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VISION 2050 : INDIA after Covid.-19

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  by Satyasiddha Mishra There is a saying which says, “When going gets tough, the tough gets going.” And that, “After the darkest night comes the brightest morning.” If truth be told in plain terms, we are going through the toughest and darkest phase of our lives! These are trying times unlike anything India has faced since the struggle for Independence! Frankly speaking, India has handled this ongoing pandemic relatively well considering her mammoth population and ever dwindling economy! It’s no less a consolation that the so called rich and powerful countries have fared worse than us. Countries like the USA, Brazil and Mexico have higher number of deaths due to Corona than India! Coming to the future plans, our country India is all set to build a bright future. Even big financial institutions like World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have predicted double digit GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for India for the year 2021-22! This is mainly due to a
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Dedicated Freight Corridor(DFC)

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by Satyasiddha Mishra The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited(DFCCIL) is a Public Sector undertaking, run by the Ministry of Railways, Government of India. The purpose of the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) was to create a separate line for the running of the goods trains. These trains are said to be the ‘ Cash Cows ’ of the Indian Railways! But the irony is that these are the most ignored by the Railways, which is indeed an irony!  Whenever we travel by a train, we can observe that a goods train is on halt in every place possible, sometimes in the middle of nowhere! The reason being passenger trains are given priority as the general public is involved! It is said that with every 100 rupees Railways earns, they have to spend 115 rupees to maintain it! And even with that, most of the money has to be spent on passenger trains! Goods trains have a lower running cost but a higher return! But due to both goods and passenger trains running on the same line and passenger
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Lickerish Lunchbox

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                          by Snehil Mishra I strongly feel that we can't forget if we ever had a tasty treat! Let me share my fond memories that linger with me till date. A few years back, I was in grade 7 th and studying in Bhopal. At that time, I was a day scholar. There used to be a fruitful relationship between we the day scholars and their Lunchbox! My friends and I used to bring delicious food in our Lunchbox and we just shared our food with each other. But there was one guy whose Lunchbox used to get finished before the recess and you must be thinking, how? Because that guy always bringing the most delicious food, as his father was the owner of a 5-star restaurant, every day he used to get that super delicious food in his tiffin box. And the aromatic flavour of his food was infectious. T ough we batchmates were trying our best, but we unable to control our hunger! Due to that aroma, we used to eat the whole contents of his Lunchbox in the cla
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Tourism the new IT hub for India

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by: Satyasiddha Mishra “Change is the only stagnant thing on this planet ”. This is very true in the current year 2020, where we are experiencing extreme changes in every aspect of life. There has been a huge change of perspective as to how we see the world. The once powerful have turned out to be weak and the so called weak are proving their mettle!  Coming to the topic of Tourism in India, few adventurous people have shown the world what a huge potential India possesses in the field of Tourism. Well, statistically speaking, Tourism is still a bigger industry than Information Technology (IT) with Tourism standing at 275.5 billion dollars, while IT is at 180 billion dollars! But IT has more foreign exchange than Tourism, as 79% of its revenue comes from export of its services.  Both are essential for a healthy economy of India but I believe that more importance should be given to Tourism. The reason is that it can
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Dhananjay Banthia : A Mighty Motivator

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Motivational speaking has become a fashion these days. It was not so when Mr Dhananjay Bantia was pursuing his studies as a school boy in Cambridge School, Cuttack. Born and brought up in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Odisha, he had never dreamt of becoming a motivational speaker! So, when he decided to be one, it was indeed a tough decision but he decided to take the plunge anyway. Contrary to the popular myth that ‘ A Basil leaf smells so when it is a sapling, ‘ Dhananjay was a shy kid as a school boy and even fumbled when he had to speak in public, even when he was doing his MBA. At first he was in finance, like his Dad before he ventured into motivational speaking. He struggled for more than six months, before he could get any trace of success. There were times when the remuneration was low and he had to travel by local bus, to reach his destination. Now he travels via flights and stays in star hotels and all these are arranged by his organizers. He has already travelled to 18 states o
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East or West, Grandparents are the Best

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Grandmother and grandfather are words that are becoming scarce. It is not that they don’t exist but today’s children are denied an access to the store of wisdom that can come to them through these wise, old people. We can blame the breaking up of joint families for this but the fact remains that unitary families are losing wealth of knowledge. I consider myself fortunate to have the blood of the Aryans and the Dravidians. So I have got the best of both the races. If the Aryans have the Vedic tradition, the Dravidians have their ethnic identity, culture and tradition. Hence I would venture to narrate all that my grandmothers shared with me. Both my grannies from the paternal and maternal sides were staunch Hindus Brahmins, with orthodox religious base. My paternal grandma was an Oriya Brahmin and my maternal grandma was a Telugu Brahmin. My Dadi i.e. paternal Grand mom had great practical wisdom. It was said that once she rescued my Dad from sure death, from a deadly cobra bite by tying
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Sermons of Sravana Kumar

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In  Hindu epic Ramayana, Shravan Kumar was killed accidentally by King  Dasharatha . Shravan Kumar's parents, Shantanu and Gyanvanti were hermits. When they became aged, Shravan wanted him to take them to the four most sacred places of pilgrimage to purify the soul. Since Shravan Kumar could not afford the transport, he decided to put each parent in a basket and tie each to an end of a bamboo pole, which he would shoulder while on their pilgrimage. According to  Ramayana , while hunting in the forest of Ayodhya, then-Prince Dasharatha, heard a sound near a lake and unleashed an arrow, hoping to hit an animal. When he crossed the lake to collect his kill, he found that his arrow had fatally struck a teenage boy, who was bleeding! The injured boy was Shravan, who then told Dasharatha that he had come to the lake to collect water for his sick and aged parents, who were both blind and whom he had been carrying on a sling. With his dying breath, Shravan requested Dasharatha to take wa
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