Social Media And Its Effects On Youth

Social media is very interesting platform where one can contact to their friends, family, relatives anywhere anytime with and internet connection. It also gives us platform to share our views, feelings, and share the information. But it is well said that excess of everything is bad. Social media is good as well as bad at the same time and it depends upon its usage. But mostly youth are getting diverted from their objectives of life due to social media.

Social media affects youth's health and they suffer not only physically but mentally too. Because of the social media people used to at a single place for hours keeping their eye on screen continuously for hours and the ultraviolet rays coming out of it affects the eyes most. Mostly youngsters go for social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter etc., where they spent hours chatting with friends and do not concentrate on their studies. Social sites increases pornography as every kind of information, images, videos are available on social media. youth are engaged in cyber crimes such as hacking someone's account.privacy is enclosed  on social media and it affects girls the most. Many times people upload the girls image on porn sites and this harms their respect and dignity and girls committee suicide due to the same.

Social media has affected the whole life of youth in a away that they cannot live without it even for a single second. It has disturbed the whole routine of their life, late night chatting with friends and then in morning wake up late and then for everything late. Social media is good at an extent therefore excess use of it should be avoided by the youngsters.

                                                                         Sonalika

         Empower Women Empower Generation

Women are the most important part of the society,and considered as the most beautiful creation of god. Every year 8th March is celebrated as International Women Day with a determination to commemorate the achievements of women and to acknowledge the special status they deserve in society. But the question is that what difference has it made to the position of women? Have women become really strong and have their long term struggle ended?

 Though women have progressed a lot in many spheres of life but if looking at a wide prospective the situation is still same it has not changed a lot. It is the fact that two third of the 774 million adults in the world  who cannot read is women. The condition of  women in developing countries is worse. Women here are still being ill treated, are the subject of honor killing, they are still deprived of their basic rights of freedom and education and face abuse and violence. In India domestic violence is acceptable to women, and cultural and ethical implications are imposed on their freedom. What does these incident mean? It simply indicates that nothing has changed as a number of organizations are working to mitigate the problems, yet there is a long way to go. 

Women empowerment depends upon many factors such as location,  social and financial status, traditions, cultures and age. Though different schemes such as ICDS , Dhanlakshmi, has been introduced by the government but still India needs to do to improve the position of women in society  in context to health, education, and economic participation of women. Empowering women empowers the generation one educated women in every house can teach many other women and thus the generation.

                                                                    Sonalika  

           Lack Of Awareness In Indian Village

Development  still needs a long to go in India in India specially in rural areas. This is the truth of Indian development that one side government has made big building and provided good infrastructure in cities and at the another side in rural India many people don't have pukka hoses to live in. Government is making rich people more rich and poor more poor. Beside many rural development programs still village people are deprived of them. 

Due to lack of education village people are being made fool by the sarpanch of the village and are kept away from the facilities that government provide them. During my visit to village i got to know that they are facing lots of problems but no one is there for them to listen their problems. The question is that where is the media, why can't they put their problems in front of government. Due to lack of education and awareness village people do not knows and understand their rights hence not able to raise their voice for them. The most popular example is Haryana's khap panchayat who is not authorized to punish anyone brutally or kill them but still they do it and people there have to listen what ever they say because they are not aware of the things. Many funds comes for the development of village and people living there but sarpanch instead of investing those in the developmental work they keep all of them in their pocket and village people don't even come to know about any fund was sent by the government for them.

Poverty and illiteracy is the main factor which does not allow India to move ahead. People are not aware of the things because they do not have proper education thus corruption also increases because behind every work the government employers ask for some money from them and they easily give it to them anyhow without knowing it is legal or not. Awareness is must and for that government should start a special awareness campaign every month to teach them at least  their minimum rights and educate them about their health too.

                                                                Sonalika

       Wrong Portrayal Of Women In Media

Women in India are seen with a due respect and portrayed as goddess. But it seem like media has become a bit more modernized that it has no respect for women left. The picture of women framed by media is totally in negative shade and portrayed as the goddess of sexuality. In one of the advertisement of men underwear by Amul Macho a girl in a very seductive style pronounces the word "ye to bada toing hai". Similarly, women pictured in the advertisement of men deodorant in a very sexy bikini and looking for boys in a seductive way. There are a long list of these kind of advertisement shown on television.

Media is known  to represent and reinforce the mainstream ideology into its audience and are the most effective communication system. And we all know that it affects the mentality of people the most as it is the most  persuasive medium, but still media shows such kind of programs and advertisement which affects badly to the young generation. The way media shows the women the youth take it in the same way and the reason is that youth today get distracted from their goals and hence increases pornography. This is also a reason behind increase in rape cases.

The media needs to follow the Social responsibility theory and should stop advertising sex on television.These kind of advertisement should be banned by the government and there should be cross-check of the content of programs broadcasted on television by the government itself. The media itself promote sex and then blame girls for being raped. This is totally wrong and the way media is portraying women is not actually the same. There are women like sati sawitri, parvati, kalpana chawla, but do they promote them no, because that do not sensationalise the things and do not help them increase their TRP. Media is a good thing but only if not misused.

                                                                                                    Sonalika

          Indian Politicians: Unknown From India 

India is really great, smile appears on my face when i come to know that the next PM candidate from Congress party Rahul Gandhi gives his speech in English in rural areas where people don't even have minimum level of education. Our leaders are our representative and we choose them so that they could represent us and could present our problems behalf of us in front of government for the solutions. But what if the person who is going to be our representative and  calls himself as if he is very familiar with our problems and and can feel it deeply, had never ever seen even the shadow of those problems. 

Rahul Gandhi is the PM candidate from congress party who had been out of India for his studies and had worked earlier in a firm in London. He belongs from the most known and popular party of the country and always lived in luxury, can it be expected from him that he would be able to understand what poverty is...??? According to Rahul Gandhi "Poor people should dream the biggest dreams as it is important for progress of the country" during a function in Allahabad. But he cannot understand that when a poor person do not get food even for one time a day the only dreams comes to their mind is about worries and pain poverty. A person who wears costly clothes, how will he know the pain of wearing a single tore and dirty clothes for more than a week. The person who sleeps on comfortable bed and luxurious room how will he know the pain of having sleepless nights on street. The person who has got room heater in winters, how will he know  the feelings a poor person experience during winters who do not have a single woolen clothes to wear.

All the politicians acts same whether belongs to any party. They come speak and go and always play with the emotions of poor people. All the politicians play their mind game with these innocent people and make them fool by their fake promises and gifts during elections. The truth is that they can never understand the feeling of a person who had not eaten food for weeks and had to sleep on the streets in winters. These politicians actually are unaware of the need and feelings of their own people and that is the main reason why they don't care about these people and look for their own benefits every time.

                                                                        Sonalika

  FOOD SECURITY OR VOTE SECURITY?

Large population of India lives in villages, works in farms, could hardly arrange food for two time a day so that they can serve their family. In spite all these critical conditions government is bringing food security bill, with Wheat 4 Rs/kg, Rice 4 Rs kg, Salt 3 Rs kg. A very good mind game is being planned by the government which is visible through this Food security bill. If you throw light over other side of government policies itself, we have BPL card, AAY card etc., which is very similar to this upcoming food security bill. There were an investment of 350 Crore for BPL card. There are many similar schemes and government organizations are working for same phenomena again. Now the question arises that what's new government is going to provide this time to the people or as usual again planning to make them fool?

If we have a look at some fact and figures, India has 75% of  population living in rural areas. At the base of national food security bill government is promising to provide a better facility of food resources to the people and for this government needs 950 billion Rs/year investment. Congress has been in power for over 57 years and figure says, still 75% of the population is poor. While there has not been seen any positive result in last 57 years of rule how is it possible that a heavy investment for "National Food Security Bill" could reach to a poor's pocket?? Yes, it will reach till them for sure but only on papers as before.

Bill promises to provide 5 kg of rice/wheat per head per month, that means 166 grams per day or 83 grams per meal, but the minimum daily requirement for rice/wheat is 450 grams per adult per day. This implies that a person need 13 to 14 kg of rice/wheat per month. It means 8 to 9 kg required from open market at exorbitant price and thus the condition is same for rice, salt and other food also. Now the question is that if we have schemes like BPL similar to the Food Security Bill, what is the need to invest billions for the same, instead government could have spent the same on education or other sectors. There are so many other bills pending which are more important and required like MMB(Mines and mineral bill) and it is pending in parliament from last so many years, but no one is looking for that.There are more than 82000 illegal mines and mineral supply cases registered.

Why the focus is only on food security bill.??? Reason is that 2014 election is about to come and congress need a proper game to play with the common people to make them fool once again. The Congress party knows it very well that now people are fed up of congress as it has been failed to control the law and order in the country and an increase in crime has been seen during congress rule, so people would not bring them in rule this time. And Congress can feel the nerves of Indian people and as per their planning they are  launching the Food Bill, as they know that 75% population of India lives in rural areas and need a proper food for at least twice a day and are the major voting section among the population.Till yet whatsoever government did, indicates that public is somewhere not happy and satisfied and need a change.  So it’s the main strategy of congress “to have the vote,provide the food” and 'Secure food, secure vote".

Government says Food security bill will help to drive away hunger and malnutrition but the fact is that 5 kg of wheat/rice per head may keep hunger away for the day but not malnutrition.Congress is trying to use this food security bill as a mask to cover up all its past misdeeds such as scams, poor governance and economic mismanagement.Unless and until the government augment the indigenous food production substantially over present production the dream of providing the balanced nutrition food for all people will be only an unfulfilled Dream. 

                                                                           Sonalika

                With Corruption Everyone Pays

Corruption has reached to its verge point and had left no option in front of people other than to get used of it. The reason behind is that every one from tip to root are corrupted,at every level work is corrupted at its own point. 

Earlier politicians were considered as the most corrupted person in India but now the police men are there to break their records. At each and every step police ask for bribe from people, misbehaving with people and asking money for registering FIR and exploiting women are some of the main charges police officers can be put under. But now they are becoming the reason for suiciding of people. Today a case of harassment for bribe came from New Delhi where two police constables, harassed a 48 years old  auto driver who was upset over allegedly being harassed for bribe and set himself on fire in Nebi Sarai area of south east Delhi. The auto driver had suffered 85% burn injuries and his condition is stated to be critical, treating is going on in a government hospital.

The auto driver in his statement said that he lived with his two sons and bought new auto. The two constables were constantly harassing them and even asked 20,000 from them as one-time bribe for letting them enter the area where he used to keep his auto in near by area.

He could pay only 7,000 to the two policemen, but they demanded more money then he requested them to allow them to pay remaining amount in installment but they declined and threatened them to frame in a false case and kept his son in police station and did not let them go even when the auto driver pleaded them then he finally set himself on fire.

What does this incident indicates...??? Corruption has increased its level so high that a common man is bound to remain under it and if can't he has no right to live. All most every sector is under trap of corruption in India where police comes at the hit list as it can be seen in the figure above. 

The capital itself is burning with corruption then how other states can remain untouched from it. Corruption seems to be very small word but everyone pays for it somehow.

Government, system whom to blame and whom not. Blaming or criticizing them can also bring no change because all of them are lying under shade of colors. India is hopeless, overall country is corrupted and its just impossible to make it free from it. The condition has reached to the point that now a 'NAYAK" like Anil Kapoor in movie also can't fix it.
                                                                  Sonalika

                    Farmers Fighting For Livelihood

Farmers are said to be the main part of Indian population. India is based and known for its agriculture sector and the administrator of this sector are farmers. But its very sad to know that those who work hard to provide us food they themselves are not getting at least amount to serve their family and children. Farmers suicide is a big problem in India and government is doing nothing instead of giving some amount of money to their family to live rest of their life with the help of those money. India is the country where at least 70% person people depend directly or indirectly on agriculture but still government is in their own world of dreams.

There are lots of problems ranging from land, irrigation water, availability of quality inputs in time, improved production technology, timely credit, cheap labour availability, risk management-crop insurance, production of quality output, post harvest management, storage and premium price for the end product produced by farmers. All these factors must be considered and taken into account. Farmers are totally depended on their farming and it totally depends upon the climate. Farmers produces grains but sometimes due to flood, drought, or lack of irrigation facilities and technologies their all hard work is ruined and loss is to be repaid by themselves. Government do not provide insurance for their grains so that if some loss occurs farmers should not pay for that. And at the end the stress of serving their family and children leave no option for them but suicide.

According recent report by NCRB(National crime records bureau) in 2010, 15,964 farmers committed suicide, the majority of the suicide victims were in the age group of 30 to 59. Five most affected states in India are Maharastra(3,141), Karnataka(2,585), Andhra Pradesh(2,525), Madhya pradesh(1,237) and Chattisgarh(1,126). Average calculation of number of deaths during decade reveals over 45 farmers are committing suicide every day moreover, out of total deaths,around 15 per cent suicide victims are women farmers. A record says that 2.5 lakh farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 13 years. The despair has deepened over the past years with 18 of the 28 states reporting more suicides. The farmers suicide graph has been steadily rising.

Farmers are continuously fighting for their livelihood and waiting for the day when government will turn to their problems and their fight for their own produced food will come to an end.

                                                               Sonalika

                                                                             

                     Big Boss In You

Who is Big Boss, what is Big Boss, why is Big Boss....had anyone ever thought of this??? My dear friends please let me clear you first i am not at all  talking about the entertainment program  "BIG BOSS" that is being broadcasted over Colors channel on your LCD screen. I know whenever this word comes in front of anyone,what first comes to their mind is salman khan, 1 house, conspiracy, fight, celebrities etc. But here m talking about the big boss in you yourself which is not visible to you but remains always within you, that is your courage, will power and your positive energy inside.

I have always realized by own experience that a human being can achieve anything if he/she had the courage and determination for their goal in life. The same needs to be applied to the Indian citizen for their desire to get rid of the corruption, system and build a peaceful nation.

It's a simple connotation in people here that they are not the one to fight against corruption or take initiative to reverse the worse situation in the country. They often think of a superhero like Krish who will come for them and change everything in just one blink of eyes. But people need to understand that nation is made by all of us living together not just one superhero can make things right for you.

when coming out of theater after a movie is finished, everyone has desire to become like Shahrukh Khan and Salman khan. They copy their dialogues,style, even the adventurous stunt performed by them but none of them ever think of going out of the box, take risk in life like them and bring the change by their own effort. None of them want to take a lead to come forward for their own rights and fight for it. Everybody thinks someday someone will come and will vanish all the problems and evils from the society. But what's the need for someone else if everyone of us start recognizing our own responsibility and be true and honest for our own work, because society is made up of us not we by the society.

Big Boss is actually the person in you yourself who guides you in a right way. Big Boss is your superhero inside you who can actually bring the change by releasing that courage in you but for that you need to find it within you first. 

Very often we call Big Boss to the person we respect or are afraid of or somebody elder to us, same way that Big Boss inside you is there to whom you are afraid of when you do wrong deeds, you respect your own decision when you do something good & beyond expectations and again it is the big boss in you who provoke you to do the same. Make yourself your Big Boss not others. And try to find it inside you and respect his decisions and give birth to a new leader in you.

                                                                      Sonalika

                    Let Me Also Speak Please

This is the story of every girl who want to speak for herself, her pride, her future but the society, the culture and fake beliefs of our country don't let her fight for herself. The story is all my own imagination, it does not have any connection with reality but yes the theme or subject of the story is the cruel truth of our society.

A girl named Meena belonged to a poor family but she was proud of her family and the upbringings she got from her parents. She was having 1 brother and two more sisters in her family younger than her. Her parents was not so rich but still they gave her proper education so that she could stand on her own in her life ahead and she don't have to depend on others for her needs. She got every kind of freedom from her parents because they trusted her. As she was elder of all her brother and sisters and only their father was the one to earn money for the entire family, so she decided to do a job which suits her personality and education so that she could help her parents and provide more better education to her brother and sisters than she got from her parents. After some discussion and after Meena made her parents understand the situation she was allowed to go out of house and do a good job. She was very beautiful, kind, gentle, understanding, caring and respected girl in her locality and now she was a grown up girl and her parents wanted her to get marry as everybody in her neighbor started forcing her parents as always happens in our society. Neighbors are always more concerned about the girls age of marriages than their own parents in our society. But Meena was not ready to get married at that time so she asked her parents the reason behind their worries about her marriage and then she got to know the actual reason behind that and convinced her parents to let her work and help them for some more time. But how could the neighbors sit silently because girls for them were meant to get married as soon as possible and burn her life in kitchen and home by cooking food and taking care of her husband and kids after marriage. So now they started attacking on her character that she remains out of her house all the time because of her work and often comes home late at night. And why she is not agreeing to get marry, it means that there is something wrong. without knowing the facts all the neighbor came together and announced everywhere that Meena is having a boyfriend that is why she don't want to get marry. When her parents got to know about these talks they felt ashamed and now decided finally Meena to get married. Meena was not agree but this time her parents did not listen her and forcefully married her to a guy who worked in a private company. They were not so reach so they could not fulfill the demand of dowry as asked by the boy's family to whom Meena was married. After 2 months of marriage Meena's mother-in-law started torturing her for the demands of dowry that her father was not able to fulfill at the time of marriage. After some days she dared to ask her husband to allow her to do some job as she was equally educated and wanted to take her own stand and don't wanted to remain depended but her husband without listening to her and understanding her needs rejected her wish. She wanted to give the remaining amount of dowry to her in-laws by her own earning because she was familiar with the situation of her house, but no body listen her. By the time passed the whole family including her husband started forcing her to ask for the money from her parents but she rejected to do so and the result was that after some day violence against her started in the home and her in-laws told her to go back to her father's house if she cannot bring money from them. As Meena was educated and aware of the consequences of dowry system she packed up her bags and decided to return back to her house and take divorce from her husband. And while returning to her house on the way she filed a case of violence and dowry against her husband's family in near by police station. When she returned back to her house her parents were shocked and surprised to see her condition, no. of marks on her face and body and when they asked her for the reason she explained everything, including the filing of case against her husband and in-laws and the divorce thing. But her parents were afraid of society, what if everybody comes to know about the condition of their daughter and the case in police station and divorce. And thinking of these things they decided to give some amount of money to Meena's in-laws and told her to patch up with her husband and in-laws and live peacefully with them otherwise the society would not let them live and their younger sisters would not get married. Meena was not ready to go back but for the shake of her family she agreed to go back.

After she went back to in-laws house for sometimes she lived happily but after some days again they started demanding for money. this time condition was more worst than last time as her family got to know about the case was filed by the Meena in police station against them. And this time the revenge resulted to Meena's murder. Yes, after Meena rejected to ask for more money from her parents and also told that she would give divorce to her husband and file dowry case against all of them her in-laws became more strict and confined her to a room and did not gave her anything to eat for so many days and abused her. One day her in-laws burned her alive and killed her and by  bribing some amount of money to the police inspector they shut down the matter and case too.  And the violence ended with her life. Her parents was left with the tears in their eyes and went in the court and still fighting for their daughter but there in no hope for the justice because they are poor.

 So, by the story i just want to say, why people are so much worried about the society and because of that after knowing the consequences also don't respect their own emotions. Society was meant to share our pain and sorrow to along with our happiness but its just opposite to it. When ever you are happy,smiling and living your life smoothly, the so called  society will have problem with that and they will always point out your happiness and destroy it but when you shade your tears none of them comes to wipe your tears instead laugh at your condition. Same happened in the story when Meena was happily living with her family society always pointed her and when she was in trouble did anyone of them came to solve her problem...??? The problem is that the society don't let women use their education and rights properly and this is a very big reason behind the occurrence of violence against women. People please understand and respect the feelings of women, let them also speak and help them fight for their rights and help them fly high their dreams, don't kill their dreams.

                                                             Sonalika

               Indian Future On Street 

Children are the future of the country and what happens to our children today determines what happens to our country tomorrow.  There are many quotes as such have been made by the people for prevention of child labour in India but all of no use. Sometimes the situation here force me to rethink, whether child labour is really a punishable crime. Around 12 million children are engaged in some hazardous occupation on part or full time basis in India. Child labour not only deprives them from their childhood and education but also are harmful to their physical and mental development. Most of the children involved in child labour are aged 4-15 years old. At the age when there should be book and copies in their hands and school bags on their back, they are carrying bags of dirt on their back. Children often remain unpaid for their work and work under dangerous condition which is totally illegal in India. Children are being exploited every moment and beaten up sometimes by their master for a silly mistake in their work. Children work in firework manufacture industry, coal mines etc., where they are always in a worse condition and anything can happen to their life anytime. 

Child labour is getting terrible time to time. Instead of decrease in number it is increasing day by day. Last month 20 cases of child labour was found. Many small girl child are forced into sex trafficking in a very small age. It is stated that 22,000 children die because of the accident occurred in the work place. They also face cruelty, beating, violence, humiliation and sexual abuse from the employers and many other kind of brutality. 

The main reason behind their condition is poverty,unemployment, lack of proper education, social apathy and tolerance of child labour. Government is not at all serious about these issues, beside various child labour acts, laws and many NGOs working on the issue, still it has not been controlled instead its growing day by day. Every kind of data is being send to the government every year, is government unknown to these facts or have just closed their eyes for these poor child. Only giving some charity in not enough for them, they something more than charity thing. Government needs to put more effort to control child labour by providing them proper access to schools, education. Impossible is nothing and together we can do it, so lets do it.

                                                                Sonalika 

             LET'S TRIGGER THE BREAST                                          CANCER

Cancer has been hitting the whole world since very long time but still no proper vaccination or cure has been commenced yet by the scientists. Cancer are of many types such as blood cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer etc.

Breast cancer is a kind of cancer originated from breast cells.It is the most common invasive cancer in females worldwide. It is reported for 16% of all female cancers and 22.9% of invasive cancers in women. 18.2% of all cancer deaths worldwide including both male and female, are from breast cancer.According to the NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 232,340 female breast cancers and 2,240 male breast cancers are reported in the USA every year, as well as about 39,620 death caused by the disease(as per Medical News Today report).

 

India is facing a growing breast cancer epidemic. A new global study has estimated that by 2030, the number of new cases of breast cancer in India will increase to around 200,000 per year from current 115,000. According to Globocan data India is on top of the list, 1.85 million years of healthy life lost due to breast cancer. Recently it has been reported that Bangalore has become the breast cancer capital of India with 36.6 new cases for every 1 lakh population(according to PBCR report). The survey among 11 major cities in India has rated pune with least number of  breast cancer cases that is 23.3 of very lakh, Thiruvananthapuram has the second highest incidence with 35.1 cases per lakh and chennai with 32.6 cases.

According to doctors and experts the urbanization is the main reason behind increased cases of breast cancer, as it has changed the lifestyle of the people and the effects are visible. Earlier while the normal age of contracting breast cancer anywhere was between 45 and 55 years a decade ago, but now it has rang-up to 35-45, even a 18 years old girl can be found with breast cancer. According to a lady doctors, late marriage, fewer children and declining trend of breast feeding are some factors, as scientific study says that, breast feeding and pregnancy keep breast cancer defensive. Smoking, alcohol and hereditary factors are also responsible for breast cancer. Experts also blame easy availability of contraceptive peels for cause of breast cancer as all these pills are hormonal pills that should be taken under he guidance of doctor, but women now a days simply pop these pills specially in metropolitan cities.Changing food habits and lifestyle in cities have also increased the reproductive period in women's lifetime, making them more exposed to reproductive hormones and thus, breast cancer. According to a lady doctor 'The age of menstruation has come down and that of menopause has gone up, stretching the reproductive period."

The most important thing is that women needs to be aware of the symptoms of the breast cancer. In rural areas most women suffer breast cancer just because they are not aware of such things or don't have access to hospitals thus, they go for check-up only when it is out of control and at the last stage of cancer it is quiet impossible to save them.  Experts says breast cancer is curable if detected earlier. So, doctors suggests that women should get checked up right from the age of 20 on wards, as now-a-days air pollution has increased to its verge extinct and therefore any women or girl of any age can suffer from the breast cancer. Most of the cancer like lung cancer is also caused because of pollution. Only awareness and timely  check up can save women from this deadly disease so women keep yourself alert and safe.

                                                     Sonlika

   

           Sense Of Individualism In Indians

India is always known for its diverse  culture and unity in diversity, but now-a-days it seems like diversity still remains but unity is getting vanished. Diversity for sure will remain in Indian culture because its a country where at every another step language, lifestyle, culture, behavior, thinking, attire, etc., of the people changes but what about the unity...???

Earlier there was a time when Gandhiji started "Dandi March" against British in which every culture, religion, thinking, behavior came together and supported Gandhiji in his protest and result was that now we are free from the British rule, and that was only possible because there was unity among Indian people and there was no sense of individualism. Had people like Gandhiji , Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat singh would have thought of themselves, their security and comfort, still we would have been living under the British rule. At that time there was sense and feeling of nationality among people in India. There was a respect for the national anthem and national song, but today 80% people even don't remember their national anthem or song and rest of 20% remain confused whether that is national song or anthem.

While Anna Hazare's Anti Corruption Movement, the whole country was burning with him. Almost in every parts of India their Supporters were doing candle march and protests, specially in northern parts of India. In Delhi only on one call of Hazare all the people , even the working people came forward in his support. at that time it was anticipated that it would bring some changes and was a very good example of unity but very soon everything vanished, because people now-a-days are very impatient and changes takes its time to come into existence. For one or two days people stood up for the protest but again they decided to go with their own belief and thinking, that nothing is going to change so why should they waste their time? They are happy in their life with a good job, handsome salary, good lifestyle so thought better to stay away from all those matter.

Recently in Egypt, people's anger and unity led to huge change in the government and administration there. People were fed up of the government  there and all of them came across and the power of their unity forced the government there to be changed. If it could happen in Egypt them why not India, the answer is very simple, because people here are used to everything and everyone has a common thinking that why me..?? let others do first, then i'll come from back. And the same thinking of every people here never let them come forward.
                                                     Sonalika 

                                 END OF INNOCENCE

Child are always full of joy, hopes and innocence but what if these qualities of a child are replaced by tears, hunger, poverty, betrayal, and fear. It is the evil face of child marriage. At the age when child play with their toys they are burned with lots of responsibilities on their shoulder.

Though Child marriage is a very old topic for discussion but it would have been a history for discussion if the child marriage act would have been followed properly keeping politics apart from it. I am again focusing on the child marriage problem followed by the refusal by the Indian Government to co-sponsor the first ever global resolution for elimination and prevention of forced child marriages at the United Nations General Assembly last week, it has raised questions over the political responsibility and pledge to end this problem that has been a great threat in the path of development growth of the country and increase in inequality in gender. The resolution was supported by a cross-regional group over 107 countries with high rates of child marriages. The resolution drifted by the UN Human Rights council emphasized the need to include child, early and forced child marriage in post 2015 international development agenda and recognize the indigenous impact of early marriage on the economic, health, legal and social status of a women and girls as well as the development of a community as a whole.

India has the record of having significantly high rates of child marriage with 24 million child brides representing 40% of the world’s 60 million child brides. Comparatively more girls are forced into a child marriage than boys and this led to various negative effects on young girls. According to the prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, marriage before 18 is illegal in India but still despite of all rules it is being practiced widely in the name of tradition and measures for the safety of girls. The reason behind child marriage in India is the economic condition, castesism and many take it as a preventive measure for protecting girls from rape. Very often parents marry their young girls due to their bad economic condition as they cannot send them to schools, and to prevent their girls from marrying outside the cast without knowing the ill effects of it. Marrying the young girls before their right age leads to various serious problems as they are not physically and psychologically mature enough to handle and understand it, also it arises domestic violence, sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and slavery. Early marriages give rise to early pregnancies and frequent abortions and this can risk the life of the mother as well as child too. It also raises the rate of maternal and infant mortality rates along with various sexual diseases like HIV-AIDS. Child marriage risks the well being of girls by imposing and forcing them for sex and this lead to sexual violence and later unplanned and frequent pregnancies. As the girls are married in an early age they are deprived from education, abandoned from society and face a lifetime economic dependence. Due to these problems many girls are sexually abused and raped by the men in the new family. Taking an example in “yemen” in September a young girl 8 years old married to a man aged 4o years and she was raped by his husband in her wedding night. 

 Now the question is that even after knowing all these facts why government denied for this step which could have later proved it as a major step to control the child marriages in the country. Some communities like Khap panchayats and Muslim organization opposes the law and favors the child marriage as a preventive for rape. With child marriages many human rights are violated but government keep silent as usual. It seems that the government indicates that they are welcoming the child marriage with open heart. Khap panchayat which nowhere exists in the constitution but still running and favors the most to child marriage but government has not taken any kind of action against it. Politics is always involved everywhere in India and laws are not enough to control it until government breaks it silence over senseless and silly demands of some groups and communities.

“A Childs should call “mother” but a child should not to be called mother”- slogan by CWC (The concerned for Working Children).

This is the map showing age of marriages in different states of India.

                                            

                                                        Sonalika

               CORRUPTION CALLS IT CORRUPT

Indian politics seems to be very complicated, the one who himself is corrupted root to tip is blaming others for being the same. In India politicians have made the constitution and the government just a dirty game which has trapped the innocent audience with it too. It seems like it has become a process to gain popularity and efforts to empower the common people for every politicians of any party by blaming and questioning each other and the poor audience gets no result of this dirty game.

                                               

There was a party's election campaign launched by Rahul Gandhi (Congress Vice-President) in Madhya pradesh on Thursday included two rallies in tribal-dominated Shahdol and urban Gwalior. In his speech he pin-pointed the BJP ruling party there and quoted the sentence "I would like to ask the youth, women and tribals whether they feel they have lived a dignified life during the decade long BJP rule in India" and told people that for him "respect is more important than progress and prosperity". Rahul Gandhi also addressed the people saying, if congress is being voted to be in power in the state would guarantee to a life of dignity to women, children, youth, tribals and other sections of society too and if it does not happen, he would personally make it happen.

But the question arises that from last so many decades Congress is in ruling party but still why people there are not able to feel that dignity and respect for themselves in those states. If we look from Rahul's part he is also in the party since 2007 but he has been able to do nothing for the people except visiting to their homes, eating their food, and giving speeches on the podium. We all know it very well that what benefit has been provided to the common masses since congress is in rule in the country. There has been enormous increase in number of corruption, murder, rapes etc., and still Rahul Gandhi gives us guarantee that his party will work for our betterment.

 This is the map showing ruling parties in different states in India and with the help of this map anyone can analyze the number of states congress is in rule and what dignity of life people there enjoys as Rahul talks about that his party would provide feeling of respect to the people. Take an example, Delhi is the center of the county and the central government lies there which is also a congress ruling state and most of the crimes take place there only and the situation has become so worst there in few years since congress in rule there that not a single people is able to step out without fear, specially girls and women. If the government is not capable enough to control the crimes at the center and allow people live freely, how is it going to secure our dignity and respect? The lady being CM there still the highest rape cases are from Delhi itself. Coalgate scam, 2G spectrums, and many more along with every now and then a new scam was the achievement of the congress party can be seen in the picture below.

 Why these politicians do not understand that common people has got nothing to do with their dirty political games they just need a fair government which will work for their betterment keeping their needs in mind. I personally feel that BJP is far better party than congress it’s not that I have got some kind of special benefits from that party but the reason is that I am also a common people of the country and educated enough to understand which party is doing somewhat good for us. It’s not like that BJP is not corrupted anywhere or it has been fair to the people from all the aspects but the thing is that everyone is a bit corrupt but access of everything is bad and congress is doing access of it. Congress is facing criticism from all over the world and well known for its corruption but still the party calls the other one corrupt and therefore people should vote for them. The party does not have even shame for what they have done to the country, had they been ashamed of their work they would not have even faced the common people who are going through price rise, corruption, and lots of problems.

                                                                                   Sonalika