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   The impact of the pandemic has been severe. It has literally pushed us in those corners where we may have feared going. It has led us into adapting changes which we had safeguarded for the future. And it has also exposed our shortcomings in many aspects. Its time to pull up our socks. Education remains a very important sector which has been directly impacted. Educational system around the world has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The nasty virus led to the closure of schools, universities and colleges. These worldwide closures impacted over 91 percent of the world’s student population. According to one of the latest surveys, about 1.277 billion learners are currently affected due to school closures. According to UNICEF,  46 countries implemented nationwide closures and 27 implemented local closures, which means 72.9 percent of the world's student population got impacted directly. Despite the fact that schools in 72 countries remained open, the whole 'fear from the de

                                          Image by  Harish Sharma  from  Pixabay                                                                    14 th September is celebrated as the Hindi Day. The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in  Devanagari script  as the official language of the union. But Hindi still stands as a second fiddle. It is often looked upon as an optional language in the government offices, especially in the Eastern and Southern states of the country. Instead, the foreign language English gets undue preference. Not to mention that even those areas where officials are adept in Hindi, they prefer to use English for all official conversations.   Even after completion of 73 years of Independence, repeated instructions of the Ministry of Home Affairs and several criteria set for the offices categorized as A, B and C, most of them do not meet the standards, when it comes to the directional use of Hindi. A major reason behind this is the mindset, wherein offic

  “ People say that life is the thing but I prefer reading.”—Logan Pearsall Smith. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” --- Fran Lebowitz The above two quotes are my personal favorite!! I penned down this blog article on the occasion of Book Lovers Day which is celebrated on August 9 every year, but when it comes to my love-affair with books, everyday is a book lovers day.  The day is observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrate and cherish their love for books and the habit of reading.I celebrate this day by feeling grateful for all the knowledge that I have imbibed through books. If there were no books to read, the world would be a very boring place. Thus, we must understand the importance of the day. The best thing about this day is that all generations can celebrate it. There are no rituals to adhere to and there are no rules. However, the essence of the day is more important that it seems.  On this day, I always start a new book. In my view, this day should be

                                                            Stop Spitting in Public All over the world, 178 countries are affected of Covid 19. These countries are grappling with a deadly  ongoing pandemic. There have been about 14.4 million  confirmed cases and 605,720 deaths globally by now. Although, coughing, sneezing, hand-shaking, talking in close proximity, etc. are mainly responsible for spreading corona virus among the public, spitting is also one of the reasons. In different parts of the world, several cases of spit attack were also reported. It is not possible to tell the exact number of cases throughout the world, but their number has steadily risen. Spit attack has become a worry in India after Italy, Australia, US and UK. In India, a 40-year-old man was arrested recently for spitting on a woman and calling her ‘corona virus’ in North Delhi . The woman, who faced the abuse, hails from Manipur and many social media users had termed the attack on her as racist. Though