Author: BBA Team

    The term education is derived from the Latin word educate which means ‘ to bring up ‘. The aim of education is not only to give knowledge but to develop habits and attitudes with which students can successfully face their future without any difficulties. Education should become a  basic and social need in life of human’s. If the old generation has not prospered in their learning than the young generation should continue their education as well as set an example for the comming generation expressing how important it is to be highly educated.

    Education benefits an individual in many ways. They are as follows:

1) Education helps a person by giving them extreme knowledge about a particular concept.

2) Through education we get to know about the latest happenings around us.

3) When a person is literate there are no chances of another person cheating them in any way.

4) Education given formally or informally both is beneficial for an individual in some or the other way.

5) It helps a person to get rid of their  financial problems.

6) Education brings in maturity  in an individual  where they analyse whats right and wrong for them, their family and future.

   Education also benefits the country in many ways. They are as follows :

1) The rate of illiterate people gets less and the economy of the country starts increasing.

2) Poverty among the people starts reducing.

3) The country infrastructure and knowledge of accepting new technology also increases.

4) Due to the increase in education the country prospers and excels in all activities.

5) Education makes people aware of all good values so the crimes happening in the country gets reduced.

   Therefore, every individual of a country should make efforts to get highly educated so that it improves the country in all possible ways.

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Jovian Ribeiro, aiming to be a good content writer.  Student of First year bms stepped into Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute, University

   Stressed up looking at books….. Don’t worry here are few solutions to overcome your stress. Here they are :

1. Have a healthy diet –
You should always make sure you eat fresh fruits and veggies. Juices that give you vitamin c like oranges,lime and grapes etc which helps you to improve your immune system should be consumed by you. Do you best in avoiding junk food like pizza, burgers and frankly etc.

2. Meditation –
Meditation helps you to have peace of mind and body. If not meditation but atleast keep silence 10min so that your stress level reduces.

3. Sleep –
Sleep is necessary for us to reduce the stress level and manage it. Failing to switch off your electronic gadgets will get you more and more stress so to avoid having lots of stress sleep atleast for 20-30 min.

4. Be positive –
Try to learn from your mistakes rather than taking tension and getting stressed up. After something wrong happening try to see the good side of the issue.

5. Listen to music –
Listening to music can help you to calm down and change the state of your mind but if you are really feeling stressed put on some calm music and start up your work.

6. Quit smoking –
Many people say that smoking helps you reduce stress. But researchers on the European Board for Research on nicotine and tobacco suggest that nicotine suppresses the hormone serotonin. Another way to quite smoking.

7. Laughing –
Laughing is the best medicine to fight back stress. Laughing out loud helps you to breathe in oxygen well and circulate blood continuously through the body.

8. Take breaks –
Studying and working continuously causes you high amount of stress. So the solution to reduce this kind of stress is that you take short  breaks after every hour so that your mind is refreshed to start up your world again or a new lesson.

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Jovian Ribeiro, aiming to be a good content writer.  Student of First year bms stepped into Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute, University

    Self confidence is a feeling which is unstoppable and feeling scared of your competitors. So Are you sacred or concern about yourself and loosing up self confidence?

    Here are 6 tips to built your confidence between friends, teachers family etc.

1. Dress well –
Clothes effects the way a man presents himself in front of others though people do not judge you on your clothes but to keep up yourself confidence in front of others make it a point of having a shower, wearing clean clothes etc. To make yourself look fresh and convincing.

2.Quick walk –
A quicker way of judging a person is on their walk. If the person’s walk is to pale and lauzy the person is too lazy but when a person walks faster then people think they are too active in their works and have to meet to many people.

3. Proper posture –
Dressing depends on how you pick yourself in front of people and holding aproper posture impresses people. Standing up straight, keeping up your head will make a positive impression on people. So it is necessary to hold good body posture.

4. Personal confidence –
Personal confidence comes from listening to great speakers unfortunately you really get few chances of listening to great speakers. So you should write a 1min or 2mins speech about your ambition or goals and stand in front of the mirror reading it aloud to increase your confidence.

5.Compliment others –
When we talk behind a persons back or discourage a person its not less than an insult to them. So to break this chain of negativity try to compliment others in a positive way and holding a good attitude towards them.

6. Be courageous to speak up –
Whenever there is any kind of group discussions try and speak up because many of us doubt are views and imaginations to place them in front of others to avoid them laughing on their thoughts. But maybe if you speak some points prove to be true so you should be courageous enough to speak among people.

Therefore these are the tips that you should hold to built your confidence.

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Jovian Ribeiro, aiming to be a good content writer.  Student of First year bms stepped into Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute, University

   Why building and being able to maintain high self-esteem is important ? Here the reason’s are as follows :

1. Life becomes easier –
When you love yourself more than other things it becomes easier for you to face life.  Even if you have done a mistake you will not over react on it and try to improve your mistake the next time.

2. Life becomes happier –
When you respect your own self-esteem and value it in a good way your life gets simpler and happier.

3. Handle mistakes in a most positive way –
Try to take every mistake in a positive way so that your don’t get stressed up by it and get yourself esteem low.  If you have made a mistake learn from it by not repeating it again.

4. Do what is right –
Make sure you think before taking a step and do what is right so that you are not bound in letting any kind of mistakes happen.  So when there are no mistakes your self-esteem automatically gets high.

5. Be your own friend –
Elders sae that having lot of friends is good but all friends dont think good about you. So try to be your own friend. The reason behind being your own is you can motivate your ownself and encourage to do much mote better in heading towards your goal.

6. Try to be innovative –
When you try to come up with something new and challenge yourself in small and big innovation. You become more confident and think high about yourself also brings in increase in your self-esteem.

7. Be kind –
When you are kind to people your impression in front of them is increases in a positive way. In return they also treat you and think abiut you in a kinder way.

  These are the ways where you will maintain high self-esteem for yourself.

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Jovian Ribeiro, aiming to be a good content writer.  Student of First year bms stepped into Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute, University

   Corruption is quite dangerous in education because it damages the present and future of  economical and social conditions of a country.
It causes more problems in education managements rather then other sectors since the effects remains for a very long duration.

Different forms of having corruption in education are –

1. Bribes given by parents to the teacher’s for passing the students to the next class.

2. Teachers give bribes to the authorities for giving them promotions and transfers from one place to another.

3. If the children feel that their studying efforts are not counted they are facing competitions and favouritism and bribery.  They too get hook to pay bribes and buy all their degrees with a handsome amount of money.

4. Even the teachers who fail to teach well and turn up to be ‘ghost teacher’ also pay bribes to pass their degrees.

5. Distribution of examination papers sold on high cost by the teachers to the students involves cheating as its a part of corruption.

Ways to fight back with corruption in education-

1.  Corruption is difficult to fight with when one of the country citizen’s tries to follow human rights and laws.

2. Corruption can only be fought together by all the citizen’s of the country.

3. The higher authorities of the schools, colleges and institutes should form strict rules and regulations.

4. The students parents shouldn’t support the students for their wrong doings.

5. All countries should follow strict rules and punish all students as well a high authorities and teachers who follow the way of corruption into their success.

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Jovian Ribeiro, aiming to be a good content writer.  Student of First year bms stepped into Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute, University

So I am sitting in a local train travelling from Vadodara to Surat and I feel like I am sitting in a hot sauna. But this hot sauna is surrounded by sweaty people all around, touching arm to arm and by beggars who come once in a while demanding us to pity them and give them money. But this isn’t all. There are random hawkers who come around to sell cheap stuff that frankly, prove to be a distraction from the constant cauldron of sticky, clammy and garish surroundings. But then I open up a book, Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ and I am instantly transported back to the green gardens by which Heathcliff walks. I can feel the tumultuous emotions that are running through his mind. I can now dive into a fictional world and forget about the all-consuming present. I do not feel the grim present day situation to be as bad now. I am far too busy contemplating what Heathcliff’s next move will be. And hence I am free. Why am I taking up so much of your time telling you about a train journey I took? Because that gave me a chance to show you why being a bibliophile is a good thing.

I will not stress on the fact that reading books improves your vocabulary or that people will swoon over your English skills but I would like to convey that books can come in handy. To beat the crap out of someone, to get out of awkward situations and to immerse yourself into another world of your choice, books can haul and lug you into a rhapsody. You can visit a 19^th century England and you can survive a plane crash and come back to tell your survival saga. You can fall in love with a handsome, broody stranger who will turn out to be a vampire and go on whirlwind trips to cover the world in 80 days. You can live vicariously through each character, feel the emotions and realize that imagination is infinite. It doesn’t matter if you’re holed up in your room right now; you are already travelling at cosmic speed in a parallel universe. You have slayed dragons and gone on an adventure with the hobbit.

A bibliophile is defined to be a lover of books. Yes, precisely. But he is also someone who prefers to go on adventures, of the literary kind!

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Chandana Rao

Idler, bibliophile, side-spectator, day dreamer and an engineering student trying to find something she is good at. An average girl with high hopes and even bigger ambitions. 

There is a famous quote by Edmund Charles Blunden, “Cricket to us was more than play, it was worship under the summer sun.” And there is no other country that has stuck by the game and religiously revered it than India. A country of 1.3 billion and just a cricket game to unite them all! To an outlander, the devotion might seem incomprehensible but to the Indian mass, cricket is a congenial creed. And over time, various people have tried to figure out the obscure love for this game and come up with myriad explanations. Today I am going to be just another brick in the wall.

It sounds improbable that a sport started by our colonial rulers just to spend their time leisurely found such a huge fan-following in India. In fact, India started playing cricket even before they gained independence. At first it was an elite sport with some Parsis and Hindus playing it to receive some prominence and stature that the Britishers attached to the game. Not only was the game one for the noble, but even the common masses seemed to enjoy playing their own bat. As such the game is challenging to play, requiring a lot of space, good pitch conditions and expensive equipments that are conditions rarely fulfilled for the average man. So why is the game still so popular? Mainly due to pride, I would say. Pride in winning, pride in the fact that our country was not only good at something but better than the rest. And pride is hard to deny. India is a mélange of religions and castes and it is this game that brings all of them together to instill a sense of patriotism towards the country. The turning point for the game was undoubtedly the 1983 World Cup win. A team of 11 players that managed to topple the big names and come out victorious-a true underdog story, it was the stuff dreams were made of. But contrary to popular belief, the team performance has not affected the fanfare to a larger extent. India has only recently become consistently competitive in cricket. Our country had already produced prodigious talents in other sports such as Dhyan Chand but somehow the gentleman’s game struck a chord with the Indian soul. Maybe the simplicity and the related cost factor added to the prominence, for how hard was it to pick up a wooden bat, a ball and few stumps, gather your friends and start playing on a ground or in a gully for that matter. It is not surprising then when people say that you will find masters of the trade playing a square cut or bowling a doosra in some of these gullies. Also owing to the crowded nature, cricket is a game that involves all the players with 3 to 4 games being played simultaneously in one open ground. The introduction of television was another boost for the game. 30 million households with a television set, all glued to the screen and waiting for the next sixer. Our population that was an environmental problem as such became an advantage now.

It was around the same time that Sachin Tendulkar came and conquered the game. When Sachin played, life happened. This article would be incomplete without at least dedicating a few lines to this genius man. With his advent to the Indian side, we started setting new records, winning games consistently and defeating some of the greatest teams with panache. People worshipped this man and many believed in him more than they did in a superpower. This type of fanatical devotion does not come easy. The introduction of shorter formats also proved to be important. People could easily keep track of scores now and it was far more enjoyable to watch a team win or lose in a day. Test matches reduced to 50 over games and now 20 over matches rule the roster. With the introduction of corporate companies, money came pouring in. Suddenly, everyone wanted a bite from the forbidden fruit. Players started to get fatter paychecks, people got more than they invested and the bubble blew up. BCCI played an important role here. Indians being the shrewd businessmen that they are became the head and ran an international body to completely change the course of the sport.

I believe that the game continues to enjoy the adulation and garner humongous proportion of spectators because it is a game that has evolved. It has kept up with the changing demands of the viewer and done that really well. But then if one looks at the amount of hard work people put in the sport, it as much feels like they deserve the glory. And yes, cricket does sidestep our national game, Hockey, but then for now who cares. It is the season of the World Cup and India has already defeated two eminent teams. The cricket fever is going to burn for a long time now. And as a part of the cricket fandom, I couldn’t be happier!

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Chandana Rao

Idler, bibliophile, side-spectator, day dreamer and an engineering student trying to find something she is good at. An average girl with high hopes and even bigger ambitions.

So this other day I was watching an episode of Monty Python and a particular quote by John Cleese stuck with me. It goes something like this,” If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.”

Satire opens up peoples mind to points and facts that they might have otherwise rejected outright. By bringing emotional humor into the picture, we shed light onto issues that otherwise remain shrouded. Therein lays the tremendous value of satire and sarcasm. It is a fun way to criticize the societal norms and slowly point out that obstinate and inept rules need to be changed. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and even immature shows like South Park or Family Guy exemplify this perfectly. These shows have addressed some of the most sensitive topics with a hilarious take and come out victorious by generating awareness amongst its audience. From gay rights to the right to bear arms, from moot issues of politics to the omnipresent question of what came first: the chicken or the egg, all these subjects have been dealt with accurately. Back home, the faking news and Mr. Cyrus Broacha have been trying to fire-start, inform and challenge stringent ideas of politics and daily happenings in our country. Moreover, if you follow them regularly, you will be blown away by the sheer simplicity with which they present some of their views. And I personally believe that satire is a necessary ingredient to shape up the ideologies of the society. It is not always that violence or for that matter, non-violence can help oppose a prevalent idea. Sometimes, an opinion of the funny man can make you pause to reflect and reconsider. It is in these self-introspection phases that you will see the brilliance of such a fragile system.

It seems to me that we are increasingly becoming a bi-polar society with such extreme views that anything and everything seems to hit the bull’s eye. Any opinion put forward is ridiculed and every other day seems to throw up some deep-seated anger that morphs into rebellion. Out of all these zones, political imprudence reaches out to the maximum number of audience. And as long as the political systems fail to deliver, mockery will never stop. Why not, I say. If we can laugh out the follies, as Aristotle put it so eloquently, then why ban them out of existence. The mere fact that satire exists points to a free society. And in a revolutionized era where the basic human rights include freedom of speech, it is hypocritical of us to even expect that humorous takes on every topic are not required. You do not like it, do not watch or preach about it. Its as simple as that.

There was a quote I found on the internet that perfectly described the current scenario of the world, “The eruption of war after futile war, the abandonment of constitutional norms, the bungling of espionage agencies, the damage inflicted on the environment, and the Orwellian, murderous world of strutting dictators.” Living a calculated life that we do, what is the harm in bringing a satirical angle to it all. Ignorance breeds intolerance. But because it is aimed at popular theories and dogmas, these comical incursions are bound to be discouraged by a select few. The problem arises when these select few appear to be stronger than a faction of satirical people. Though the new society has shown promising response and this category is slowly blossoming, there is still a long way to go. And like all great stories ever told and all the inspiring speeches delivered, this is just another tool to inspire and educate the masses.

CONTRIBUTED BY:

Chandana Rao

Idler, bibliophile, side-spectator, day dreamer and an engineering student trying to find something she is good at. An average girl with high hopes and even bigger ambitions.