The Social Thinker

With the festival of Durga Puja knocking on the doors, Corona Virus pandemic is a huge concern for not only in the nation but also throughout the whole world especially given the fact that it's been said that the second wave of Covid is being spread. Amid all of this chaos, Durga Puja is a ray of hope for the Bengalis where they can forget all the tensions happening around and celebrate with happiness.   The relevance of Durga Puja: Durga Puja in bengali culture depicts the return of Maa Uma ( Durga ), the wife of Lord Siva to Earth, which is her Father's homeland ( Kailasa ). During these 4-5 days, she stays here with her four children----- Lakhmi , Ganesha , Kartikeya and Saraswati . The bengalis celebrate her stay with joy and happiness and stay away from all the pressure and tensions revolving around their lives. Durga Puja also marks the victory of good over evil wherein Maa Durga defeated and killed the evil demon Mahishasura who wreaked havoc on the p...

OTT platforms have emerged as a key player in the entertainment industry and are giving tough competition to the cable operators especially, these have become the favourites among youth. But over the recent months, the OTT platforms have become the center of debate due to various scenes which have raised a question mark on the content that are being presented.   The controversy of ALTBalaji and Ekta Kapoor ALTBalaji is an Indian subscription based OTT platform which is owned by the subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms ltd whose founder is Ekta Kapoor. Now ALTBalaji among its other contents, is mostly popular for its XXX web series which is primarily an adult series and is filled with sex scenes in every episode with little or zero focus on storyline. In the recently released season of the series, the Indian Army uniform was involved in a sex scene in which it was disrespectfully torn, and this sparked controversy and nationwide protests.   The Patal Lok controversy ...

  With a population of over 1.3 billion, there is a huge potential of India for excelling in many of the sports played in the world. But the reality shows us a different picture where Cricket is way ahead in popularity and success in India , whereas other sports crave for even a fraction of its popularity. So, why Cricket has overshadowed other sports in India ?   Achievement of different sports team of India before 1980s Once believed to be the “ National Sports of India ”, Hockey was the most followed sport of India at one time. Men’s hockey has consistently made India proud by winning various competitions in the world. In Olympics , it has won 6 back to back gold medals from its inception and in total 10 medals in consecutive years. Along with that, we also hold the World Championship title in the year 1975 along with 3 total medals in the competition. India has produced finest players including Dhyan Chand Singh and several others who have excelled in ...

Human is a social animal and for a man or a woman, relationship is of equal importance as that of his/her basic needs. In this era of modern world, there is hardly a joint family that we see living together around us. It’s not been long that families used to live together adjusting with each other. But things have changed and now even the children are getting separated from their parents before and after marriage. So what are we missing by separating ourselves?   The traditional Indian family The idea of a family in India is very different from the western world. While in Europe and USA , it is a general practice where the kids leave the houses of their parents once they start to earn a living for themselves, children stay with their parents for lifetime. Not only that our family used to comprise of children and their parents , but there used to be a joint family residing in the same house wherein uncles and aunties along with the grandparents used to co-live. Except for ...

It’s not been too long before that the On-demand video streaming platforms have been introduced, and various applications like Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , Hotstar and various other national and regional have already become the favorite destination of entertainment among the young generation. Recently with the lockdown in effect, the use of these applications has only increased. But has it become a replacement for the cable business? Is there any chance that people will stop watching television and watch the shows of these applications instead?   How the On-demand streaming services began in India? The first of its kind OTT was introduced in the year 2008 in India when Reliance launched BIGFlix . It is an on-demand movie service which allows users to watch and download their favorite movies. An OTT , over-the-top service uses the internet to provide content to its viewers instead of the traditional cable/broadcast provider. One of the major players of current market, ...

Over the past few days, the whole of world has been discussing over the incident that took place in US which resulted in massive outbreak of protests and even few cases of violent incidents occurred. This incident did not get unnoticed in India as well and people have been supporting this movements happening in US . But in India , is racism an unknown thing?   The incident that shook the world On May 25, 2020 a 46-year old African American man named George Floyd who reportedly died after a police officer knelt on his neck for a long time while he was lying on the street handcuffed. This incident caused a massive unrest in the US and people from all the communities came in front to support the movement; there were incidents of riots as well in few cities. After this incident, several such type of videos of racism surfaced on different social media platforms that showed that this was not just a very unique incident that occurred but one of the several incidents that are taki...

Before beginning of this year, we all were busy in your daily schedules-------working, studying, jogging, exercising and the daily routines we used to follow. Suddenly an unknown flu virus came and that changed everything. We are stuck at our home and it’s beginning to make our lives so boring!   Post Covid era: We were busy enjoying and partying to welcome the New Year but little did we know what was waiting to happen this year in our lives. Although we were hearing cases of the new virus, COVID-19 which had impacted so much in the Wuhan province of China , but as everyone, I was also thinking that won’t affect India since we have very few incomings from China as compared to US and Europe . Although he world has been through several major epidemics like Ebola , but those really did not impact our country much and this time also I felt it won’t be much different from its predecessors.   The entry of Covid in India: Although I was partly correct predicting that t...