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Festivals in Corona

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It is the festival season of the year. Although, in India, our culture gives us enough of the times to celebrate, we have plenty of festivals to celebrate throughout the year. But, this time of the year is specifically laned up in festivals starting from Durga Pooja to Diwali, Bhai dooj. So, it can be collectively known to be the festive season in India.   But, are we in the same level of excitement for the upcoming festive season? No, we are not that excited. Festivals were more joyous as we used to meet our friends and relatives and celebrate the festival together. But, in this corona time, festivals are limited to the family only. This corona has destroyed these long followed traditions of the festivals.   Festivals this year have been overshadowed by the fear of this virus. At Durga pooja, where we used to build up some pandals and decorate them for Maa Durga, but this time the Pandals were banned to avoid huge social gatherings. We could not enjoy the most glorious Duurg

Fashion trends this Winter

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The year is almost over, October is here, winters are approaching, some cool evenings has taken a start off. Winters always need to be cared off. In winters, we need to take care of our skin in a better way, and, at the same time, we need to look great. So, basically, we need to Style ourselves with care. We need to change our wardrobe according to the Winter fashion. Although this 2020 has been at home only, so, we did not get to fashion at anything else except the trendy Pyjamas. Also, even with this current scenario, we cannot expect to move out in Fashion. But, Fashion says, "You should be prepared, Always!"   So, Let's discuss some ways to style our 2020 winters in Fashion. Fill in the wardrobe with the trendiest winter fashion pieces. First, we can choose the collection of colours. The trendiest colours of this year are: Navy Blue, Red, and Mustard Yellow. These colours have always been the top preferences by people and suits on most of them. The colours go on e

Dance –a therapy for everyone

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People around the world are busy in their life. The lifestyles have been so fast and always moving, that most of us do not find time for ourselves. In some way or the other, we all are occupied or surrounded with light or more stress. We often feel stressed, in anxiety, and need a break from our life. Our body need some relief from the daily hectic schedule. There it comes, "Dance Therapy". A therapy that can be done by anyone, where we use dance to treat our anxiety and stress.   Dance always works as a therapy for everyone. It has its numerous benefits, physical, mental, all sort of benefits. When we dance, our body moves, it works and it become more flexible, and light. It ultimately improves our fitness. This is the reason why Dance is also known to be the best exercise for us. Dance also works as a meditation. When we dance freely, our mind and heart gets engaged into the beats, and then there comes a time when our feets start moving in a particular rhythm themselves

Fly high, Wear High (Varija Bajaj - fashion designer)

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one-on-one dialogue… When did the entrepreneur bug bite you? While I was working in ad agencies in 2002, I felt my potential was under-utilised and therefore could sense a great vacuum. I went to UK-University of Sheffield to persue my MBA and to further create a greater foundation for my entrepreneurial journey in 2003. 2004 was the beginning of this exciting phase which does not cease to fascinate me.  What challenges a woman entrepreneur has to face ?? Is the business world is more challenging for women than men?? We work in a highly conditioned society where women are not taken as seriously as men. However I have been here long enough now, and proven enough to be taken seriously. But it is still a challenge for startups. On the other hand for all women entrepreneurs I'd say that there are no brownie points for being a woman when you are on the work field. Expect your deliverables to be judged like that of any man.    What skills according to you are necessary for a successful f

Male Dominance continues in our Film Industry

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Our Indian society has always been a patriarchal one, it has always been a male dominated society. Yes, with time, changes have been observed from the early era to now. But, even in this modern time, we are not living in a equal society. The male dominance is yet prevalent in most of the section of the society. Same dominance can be seen in our Indian film industry, Bollywood. The industry consisting of numerous independent talented people is still not independent of their own prevalent thoughts and culture.   This male dominance can be seen in bollywood in it's famous AWARD SHOWS, the time of being reward. Most of the times it can be seen that for the same genre of movies the awards are flooded with male actors names only, but very rare names of the female actresses.   It can be seeen firstly in the portrayal of the bollywood actresses. Since time, to even now, the actresses have always been there in a side role of the actor, they are rarely seen in the main lead in any fi

Images that tell story (Photographer : Debdeep Mukharjee)

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One-to-One 1. From your point of view, what makes a good picture? Ans : It's the eyes. It's all about the eyes. Even if you aren't technically strong, your image has lighting & composition flaws, if you get the right mood & expression in your subject’s eyes, you're golden. They directly connect to your soul. If you are shooting something else other than portraits then make sure there's enough dynamism in your shot. Be it lighting, texture, angle, color palette. There should always be something in your image which makes the viewer feel something. 2. Did you always wanted to be a photographer? Ans : . Yes, since I was in school, I knew this is what I'm going to do. Infact, my birthday falls on World Photography Day! 3. Are you more of an outdoor photographer or you like it indoors? Ans : . I love outdoors. Your environment can contribute massively to your story. 4. A piece of advice you want to give to the newcomers in this field. Ans : Make sure your netw

How can somebody be so inhuman ?

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Humanity, is the most basic difference that differentiates us from the animals. Among all the living creatures of the World, It has been presented to us only. But, today, looking at the current scenario, we are just humiliating this humanity. We are crossing all the limits of being a human, instead turning to behave like animals. All of this can be justified by the most recent Hathras rape case, that took place in the mid of September. Four upper caste men raped a Dalit girl. And also damaged her body to a extent that she couldn't survive the incident and died within 3 days. The men chopped her tongue and also broke her spinal chord. They crossed all the limitations of inhumanity with the girl. The case took more fire among all of us, as the girl was burnt by the police men of Hathras, even without the consent of the Girl's family. The UP police didn't even let her family to see her for the last time. The Girl was on ventilator for 3 days fighting for her survival, but, as

Swatchta Ki Soch Apnao Desh Ko Swatch Banao

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On this important day lets talk about something which Gandhiji wanted to have in our country ie : cleanliness.  As a common man lets understand why we Should give stress on this topic, our house is clean why we should give importance to cleanliness on public places, thats a job of government not ours.  These are the lines i have heard from most of the citizens, that too educated ones. So whats wrong with this they are right they pay taxes and they expect that government should do that work properly. Now lets understand this in a different way we have maids at our home, we pay them salary still we keep a check that everything is done properly or not, then why not we keep a check on public places, if you stop checking your house,  in few days it will be the same.  One thing which i want everyone to understand that cleanliness cost us very heavily, imagine if one of our family member gets infected with dengue how much its going to cost us and on above that so much of mental pressure. We c