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Is India immune to racism?

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...

Has Animal Abuse become a new trend?

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...

Why everyone should plan a solo trip atleast once

This year I just did the thing that I was craving for years: visiting a place alone! Being a travel addict, I have traveled to various parts of India ranging from East to West and North to South, always being accompanied by either my friends or family. This time I finally had the opportunity to try something new and exciting in my life! Making the visit plan: Busy with the load of work and managing the household stuffs was taking my energy level down and the weekend was coming with Friday an Optional holiday as a bonus! Called up my friends just to hear that each one of them were busy with their “ extra office work ”. A bit disappointed on the fact that my plans to enjoy the long weekend is going to meet a premature death, and then something hit my mind! “ Am I going to let such an opportunity go just because others don’t have time? ” thought this to myself and decided to travel alone. But my parents and friend were really not catching up with the fact that I would travel alone, “ wo...

C:\ Drive full in Windows 7? 6 Steps to make space for your C Drive

As your laptop with Windows 7 Operating System grows older, the C: Drive gradually starts to fill up all the disk space and soon you might start getting popups like “Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on system (C:\)…” Now neither you are able to update he applications nor can you install a new software. Why C Drive getting full? Although there might be several reasons behind this, few of the key points are listed below:   If your system is affected by viruses and malwares, they may generate random files that keeps filling the available disk space. Temporary files, installation files and other such system files may also take up the space. Different applications as they keep on updating automatically may also add to the space consumption since with every update the size of these Softwares generally increases. How to free up the space in Windows 7 system? To get some space in the C drive, we need to perform these steps.      1.    Windows ...

Is investing in Stocks and Mutual Funds safe?

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...

C# or Java: Which one is better to learn?

                                           Many people who are eager to start their career in IT have been pondering over the question of which one to trust with to begin their journey of becoming a successful Software Developer . Guess what??? I too was among the questioners!! So, have I found my answers yet? The origin of Java Java was originally developed at Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle ) and its founder was J ames Gosling in the year 1995. The idea was to create simple, object-oriented and robust language which can be used to execute high performance programs. Along with that, came the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) concept which was necessary to run Java programs on the machines. The JVM was later released as a free and open-source in the year 2006 which really popularized the platform. The latest version of Java i.e., Java 14 was release r...

Corona Virus effect : Was lockdown needed?

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...

Indian Super League (ISL): Should foreigners be reduced from 5 to 4?

                                                                             Founded in the year 2013 by IMG and Reliance along with Start Sports , the Indian Super League came as a savior for Indian football, which grew hopes in every football fans and lovers across India. It is now the top league in India.   Era before ISL Prior to the entry of Indian Super League , I League was the main event of Indian Football which till this year was the main league of the country. Club giants like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Dempo and Churchill Brothers were the most popular teams which attracted thousands of spectators into the ground in a nation where people does not really care about any other sports than Cricket . Later came the North-Eastern clubs like Royal Wahingdoh, Shillong Lajong and o...