Cholera
Apr 18th
Cholera is an epidemic disease and also it is highly infectious. It mostly affects the gastro-intestinal tract, which comprises organs like stomach and intestines. It has been persisted for thousands of years and breaks out generally in overcrowded places. This disease affects people of all age groups. The cholera disease is caused by Vibrio cholerae bacterium. One a normal person consumes food or water contaminated by the cholera-causing bacterium then it begins to multiply inside the body. Also the bacteria begins to interfere with the normal functioning of the body.
Some of the symptoms of cholera are vomiting, acute diarrhea and muscular cramps. The patient suffering from cholera may pass stools 30-40 times a day. Those stools appears like rice-water. This excessive loss of water results in dehydration in the body accompanied by fever. If this state of dehydration continues it could be fatal. In order to avoid the dehydration, Oral Rehydration Solution(ORS) should be given to the patient at regular intervals.
Some of the preventive measures are consumption of properly cooked food, use of boiled drinking water, a proper system for the disposal of human wastes. Also the number of people in contact with a cholera patient should be restricted. Improved sanitary conditions help in controlling the spread of this highly infectious disease.
Nowadays a vaccine is administered to protect against the disease cholera. This immunization with cholera vaccine remains effective for six months.
Advertisements Or Advantage
Apr 14th
“Nothing is Impossible” is a motivational statement. But this has become the secret mantra for success
in the present day ad industry. There have been a lot of ads for promoting a wide variety of products
Ranging from soaps to expensive automobiles which expects a “Throw your common sense away and
watch” kind of attitude from the receiving end. It is a practical reality that there are people who get
carried away by such ads and suffer later thereby making these ads achieve their purpose. Gone are the days when ads were in-between shows but the present day scenario has just turned the vice-versa!!
On the flipside of it, this vast growing sector has been a treasure house of jobs for those people gifted with a lot of creativity. The latest “ZOO ZOO” series and Airtel’s ads based on relationships and connecting people has taken the industry by a storm. The cut throat competition and “ad- rivalry” kind of atmosphere has become an advantage for the consumers to compare and choose the better than the best. However zooming out at large there are two kinds of sub classifications one who earn the benefits
and the one who suffer and it is quite sad to see that the former has grown stronger over the latter which makes the sufferings to get dissipated among the benefits. At extreme cases, even loss of life has been reported due to a minor mistake in the choice of products!
So, a lot of awareness programs have to be created about the consumer rights. The phrase” think twice before you decide…..” has to be kept in mind as once lost is lost forever. However it would not be wrong to conclude that whatever consumer-friendly changes comes sufferings will continue unless the
consumer community makes use of their common sense and their “uncommon“ sense as well ! !
Inspiring nation developing (india): the emerging superpower
Apr 10th
Over the past few years there have been enough reports hitting the headlines which prove that India is on the right path in emerging as a superpower. Be it a Nobel Prize in science or the top rank that our cricket team has acquired (in test cricket); all news of achievement in various fields seems to be a sign of positive transformation of the country. It’s proud that this country has developed to the extent of hosting a prestigious
International sports meet- The Commonwealth Games! The achievements beyond the boundary like gold medals in the Olympic Games and even in IPhO (International Physics Olympiad) and the top position in the survey conducted by an international body on the percentage growth of young entrepreneurs the country is going towards becoming the superpower – the vision of former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. We often
forget to appreciate the efforts behind it. The FIVE YEAR PLAN launched by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru is one such effort which is finding its purpose as India is one of the leading producer of wheat (Green Revolution)
and even best brains in technology (establishment of IITs).
But we cannot blindly say this as a Utopian nation, there is still a need to abolish many social evils like poverty, illiteracy, caste-system and even regional differences which are quite evident from the recent Telangana issue. So, the need of the hour is to put our hands together to reduce the negative traits of this nation thereby increasing the rate towards achieving the “SUPER POWER-2020” goal!
Rude Aggression In Groups (Ragging): Bringing Fear In The Name Of Fun
Apr 6th
Ragging is any misconduct which has the effect of teasing or handling any student with rudeness which in turn can cause annoyance, harm or can raise fear in a junior (student) affecting his mental health.
A report provided by an Indian anti-ragging activist group Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE) analyzed 64 ragging cases and found that over 60% of these were physical ragging, and 20% were sexual in nature. This provides a solid proof that ragging which is usually practiced by seniors just
for fun end up instilling fear in the minds of those being ragged.
Slowly over the past few decades this has become a part of the culture of the college culture. Ragging can be classified into many levels. It ranges from doing it just for the sake of doing it or purely for fun to seniors taking revenge over the juniors usually for quite silly reasons. Some of the common conventions of funny ragging are asking juniors to swim on land, dance, sing or even to ask a lift to an aeroplane flying overhead. These are completely harmless and are meant to be taken in a lighter vein.
But the extreme kind of it is dangerous where seniors go to the juniors’ hostel rooms and torture them physically by beating them to bruises. Sometimes when things go beyond a limit seniors turn oppressors which can even result in a junior being killed.
So, it is the duty of college institutions to take severe steps to prevent this sort of havoc to students.
Seniors on the other hands must never resort to such practices and at the most should stop with the funny part of it. Even slight changes in the present day education system like introducing value education and teaching students to handle situations can make wonders in stopping this evil.
