/07/04/mob-lynchings-in-india-a-look-at-data-and-the-story-behind-the-numbers

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Blue: the revolutionary and divine shade

This ancient Egyptian color which perfectly elucidates mighty sky and deep ocean, the color which expounds the beauty of Sapphire stunningly has captured many renowned artists’ interest such as Louise Bourgeoisie, Yves Klein etc.

The color has deep intense impact not only on evolutionary growth of mankind but in preserving our ecosystems as well, named Blue Revolution. The revolution which focussed on intense growth of the worldwide aquaculture industry. There is a rapid increase in the production of marine products through this revolution.

According to color pshycology, every color has its effect on human beings. This color horizon isn’t just restrained to enchant anyone but the color is marked as a symbol of trust, responsibility and loyalty. Symbolizing the quality of sky and ocean in itself i.e., peace and serenity. It has divine qualities by enhancing contemplation and prayers. One can develop self expression and ability to communicate his needs and wants by the usage of this color.

This shade is a symbol of wit as it clutches the present, with memoirs of past and evolving future.

Reincarnation of Communism

How would you feel if you are no longer the owner of your own property? How would you feel if you are enforced to share your possessions and belongings with everyone? And this became one of the key factors for demolition of upsurge communist idealogy during 19th century.

But hold on! The world is recognizing a rejuvenation of this idealogy in new form. When Marx and Egles established this idealogy, it’s norms were set up keeping the atrocities of princely states in consideration. Thus, they advocated for a classless society in which all property and wealth is communally owned, instead of by individuals with an objective to establish equality in society. But their standards are mutable in nature. The people republic of China assuredly made this statement viable and realistic. The Maoist government is communal in nature, yet they have adopted some capitalist reforms where the only power lies in state which is contradictory to Marx’s theory of Communism. The Communist idealogy enforces classless society then what about Uighurs Muslims in China? When the nation was in a grip of pandemic COVID 19, Uighurs Muslims were forced to made manufacturing powerhouses running. Wondering, who is the owner of protecting individual rights in communist state?

Quoting, the Communist idealogy as dual, is playing it’s significant role in muddling the society by provoking and arousing minorities by dissemination of unauthenticated information. Whether it was protest against revoking Article 370 or introductory bill of Citizenship Amendment Act, this mutable and dual idealogy has created differences and additionally hindered human lives in socio economic society.

Forming classless society was initially their objective, now it has transmuted into the idealogy which fights only for minorities, then why don’t they have mass struggle to protect rights of Uighurs Muslims in China?

In a white majority nation, Hindu majority nation, Islam majority nation, are minorities the only sufferers? Are majority states this barbarous and cruel? Why is Communist idealogy presently confined to death of black American and Muslims? Vandalizing public property intermittently, does this define Communism? If yes, then this present idealogy or rebirth of Communism is contradictory of Karl Max’s establishment of Communism which states broadening of public property.

The biggest reason for demise of communist idealogy is, it’s mutable nature which has often given rise to tyrannical governance, taking all the rights away from the public. And building classless society in totalitarian has absolute zero possibility. Such inconsistent and shifting idealogy does not focus on the welfare and growth of society as a whole, the reason for which communism theory is unable to ground itself effeciently in any nation yet.