UP is now under the heated controversy of the law it has implemented regarding Love Jihad, where a couple was arrested for love jihad where the groom is a Muslim, it took two days for the court to realise that the bride had chosen to marry the man and returned to her in laws house but the groom still remains in jail. this how the politics is being worked out around an imaginary thing called love jihad where tons of fake news and hate speeches are circulated to poison the mind of less informed. in the recent murder case of Nikita Tomar too this love jihad spam was forced which the family doesn't even know about, these dark religious leaders are twisting all stories to spread hatred and communal violence and what is more shocking is that the elected government in these states support such violence. Love Jihad is something unconstitutional for many reasons some of it being, that no offences have been reported under the title love jihad, and there are already laws against forced conversions and many more. But love jihad being unconstitutional is no hindrance for these intolerant politicians because what matters is that it is propagated and mentioned through out their speeches and people are instigated with fake news and proofs who believe them blindly. this is just another way of vilifying Indian Muslims and to degrade their name because it is easy to tar a community. This is how UP uses divisive bigoted, unconstitutional anti love jihad ordinance is being used.

Dracula is a name known to each and every one of us, the blood sucking vampire story has captivated many minds and has continued to live with evergreen freshness in different types of narratives. the myth of dead coming alive to haunt the humans is something that was present in superstitions all around the world and it was in Serbia that this kind of fear and beliefs prevailed where for safety the dead bodies were bu*ied along with garlic, poppy seeds, or were mutilated and even speared. when this place went under conquering conflicts these bizarre bu*ials was noticed and from there the stories of the blood sucking revived dead popularized and even created mass fear in people which had to subsided with the monarchy’s investigation and proof of the non existence of such a being. It is from these folktales and horror stories that the writer from Ireland Br*m stoker wrote his novel Dracula which went on to receive huge acceptance even today. Now vampires have taken shape in various forms and are a youth sensation where different interpretations of the vampires have received wide popularity like the famous movie series called Twilight.

India known for its exquisite and rich arts is famous worldwide especially for its abundance in dance cultures where from north to south and from east to west numberless forms of dances exist in different names and different forms something wh*le of Indians are proud of. Dance can also be seen as an economic factor that has attracted many tourists interested in these dance form to visit India and learn it. Indian government has recognized the value of these dance cultures and have made policies to cover the expenses of dancers who live on these art forms who has bought name and fame to the country with their artistic achievement worldwide and creating a name for Indian art forms. they were given homes for which they pay the rent, their schools are also their homes, it is in these homes that they teach research and make their livelihood but the present government has no regard for these artists who continue to raise the name of India among the international circle and is now demanding these dancers to leave these government allotted homes out of the blue. The artists who has been recognized by the country with padmbhushans and padmavibhushans are now made to leave their homes which is their work and soul. It is so disheartening that a government becomes so cruel to make these people leave their homes in their old age and is breaking their hearts to know their own country is letting them down. How low one government should stoop more than this, it’s disgusting!

Having children is a choice, it is not something pre coded into women, it is not an identity of women, and it doesn’t make a woman. Even the most progressed of societies, not having children is seen as a taboo and even if we took that decision seriously for others it hits as a joke or something silly and assumes that we might change our minds in the future. In India being a woman who does not want to become a mother is not even a choice, the first and most disturbing things in a woman’s life itself appears again as the greatest hindrance to it, MARRIAGE. The first comment will be that no men would marry the woman who doesn’t want children. Well who cares! let them marry the ones who want a child and let us live a life of our choice. For women like me being single and doing what I like with a man who understands and stands with my decision is better option for me that marrying and having kids. Being a mother is a choice and women can and have the power to choose not to. the first people to disagree with this opinion will be women, and various threatens like you won’t find a man because of this and what are you going to do in the old age? you will regret it is the ultimate threat. No one in this world regrets doing what they like to do. for these women having a child is what they will regret, they will be more loving than other women and more emotional but all that doesn’t have anything to do with the deciding not to have a child. The society must learn to accept it, that there are infinite ways of being a woman and being mother is only one of them.

The global teacher prize2020 was won by an Indian teacher from Maharashtra, Paritwadi village, Ranjitsingh Disale, who gained this recognition for his contributions and efforts in betterment of education for his students. He promoted girls education and outstanding contribution for inventing the QR coded books for the better accessing of educational content for students. His first aim was to become an engineer but various fails led him to enter teacher training and reached his teacher position in his village school. He also took initiative to improve education condition of those primary schools. His teaching techniques are all innovative imbibing in children a love for learning, with audio lectures and video teaching to help in demonstrating studying materials. His dedication to his career has got him great recognitions. His achievements earn greater glory when he has decided to split 50% of his prize money to his 10 fellow finalists to help them complete their paths of creating a better education for their children too.

Halima Aden might be a familiar name to the ones who have a knowledge in fashion because Halima was a sensation in breaking many predetermined restrictions and entering into a place which was before not even possible to be imagined by women of her identity. She is a Somali refugee bought up in Kakuya Kenya the largest refugee camp in the world and from there after reaches America and from the help of her inspiring mother she establishes her identity as a Somali Muslim who wants to live as she loves to and to do what she likes to. At the age of 18 she becomes the first woman to walk the r*mp with hijab on and competing in miss titles which reached the miss universe stage making her the first ‘bu*kini’ as a miss universe pageant and even went on the covers of vogue and allure and all the most recognized fashion platforms and even became UNICEF ambassador. But what is now making the news headlines is that Halima is leaving the fashion world, for the fashion world has forced her to compromise her religion and finally she decided to quit it. Rihanna and Gigi Hadid has taken her back when many criticism is pouring over her. What we must know is that the success titles that the society holds might not be fulfilling to everyone, everyone will have their own content accomplishments which can be religion or fashion, motherhood or working. What matters is that it is the decision of the person. If what makes Halima happy is quitting the fashion world then the world must accept it without any judgment. It is the individual’s happiness that matters.

Even in this era women on war front is still very rare it is in such a world that Noor Inayath khan lived who was courageous enough to be a spy in Nazi Germany for the British military, actually enlisted in airforce but was commissioned to be a spy in France since she has lived in France until Nazi time and knew the place very well. She was undercover as a nursery teacher and even when her allies were arrested and she was asked to come back she refused and stayed in France being the only source of information for Britain. Looking at her lineage where her father was from the family of Tipu sultan the great ruler of Mysore known for his courage it is only natural that she would possess this inhumane courage of being a spy in the worlds most dangerous place. Eventually she was arrested few days prior to her escape and was transferred to concentration camp and tortured for extracting information which she vehemently refused and was eventually killed. Her dedication and passion for peace resonated in her last words which was ‘freedom’. She is the first Muslim British spy who is pride to Indian women too. Her statue now stands as an inspiration to generations to come.

The highest IQ known to humans is 190 of Newton but in actuality there was a person in the 19th century who surpassed even this IQ but who is lost in history, he had an IQ of 250 to 300 he is William James Sidis. born in America to intelligent Ukrainian immigrant parents, he could read new York times at the age of 18 months and had mastered 7 languages at just 6 years of age, he came to lime light when he was enrolled in Harvard university at just 9 years and started studying there from 11 years of age and even held lectures on highly complicated topic of 4th dimension which at that time was incomprehensible to many. He graduated from Harvard at just 16 years. But his intelligence attracted too much attention and it created in him an aversion to the limelight and hated it. His life with this superhuman intelligence made him detached to his surroundings and people who could not understand him. He wished for secluded life and did minial jobs and he even started to get disgusted by mathematics equations, he changed jobs when someone recognized him. he died by making no mark in the history because his intelligence was for him an insight something incomprehensible for the common perception of success. How many such highly intelligent people might have lived and died, this is just the proof that the popular conception of intelligent scales is not relevant to the real geniuses. It differs; success is really in what gives us happiness.

There are a set of women in India who are abandoned by their NRI husbands. These are women who were married to men working abroad. Now these women are protesting to the authorities to take action against these criminals. There are even children in these marriages who are left fatherless because of this crime and women who have also suffered domestic violence from their in laws too. These men leave their wives destitute and is living a comfortable lives abroad which really should be bought to the law and should be punished. They might have married these women to get dowry and use that money for their wants and might have planned to leave these women. Their parents have also stood with them in these crimes and in rare cases these parents are punished. But the real justice will be bought to these women only when their husbands will be punished and that should be seriously done by the governments. The government turning blind eye upon these victims is completely intolerable.

I have always dreamed of living in an all woman place and enjoy life without the intrusions of annoying men or their patriarchal rules, but knew that it could never happen. But it really surprised me when I knew that a woman took initiative to create an all women village in Africa in a place called Umoja in Africa. Women of that place have suffered a lot of violence against them and their societies have everything that is violating to a woman which is almost as same as our Indian cultures too. Child marriage, wife beating, genital mutilation and many such violence are something that these women have suffered and this continuous suffering led the women named Rebecca to create and all women village where no men is allowed. they have found their own livelihood by making ornaments and selling it to tourists, they beat up men who come to torture them or take them away, there were times when their earning were also snatched by men but they have survived all to become now a famous village known all over for their courage. Their knowledge and progress is evident when the first thing that they did when they had enough money was to build a school for every children who wish to study even from other village. They protect the new women who come to the village by taking shifts in guarding the village at night. They build their own houses and live happily there which shows the beauty of a life where there is no men. Women do have boyfriends but will only marry them if those men do not intrude in their freedom. I find it really courageous and I can imagine the happiness they might be feeling living in that all women village.

Sharenting, this is a comparatively new term which has taken rise in the 21st century dipped in technology and social media. it is a social media act of sharing the pictures and details about one’s own child in the public platforms, studies says that children have a social media presence right from 2 years of age. all the stepping stones and even the minimal information about the child is shared on the platforms from what they are wearing to where they are studying how they are speaking to even them creating new bank accounts are shared by the parents. Though parents are doing this to show their love and pride in their children it is not all sweet for the children. Because It is an interference to their privacy, they don’t have any secrecy and are not able to protect anything they do. The things are shared only in family and friend circle of the parent but not everyone close to the parents are close to the children, they have their own circles where they are comfortable in sharing things and not in the circles of the parents. In France the children has the provision to sue even the parents if they are sharing private information. Though this wh*le thing is not digestible for the parents, they must realize the individuality of the children and ask their consent before sharing anything about them especially when they are above ten yrs old. It is better to protect the intimacy with the children than with the public and friends.

Haven’t all watched movies where our macho hero is fighting injustice or maybe doing some investigations and finds the minions of the villains and tortures them to get the information, well while watching those we get the Goosebumps of the satisfaction where evil is punished and it is great isn’t it? but can we in real life agree on these tortures for a good cause? In actuality tortures doesn’t work in extracting information and cannot be considered as humane. Then this scenario might come to our mind where a time bomb is ticking in a major city and the assumed criminals are in the hand of the police so to save thousands of people wouldn’t it be moral to torture or kill one human? Well in movies, yes, because there we know that the person in the hands of the investigator is the culprit but in reality the suspect may or may not be the real culprit and thus we cannot justify torture. So if the person in captivity isn’t the real culprit they might cough up useless information to escape from torture which can be false lead and may end up in greater disasters. Instead building a rapport and connection is proved to be more beneficial in acquiring useful information, studies also says that the information collected through torture are mostly false and thus is not useful in any way. So though our movie heroes are protecting the justice through torture it is not something that we should support in real life because what if some day we are the innocent suspects and we would have to suffer meaningless torture for something we don’t even have hint in? So in any case, torture is never an answer.

Infinite scroll , yes the first image that come to your mind itself is its meaning, the thing that we does daily from dawn to dusk, the first thing and the last thing we do in a day, it is the ability to scroll endlessly through our feeds without even the need to cli*k, yes what we do in facebook and instagr*m and something which youtube has also now developed into its feature. This is something we all might have experienced where we plan onto watch one video and then when we come out of the wh*le system an hour might have passed and we wouldn’t even recognize it, that is the design of infinite scroll. The business of internet runs on this attention and data that internet take from us. This is psychological technique by which they find our weaknesses and exploit them and this psychological techniques aren’t something that techies have created but they have borrowed from the findings of behavioral scientists like B.F skinner’s randomly scheduled reward, who have proved these on animals and now tech companies are doing the same experiments with billions of humans. This is like gambling itself which use our curiosity and instinct for reward, we don’t know what might come next on our feeds and expect it to be some jackpot of information, so we are caught up in this loop even if next feed is not something useful, it is this unpredictability that is addictive. So we are actually gambling our attention and time in these tech systems. so it is not as we actually think that we have more freedom in choosing what we want to do in the internet, we think that we are controlling it and we are choosing what we like, but what is happening is that we just like the animals in an experiment is deceived into doing what is beneficial for the tech companies rather than exercising our freedom. So our behavior is designed by someone out there, just like how we are controlled like robot. The real evil of this is that this infinite scrolling has wasted a million human hours, it is destructive individually, to our mental health, to our children, to our democracies, to having a civil discourse. No change can be expected from these corporations that are gaining from this, the way to get out of this loop is to be self regulated and self control, recognizing what we are loosing in this infinite scrolling behavioral design and overcoming it with our presence of mind.

In Japan a fashion stream is arising called the ‘yami kawaii’ which means sick cute were dark elements and colours, medical themes or grotesque themes are included with cute things, where posters which says ‘kill you’ and ‘love you’ comes in one place where mental illness and suicidal things are explicitly stated in cute fashion things. Japan has one of the highest rate of depression and suicide but the public does not acknowledge or have a healthy space to discuss these things, it is a social taboo, where declaring to have mental illness will place the people in the slot of being weak, the confession of having a mental issue can even put models and others out of career too, it is in this scenario that a small group of people have started to show that the urge to kill oneself is also cute and pretty, even they can be happy and be fashionistas and fight in their own way. These small groups of models who promote sick cute are now having a lot of followers with similar mental issues and is teaching them to speak out and overcome their fears and depression. there are even models with depression that are fighting their depression with new found space ‘sick cute’ has provided them, there are fans for them who have escaped the urge to end their life from the beauty this new style called yami kawaaii has provided. Though it may sound scary at first it is actually professing self love and power to live in a society that still consider mental illness as a taboo.

How many times a day do we have to tap on ‘I Agree’ tabs while browsing through the internet? well maybe a million times, till now I didn’t find any problem with it, because they assured our security and if we went on to read the wh*le terms and conditions it would take another two days to finish it so we go the simple way, just tap ‘I agree’, to get rid of the annoying interference. These pop-ups and consent forms are not some coincidence in the world of technology and in internet nothing is unplanned, all these are called Design. We think that all these consent forms are giving us control over our personal data, what’s collected and how it’s used but in actuality nothing is that simple. The tech companies are actually gaining so much power from our one cli*k because when something bad happens they can escape easily from it because we have already agreed to their demands unknowingly when we tap ‘I agree’ without reading the wh*le terms and conditions and there is nothing wrong with not reading it because it has been designed in that way, because if we start reading all the terms and conditions that will be our main job leaving us using up most of our time, it is not designed to read in the first place. They just have the appearance of giving control and it is called window dressing. All these consent forms comes under the legal term ‘informed consent’ which we face usually in medical areas where we have to give consent for something which has potential risk but when these consents are used a 1000 times a day it is not healthy that too with our privacy. this is what really happens, it is not as we think that the sites only take the information that we have voluntarily shared, instead every tiny details about us can be tracked by these sites from what computer to how long we use certain pages and stuffs on the first level, further these information are not accessible by only that specific site but the third parties like advertisers, marketers, an*lytic agencies that mine our information, it is really terrifying What a mere cli*k can get us through. well all these are designs where we are forced to share these in order to smoothly browse through the internet, all we can do is to be conscious about it, change the default settings in our phones, computers that is done to benefit these sharing information which is another design. The reality is we are living in an illusion of security when nothing is private.

Philanthro-capitalism is a term we all should be aware about as I came across it only recently. Whenever billionaires like bill gates or mark Zuckenberg donate large sums of money it is something that comes flashy in news, we all applaud their great services but we should be people who look more into all things as the realities are far more detached and always has consequences other than mere charities. The first thing that we all should know is that all their money is not something only they have worked hard for and it is not something that all commoners can achieve, their money is a collective of many common people. Other thing to be noticed is that we are distracted by their charities and do not realize that most billionaires donate maybe 0.07% of their net worth or less and we become blinded in their charities and applaud it when they are the proofs of failed capitalism where worlds 1 % holds the world’s 50% wealth with them, while billions are poverty stricken. Here what we should notice is not that they should give more but we must know that philanthro-capitalism is often used as a distraction to greater and more important and meaningful systemic changes like suppression of minimum wage level, reliance on state subsidies, precarious working conditions which are things that actually needs to be addressed. This leads to the loop that shows corporate sectors are needed to provide for the inefficient government, which is another capitalist strategy.

Abu Ghraib was a prison in American occupied Iran after Saddam Hussain’s persecution, it was a prison exclusively meant for jailing Saddam followers. This might be a familiar place for many of us, that became popular for the torture pictures circulated from the prison. It is said that America recruited special army forces just for torturing to these places in Iran. For getting rid of the Saddam followers, the American military arrested and detained people for trivial reasons most of which were false accusations as revealed after. The pictures that came out from these prisons is enough for a person to lose all the hope in humanity. Military officers laughing and enjoying while they torture other humans, where prisoners were chained on dog leashes, where bodies were piled in front of which officers posed as if proud in what they have done, even smiling in front of a corpse with not even a bit of humanity. I would not suggest anyone to look up these pictures because the sight of it is in itself is torture. The prisoners that had come out alive are living like the dead with severe post-traumatic disorders. There was even a user guide on torture for armies to follow in these prisons, and one of it’s procedures was to put sulphur on the wounds of the prisoners so that the wounds would not heal. According to the user guide nothing was considered as torture unless it leads to death. What we hear in news about wars and its reason whatever it might we must know that be it enemies or our country there are common people like us who suffer under this political play. Nothing and no excuses can justify tortures and murders; it is forever the cruelest of deeds.

Japan is known as one of the safest countries in the world and Japan stand different in all cases of public life unlike any other country. Be it cleanliness or in order and manners Japan is very sophisticated and appreciable and even makes us think about our own culture and conditions of life or even western life that is always looked upon as something primitive. This is evident from the schooling stage itself where children go to school themselves on tr*ms or even walking right from the small age of seven where they even know how to change trains while going to school and will have to deal with all the problems they face as they will have to come back home themselves. One of the main thing that is done while bringing up children is letting them on an errand themselves, even before they start schooling, and tailing them to see whether they come back home safe. In schools too unlike any other countries that focus only on bookish knowledge in Japan children farm and participate in many activities other than book learning. At lunchtime children themselves serve the food and they themselves clean the utensils and even prepare wastes for recycling and make sure that no food is wasted. They clean the school and their classes daily and it is not something to be offended about these are basic human skills that everyone has to develop and in Japan schools are in every sense the right place to learn all these qualities. The schooling itself is enough to understand why Japan stands out from other countries in many respects and how It had reached the global superiority that now it enjoys.

There is a term disaster capitalism that was flashed onto the face of the public after a book name ‘The shock doctrine’ was published by Naomi klein who studies the workings of capitalism during disaster and how corporate find new ways to gain money in the crises like war, disaster and today’s situation like the pandemic. when disasters happen even the capitalist who were grappling in the economic crisis find new ways to fill up their pockets as we have seen around us where health care facilities are now very expensive and where masks and sanitizers are now sold on way higher prices than It actually cost. And as we know even the covid is not treated without paying the prices and after all the treatment if lucky enough to come out alive the common people will be neck up in debts from all the expenses which private hospitals draw from them. Even insurances which agree to protect the availed when in times of need are constructed in various loop h*les and at the end of the day even the insured are drowning in depths. Many of the dying patients’ last words are ‘who will pay for this expense?’ this is what happens in disaster capitalism. Because this is a time where people’s focus is shifted to other major problems and government and capitalists pass new laws or find new ways to squeeze out of the common people more money instead of looking after them because this is time where the common people depend more on governments. It is very disheartening to know that even in such pathetic conditions the rich are still gaining from it while the homeless and poor or even the middle class cannot even afford the medical treatments, there are even people with symptoms who do not go to hospitals as they may not have paid leave where they work or keep away from hospitals because of the fear of the price they’ll have to pay. There is two pandemics going on in the world, one has been in the world for centuries that is capitalism and other one is new and comparatively less cruel than the latter.

Not always wars are fought for good reasons, we Indians know war as something that has bought us freedom but there has been in history of the world bizarre situation where wars had been fought for the trivial matters just because the two fronts might have had an already existing rivalry. I was just stunned to know that there had been people that had gone to war following a dispute of killing of a pig, or because a soldier followed his dog to the borders of disputed lands or even because of stealing a well bucket and the fun fact in this war is that the stealing side won! there have also been war of sports fans for a reason of acquitting sports stars by a government in ancient time. I was just wondering how stupid all these reasons are to lead a large mass of people to death and even people supporting such wars. Who knows maybe the great wars that we have also seen might have sprung from such trivial events and was then bl*wn up by other firing incidents that followed to the death of millions. The violence in humans in certain cases are de*ilish than the de*il itself.

Celebrities are normal people with emotions and all kinds of normal human characters, they can also do mistakes they can be wrong too many times, they might take time to learn or too become better people just being a celebrity doesn’t mean they should be good by default. The popular culture of following a celebrity and being obsessed with them to the extent that whatever they do is assumed as the right thing by the young generations is questionable. We must take care to teach them that not all celebrities are ethical in fact not all humans are good, there can very vice celebrities who have no base values and live destructible lives depending on their heap of money, teens and immature children or even adults should be made aware about this to recognize what to be followed and what not. These obsessive fans also fire their celebrities when they do some mistakes that is also not very admirable because they are no super humans they are also prone to mistakes just let them do what they want to do until and unless their choices start to affect others. When youngsters are destroyed in such blind imitations then we should voice our protest against that celebrity because they are people who live and prosper because of the public and so they do have some responsibilities towards the masses too as not everyone can be mature among their fans. Because with great power comes great responsibility.

Corona virus is not something new to the world; it has dawned centuries before and has risen in intervals in the forms of SARS and MERS. So why is that the covid 19 did not have at least a testing vaccine when the pandemic broke down? Doctors and vaccine scientists agree that such a pandemic was something that was expected considering the previous medical histories and other studies so for the informed ones this pandemic was not a shock but only a happening of a prediction. When SARS and MERS was studied the scientist had developed a vaccine for coronavirus which could have atleast been a foundation on which further developments would have been easy but when such endeavors was taken place the corporate were unwilling to fund it as it was not something profitable and suggested other things that was in demand during those times and this vaccines were totally neglected, and of course no further studies would have been possible without relevant fund. Capitalist pharmaceuticals only look for profits which are clear cruelty considering their work, as what they should prioritize is health and not profit but the dark truth of capitalism has come to forefront with the pandemic. Even in these pandemic situations too the capitalist will focus on profits and if producing vaccine is still un-profiting then they would still keep away from funding the scientists. Now the furthering studies on vaccine is another capitalist story as when vaccine will be found and produced the people will have to look for other means to pay for the hefty price vaccine will levy as capitalism will never work other than for profits.

Cheating, treachery in love relationships are always attributed only women, when a woman breaks up with her boyfriend the wh*le world knows about her and blames her as cheater, we have all heard such stories where women are villains we never know what really happened and still we tend to believe that she was the who cheated because men make it that way, but have you ever thought how treacherous men can be, how cruel certain men have behaved to their loved ones, even if it is a small break up women are so dignified and does not badmouth that man unlike men who do that. Women tend to silently suffer all the wounds thus men doesn’t have this label stuck upon them as cheaters. But in fact from my experience in most cases it is the men who are more unfaithful, I know many women who has been cheated by their lovers, we also hears news where wives are always murdered by their husbands for money or for other reasons and yet the label of villain is always on women. This again is a tactics of men to put false blame on women so that their faults will be masked. There is no specific gender to such vices there are villains in both gender so blaming only one sex is just utter absurdity.

Capitalism is a word that is very familiar to all of us as we are living in a capitalist society so is most of the world, India is also falling deep into capitalism where everything profitable are now sold to private sectors leaving nothing in the hands of the government which ultimately means nothing in the hands of the public because capitalism looks only for profits and the wealth acc*mulates in the hands few people while majority of other who pay taxes doesn’t even have a roof over their heads. In capitalism the cunning higher ups heap up on wealth while the hardworking lower sector workers are paid minimal sums and even in this covid times even after recognizing the worth of such workers to the public life they are still under-paid and will not be able to pay for their own medical expenses even when they are working in health sector. Hospitals also which are mostly private owned are dismissing their workers as it means more revenue as their interests are still in the profits and not the saving of lives. The economic condition today or the deteriorating financial condition is not the after effect of the covid instead covid became such a great disaster because of capitalism, even before the covid the financial situation of the world was crumbling because of capitalism. The very existence of un-competently rich billionaires is the failed system of capitalism because no one should be that rich when people are dying of starvation and are homeless and jobless in the same countries that these billionaires are part of.

We always tend to trivialize everything that younger ones do. Parents kind of assume that all the mood swings of the teen child are just a pulling of tantrum and don’t take it seriously. In most cases the child is given advice about why their problems are so small compared to the parents’ struggles and the sufferings of the child is seen as silly and not of grave importance, they think that it is luxury that make children unable to take up even small emotional bu*dens. But not all times the teenagers are pulling a tantrum they might be sitting longer in their rooms not because of a meager cat fights, they are crying not because of something silly, just because the elders have had more experience doesn’t make the struggles of the younger ones any bearable. In actuality they might be suffering from a teen depression and our trivializations of the wh*le depressive situations as tantrum and mood swings can bring about a disastrous effect if not given proper attention. So we should never see the sufferings of others especially children as something silly because we never know what in actuality is happening, so we should be alert should know why our younger ones are out of sync from outside activities. It is this lack of awareness about teen depression that is leading to increase in suicide rates among the teens.

Whenever we talk about teachers they are always regarded with high esteem and they do deserve it but as in any case not all teachers deserve it, I have met various kinds of teachers and in my opinion the genuine teachers will be recognized by the students sooner or later. I am not trying impose on teachers certain kind of expectations that’s not just, but children do understand a teacher with genuine heart even if they are not much talented in teaching. When on one side there are these remarkable teachers who leave a mark with their love and knowledge, there are others who leave a mark by reminding us how a teacher should not become; it is a very great lesson. There a teachers and lectures that have more ego than passion for imparting knowledge, they only want respect and doesn’t care about what they must give children in return. Just being in a position called teacher is not enough for gaining respect, having abundant knowledge is also nothing in front of children if that teacher creates only problem for them and torture them, yes not all people will have a calling for teaching, I agree. But that doesn’t give them the license to ill treat their students, they begin the torture and when students react and protest against them they call the children ungrateful for not respecting the teacher, which is really absurd. our culture do value teachers very much but blindly giving respect to the people who even torture children in the guise of teaching should not be expected in this time and age. but ultimately we realize if many things when there are ugly things, likewise I have come to love my good teachers even more after encountering these in-genuine people who are obsessed in only eating up respect and giving nothing.

Oedipus complex is very familiar to most of us and we know the basic knowledge about it that it is obsession men have over their mother to an extremity. Though it seems like a mere theory when hearing about it, if thought more closely we can understand that it is something that we see around us, especially in Indian culture I guess. This is a culture which views women in two extremes, either she is an angel like mother who is equal to goddess or she is an outlaw, an evil, a kaali form. There is no middle phase for women that this culture allows, where woman can be both or can have little of both and in reality every human is a mix of both which we all know, but it is something our culture is blind about regarding women. So just think about this goddess figure of Indian culture put together with mother figure it is double elevated status and so the Oedipus complex in this country is double folded. Men grow up watching their mother struggling to run domestic house related works and feels sympathy for them which is good but the feeling turns evil when they decide to marry to hire a an unpaid servant for his mother and a mother who very possessive about the son that she doesn’t allow the son to get closer to the wife, it seems like a story of a soap opera but it is just clear Oedipus complex. And it is very prevalent in this culture that girls who marry such ‘mom babies’ suffer a lot. Indian men are always in the lap of their mother who gets easily swayed by mothers’ tears even when it is false, that pathetic is the condition of most Indian men, who doesn’t have a mind of their own detached from their mother. Loving a mother is a great thing but when that love starts to affect their other relations it is just foolishness. The only solution for this illness for the men is to not marry unless they are out of their mothers lap and not to put some girls’ life in a pit. people should marry only when they are able to view things in objective manner and love other for who they are and not as a servant for their mothers, when they do that they are just creating a loop of women being chained up in homes if that chain should break, people must start thinking in progressive ways.

We have all learned that if not for the Europeans’ advent on India, India would have been remained a unprogressive country with no scientific, naval, technological progress, not only India the wh*le world other than the Europeans’ is considered as primitive and dark. They teach in their so called ‘history’- which is more fiction- that they were the ones that bought countries like India to the attention of the world, which If we study authentic history we can clearly understand as pure lie and deception. Even centuries before Vasco Da Gama came to India, India was a prospering country which had trade conections with almost all corners of the world, with highly skilled navigators to guide their gigantic ships, the Arabs and other eastern countries which is described as dark countries with no enlightenment had come to India even before Europeans had even dreamed of coming to India. It is taught to us that it was Vasco Da Gama that recognized the value of the spices that India produced to which Indians is said to be blind about, Which is clearly another European deception because Indians had known the value of spices and was heavily producing them for export even before Vasco came to India and was trading it with both Arabs and so distant as even Rome. But what happened after European advent is that, they destroyed the indigenous traders and their ships on bulk to establish their monopoly and took care to wipe out all recorded history of the till then progressions of India, this is something they have done to all the countries under their colonization. what we actually study in most cases is a history written by some small group of people favoring only their progress, Europe make themselves the heroes while lying about other countries, men glorify themselves while ignoring women contributions, higher class takes up all the credits for something all classes have thrived for. For me history seems more fictitious than fiction itself.

We know several woman prodigies of ancient times who were either not included in the patriarchal false history and other s who were cruelly murdered and wiped out for their excellent intelligence that outshine men, women who were killed to please the male ego, killed by cruel religion holders, the reasons many, the victim always the same, women. One such remarkable lady erased from history is Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was the daughter of the famous mathematician and astronomer of Alexandria Theon. Theon who recognized his daughter’s caliber bought her up as not the typical woman of her times with no education but trained her in mathematics and astronomy and all the philosophies of her time. She surpassed her father’s intelligence at a very young age, Theon also made sure that she was physically perfect too, he wanted a perfect human with all encompassing knowledge and Hypatia accomplished all that. After her father’s death Hypatia led a respected life of an academician at Alexandria University a position till then only males occupied. She became the head of the Neoplatonic school of Alexandria, where she taught mathematics, philosophy and astronomy. She taught everyone who came to learn irrespective of their religion which was considered a crime in a land which was boiling with communal intolerance. She was one of the most powerful figures both educationally and politically, every kind of leaders came to her for advice, she had great teaching and oratory skills, she was one of the few women to have attended civic assemblies, she was a figure of moderation and tolerance in a religiously dividing city. When Ch*is*ianity started dominating in Alexandria Hypatia was one of the educated people who rejected Ch*is*ianity’s miracles on the basis of science and scientific proofs. It was for the same reason that Hypatia was hated by then thriving intolerant Ch*is*ian leaders and followers. She was accused of turning people away from Ch*is*ianity, disregarding all protests and threats she continued to teach and appear in public for speeches when finally the mad religious people accused her of witchery, publicly stripped her, killed and bu*ned her body. throughout ages all women who had exhibited great skills and intelligence have mostly met an end like this, though Hypatia is among the main mathematicians she is not taught in any classes or even mentioned in academic circles which display that though it is 2000 years past her time still world is only on snail pace in progress in the case of women.

Sensitivity and being easily affected by some other’s words and actions and being depressed for it, crying really fast is considered as something shameful in most cultures even in mine, I am a person who cry very easily even if something isn’t even hurting me , I cry when someone makes fun of me, I laugh it off of course but my eyes somehow will fill with tears which I take care not be seen by others because they will be taken aback and think that they have offended me, I may not be offended, but I just cry. But it is said that being sensitive is not something to be actually shameful of because sensitive people have many qualities that others might not have. Sensitive people just like how deeply they feel sadness will also feel happiness with the same intensity and will be able to appreciate it better. We can be very empathetic, because what is more loving than crying for a stranger? Sensitive people might have better observation and grasping power than others, because even the little things matter to them. Since sensitive people know that they are sensitive they are experts in overcoming hurt and hard situations which makes them more adapting kind. Sensitive people can be very creative, just think about all famous writers they are highly sensitive to be able to write about all emotions in such depth. And finally we are very aware of our surroundings and situations be it good or bad which is highly beneficial in living our lives.

Due to this Covid crisis there are a lot of people who are unable to come back home to their places houses and villages, these people might have been away from home before too but what makes this time different from others is that it is not easy to come back, and it is not clear how long will this anticipation of coming back home will go on, this makes these people even more isolated and depressed. My sister came back from Bangalore only yesterday, it has been 7 months since she has come home because of the chaos going on, she could no longer endure the waiting and just came back. Home has such uniqueness to it because we never understand its value until we are away from it. When this covid virus was spreading including father were all in different faraway places and the anxiety we went through was very intense because we never knew when we all could come together and were also afraid to travel as it was also risky. Home will be complete in its warmth and existence only when everyone is in the house. I rediscovered the meaning of home due to these dark times

We all some time in our lives might have thought about the meaning of life and our existence and these continuous thoughts for some people might give them a spiritual awakening at some point in their lives. spiritual awakening is a phenomenon where it is said that our mind and soul will find the answers to all questions regarding our existence, it is the realization of the reality and awakening into a light that was never there previously in our life, it is the ultimate feeling of oneness where we identify ourselves as one of the soul In the universe and discard all the sensations of separation. This energy starts to move and transform the people, it heals old wounds erases all negativity we have towards someone, teach to discard everything false and brings people to the truest way of existence and expression. In simple term once spiritual awakening happens our narrow minded world views governed by strict rules, religions and morals will be shattered and display to us the reality that we actually were, mere selfish beings until then. We turn to ourselves and our ego. Different people experience this in totally different ways for some it is very spontaneous and for others it is a long process, there is also a phenomenon called the kundalini spiritual awakening where a lot of energy/heat Sensation happens in around the spine. Some reasons for spiritual awakening are traumatic experience, major life changing events, an existential crisis which is seen mostly, near death experience and a natural awakening. Some people attain this spiritual awakening through meditations and mindfulness. The process to spiritual awakening is not all bliss it takes toll on some people making it hard for them to even realize that a spiritual awakening is happening. Practically thinking this spiritual awakening is what every humans must achieve in their life time because once this is achieved we are always on a spiritual path with no ego or greed, we exist in completeness, the completeness of being ourselves.

I am a person very much fascinated by the Japanese culture and something that has always attracted my curiosity is the their Shinto religion though now Shinto has many modern structures of Shinto shrines and deities its origin is from the ancient belief called koshinto which is solely based on the nature worship, in this every natural element is considered as divine and all of them has a spiritual manifestation in form spirits. These natural elements include mountains, rivers and seas and also sun, moon and north star, thunder, storm and even seasons are considered to be divinities. The uniqueness of this religion is that it has no codes, has no distinction between sacred and profane. It is believed that these natural elements can bring about a change in the life and can be invoked through rituals. This foundation of Shinto is evident from the position of Shinto shrines which are always situated in beautiful nature mostly in mountains. Shinto is more than religion, it is a culture that everyone in Japan follows and respect because even if the Japanese assume other religion they will still respect the nature and will build small shrines even in front of multinational buildings as a respect to the Shinto spirits. What I love the most is that this religion stands as a reason for preserving nature because Shinto shrines are expected to be built in nature grooves. In this world where everyone has forgotten about nature, a religion like Shinto is very significant.

In every crime thriller movies we watch the chilling scene where the eyewitness points out the real perpetrator and that probably becomes the climax of the movies because we believe there is nothing more true than an eyewitness but the forensic psychology break downs this belief and says that eye witness testimonies cannot be trusted as we do. The assumption that eye witness testimonies are like video camera recordings is false assumption because human memory is very easily changed and influenced by many factors according to each case. We think that shocking events and occurrences makes the memory more detailed but the truth is that such terrifying situations actually inhibit memory formation and the memory also tends to evolve with the extra details that are collected from outside information. A factor that tampers with the testimony which really surprised me is that the race and class of the eyewitness and the perpetrator influences the perception that a certain person as guilty which once thought is very possible because if a slum boy was present in a crime spot the eyewitness will most likely will assume that the boy has some relation to the event. After the discovery of the DNA system it was proved that many people who were found guilty using eye witness testimonies were actually innocent people, which is really shocking. The main reason for this widely accepted myth that eye witness is the most trustable evidence is that in many forms of literature it said to be so, not only that, we humans overestimate our memories which in reality is influenced by many factors and can evolve already existing memory without we ourselves knowing and it usually happens unconsciously. This is something very shocking to me and will be to many of you out there but this a proven truth.

There is an epidemic going on in the world that will surprise us, it is happening even in India too, it is the witch hunt, I have known and most of us know the infamous Salem incident in 1600’s where a large number of people were killed for being witches but I thought that we as humans are long past from such cruelties but the truth is that it is continuing in many countries all around the world and most of the victims are girl children and women. It is estimated that around 1000 people are killed around the world for witchcraft each year and the ones who are banished and tortured are close to millions. Witchcrafts is something that is gaining in popularity people who believe in potions, spells and chants are increasing day by day even in modern places. Such believers think and believe that everything is happening due to witchcraft be it good or bad, if it is good it is believed that those people have a pact with the de*il, if it is bad it is thought to be a curse of some witches, though belief in it is increasing in developed places, in undeveloped places witches are killed for using spells and potions to their advantage, there are even church priests who accuse certain behaviors as possessions or witchcraft, there are places around the world where witch tests are done and if a person fails in the test that person is killed. These tests can be absurd like checking whether a woman is lighter than air or throwing women into water and checking whether they drown or not. The main problems of these killings are its grotesqueness because these accused witches are bu*ned, beheaded or lashed to death. Wide spread poverty or illnesses are attributed to witchcraft, there is a man in Zambia who has killed 16 people accusing them of witchcraft, in Papua New Guinea dozens are killed, in Nigeria children are bu*ned, poisoned and abused and there is a case where a lot of Albino people were killed for using their body parts in witch potions. This wide range of killings are obviously not based on witchcraft because there are no proofs of whether witchcraft ever existed, so what we can understand is that people are using women and children on whom blames of everything bad is put on because humans have always wanted answers to everything and when that answers are not available humans tend to create their own answers by using weaker sections as scapegoat, it is really disheartening to know that many lives are wasted for something that doesn’t even exist.

We are all at least bilinguals being Indians, because we have a large set of language in our country and we also learn English if not more other languages. when I was a child being a non native speaker of English was seen as something to be ashamed of but native speakers of English most probably will know only English and no other languages. Which puts us in a better spot than them because it is proved that bilinguals or multilingual have better benefits then monolinguals. Knowing more than one language also means that we know more than one culture which brings us closer to understanding the world and also shows that we are adaptable to two or more environments. Bilinguals are said to have better ability to focus because when bilinguals use one language the brain has put in efforts to not process it using other language which is an exercise to the focusing of the brain. Learning of new languages also stretches our mind and gives it a good workout which is even believed to delay Alzheimer’s. Bilingual people are better at multitasking because our brains are accustomed to such multitasking. Bilinguals also have deeper understanding of what the concept of the language is and its linguistic parts and even the difference in human comprehension. so be very happy that we did not become native speakers of English.

Someone kidnapped me I was tied to a chair, no one was around me, but I could hear faint noises of some people talking then suddenly someone comes up to me, strangles me I could not breath I woke up from my dream but still I could see the person strangling me, my parents were in the adjacent room just a call distance between us but I couldn’t make any voice, I couldn’t move my limbs, I was dying in reality, just like in my dreams, I struggled for some minutes and then I was free from the dream and jumped out from my bed. This phenomenon is called sleep paralysis and most of us might have had atleast one sleep paralysis experience. This inability to move the limbs is known as atonia but when this happens in wakefulness it is called sleep paralysis often the sleep paralysis episodes are scary and my experience of suffocation and presence of an intruder is common experiences of sleep paralysis though these can happen separately too but very rarely some people also have pleasant experiences during these episodes too. Sleep paralysis come under parasomnia and repeated happening of sleep paralysis can be one of the symptoms of narcolepsy. But mostly it is just a rare occurrence and it can be due to insomnia or unscheduled sleep, being too tired and all. In other cases people suffering from mental disorders like trauma stress and anxiety can also have it. For me it happened just once and it is now an interesting story to tell my friends though it was horrifying while going through it. We should only be cautious of it when it happens continuously.

Disney princess movies are something we have grown up watching, they are our ideal role models until we start to see other movies, we have seen each of these Disney movies more than a hundred times carving it permanently in our minds. But most of the things that these movies teach us are many stereotypes and nonsense that will only give false ideas about the life that awaits children outside. In these movies the main characters are all princesses, giving the idea of princesses as someone who is always sitting idle or if the protagonist is someone like Cinderella they are ones who are always doing house chores so happily, have you noticed that snow white and Cinderella are remarkable in cleaning and cooking, it’s almost glorifying such things when not even one Disney man character is seen to be cooking or cleaning. All the characters are either already princesses or by the end of the movies becomes princesses, money and pomp are the ultimate destination shown in the movies that too is not worked for by the characters but just happens to them through love. These princesses and to-be princesses just wait life-long for their prince charming doing nothing else but waiting, it is only recently that some small amount of women empowerment started to creep in these movies. Love is shown as the only dream of these ladies so does teach the children the same, children think that true love happens, they think that a kiss is everything for a girl, they want to wear puffy gowns and walk down the aisle when in reality true love doesn’t happen so often, it doesn’t just come to a person, sometimes walking down an isle can be the greatest disaster of our lives. These Disney characters create ultimate toxic beauty; they are skinny and have fair girls as princesses giving the ugly message of racism and body expectations. Children become obsessed with being skinny and the chubby kids get insecure because they are not skinny, brown and black skinned girls think that nothing special will happen to them in their lives, this racism just ended temporarily with ‘the frog princess’. I love these Disney princesses just because I grew up with them but I don’t want any more children to be obsessed with it.

Autism is always identified as some kind of disability widely across the globe. Their difference in physical and facial structures is the thing that makes them stand out, there can also be variety of movements that majority of people just don’t do, frantic head bobs cupping of ears, and such. They can also be very sensitive to sounds and touches which makes their life harder, but autism is one of the main disorders that prove that what they have is not a disability but different ability. The ‘savants’ in autism are the autistic people who have extraordinary talents in memory, music, mathematics and arts, their ability in these is something very extraordinary and high level that the so called normal people won’t be able to comprehend, the reason for many autistic person to have such talents is still unknown or is still under study. These are also showed in many movies and similar platforms very frequently which now has lead to another problem where the parents is constantly asked about the talents of the autistic child which is kind of rude because not all autistic children might have this ability, so just be happy for the savant ones and let the others live a normal life, because they won’t need our sympathy.

Have you heard that during this lock down since no one is able to go out of their homes some group of people are using astral projection for going out and exploring the world since astral projection does not place any risks of communication with other people or spreading of viruses? There are experiences by people that record the out of the body sensations they faced during near death situations while astral projection is intentional way of going out of the body. There are many people that claim to have acquired the ability of astral projection which they learned through some means, some people experience it while sleeping while there are people who can do it while simply resting. These experiences are where our soul can travel to different places once It escapes from the physical body. It is not known how far it can go but it is believed that these souls can go through walls and ceilings because these souls are the same air like existences that we see in movies. For those who have seen the movie ‘doctor strange’ can easily understand how this is though it has some unbelievable elements in the movie. If astral projection has no limits then many things that cause risks to the human body can be done easily, like finding humans under earthquake rubbles and like. The main reason for the lack of scientific approval for astral projection is the existence of soul because science has still to prove the existence of spirit and also these astral projections has no tangible proofs other than anecdotes. So it is still not clear whether astral projection is possible and if possible it can be both exciting and scary.

Music do have therapeutic benefits which we clearly know because it is a therapy we give ourselves in every mood, be it sadness or happiness, romantic or enjoying. These therapeutic qualities are used in professional healing ways to cure many diseases mostly related to mind. This treatment is done by professional practitioners according to an individual’s need, it can be listening to music, singing along to music, moving along with music, meditating or playing an instrument. This healing process can traced back to even ancient times to keep away evil spirits which was the way how mental disorders were seen those days, it was also used in military camps to instill morale. Today it is used for a variety of things like stress reduction, decreasing anxiety and depression, improved memory, reducing blood pressure, pain redution, lower ch*lesterol and bringing down risk of heart disease and stroke. Music is prescribed to relieve stress before surgery, music sessions are proved to have ability to improve psychological and physiological conditions, creating music together is effective in children with developmental delays, learning issues, autism, spectrum disorder, dementia, and other similar conditions. Tuning forks are used to produce certain kinds of vibration to different parts of the body to release tension and energy and promote emotional balance. We all know how soothing music can be now we know how music is more than just soothing but is a medicine itself.

Dreams are something that we daily see but know hardly anything about it. It is said that dreams are not that necessary when it comes to our biological survival but it is important for humans so as to reach completeness in their personality as it is the bridge between conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Many researchers agree on the fact that our dreams have meaning though dreams are not significant physically. Dreams are the ‘royal road’ to our personalities and our unconscious we may be able to find answers for which we haven’t found any answers, it can be very helpful when it comes to psychological evaluation of a person. Our dreams can be our wish fulfillment where we see something that we always want to experience or it can be a way of letting out of repressed emotions be it fear or sadness or can simply show our capability of imagination and fantasy. There are four elements of understanding the dreams according to Freud.
Condensation: many different ideas is stuffed into a single span of dream.
Displacement: here emotional meaning can be disguised and confused by insignificant parts of the dreams.
Symbolization: here the repressed ideas are disguised as some kinds of symbols.
Secondary revision: we see the dreams in bizarre ways and order and in this method those are reorganized to make out the meaning from them.
According to other researchers the dreams can be interpreted through various archetypes of the universe. While others said that symbols in the dreams are all based on the individuals, so we cannot give all symbols the same meaning, making the interpretation hard. Though the dream interpretation is not something that solid, people are becoming more interested in it and there are a lot ways through which people are guided to an*lyze their dreams like dream guides. In spite of all the attempts of interpretation it is clear fact that no one has ever been able to grasp the real intensity of dreams.

We being Indians know the beliefs about afterlife as our Hindu myths talks about incarnations and other religions like Ch*is*ianity, Buddhism, Islam all says about after life and living after being dead this concept has lived as long as men have lived because it is evident from scriptures and Egyptian mummies and pyr*mids. Some believe in it as part of their religion and some others don’t believe in it as part of their scientific loyalty but what we rarely hear is the scientific proof for afterlife and it is prevalent and many scientists believe in it with scientific proof. There are many theories that explain this afterlife belief which cannot be proved practically but that non practicality cannot be a reason to not believe it as many scientific discoveries have a part in them that cannot be proved practically so if we believe in science there are possibilities for us to believe in after life, some of such theories are:
Cosmic inflation and afterlife.
Eternal inflation says that the process that caused our big bang theory has never stopped and will continue creating new one for all time that explains that this will create not just one but an infinite number of universes. Then our universe is just one of an infinite succession of big bangs so this life that we live will occur in another place and time and possibly very far in future but it is believed to happen. So in this theory we have lived this life before we are living it and will live it again.
Mechanism and afterlife
This believes that our body is a machine and so our brain’s working can also be explained as a mechanism. If this theory is right then rebuilding a part of brain is possible. So as long as the pattern of a mind is restored then the person survives. This theory almost believes in reincarnation in a scientific way.

Quantum mechanics and the afterlife.
Quantum mechanics is very approved and practically used in daily lives and there is a theoretical part to quantum mechanics that suggest that particles can have multiple locations at once. This was developed by Schrödinger and his theory that was later developed implies the existence of unlimited universes and histories which suggests closely as in we have immortal life. So whenever our life end in a particular history, there is always some other history where our life continues. Maybe even in younger forms. This infinite realities and universes have its suggestions in some religious scriptures too as in Bhagavata Purana.
These are only few of such theories that imply life after death so maybe our religions do say something about afterlives which are actually possible scientifically. That makes religious scriptures even more mysterious.

Do you know that there are people who do not believe that dinosaurs ever existed? Well this number Is not a small one, there are large group of people who think that dinosaurs are mere myth like creatures like the dragons. It was after 1800s that scientists started their discoveries and the dinosaurs came into our education system. But many people say that all these dinosaur theories are mere hoaxes and even say that the fossils that stand as evidences were put under earth by scientists themselves. The main reason for this disbelief is the bible where it is said that there is no citing about existence of dinosaurs in the bible. There are even parents who don’t want their children to believe in these findings. The problem with these facts is that since the evidence can be known as authentic by only professional paleontologist the common people can assume whatever they want this is the reason that such facts have many interpretations.

We have all heard about the book the alchemist and atleast one person might have recommended it to us in our life if not more. I have read Alchemist and there are a number of reasons for why we should actually read it but what we should keep in mind is that you should not read it with all the expectations piled up by others you should read it only when you feel like it and should see it as simple book that has reached many hearts because even though it might seem as a simple book it will prove to give more meaning as time goes by.
• It will prove to be a power pill that will help us to face the uncertain future.
• It will show how we everyone in this world deserve love.
• It shows how the journey is more important than the destiny itself even if the destiny is very valuable.
• It teaches us how our individual stories are also a legend.
• It shows what true education is, how it is the gaining of wisdom and not mere learning.
• It shows how true love is power that guides even in the absence, how it is more than just being together.
• It states how our individual purposes are contributors to the wh*le world itself in its own way.
• Draws the beautiful picture where our struggles are shown as the greatest positives in our lives.
This list might seem as a motivational speech but what makes the book different is that all these are said not as in a speech but in a beautiful story narration where everything is said and shown as a proof and how beautiful all these could be, it is one thing to say but it is more than just motivation when it becomes an experience and clearly this is book is one such experience.

It is an age where women have realized her courage and strength to do whatever she wants and go wherever she loves to go, and she should be able to do it no matter what. But the situation around world is a little concerning and disappointing that women have to look for the ‘suitable’ places to do a solo travel. Though women are bold enough to face any trouble, when making a travel plan for going to international places, it is better to look out for comparatively safe countries. This is a time where anyone can go for a travel without a travel guide because there are app for travelling that can substitute the work of travel guides . So we just have to select the best place to travel and everything else will be taken care by these free travel apps.
Iceland: This is a place where anyone can travel blindly because Iceland ranks 1st in global peace index, it is the land of ice and fire where we can witness the magnificent interlinking of stunning glaciers and active volcanoes. Here solo female travelers can enjoy the utmost beauty along with safety.
Finland: the land where there is greatest number of lakes and where northern lights spread its beauty, with islands, wooded reserves, heritage places, splendor of wild life and people known for their chitty chatty friendly nature can be the best for solo travelers as it also ranks first in safety by the World economic forum.
Switzerland: anyone who is Looking for a place that has all the package of natural beauty then Switzerland is the place for travelers, it has snow clad mountains, villages and numerous lakes, grassy valleys and everything that anyone would have ever dreamed of. This can be the best place for having some alone time with nature.
Japan: the land of cherry blossoms also has the blossoms of safety which welcomes anyone with warm hands to their cultural hub with traditional exquisite cuisines and shrines along with magnificent nature giving us both the benefits of a progressive city as well as the Zen of nature. With help of social travel along with other well experienced travelers anyone can enjoy their trip in Japan.

We all know what Alzheimer is, there was a time when this term was unfamiliar to us, well that time is long past and now this has become a term known to even small children because this is a disease that majority of people become subject to, especially in old age. Though the real cause of the disease is unknown the number of patients of this disease is increasing each year, the present statics shows that about 10 million people worldwide is being diagnosed with Alzheimer. So it is clear that like cancer Alzheimer also have something to do with our lifestyle. It might sound impossible but a healthy life style can reduce the chances for this disease. We might think that since this disease is related to our brain and neurons our physical well being has nothing to do with it but the case is the opposite. Since it is increasing each year doctors say that Alzheimer has connection with our life style, so though it may sound improbable exercising can decrease Alzheimer. Regular exercise and keeping the pressure sugar and ch*lesterol levels and eating healthy can all keep us away from this pitiable disease. To lead a life that won’t put others in difficult spot is everyone’s wish so for achieving that we must look after our physique very early on.

Time travel may sound as a fiction or movie based story but many scientists are still in search of the answer for time travel. There are certain physicists too that say time travel can be logically possible. Since the time when this topic has been discussed there are many topics that have confused scientists that Is the ‘grandfather paradox’ of time travel, this explains the paradox of a person going back in time to kill his grandfather before he procreates, if this happens then the grandson won’t be born which is a paradox because the grandson has to be born in order to kill his grand-father and the question goes on. So David Lewis says that if time travel happens especially to the past then the time traveler won’t be able to change the history even if he want to. So basically this logical explanation says that a time traveler won’t be able to effect changes in history. Another paradox is of the causal loop where you give the budding Shakespeare a copy of hamlet and he writes and it becomes a celebrated work of Shakespeare in future so if searched through origins this loop will not have a point where hamlet was actually written, this paradox is explained saying that such loops are possible, because the place from where the beginning of information is still not known even in this time where time travel is not possible so it can happen in the past too. Another explanation is that we can travel to the future but cannot travel to the past where time machine was not created for example if time machine was created in 2000 then we can go back as long as 2000 but not anymore than that. If it should be possible to make change in the past then yet another science fiction must come into reality that is the parallel universe, so if a change is made in the past then the new made future will become a new branch in time. All these are only few explanations for time travel being logically possible though any findings that prove a time travel is not done.

Justice in India has become a fiction that only resides in books and papers and on mouths of some people. People in India has now learned their lessons to not keep any hope on the judiciary on giving justice to cases that go against the ruling government. Since an opinionated government has taken over India almost all cases against the government has given out favoring verdicts. It’s been days that democratic Indians have been in their lamenting days, mourning for an India that once was a democracy. first happened the Harthas case in Uttarpradesh where a dalit girl was gang raped who died soon after giving her complaint with an almost cut off tongue where the atrocities done to her and her family just disgusts anyone because this is happening in an India where B.R Ambedkar wrote the constitution, the cruelties done to dalits have to get more media attention and more protests have to be done which is not happening, Indians are mere puppets now in governments hands. The police, the ruling government are all teaming against the innocent girl who is not even alive, Uttarpradesh government is even restricting activists and politicians to visit the place which all shows that they are completely guilty of the happened crime. Another minority that has lost hope is the Muslims whose identity and existence is all a big question mark in a country where the judiciary acquitted the conspiracy leaders of the Babri Masjid demolition case after 82 years of hearing. the hate speeches, the photos everything is available to even the common people that proves that these leaders have instigated the crime but for judiciary these are not evidences, they are something that cannot prove what it clearly stands for. Now such news that prove the death of judiciary is almost become usual for the so called democratic India

In this corona age what I have noticed so far in India is that many entrepreneurs have emerged in various areas. Cakes now are a matter of only houses away because I think 1 in every 5 houses have a person selling cakes, the times of cakes being sold in small bakeries are over since people prefer homely cakes than manufactured ones. On the road sides and other places people are establishing small shops, either textiles or shoes or at-least bulk eggs. People, since many of them have lost their jobs or does not have a steady job, is moving into simple new businesses. It feels like people are learning their surviving skills in these pandemic times. Whether such people get high profits or not is still a question mark because the number of customers are only few since it is lock down and people prefer to stay indoors. But still it is hopeful to see that people are striving to overcome these times in the best ways possible.

There are many thing around the world which has no explanations, like the huge sculptures on rocks which is hard to believe that humans have created and many other things, Nazca lines is one such phenomenon discovered on earth for which there are no solid explanation. These are a series of geoglyphes carved into roughly 200 square mile stretch of dessert, these images can be identified only from above and are very huge to recognize form the grounds, it is believed that the prehistoric Inca people created this, this include the drawings of birds, animals, human like creatures, insects and even a killer whale. These are quite similar to crop circles in size. another amazing thing is that this has been created about a 1000 years ago and yet it still remains for which it is thought that in these desserts only rarely does it rain. The human like creatures that is drawn is very similar to our imagination of aliens so there is also a belief that aliens drew it because during those prehistoric time who else would have a space view of earth other than aliens or humans created it for attracting the creatures for space. Other hypotheses says that even in those ancient times there were equipment that could fly and these lines might be a signal for them. There were even news about some alien like mummies being found in places close to these lines. Though there are mysterious stories surrounding these amazing creation due the lack of clear evidence it is also said that the Inca civilization saw animals and birds as their gods and drew these in order pray to them. These people also had long skulls which they themselves did by tying cloth on their head which might have been done to imitate a god. Even if the lines were drawn by humans and the mummies were of humans then don’t you think there might be a possibility that the god with long head might have been an alien?well there are still no clear evidence of any beliefs and there are people who belief in different stories about these lines, ultimately it ends up in the theory that these Nazca lines do have something unclear things about them.

The recent incident in Kerala where a youtuber verbally abused a woman and due to the inaction of the legal system the woman herself went to his home and attacked him for doing these insolent things has sparked many debates all over. In my opinion what the women did was the right thing, trespassing a person’s home and attacking him is wrong but when someone was continuously abusing us and shaming us in front of lakhs of people and there have been no action from the police then the only way is that we ourselves will have to act against it, the women who did this have openly addressed what they did wrong and is proudly ready to accept the punishment for what they did but I can feel the satisfaction they are feeling because what they did was to give a slap on the face of patriarchy and the cyber bullying animals who think that they are safe behind their computers. It is a fact that more people are supporting the bully than the bullied just because she reacted in an out of the box way, but that only shows that how stinking the society really is. No matter what women do she will always be the one to be blamed in this society so looking for the approval of others is not in the question of a woman. this incident gives me the courage to stand in what I believe even if that brings disapproval of some insignificant ridiculous people, because what matters is my satisfaction and peace of mind above any patriarchal norms that suffocate me.

The people who view news debates or are well informed about controversial issues like feminism should know the term ‘whataboutery’ because it is a technique we always hear especially in political issues. This the technique where a group is blamed of doing some injustice starts their defense by saying ‘what about…’ and lists the things that the opposite party has done wrong which can be false or even if it is true it is very evident those things are irrelevant in the actual question asked. It is a way of hiding our own mistakes and diverting the talk to other issues where the opposite party has done wrong. This occurs whenever the individuals and groups are confronted with a difficult or uncomfortable question. this will be more evident In issues like feminism because whenever a famous person react to the discrimination they have faced or their friends face they are attacked with the question that ‘where were you when such things happened’ anyone with common sense would know that this question have no relevance in that particular situation because no one can react to everything and make a change, we sound our opinions in the right place where we are sure that our voice make a change because a change in our situation will of course lead to a change in some other people’s situation too. This is something which even we have done since childhood when parents scold us for doing something wrong we would always make excuses complaining about what our parents did, when children do that it is sweet to hear but when people continue this behavior even in their adulthood and further it is just so silly and shameless.

We might be people who have been living in the same conditions going to same places, going for trips in family parks and similar family places but we will have to face certain situations In life because we never know how our lives might change, for instance just look at the present condition of the world who would have thought that things would turn upside down like this. Travelling is not something that helps to see just places, it helps a person in ways more deeper than just the sights, especially if its solo travels. Travelling helps to clear our minds and widen our perspective, just a bus trip is enough to see how different each person’s world is. when we are facing difficulties in a relationship or are suffering from work overload the best way to survive and have a fresh view of everything because many of the problems a person faces might not be the issue of the problem alone but how we are unable to confront such issues, going for a travel getting pleasure from the beautiful sights gives us a brightness that was darkened by piled up stress. For People who have not been ever out of their comfort zones travelling becomes an experience that shows them how different lives are led by people which might have been unimaginable to us, gives us a broader mind to accept cultures, see new people with different characters which leads us to accept every diverse thing that comes our way. Apart from the friends that share similar experiences as us, by travelling we can meet people completely different from us who are living completely different lives and yet might capture our hearts which proves that nothing matters but only the heart. Finally travelling is a great meditation on life that can brighten up our days so going for travels once in awhile is very necessary for giving our mind and body the care it deserves.

Mental illness is considered as something shameful by most societies and even by people who suffer from such illnesses. In ancient times mental illness was not recognized an illness but was considered to be something supernatural or as a demon possession which led the people to even kill the patients with such illnesses, we are long past this times and now we recognize such illnesses as a medical condition and there are treatments done in psychiatric hospital. But the patients who end up in medical institutions are the ones who have reached their limit in their illness because when these people start to notice that they have the symptoms of such illnesses what they do first is to conceal the fact and try to suppress their illness which only increases the risks of the illness. The main reason for such concealment of mental illness is the way society sees such illnesses, once a person is known to have illnesses like schizophrenia people start to fear them and have the prejudice that they are dangerous. The stigma with depression was almost the same until people started to talk about it publicly and since more people are prone to it, society has started to treat it with sympathy, though what really needed is empathy. But other mental illnesses like schizophrenia or ocd’s are lesser known or is attached with a lot of stigma. Because of this the patients start to fear the outside world and confine to themselves which makes their life lonely and isolated. They have no equal opportunities for job, it is hard for them to get partners who will stay with them, friends and family start to see them as a new creature and they lose normal relations with the people they already know. The stigma goes to the extent that even psychiatric doctors and workers view them with prejudices. In some countries they have acts that ensure that mental patients are not discriminated even in work place, but many other countries have yet to recognize it. What we should realize is that these mental illnesses are only a long term medical condition which can be cured if taken the effort, like how biological illnesses are cured; we just need to take care of the patients as needed. We should never stamp a person schizophrenic because it is not their identity they just suffer from it. There are people with mental illnesses that have achieved a lot in their lives so it is high time we erase the image of a mental patient as someone behind medical bars but just as a normal person, see them with empathy and not sympathy.

We all have might have had this experience where at a certain moment we feel as if we have already been in that moment, the phenomenon called Déjà vu. Sometimes it is fascinating and sometimes it is scary. It is something that has been researched for a long time and have not found answers still. Yet there are certain theories that is speculated by researches some of it are
• Attentional explanation of déjà vu says that when we do something our attention gets distracted from it for some reason and later when we return to that unfinished task we might feel really familiar with that same position and action
• Memory related hypotheses is that since we have short term and long term memory, it is possible during certain experiences there might happen a glitch between these two memories where a certain thing that we do is not registered by us but when we repeat the same thing the experience goes straight to the long term memory giving the sensation of Déjà vu.
• In dual processing simultaneous experience is processed at different times, this can be memories that are out of sync or our brain is simply processing events at a different time of their occurrences.
• The neurological explanation is completely medical where some seizures in temporal lobe or other glitches in the brains processing centers leads to weird experiences like Déjà vu.
All these are some assumed causes of déjà vu which is science related, but paranormal believers also connect the déjà vu events with parallel universe or past lives, sometimes it is also assumed that our subconscious mind is trying to show us something through this method of déjà vu. Whatever the cause might be the eeriness of that experience and the undiscovered mystery behind its origin make it all the more intriguing.

Ihan Omar has become a ray of hope and light to many who were suffering different kinds of discrimination in America. From schoolgirls to adults Ihan now is a sigh of relief and yet another proof that they can reach great heights fighting the atrocities they face. Ihan Omar was a Somali refugee who migrated to America because of the Somali civil war when she was 12 and settled in Minnesota the place is known as a small part of Africa itself considering the African population residing there. She and her family came to America with great hopes of a secure life but the reality shocked Ilhan and she desperately wanted people to recognize her for everything else but not for her colour, her headscarf or her accent. From a refugee camp Ihan grew up to love politics and managed to reach reputable positions through her hard-work and bold stands and leadership skills which finally reached the stage where she became a counter narrative for America that elected a racist, misogynist and bigoted president and became the first Somali-American, first naturalized citizen from Africa and the first non white woman from Minnesota and finally one of the two first Muslim women to serve congress. The mileage of her successes is an inspiration to many marginalized communities- the black community, the women, the Muslim, the refugee - to find a leader that stands as an inspiration for these many communities will be very rare to find. Since her success in politics she has passed various bills and amendments and is a constant name heard in the politics for her outspoken character that has led to have bitter feelings among her own party itself. As a representative from all the oppressed communities it is only natural that she will have haters. Despite the continuous poking of controversy from others she has become the name that mothers teach their children to aspire to break all adversities and to change misfortunes into the beautiful flowers of opportunity, she has made women, refugees, blacks and Muslims to hold their identities in dignity in-spite of all the discriminations.

Sometime after studying for exams I feel as if my memory capacity is full and I can no longer study anything else but I came to know that our memories can never be full because our brain capacity is assumed to be around 2.5 petabytes that is a million gigabytes, for us who are so knowledgeable on these capacity calculation due to our intense use of electronics can understand the weight of that amount because it is more than the capacity of a high functioning computer itself. For more comprehensible example- to fill our brain we will need to record 3 million hrs of tv shows for which we have to leave the tv running continuously for more than 300 years. It is difficult to measure our memory capacity because the amount of each memory will be different which will lead to variation in the space taken up and many memories are forgotten because it is insignificant which lead to freeing up of space. With this capacity we can store 4.7 billion books but the problem is that our memories are very disorganized just like a messy room so it is hard for us to find memories from our messy minds. People who have great memories sometime have it naturally or they have trained their brains to be organized which will make it easier for them to find a piece of information from that brain. So just wonder how much more space is there in our brains which we have left unused, we should also know that this discovery was recent, in previous findings brain was found to have lesser capacity so maybe even this finding can also be smaller than our actual brain capacity, who knows!

But for the convenience of studying a person the personalities are divided in several terms for different purposes, one of such classification is personality A, B, C and D. They are the director, the socializer, the thinker and the supporter. Here type A are people who like to be in charge of the things around them, they have leadership qualities, who are goal oriented and thinks practically. They do not like anything interfering in their process to achieve their goals be it emotions or relationships, they love changes and risk taking, they are independent people with multitasking skills and competitive mind set. They can be workaholic and be stubborn in order to achieve their plan and for the same reason they are insensitive, intolerant and ill tempered. They love freedom, opportunities and success. Type B personality are people who love attention, is outgoing and want everyone to like them and compliment them. They are fun loving, friendly, likable, lighthearted people who value relationships. They can be too self involved, hate being alone, have only short attention span, can be arrogant and a procrastinator. They love limelight and admiration more than anything else. When it come to type C personality, it will be a person who like well oriented, accurate, detail obsessed and stable circ*mstances. They are logical people who consider emotion as illogical, they focus only on facts. These people are dependable, creative, an*lytical, quality loving person who can be unsocial, detached skeptical and do things their own way. They have high problem solving capabilities. Type D personality people are security and longevity loving people who doesn’t like change and can do things repetitively, and are skilled in whatever they do. They are sincere caring, calm, unimposing, reliable beings who does not want leadership or attention. Because of these low-key behaviors they can be easily violated and used for benefits, does not speak up, is shy and fear changes. They like helping others and is logical and rational. There are personalities that have mixture of two or more personalities or can be personalities who does not come under any of these categories, they are known as personality X. These are only categories that people have created for their short term conveniences this is never standard and there are people who act like one personality and be another inside or other variations. But humans have always tried to understand their own behaviors and have not reached any final standard classification.

Slavery always gives a picture in our mind as a historical event where people were shipped from Africa to western countries, the stories of people who suffered in plantations and other sectors all around the world and we assume that the age of slavery is over. But in reality in this age too slavery exists not as a small rare number but widely as 47 million all over the world, these are people that have come under the eyes of the census, it will be obviously more than this number. The country which has the largest number of slaves is India. In old times people sold and bought humans publicly but now everything happens masked, this is the only difference then and now. The ways in which people are subjected to forced labors are different from before, either they make false promises or bind the people to their employer as a debtor, most of these people have to work their wh*le lives under a person because of this high interest, life-long debts. KGF was a movie that showed such slavery where poor people were made to work in a mine and is guarded by armed people to avoid their escape, it is no fiction, there are such places in the world which is exactly as we see in this movie. The main reason that people are tricked to such slaveries is poverty, people are given false hopes and is taken to other countries where their passport and identities are kept with employers and their return to homelands is impossible, such works can be intense labor, sex trafficking and domestic works. People of certain caste are still considered as slaves by the upper castes and are made to work for them with little wages. Children are also trafficked for various purposes from poor households and are used as workers in mines and industries; they are also used for armed conflicts like war in certain countries too. Other form slavery is done very strategically where a girl is married to men who might be agents for human trafficking and is sold off, since the families are poor and thinks that their child is with her husband, they no longer searches for her contacts. In such ways slavery is happening all over the world very widely even in this 21st century after all the protests for abolition of slavery, it is sad that abolition of slavery remains only on papers.

We have all had that moment when we had this gut feeling that something is wrong in a situation, then we forget about it, but later on that feeling just hits the mark and prove to be true, and we get surprised by the accuracy of our first feeling. this is what we call intuition, the great gift of humanity, it is the ability to understand or decide something without the need for conscious reasoning, it just pops in our mind. I have had such few experiences where my first gut feeling was proved to be true, for me it is very rare. but our mothers and grandmothers have this intuition which almost seems as prediction power with them, it is our mother who will predict take something with us when we go out which we might question but finally would come in handy, they know when something is in a position about to fall, they say that don’t go to that place today, it might seem as an ability acquired from practice or experience, that is exactly what intuition is. Our brain feeds the patterns of various things so it has the ability to foresee what might happen in a certain situation. Humans have reached this stage of evolution through intuition because as primitive beings, it might be these gifts which is unique to humans that might have helped to survive great disasters. We happen to have this only rarely but it is said that it happens all the time, we just don’t pay attention to it, or reject it by considering our inner sound as something bizarre. It is said that we must give our brains its space and time without rushing anything, only then will it reveal its miracle like intuition. Though intuition can be right, it is not wise to only depend on it, sometimes we should also consider data. Sometimes after considering data we must give our minds to make the decision. Mindfulness and meditation is said to project these abilities which according to many famous people is very important that we develop to have a stress-free life. Give value to our inner feelings sometimes.

There is tug of war going on in the world statistics of non believers and believers. Atheism is on the rise on most of the western countries while India is seeing over obsession on religions and indulgence in rituals and practices while on the other hand violence based on religions is seen. In African countries too, religions are seen to have been increasing while in the west youth who answer to religion as no is like a tsunami wave. The reasons that are an*lyzed are many, for some it is science, for other it is humanism, while some are into secularism. All these youth have seen in their life hatred based on religions that they find staying away as a better plan. while other set of youth are more obsessed with materialistic life that they are no longer interested in deeper meanings that religion profess, they are more into worldly enjoyment and doesn’t care about something that they have no proof of, the after-life. We have reached an age where youngsters find being religious to be something to be ashamed of, they don’t want to tell their friends that they are religious. Belief in science and the habit of searching for proofs and questioning everything is also on the rise among youngsters that it is tough to silent them with some meta-narratives. Either they believe strongly in science, scientific proofs or they are suspicious of everything including scientific believes. It is said that world might reach an atheism age a lot earlier than what was predicted before because that large is the increase in this new Atheism religion.

Once when me and my mom was crossing the grounds of a temple to the opposite road one man who was passing by us said to us ‘you shouldn’t walk on these grounds, this is our place’, I was shocked to hear that because I have grown up here, I have walked there millions of times, I have attended the festivals there with my friends, so why should this man talk like this to us. This was the first time I was encountering an islamophobic experience that too in south India which I think is comparatively the secular place than north India. Around the world millions of people are facing such atrocities just because they are Muslims, Haven’t we seen killing and mob lynching against Muslims for reasons that were not even proved, so why is that people are changed into islamophobic criminals to the extent that they commit murders, many of these murderers were just common people whose transformation into criminals were a surprise to their neighbors who had known them for so long. Similar change in the mindset of people was seen in history when Hitler ruled Germany, and there are real life accounts of former Nazis who after many years realized the cruelty they were committing. To metamorphose people to hate spitting beings the main strategy that the rulers take is the circulation of lies or distorting truth to the extent that even Muslims believe those, the things that we always hear about Muslims are that they are polygamous, their main aim is to increase their population and fill the country with Muslims and the myth called ‘love-jihad. When we search for truths we can know that only 0.66% of our population is polygamous and in it 0.45% are Hindus, it is Hindu families that have 4 children or more than Muslim families. If Love jihad as some people argue has converted women into Muslims then census must show an increase in Muslim women but it is a fact that more than Hindu women Muslim have been seen as deteriorating and the reasons are completely different than what is circulated. Today the islamophobia are surging in from social medias and many other sites that even common people are injected with violent mentalities, the power of such lies are seen all around us in different forms of violence. What is sad is that,The people who are the real culprits behind these lies sit safe from all risks while simple common people are urged to commit crimes and suffer the punishments.

I have two grannies in my home and these thoughts crossed my mind. This covid has been proven a hell to aged people and the grandparents in our homes. Our grannies and grandpas are people who have reached a time of their age where they crave for attention just like small children and their relief was the people visiting them and talking to them about their illnesses and asking others of their well being. Grandparents can become more prying in their age because they don’t have anything else to do other than hearing stories of others or telling their own stories. If in a rural area they can even go out to meet people and spend some time but if they are living in urban areas the possibility for having friend groups are difficult, if they have reached a stage of not being able to walk and move around then they are in even more pathetic situation. Their children and grand children will be busy with their lives and these people’s only comfort become the visitors who come to see them. In this covid times even visitors won’t come as aged people are instructed to remain indoors and most of the aged people wouldn’t have mobile phones to play with like the younger generation and watching television also has a limit. Since socializing is not happening they can’t even know stories of others. These grandparents might be going through very tough situation of dealing already confined lives which have become confined again by covid. Let’s give them more attention and fill their boredom even if it bores us because their smiles have the same innocence of children, which will be very pleasant to watch.

We as Indians have this un-resistible love for rice products, south Indians are in love with rice, idli, dosa and appams , the kids cannot live without their cakes, cookies, pizzas, pastas and bread. The common elements in all of these are carbohydrates, sugar contained carbohydrates. Whenever someone gets on to dieting, they know that they should cut out on crabs but it proves to be a difficult task than the HIT exercises. Some studies prove that this craving for carbs that we call as love for carbs is actually an addiction because carbs seems to affect the areas of the brain related to pleasure and reward. So we can’t blame willpower alone for our craving for carbs because it also has an addictive aspect to it from which it will be hard to get away from just like any other addiction. Some studies even show that carbs have the same effect on body like the alcohol and dependency on carbs is found to be similar to that of drug abuse. We know that these can lead to epidemic rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and depression, yet we can’t stay away from our favorite pastries, it is this craving that is agreed by some medics as addiction. Fortunately there are nutritional diagnosis and treatment for this and it is highly suggested to people with this addiction. We might love tasty carbs but let’s try and reduce the use of it because only we can look after our health and our body deserves better than some unhealthy carbs