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...

Humans have always thought of innovative ideas to solve trivial problems that made our life easier, right from the invention of electricity to computers and mobiles to aircrafts. It's not new that technology has been changing around us and there's no stopping it. But how about a machine that can think on its own and act logically without any intervention of the humans! Just like us, they can also decide the outcome based on their own thinking. We get a mixed feeling of excitement and fear both, right?   The evolution of Artificial Intelligence in human world Although the concept of Artificial Intelligence have been floating around for a long time, it was in the year 1950 when Alan Turing , a British mathematician who came up with a well-defined possibility of AI's concept. He suggested that when Human beings can use the available information and reason to solve a particular problem, why can't a machine do the same? There are many sci-fi films regarding robots wit...

  From being a luxury item for the rich, mobiles over the past few years has transformed itself into a necessity for every individual irrespective of their social status and economy. Now each people have got their mobiles in their hand or pocket and it has become a challenge for anyone to stay without it even for few minutes.   The invention that changed the way we communicated During the 1940s, the engineers at AT&T developed a cell phone that could transmit signals for mobile base stations but they were not the mobiles that we see today, but was mostly like radio devices that could be used to communicate in emergencies. Although there were lots of efforts after that to transform the device for more general purposes, Motorola was the first company that successfully introduced the modern mobiles and on April 3, 1973 made its first phone!   Evolution of mobile phones Mobile phones have come a long way over a very small period of time. In few decade...

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 ...

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...

The recent news of the pregnant elephant that was “murdered” by few people has shocked the entire nation and put up a question mark on why human have lost their humanity. But is it the only incident that has happened? Why is it so that the innocent animals are subjected to so much abuse? As a society, have we failed as a whole?   The Elephant incident in Kerala: A wild elephant which was reported to be pregnant was in search for food for apparently 2 weeks, after its long search she got something eatable and happily took it. But little did she know about her incoming death. That fruit had bomb in it and just when it was taken, the bomb exploded and left the majestic animal in utter pain. It suffered a long duration before she eventually met her destiny. Some locals had justified that it was not meant to be for “ her ”, rather for the wild boars that kept coming in search for food to their crops. But does that make any difference? Does the boars feel no pain?   Videos...

There are so many ads nowadays in different videos and social media stating “ Mutual Funds sahi hai ” that it’s obvious to think for a common man to give it a try. Afterall there are so many people claiming to become rich by investing on them with some claiming to give a profit of even 50% ! Is everything so fancy in the Stock world?   What is Stock or Share all about? To understand this, let’s take an example. Suppose a person “A” owns a company. Now as the company is getting bigger each year, he needs to invest capital to grow his business. But since the company now is so big that “A” does not have that capital to invest more, so what he does is, he divides his company into some number of divisions, say 1000. Now if his company’s value today is 100 crores, then each of those units i.e., Share price would be 10 lacs ( 100 cr divided by 1000 ). Now he decides that he would keep 50% of those Shares to himself and rest he would make available for the public to buy them. That mean...

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...