We are still in the foothills of the Covid-19 crisis but it is clear this major global event will have deep implication for our society structure and economy….

Coronavirus pandemic has been the most traumatic experience of our lives. It will have a huge impact on us as individuals, as society and as a workforce. Although it’s hard to imagine right now, things will get to normal. Way of living and working has changed throughout the lockdown and will continue till it ends.
Five years later, corona virus or as we say covid-19, has brought the world to it’s knees. Businesses have been shut, schools and colleges are closed, travel banned.

Firstly, Covid has given a huge lift to E-learning. Educational institutions, business organizations have taken online education to a new level by offering classes and courses in an innovative way to keep their audience hooked at these times of lockdown. Students are signing up for online classes for entrance exams- JEE and NEET for upskilling. Several schools across the country have started online classes, students are attending classes virtually. Also, Television and radio are used for those without androids. Various organizations are conducting awareness for covid through online quizzes. Everything is converting to tech based structure.
Secondly, Work from Home, people are getting used to WFH culture. Many professional are now working from home. IT sectors, businesses are opting to work in home isolation. Even after lockdown relaxations, people are preferring to work form home due to the risk of infection in offices. Conferences and meetings are done by zoom and online work is prevailing. The uncertainty of end of corona leading to work from home. The culture has seeped into our living rooms with people especially, women, juggling between cooking, parenting and working at the same time. According to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, WFH will become a norm in the post Covid world. Sanitizing things before use, social distancing, wearing mask in public is likely to continue as people have recognized the need to stay healthy more so, with no vaccine on covid in sight for a long time to come.
Thirdly, We have become more Hygiene conscious . People have started taking hygiene more seriously. Washing hands, using sanitizer , started as a compulsion is becoming a habit. Many NGO’S are creating awareness among the rural people to practice personal hygiene to lower the risk of getting infected. Health and hygiene brands have risen to the occasion and started campaigns for cleanliness. Demands of sanitizer has increased tremendously in urban cities. Sanitization is carried over houses, roads and public places. Sanitization tunnel are taking place to enter any area.
Fourthly, Social distancing changed the public places. Market complexes, railway station, shops, bus stands are changing and creating space for maintaining social distancing due to corona virus. Waiting in queues, a meter apart is seen all over the cities. Workplaces, schools, colleges will change to ensure distance. Public functions, marriages are observed with a new pattern with masks on faces of bride and groom. Small children playing in parks with masks.
As said, Necessity is the mother of Invention. A first look at these changes reveals that people from all the walks of life have imbibed the alterations. With a vaccine still months away and with the unconfirmed spectre of corona looming, the question no longer seems to be, “when this will end?” Instead some are started to say that the impact of such a pandemic, one that is truly global and may not be brought under control next year, could enormously alter how our societies are structured.

Meanwhile, we all have to understand that the current situation is like a tunnel and we don’t know how long the tunnel is, so better we should utilize the time for productive work and stay connected through each other with technology.

As a parent, there are many pressing matters when it comes to your child’s future. Quoting something from the parenting manual would be, a dip in your child’s performance in a petty monthly test. The disappointment frown which follows and the thoughts of your child becoming a failure among their peers lingers in your minds. Parents always pin their dreams on the children and push them to study harder. Albeit, education should not just mean excelling academics but also becoming well-rounded individuals. Gaining knowledge has been set aside by acing tests or stack piling trophies and accolades. And this unfavourable situation has it’s roots well established by the education offered in schools.

As students what we learn constitute the major building blocks of our personality and character. The morals inculcated by parents contributes about one-fourth while knowledge provided by schools contributes to the rest. These become the impetus to one’s actions which defines a person. Tapping into a student’s artistic, poetic, spiritual or social approach should be something that schools should work towards and adopt a holistic approach in learning. In philosophy, holistic refers to a belief that all aspects of something are linked to one another and can be comprehended only as a whole. A Classic example of holistic learning is Nobel Laurette Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan.

Shantiniketan (abode of peace) was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore’s brainchild. He stumbled upon the beauty of the area during his boat ride through Birhaum. What started as a spiritual centre welcomed everyone unbiasedly was transformed into a learning centre by none other than Rabindranath Tagore. He which envisaged a deep-rooted education for students from different cultures and connecting them to a wider world. His model school, was based on the Vedic tradition of Bhramacharya Ashram provided education end to end with teaching students their responsibilities, duties towards the community. The classes were held under the canopy of Chhatim trees, in open air scrapping the claustrophobia in a classroom. Thoughts and teachings would flow freely, a curriculum melding the traditional learning with western principles. Students were at a liberty to explore other unconventional talents, absorb about the nature and also fortified to give back to their society.

Holistic learning aims at developing a child’s physical, emotional, moral, psychological and spiritual intellect. It teaches children to create relationships with the environment, community and the people around them. Mainstream education deals with mechanical, scientific or logical aspect of a subject. For instance, a student is taught the processes of pollination in a flower and the botanical features, however schools ignore to teach them how to capture it’s beauty on paper, serenade about it’s attractiveness, pen down a poem on that fragrant garden or be entranced by it’s fragrance and escape into a moment of bliss. Dissecting a flower and plucking it to examine is easy, but there is an significant moral we disregard, ‘Plucking a pretty flower we love merely makes us more driven to be possessive over things we love, instead of caring and treasuring it.’ As an alternative of teaching them the harmful effects of global warming push them towards connecting with our nature emotionally and feel the sense of tranquillity in nature.

Dear readers, I’d like to ask a simple question that has popped in my mind. How often were you or your children taught in schools to respect it’s ancillary staff like the administrative staff, janitors, bus drivers or even those in your surroundings like the domestic help, the housekeeper, security men or even your usual vegetable vendors. The Government has definitely listed their services as ‘essentials’ but have we ever looked up to them with awe and not pity or even disgust. We often look spitefully at such professions, but left out on schooling them the value and contribution of every individual in the society. Shoving a few clothes or making generous contributions into a donation box for the distressed hit by a deluge is not identified as ‘social work’. Seldom do schools encourage students to visit an orphanage or rehabilitation centre, children learning centre in Singapore or a hospice for the aged to volunteer. Hardly any students have experienced the delight of giving a few moments of happiness to someone specially abled, helping them sketch a drawing, playing a hand at cards with an ignored veteran, the satisfaction after a good deed is fleeting yet cherishable. They are always trained to aim for more, best college or job opportunity.

Students need to be taught that nothing appears in black and white. As much as being determined to be successful is a positive approach, neglecting unconventional talents and tagging them as a distraction would just confine you to a small, mundane space in life. These interests help in escaping from the clock-tuned routine, keep you productive instead of slipping into a phase of depression, boredom and self-loathing; It helps you stand out from the herd, giving you those additional soft skills to make you a confident, strong-minded individuals. Your perspective of the surroundings changes with a different slant towards your society. For instance if you’re passionate on pursuing a career as a health professional but also have an interest for graphic designing, then it’s time to embrace it and hustle hard. Probably the future has an opportunity in store for you to open a clinic and guess who’ll be designing some catchy, promotional material for it.

Spanning through a few pages in History, we stumble upon many examples of the outcomes of a passé, regressive society. Adolf Hitler was a tyrant, ruthless dictator. However, his memoirs have mentioned his passion and dreams of pursuing arts. His father, like most parents detested his dreams and forced him to pursue a mechanical course. If his father gave wings to his dreams, probably events like the Holocaust would’ve never unfolded and Hitler would be known as a renowned peaceful and terrific artist.

Due to pandemic every single human have to change his/her style of living, like working from home, making different places to take out physical activity, therefore it has become important to modify your room so that you can make it comfortable with only doing some limited set up. That is why I always try new things for you. Today I came up with new concept of compartments because these days it is very difficult or we can say a stressful job to organize your belongings which used to remain here and there throughout the day, that is why i came up with the solution to all your problem by presenting a world class piece of luxurious compartment which will double up the space for your belongings and will give a eye appealing touch to your dream house. A compartment can have various uses in the house either it is used to keep your small things like books, laptops, wires etc or some uses it for keeping your kitchen glasses. The compartment shown to you by me is made of high quality of wood which is going to remain with you for a very long time. The compartment plays a major role if it is placed in your living room because it is the only thing that is going to represent your room. I always try to make your living room simple, clean and add a bit of glamour from our side so that we can make it comfortable for you that’s why i suggest white colour so as to give a architectural finish to your room. For that i have variety of colour in compartments so that we can make sure it can suit your interior too. The advantage if it is that despite having small compartments it has six large compartments so that you can place things in a large quantity and the beneficial point is that it has large surface on the top so that you can place any kind of artefacts or small statues over it. These is just a one must have compartment in our house because you have the right to customise it according to your need, style and creativity. I can also suggest you to have led lights inside the compartment so that to give it a modern and luxury look. We always try to make it classy for you that is why i introduce the wall hanging that will not only increase the importance of your living room but if placed above the compartments then it will give a glowing and a dashing look to your compartments after that the other thing I make sure must be perfect is your floor because it reflects your ambiance and decor of your home that is i also provide patterned wooden floors or sheet floorings which reflects your style. Therefore the choice is yours because life is an opportunity to make decision and if you want you can take it right or you just want to let it go

Recently, Ministry of Home affairs has made announcement Unlock 1.0 and released advisory with all norms on 31 may 2020.Indian economy was suffering the virus impact from Janta curfew of 22 march and followed by different phases of the lockdown,mentioned here.

• Phase 1: from 25 March 2020 to 14 April 2020 (21 days)
• Phase 2: from 15 April 2020 to 3 May 2020 (19 days)
• Phase 3: from 4 May 2020 to 17 May 2020 (14 days)
• Phase 4: from 18 May 2020 to 31 May 2020 (14 days)
• Phase 5 (only for containment zones) : from 1 June 2020 – ongoing (7 days) scheduled to end on 30 June 2020

The lockdown phase 1 was introduced in India when the Corona cases were near about 500 and government seemed to be much worried and imposed a strict lockdown while other countries Italy, Spain, USA were relaxed enough about the concern.This way of our government had showed a true responsible and dutiful spirit of the body governing.

Our government and people were folloing ICMR which was moving one step ahead of WHO in the prevention of the virus. ICMR stated to meet the peak of the live corona cases in the month of June and July and the same is happening.

Here above graph depicts out the harsh reality of Unlock 1.0. Italy, UK, Spain, Germany and many more countries have gone through unlocking process when they attained the decline in corona cases but Indian Unlock 1.0 doesn’t seem to have any decline but usual surge in cases.

Another thing is that ICMR is giving sign of community transmission which will put India in very difficult situation. The need of time is to stay home as much as possible and to put social distancing in habit to stay safe.

So keep updated and stay home, follow social distacing and remain safe not for youself but for family and grand citizens. You may be rich in immunity……may be you can fight well with corona but try not to be carrier.

Thanks for reading.

In recent news, there have been a news about an elephant who is pregnant had been died due to drowning into the water according to the reports. But later on when the forest officer narrated the whole incident on social media then the truth came into the light. And when the whole incident got searched properly by the Forest Department in Kerala , they found few people (two or more) in the connection of the death of wild elephant by letting her eating pineapple filled with firecrackers.

This further created a huge outrage among the people demanding for the punishment for those who were accused for this offence. Therefore, rescuing animals is in need. I believe in rescuing animals is most appreciated work one can do as a human being. For that one should also be rewarded. It is the most right thing to do. When we choose to save ones life, we feel like are worth as a human being on this planet. As everyone keeps themselves healthy then why no for animals? They are also the part of this planet and needed to be treated good just like human beings.

Now the question arises why one should rescue animals? So the answer to this will be as follows:

1. As human beings are being taken care whenever they are feeling like unhealthy, similarly animals being an living creatures also needed to be taken care of.
2. They also feels and think so why not they should also treated as well.
3. Like human beings they are also the most beautiful creature on earth.
4. At last we cannot let the God made things to die without being properly taken care of.

To conclude, animals should also get rescued properly whenever they are in need. As they also need shelter to survive, food for energy, water for living, or etc. Helping those animals who are in need is an enriching experience and hence a personal satisfaction of helping in need.