“Just stop overthinking!”

Overthinking can be your biggest enemy. It can have a very bad impact on your life. It can take you away from your dear ones and also can stop you from becoming successful in life. It is something which makes you a weaker person from within.

People of today’s generation are already becoming a victim of anxiety, depression and stress. Overthinking might not look harmful like them, but in reality, it is equally dangerous.

Distressing and overthinking about things is not uncommon and many people face this issue. By following good and healthy practices, we can surely conquer overthinking.
So, I am listing down a few measures that can be adopted to stop overthinking:

● When you learn to control your thoughts, you can keep yourself away from overthinking. You shall teach your mind to focus on the positivity and ignore the pessimism. Understand that you cannot control all the things happening in your life and you shall accept them as they are.

● Start living in the present and stop thinking about what happened in the past. Thinking too much about your past experiences can stop you from enjoying your present. Talking out to someone about the issues that you are constantly thinking about can help you to stay distracted and also you can find a solution for them.

● Keeping your mind busy in some or the other activity can help you to stop overthinking. This happens because when you spend time doing some productive work you distract yourself from the thoughts that are worrying you. You do not find time to think about such thoughts as you are already engaged in other work.

● Spend time with nature, write down your thoughts, read a book, paint something, go out for a walk, do gardening with your loved ones. Such activities or doing any other thing that you like the most helps you to not overthink. These activities will keep you entertained, give you pleasure, help you to deal with your anxiety and stress, make you feel relaxed and refreshed and also help you to stop overthinking.

● Meditation has proven useful in improving your mental as well as physical health. It can also prove very helpful in preventing you from overthinking and reducing your fear or anxiety. This is because, meditation brings clarity in your thoughts, prevents you from focussing on unwanted and unproductive things, help to improve your concentration, makes you calm and peaceful and takes you away from the chaotic world.

Overthinking can be very detrimental in your life. It can stop you from building happy and stable relationships, from experiencing new things in life and build up the unnecessary and unwanted fear in your mind.

So, it is very essential for all of us to get rid of your habit of overthinking, as it has negative impacts on your overall health. This cannot be achieved in a single day, but with continuous efforts, you can definitely overcome overthinking.

Just don’t take things seriously, ignore the negativity around you and relax. By doing this, one day, you can surely fight your invisible enemy i.e. overthinking.

Advertising is necessary.


Advertising or publicity has today gained phenomenal significance. Naturally, it is wrong to negative it’s used.
In fact, the modern age cannot do without advertisement. Formerly the newspapers, house magazines and other printed media of advertisements were the chief vehicles of communication. But with the advent of the television advertisement has involved human life and culture as it did never before. Education, Science, Competitions, Domestic living and even kitchen menu are now under the remote control of the advertisers.
The world today has not only come closer due to the bonding progress of science, but human life on earth has also become myriad patterned. Commercial competitive spirit has generated a culture in which each product claims to hold it’s own. Naturally, man today is up against an array of competitive products that seek to influence him.
The taste of the pudding is in the eating. The proverb implies that an intrinsically good thing calls for no advertisement. But today the commodities of use have become scientific, and have to be properly advertised. The hygienic values of food, their components and the process of preparation have to be driven home to users through sensible advertisement. Again the earth’s environment, today suffers from an imbalance resulting in various kinds of fatal diseases. Advertisement is exceedingly needed to warn men about their habits and evil consequences. Only through advertisements like cartoon pictures, photographs and intelligent visual strips on TVs can such health hazards be avoided. Again these days the manner on which the importance of iodine on food to prevent goitre and the importance of triple injections for newborn babies that are telecasted shows the importance of advertisement.
But the on the negative side purely commercial advertisements ought to be checked. There is a tendency in traders to launch their bad or indifferent products through advertising gimmicks. Men, in general, are credulous. The sly advertiser often pushes in his stuff by out the good stuff. The usual technique is the high commission to retailers. It follows the general Gresham’s Law that bad money turns good money out of circulation. Unless our national government is alert enough and puts a check on such malpractice’s, we shall reap live the evils of advertisement.
Lastly, advertisement helps us in having a knowledge of the larger world of educational opportunities. Knowledge today is opening new and ever new fronts. Many traditional modes are being progressively relegated. It is a feature of this century where modern science is the greatest contribution, computer assessment of merits, computer in railway reservations have successfully made human living smoother. Now the results are more accurate and corruption free. Naturally, if there were no advertising media,the largest cross section of human beings that live in rural or non urban areas would have remained in the dark.So advertising has proved itself to be necessary,nay an indispensable component of a healthy societyBut as the advantages are many the disadvantages of its missuse are no less.Change is the only constant and inevitable so in near future we might get to see more changes in the advertising sector.

UNDER THE CHERRY BLOSSOM

Gentle breeze brush the blush tint of petals away from my face

Whilst I peeped from behind to find warm brown eyes greeting me

that eternal lingering fuzzy feeling lasts when you shyly look away

I prettied myself, neck adorned with lace

As I flicked through that worn out diary, out of curiosity

Your loving glance, a sigh escapes me

Tenderly, I reached out only to catch falling cherry blossoms

First springs of the month, the sky doused in love splashed with hued pink

The cackle of geese, the babble of relentless joy once hushed come the sedentary winters

Now in full bloom like the cherry blossoms in their own merry and gay has said to intertwine lover’s fate

Blessed be they who catch the first spring petals believing with their heart’s content

The sun dips low the artist changes palette

Wondering how lonesome  the night would feel  when all in deep slumber

As I take my time to proceed I make no haste

I flick open the cap and pour my soju as I disguise my distaste of the stinging taste

It douses a fire I convince myself as my Id overpowers my ego

Night after night the streetlamp flickers but I always seem to search for those bright eyes

In the dead of the night what madness one must wonder but I am relentless

The hush of the trees and the whispering breeze gives me company

As the night starts to get chilly I wrap my comforter tightly

Hurrying home, wistfully thinking if only I could cajole you into accompanying me

Wrapped in my arms caressing you tenderly, drifting to sleep  the lullaby of sweet melody

Amidst the chaotic mornings, your hungry eyes still find mine ever awaiting eagerly

Day after day my clouded thoughts jumbled with the yearning for you fuels my growing impatience

My perseverance grows thin as I flip through my worn out diary

Under the cherry blossom tree

I cannot reach out, nor touch thee

Not until I could take you home, your beseeching eyes call to me

One melancholic morning you come bounding on all four

I stroke you lovingly digging my fingers in your soft coat as I smell deeply your puppy scent

It fills my nose as I shower you with kisses and bounce you happily

Taking one last look at the cherry blossoms we sway lightly and tread softly

Back home.

ANOUSHKA MUKHERJI

The poem wishes to express the heartfelt bonding between a woman and a dog who have just met. Coincidentally both of them are suffering from bouts of loneliness and thus keep each other company thereby developing a beautiful relationship. This poem conveys how human interactions are not always necessary for curing loneliness through companionship. The woman at first doubts and hesitates if she will be able to take proper responsibility for the dog and delays making a decision. Nevertheless, we see her bravely forgoing all her unnecessary dilemmas and finally taking the dog back home with her.

 

Why Am I Writing…

I put some letters write some words but at the next moment, I erased the sentence and start thinking about another topic to write upon. Once I engaged in an imagination creating plot within mind creating the role of characters but at the same moment there comes a feeling which is obnoxious that someone is validating me, the title which I had imagined and articulated plot with it, is under some verification which arouses many questions in my mind is this topic valid with the perception of society ? is this articulated with the thoughts of people around me? Hence a kind of riddle framed within my mind draws me to erase the text and sentences again and again but amid of this confusion and determination of writing something my zeal of writing wins over the confusion which penetrates me which makes me arduous, fervent and enthusiastic about writing.

Writing an article or writing in any kind of format and structure is not just writing words and linking sentences it contains whole emotions, essence, comprehension, and themes. writing is a voice for an author it is what implies implicitly the tone and idea of the author. the writing speaks the author’s position in a certain situation what he thinks? what he analyses? what he is perceptible about? without any slightest count of physical indication, writing delivers its broad message without any violation. and here lies the answer to my question why am I writing?

Feeling Of Cherishing: With every word and with every sentence it gives me immense pleasure and feeling of cherishing when I sat and start writing vibrant ideas perceptions and thoughts etc. starts emerging in mind and when I pen down my world of imaginations it soothes me it cherishes me.

Message to the outward world: Being a common personality like billions I have no supporters like a big celebrity and political figure. it is very hard to gather a large number of people before a speaker from where you address a large number of interested people with your propaganda but it seems very easy and affordable for me to deliver my message my thoughts my propaganda through writing where I can circulate my message to a large number of people.

I would like to share my Emotions: I am not an expert in writing articles neither I am an expert in delivering my comprehension within the perfect boundaries of Context. But I have Certain Perception towards things going around me, I have Emotions and thoughts regarding society, country, politics, trade, philosophy, sports, and what the life witnessing I have an inner Voice which would like to say something the voice which can be paradoxical ironic, acerbic, critical, objective, etc. but does not influence by any dogma. it is the voice that would like to say something to the extrovert world and that voice can be best reached and can draw attention through writing. My Ideas Thoughts and perception towards things can be best delivered through my writing that does not stop me that does not count the number of words and constraints that only allowed me to inject my emotions and comprehension in my own way.

India -china on going relation.

India and China are going in locked in an eye ball to eye ball face off in Laddakh with each other.Since 5 May,2020 chinese and indian troops have engaged in face-offs and skirmishes at location along the Sino Indian Border, including near the disputed Hanging lake in Ladakh.In May, chinese objected the construction of Indian road in Galwan river valley.On 15 of June 20 Indian personnel including a colonel,were killed in a clash with Chinese troops in Galwan valley.The clash resulted in biggest confrontation between the two militaries.Indian goverment has taken a decision in order to respond to the border dispute with China.Prime minister Naredra Modi said, has taken a decision of boycotting Chinese application in India ie,zoom ,tik-tok,shareit along with that bycooting chinese goods and this teach “China a lesson”. However various types of action are taken on the economic front including cancellation of certain contacts with Chinese firm.

Night Of The Scorpion

I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
Parting with his poison – flash
of diabolic tail in the dark room –
he risked the rain again.

The speaker starts off by telling that he remembers the night his mother was stung by a scorpion. Continuous rain for 10 hours had driven him to crawl and hide behind a sack of rice. The scorpion stung the speaker’s mother with its tail in the darkroom and went out in the rain again.

The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.
With candles and with lanterns
throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
they searched for him: he was not found.
They clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved in Mother’s blood, they said.

The poet then points out that a lot of peasants hearing the victim’s wails came swarming like flies. They started chanting the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the scorpion. They searched for the scorpion with candles and with lanterns everywhere. Yet they couldn’t find the scorpion. They said that with every movement the scorpion made, the poison moved inside the speaker’s mother’s blood. The ancient rural superstition is quite evident from the lines.

May he sit still, they said
May the sins of your previous birth
be burned away tonight, they said.
May your suffering decrease
the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain.
May the poison purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition,
they said, and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face.

They prayed that may the scorpion sit still at someplace. They wished that the mother’s sins of her previous birth be purified by her suffering. They hoped that her suffering may decrease in her next birth due to her ordeal in this birth. They wished that may all the evil in this world decrease in the world as a result of her pain and may her flesh be purified of desire and the spirit of ambition by the poison. They surrounded his mother on the floor with her in the centre with the peace of understanding on each face.

More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours,
more insects, and the endless rain.
My mother twisted through and through,
groaning on a mat.
My father, sceptic, rationalist,
trying every curse and blessing,
powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.
He even poured a little paraffin
upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.
I watched the flame feeding on my mother.
I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation.
After twenty hours
it lost its sting.
My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spared my children.

More people came with candles and lanterns. There was more neighbours, more insects and endless rain. The speaker’s mother twisted with pain, groaning on the mat. His father who was a sceptic, rationalist being helpless tried every blessing and cure, powder, mixture, herb and hybrid to try to cure her. He poured even paraffin on the bitten toe and set it on fire. The poet saw the flame feeding his mother. Like funeral rites, he saw his father as a holy man trying to tame the poison with incantations. After twenty hours the poison lost its sting. The poet’s mother breathed a sigh of relief and said she was glad that the scorpion spared her children and bit her instead.


Coral Reefs and climate change

Deepwater Coral Reefs Unlikely to Welcome Shallow-Water Animals ...

Climate change is the greatest global threat to coral reef ecosystems. Scientific evidence now clearly indicates that the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean are warming, and that these changes are primarily due to greenhouse gases derived from human activities.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, so far the oceans have taken up 90% of the excess heat generated by human-caused global warming. Even if emissions are aggressively curtailed, the oceans will continue heating at an accelerating rate for decades. What’s more, the oceans are acidifying. They’ve soaked up an estimated 20–30% of human carbon emissions; as carbon dioxide dissolves into these waters, their pH plummets.

Warming and acidification are stressors for corals (and for many other marine organisms). Heat causes coral to lose its algae and bleach. At the same time, increasing acidity makes it difficult for individual corals, typically millimeters in size, to build the calcium carbonate deposits that form large reef structures. If the pH is low enough and the corals unhealthy enough, reefs can even start to dissolve, making them vulnerable to shattering during storms.

Unhealthy reefs threaten not only the organisms that inhabit them but also the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. Reefs are the backbone of near-shore ecosystems around the world, providing a home for thousands of species of fish as well as mollusks, crustaceans, sea turtles, and countless other creatures. Without their associated reefs, nearby fisheries are at risk of collapse. The world’s reefs are valued in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Each year, for instance, the Great Barrier Reef contributes about A$5.6 billion (US$3.84 billion) to Australia’s economy.

Scientists around the world are looking for all kinds of ways to protect and maybe even revive corals. One option is to create more marine protected areas—essentially national parks in the ocean. Scientists say creating marine refuges, where fishing, mining, and recreating are off limits, make the reefs healthier, and so more resilient.

A brief discussion on Romantic essayists.


The autobiographical exploitation of personality manifests itself in a great variety of ways among writers of the late 18 th and 17 the century. It is symptomatic of a significant change in the relation between the writer and society. The change is a complex one and can not be early defined as resulting from the tradition that shows society as enslaving and the free exercise of the uninhibited individual imagination as liberating. Perhaps it can be said that in the Romantic period the tendency was far for the writers to draw on his own personality either as an illuminating case history or as a gesture of defiance or scholarship or alienation rather than to objectify it in terms of s cause or a system. The growth of the familiar essay, with its highly personal often whimsical, flaunting of the writer’s tastes, prejudices presents another aspect of the Romantic exploration of personality. It is not unknown in earlier writing.
Charles Lamb himself, the master and in some degree the founder of the genre is a subtler and more interesting one to respect. He is not the cultivated gentleman of leisure relaxing in easy chat, harsh and even tragic. He was in large measure self-educated His views on life were worked out with an almost desperate geniality in order to preserve and develop a relish for the colour and individuality of experience which for him was the only alternative to despair. His sentimentality seen at its strongest in much in early work as ‘A Tale of Rosamund Gray'(1798), a melodramatic story of a girl ruined by a villain-is largely a defence mechanism: Lamb rejected the rational and Utopian systems so popular in his youth, and cultivated a mixture and restrained hedonism and humane feeling which appears in his essays, in his appreciation of certain physical pleasures, his zest for the picturesque and the oddly individual in human character.
Lamb was essentially Londoner, though had sympathy with and admiration for the moral views of his friend Wordsworth, he had nothing of Wordsworth’s feeling of nature. He was born in 1775 and died on 1834.’ last essays of Elia'(1833) artfully artless in their personal curious persons and places, his relish of the colour and variety of London life and characters or humorous amusing of roles and his carefully manipulated sentimentality. Recollection and nostalgia a very important role in his plays. The works for children which he produced together with his sister Mary un an effect to provide something less crudely moralising than the children’s literature of the period include ‘Jales from Shakespeare'(1807) and ‘The Adventures of Ulysses'(1808). They are not as far removed from the memorializing as he seems to have believed. Lamb’s essays remain his most characteristic and most important works.
Then comes William Hazlitt, another exceptionally talented writer was born in 1778 and dies in 1830. He is more vigorous and less mannered essayist than Lamb, an independent spirit who maintained his radicalism throughout his life. His political views brought savage reviews of his work from such critics as William Gifford of the Quarterly Review, who deliberately confounded personal and political with literary criticism of contemporaries but Hazlitt found it as hard to keep good terms with his friends as with his enemies throughout his troubled life.

Man and Women should have equal rights.


The topic is almost a platitude today. Its basic concept cannot be denied and in the present-day context, the equality of status between the two genders is no longer a debatable issue. On the contrary aggression presumptuous behaviour among women sometimes oversee society. One feels that the age-old classifications of patriarchal and matriarchal society to be redefined.
Men have dominated, nay, even exploited their superior status through centuries. Some tribes like the Amazonians or some African ethnic varieties and aboriginals in the North East of India are matriarchal. But, perhaps, their women domination does not betray that kind of atrocity of human behaviour as in cases of male domination.
In short, women are still on the darker side of the penumbra. But their awakening today can not be gainsaid, although undoubtedly our society lacks the courage and charity to concede them their rights in the parliament.
Women have been grossly neglected in the race for life through social injustice and because of rank social laws and customs. But today they are not content to remain indoors. The greater world of life and light has drawn them out of their dark confinement and they have struck. The renaissance has changed and is still changing the complexion if the nations.’ socio-political’ life.’ Fast-food’, ‘fast-life’-characteristic phrase of today that is used with as lighting sneer-is, in fact, a sequel to this changed life. Women rub shoulders with men in offices, games and agitations, and in consequence, kitchen -culture is not able to retain its old essence.
How this feature of ‘equality -in-status is emerging as a great matter for sociological research, no doubt. But the goal is yet afar. It will not do merely to concede rights to the weaker section. The great need is far a consciousness among them of their importance in society. They need to be educated, to be initiated into the great truth that their enlightenment is the first and foremost step in the building of a healthy civilisation.
Another important facet of the issue needs emphasis. The phrase in the proposed question is not so innocent as it looks. The rudiments of civics entrail that rights and responsibilities are interrelated; it applies to both sexes. Here the males appear to be defaulters. Right to families, on institutions, to education, to justice and many other bodies that constitute our life at large in this world.imply also duties and responsibilities towards the same. Women have long been relegated into the shunt-yard in life’s journey. They have borne silently this dumb cattle-like existence. But now there. is a thaw, a deluge that has broken into their suicidal sleep.
It is impossible to bring about this equation as in the two halves in a sum of the equation. The plus-minus factor is here inevitable. The. days are not far-it maybe a century or half a century- when the neglected and harassed partner in the race would ride roughly shod over its another half. It is not due to any revolution. It is the law of evolution that had as its watchwords the struggle for existence’ and ‘the survival of the fittest’.No longer can men bask in their rights; they have to be vigilant lest women steal a march on them. And in this vigilance will achieve a balance and harmony that is the most ideal kind of existence.

Remembering Alluri Sitarama Raju : Hero Of The Jungle

After the passing of the 1882 Madras Forest Act, its restrictions on the free movement of tribal people in the forest prevented them from engaging in their traditional podu agricultural system, It’s a curse for tribal of agency area

Podu is a traditional system of cultivation used by tribes in India, whereby different areas of jungle forest are cleared by burning each year to provide land for crops. The word comes from the Telugu language.Podu is a form of shifting cultivation using slash-and-burn methods. Traditionally used on the hill-slopes of Andhra Pradesh.

Alluri Sitarama Raju (1897 or 1898 – 7 May 1924) was an Indian revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement. Raju led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922, during which a band of tribal people and other sympathizers fought in the border areas of the East Godavari and Visakhapatnam regions of Madras Presidency, in present-day Andhra Pradesh, against the British Raj, which had passed the law. He was referred to as “Manyam Veerudu” (“Hero of the Jungle”) by the local people. He spearheaded a two-year-long tribal uprising against the British Raj. He inspired, motivated people, to fight for their rights, He often raided police Station to steal guns and ammunition  and killed several British police officers.He lost his life in the battlefield, fighting for rights until his last breath.