Our Family

 

It sounds really amazing while talking about our families, doesn’t it? Hence, we do feel nostalgic as well as reflective in such cases. Well, still, we are not supposed to think only of the “domestic walls” that sometimes try to narrow and barricade the ecstasy.

Such thoughts lift our mood up time and again. We become full of energy, full of enthusiasm and full of spontaneous life force. It feels exciting to take a glance, it sounds mellifluous to walk down the memory lane to listen to the bygone melodious moments.

Wait! Don’t get too serious, please! Let us all keep in mind that ‘family’ is not synonymous to ‘memory’ all along the way. All of us are so excited about speaking of our families that sometimes we overlook the fact that the periphery of ‘family’ is extended far and wide.

Everything relies upon how we look at the world, how we treat people, how we love trees, animals, birds and each particle of this cosmos. Remember, we are not confined to the four walls; let’s spread our wings, because the world—both inside and outside—is waiting for you, waiting for me, yes, waiting for each and every member of the universal family.

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Summer in India

 

The dazzling beams of the sun give everyone a sensation of the scorches, for sure. Yes, summer has come. It is the time to bathe in the heat of the sun as much as you want. After the light Indian winter, when the spring is over, the sun feels definitely merciful as well as malignant. At the onset of the Indian summer, it feels a bit lively, a bit regaling that it is no more the time to stay drowsy under the blanket. It feels as if a new era is in the offing. Well, I wish that it were like this forever—bright, jubilant, and full of life and cheers. So, so goes on in every heart. Wait! You have just experienced the tip of an iceberg and nothing other than that. The more time runs, the more days go by, the more it becomes intolerably blistering, the more you can witness that the Indian summer is not full of mirth alone. Everything is supposed to be like this, isn’t it? People wait and look up high in the sky for a drop of rain to drench their dry lips. Nevertheless, the alluring aroma and sweetness of the mangoes are indeed amazing. Yes, like everything else, there is an oasis, a shaft of hope lying underneath.

A Fair

 

A Fair

 

We all wonder how to meet our near and dear ones after a long time. In this regard, a fair can be one of the best solutions to us. A fair is a great attraction to all of us. It unites people from all places, from all cultures, from all religions, and from all languages and so on and so forth. The children wait for a ride on the merry-go-round in the fair for so long throughout the year. The little boys and girls enjoy purchasing a number of things like toys, dolls, etc. Although people of all ages like to visit and get harmonized on the fairground, it is the children who are the most excited to relish a visit to a fair. However, the children have to listen to their guardians’ advice all the time, especially when they are in a fair. Nothing is bereft of both good and ill effects. A fair, too, is never an exception to that. Hence, people should stay cautious not only to maintain decency, decorum and discipline but also for the safety and security of their little ones as well as of themselves. It is completely up to us what we are going to choose—the right track or the wrongful one. It is our discretion how we should make the most of happiness, no matter where we are. Nevertheless, a fair can be a paradise to all of us if we keep our within like that.

The Aftermath of the Pandemic

The Aftermath of the Pandemic

Is the pandemic COVID-19 a bane in all respects or a boon in disguise? The entire scenario of the globe underwent a process of transition triggered by the pandemic. What is more important to note is that the procedure of change occurred within merely a few months. Now the question is whether it is an entirely negative or a positive turnaround. Broadly speaking, there has been a permanent shift in consumer-and-business behaviour, given the effects of the disease. Yes, there has been a great turning point to the financial and business sectors.

 

At the outset, that is, when the pandemic outbreak first came to light, there was a great plummet in finance not only of an individual but also of an organization. Hard times began to hover all around the world. Anyway, thanks to the technology industries, life did not stand stagnant. Life never ends as if it goes on forever. People began relying upon technology even more, much more than before. That is to say, previously, before the outbreak of COVID-19, many of us, or should we say, most of us went to the groceries and other shops for purchasing everyday commodities. Due to the pandemic, we came to cognize technology industries anew. We began to receive everything at our doorstep. No more waste of time, no more pains in jostling to get the commodities from the retailers. Whatever we order online, we are supplied at the threshold.

 

Giving up the old, age-old, and stereotypical practices and behaviour, we have learnt how to become smarter, how to make the most outcome in the wink of an eye. Nowadays, even in the post-vaccine era, if I ask you to shop something, whatever it is, will you not simply say, “Wait, let me place an order online for you?” There are a plethora of things to be spoken of. Since the technology industries are thriving more and more, their stocks or shares also become a source of income for all and sundry. Yes, for sure, there has been a shift in the attitude of consumers and businessmen, and the shift is permanent.

 

Is Sustainable Development Welcomed Properly?

 

Now-a-days, all over the world, it has become a conscious concern to combat climate change and global warming by inviting sustainable development. Although it has raised a hue and cry all over the globe, many steps are yet to be taken for better existence of the human beings on this earth. Regarding this notion, many citations are there. One of them may be quoted below.

 

The Unilever Company, in November, 2015, announced, “We will become carbon positive in our operations by 2030. This means we will source 100% of the energy used within our operations from renewable sources by 2030, and generate more renewable energy than we consume. We are also working to lower our greenhouse gas (GHG) impact from sourcing, manufacturing and innovation, as well as deepening our efforts to eliminate deforestation from our supply chains.” They added, “In 2016, our factory sites reduced CO₂ emissions from energy by 43% per tonne of production compared to 2008, achieving our target four years ahead of schedule. However, the GHG impact of our products has risen by 8% since 2010.² Underlying sales growth over the same period was 30%, so it is encouraging to see that we are indeed decoupling our value chain GHG impacts from our business growth. The increase in GHG emissions per consumer use is mainly driven by our Personal Care business which has expanded in hair and shower products via acquisitions, in particular Alberto Culver. Over 60% of our value chain GHG footprint comes from consumer use, primarily from heated water for showering, which is more difficult to influence.”

 

It must be kept in mind that the phenomenon of climate change is a crucial and serious challenge to the world. From the pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations have increased more and more as a consequence of human acts. As a result to this, global warming is obvious in the present days from the surveillance of increase in global average air. Ocean temperatures, pervasive melting of snow and ice in the Polar Regions and the rise of the sea levels all over the world have become and posed to be serious problems in human life and they are getting even more harmful day by day. As a result to the rise of the level of the marine water due to the melting of ice and snow in the Polar Regions, many low lands are about to get submerged.

 

Apart from that, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has propounded that basically nothing but the greenhouse gases and their emissions are the causes of climate change and global warming. Day by day, its consequents will deteriorate over time, and this will happen due to the absence of regulatory action. Actually, the vulnerability of the future generations will bring in a kind of catastrophic disaster.

 

Stephen Pacala, an ecologist, and Robert Socolow, a physicist, both belong to the Princeton University. They have come up with a few measures for controlling pollution, climate change and global warming. They are, namely, eliminating the use of fossil fuels like burning coal, oil and natural gas, upgrading infrastructure since all over the world, nothing but buildings contribute in emitting one third of the natural gas, innovating the new ways to use transportation, less consuming, citizens becoming more efficient, eating vegetarian, planting saplings and stopping deforestation, unplugging the electrical goods when they are off, inviting the system of having one child, replacing the fuels coming from the fossils, and so on and so forth.

 

Moreover, farming livestock like cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens gives off about six billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, Nitrous oxide, Trichlorofluromethane, Carbon tetrachloride, Fluoroform, Methane and so on and so forth each and every year. The estimates may vary. However, this epitomizes up to eighteen percent of the global emissions of polluting greenhouse gases.

 

Climate change and global warming due to the effects of the greenhouse gases are perhaps the most visible and most researched challenge of the global environment. In the eco-system, every creature is linked with the other, because it is like a chain; it is rather a pyramid. If one living creature is neglected, the entire pyramid will collapse to the utmost. Every creature is dependent upon the others. So there is no question of independence.

 

Unfortunately, human technology and population growth have changed the web of ecosystem. Wherever people like to go, they will definitely find dangers in human food, water and air. However, the target of a globe in natural equilibrium is long past pract8ical and people are now in the grip of the era of sustainable practices. People have and require comprehending the natural systems much better. They should learn cautiously how they can probe into the matter of keeping them as it was and productive.

 

Is there any light of hope? Do people will have to grope in the utmost and fierce darkness forever? The answers lie in the proper learning and correct understanding of the matter of sustainable development by the people. It ought to be done by the people and for the people. Unless men work hand in hand always to curb this grim advent of human tragedy, no one can ever be able at all to solve this challenge. For this men need to bid farewell to all the non-renewable energy resources and usher in a new era of hope when there will be renewable energy to be used as much as the human beings desire. However, it is not just a word to say. That is to say, it should be executed; human plans and strategies must be implemented with immediacy, since the present attitude of man will determine the future destiny. The planet is for everyone. So, without any discrepancy, it must be, rather it ought to be loved by all; it has to be taken care of, and what is more, it should be nurtured with intense love and care just as it forever more has taken care of mankind.