We all know about the great epic Ramayan. We have either seen this epic on Television or read this epic. Most of us know Ramayan from our childhood. We refreshed our memories of Ramayan during lockdown. If anybody would have not watched Ramayan episodes earlier, then they got a chance to watch it. We could view both Ramayan and Uttar Ramayan in DD National during lockdown. Ramayan was all about the life of Lord Ram, who was an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Apart from the tale of Ramayan, there are many lessons that we learn from the Hindu epic. I assume that you know the story of Ramayan, so I am going to mention the lessons that we learn from it.
Respect elders and obey parents
Ramayan teaches us to be dutiful towards parents. Ram went for vanvas in order to keep his father, king Dasharath’s promise to queen Kaikeyi. Ram’s step mother Kaikeyi wanted her biological son Bharath to become king of Ayodhya. After knowing this, Ram left for vanvas along with Lakshman and Sita. They obeyed the instruction without showing any grief.
Always remain united with siblings
Ramayan teaches us to remain united with siblings even during the toughest of times. In spite of knowing that vanvas is difficult, Lakshman accompanied Ram for fourteen years. After the death of king Dasharath, Bharath refused to accept the throne. He wanted his brother Ram to be the king of Ayodhya. That’s why he kept waiting for Ram to return from vanvas. During those fourteen years, Bharath had vanvas near Ayodhya. Lakshman and Bharath were great brothers.
Be loyal to your spouse
Being a king, Ram was having the privilege of keeping many queens. But he decided not to marry anyone else in his life. Ram informed this to Sita on the day of their marriage. Ravan abducted Sita in the hope of marrying her. He tried to attract her with his material riches. But she always remained loyal to her husband Ram. That’s why she stayed in Ashok Vatika instead of his palace. Sita never let Ravan succeed in his attempts. Even after the Agni Pariksha, people of Ayodhya had doubts on the character of Sita. Due to this, Lord Ram had to abandon his beloved wife. But he did not marry after that and was loyal to his wife Sita.
Remain committed to your duty
Lord Ram was deeply committed to his duty of being the king of Ayodhya. A king has to keep his subjects happy. It was very difficult for Ram and Sita while separating from each other. But they had to bear this sorrow only for the sake of their duty. Ram had to abandon his wife Sita for the sake of masses. He was dutiful towards his wife. But as a king, he had to think of the wishes of his subjects before his personal desire. Such was the commitment to duty.
We should always follow the path of righteousness even when it is tough. Vibhishan was the brother of Ravan. But Vibhishan followed the path of righteousness. So, he did not support his brother when he abducted Sita. He knew that his brother had committed a sin by kidnapping a married lady. For this reason, there was quarrel between Ravan and Vibhishan.
Remain humble irrespective of your power
Hanuman was powerful yet he was the devotee of Lord Ram. He was capable of rescuing Sita from Ravan’s Ashok Vatika. He himself could have fought with Ravan’s army and defeated them. But he chose the option of surrendering himself to Lord Ram’s divinity. Hanuman obeyed all the instructions given by Shri Ram.
Never think anyone as inferior
Lord Ram was mighty but he never considered the monkeys as inferior. Shri Ram took the help of monkey army in building the bridge Ram Setu. That was needed in order to reach Lanka for freeing Sita. The monkeys helped him not only in building the bridge but also in the war. They fought against the army of Ravan.
Sita got fascinated by a golden deer in the forest. The deer looked extremely beautiful and it was different from other deer. Sita wanted Ram to get the deer from the jungle. Ram and Lakshman told her that the deer may not be real. But she wanted the deer and urged Ram to bring it. Actually that deer was Mareech. He was an associate of Ravan who was disguised as deer. This was an act planned by Ravan for abducting Sita.
Accept everything without any restrictions
We must embrace all irrespective of their colour, caste or creed. Shabri was a poor old woman and was devoted to Lord Ram. She had nothing much to offer him in her hut. But Lord Ram noticed her pure love and happily ate the fruits given by her. He and Lakshman met Shabri on their way to Lanka.
Abandon bad qualities and become pure
Get rid of bad traits like jealousy, lust, anger, greed, desire, hatred, insensitivity, ego, pride and fear. Lord Ram did not have any of these qualities. So, everybody loved him. The masses of Ayodhya became his devotees.
Do not mingle with bad people
Bad association is powerful and it can spoil a good person. Everyone in Ayodhya knew that queen Kaikeyi loved Ram more than her own son Bharath. But Kaikeyi’s association with Manthara made her evil. She told king Dasharath that Bharath must be the king of Ayodhya. And Ram should go to vanvas for fourteen years. Due to this, Bharath was angry on his mother Kaikeyi and did not speak with her during those fourteen years.
Attach yourself to service and not position
Lord Ram was dutiful and obedient to his father, king Dasharath. That’s why he always obeyed the decisions of his father. Lord Ram was willing to be the king of Ayodhya as a service to his father. He also accepted fourteen years of vanvas as a duty towards his father’s decision. Lord Ram had attached himself to the service of king Dasharath. So, he willingly accepted everything.
Get rid of demoniac tendencies in your heart
The mission of life is to defeat all demoniac tendencies arising anywhere. Lord Ram’s purpose of life was to defeat the demons who harmed other people. That mission got completed during his banishment to forest for fourteen years. Ravan was the king of demons and he got defeated because of abducting Sita.
Always stand by the right
Do the right in every situation even if it harms you. Jatayu, the giant bird had integrity. He felt that real success lies in pleasing God. Jatayu lost his life while fighting with Ravan in order to protect Sita. But he achieved his purpose of life to please Lord Ram. When you are standing by the right, then it is better to lose. Instead of winning by not following morality.
Pride leads to loss of intelligence
Ravan was proud and arrogant because of his possessions. He did not listen to what his wife, brothers and sons said. So, he lost everything at the end and the people of Lanka suffered.
A global pandemic like COVID-19 has hampered the sector of information technology, development among many others. However, even in the middle of a dire situation, where the whole world is at a standstill, along with doctors, nurses, and many others, even information technologists, developers are putting all their efforts in fighting against the common enemy.
It is indeed true that right now, we need people from all professions to put cent percent of their work in the development and the upgrade of the society as a whole. An initiative taken by two technical giants is our dose of information today.
Perhaps Google and Apple are considered as the top-notch tech giants today with constant rivalry ranging in a wide spectrum of development and technological advancement. However, in a pandemic situation as such, where a common enemy like Coronavirus has affected people in a worldwide manner – the tech giants have come together to fight the battle.
Perhaps for the umpteenth time we are faced against a threatening monster whose solution can be aided by the tech giants. Technology has once again come together to fight against a worldwide pandemic.
A long-waited technology in the context of Contact Tracking apps has finally been launched on Android and iPhone previous week. As a matter of fact, this moment has been marked as ‘watershed moment’ as it was long-awaited indeed.
Nomenclature of the App
The app was originally called ‘Contract Tracking’, but the name was changed by the companies after it was agreed upon that the app works alongside human contact rather than against it. It neither tracks you nor your phone contact.
The working of the App can be described as follows. Understanding the details of the working gives us a better insight into the App as a whole. Thus, detailed working can be briefly explained.
The Exposure Notification feature provides notification as soon as a person comes in contact with an infected person.
The API will help the app in running a Bluetooth technology in the background, which in turn will log users who are in physical proximity, for at least five minutes.
If a user tests positive, he or she can update their status as positive, on the app.
The app will then anonymously update the people who have had come in contact with this user who has been tested positive.
The matches are made by user’s devices regularly sending out a beacon via Bluetooth that includes an identifier.
The identifier is basically a string of random numbers that are not tied to any user’s identity.
Hence, the identifier keeps on changing constantly.
Other phones constantly keep on listening for these beacons as well as broadcasts their own beacons.
If there is a match between the beacons that are stored in the device and the beacons that are stored in the list of Google and Apple’s record of ‘Positive Diagnosis’, then a user will be sent an alert. This is a very valid method of tracking the spread of the disease.
The advantages of the App developed can be listed down as follows:
The app solves many other problems that the previous app with Bluetooth possessed.
With this app, the battery of the phone is not insanely consumed unlike previously developed apps.
It works in a cross-platform environment – that is Android and iPhones can detect each other and across regional borders, too.
 The matches are independent of central servers – that is – matches between two phones are done based on devices rather than that of a centralized server.
This stands in contrast with the NHS app, which works on a centralized model.
If segregated approaches to tracing are provided then communication between countries can be made in a much efficient manner.
The disadvantages of the App can be listed down as follows. Though the app acts as a privacy saver these issues make it difficult to implement on some issues.
The lack of information that serves as a privacy betterment also acts as a barrier in the detection of the virus.
The database of information on the people who have been affected by the virus will definitely provide a great statistic on the spread of the virus.
GPS data is also needed in order to track the distance.
It has been also argued by developers that the phones operating without the API are absolutely limited to listening for Bluetooth signals once every five minutes when they are not in use.
The users operating without the API may thus, miss some events.
Ryan Calo, a law professor has concerns about the effectiveness of the app in case too many people get the notification to be quarantined. This is absolutely a valid concern.
Calo also mentioned that the app could be used as a means of widespread hiring, testing of an army of human contact tracers.
The Evolvement of the App
The app can be evolved on a huge basis on the basis of certain criteria. The criteria are well defined and can be used in the flourishment of the app.
The App will only evolve if a vast amount of population uses it.
Once a limit of the population is reached the app will be used at its best – that is – the effort to track the spread of the virus will become less effective.
As a matter of fact, 60 percent of the population using this App is one of the optimal situations for tracking – as per some experts.
Before participation in the official App, for the purposes of testing, Google and Apple will update the App and allow people to participate in the testing of the App.
The UK can also invariably ditch its centralized model using this architecture. The advantages of the decentralized model are definitely one step ahead of all the centralized model built so far.
DISCLAIMER: If it is three am and you’re still on the phone reading this article, I urge you. Scram. Go to sleep. Reading or watching the most iconic villain in Hollywood will terrify you. And not to mention, Freddy Kruegerwatching. And he’s ready to descend into your nightmare. So beware.
If the first paragraph of this article just felt ridiculous to you, do not worry, you are not alone. Yes, you are not a millennial. And yes you have missed out on one of the most enthralling horror movie franchises, but you are not alone. Before we had the Stephen King franchise, the IT movies, we had the Nightmare on Elm Street series of films. Film genres have today become typical. All the moves and stories have already been tried and tested. Especially the horror genre. The movies nowadays don’t seem to contain the same scare factor that the old ones did. I know adults who wake up in sweats thinking of the first IT clown or Freddy Krueger’s claws. The present villains are merely placeholders, transient in this hall of fame.
And today, we talk about the greatest of them all. Freddy Krueger. Viewers first saw Freddy in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, as the ghost-like form of a serial killer. His characteristic form of murder carried into his death, a gloved razor hand of his creation. The movies explore protagonists stories and struggles, but the main focus is on Krueger. Some critical information about him is that while in dreams, he is practically invulnerable. And when brought into the real world, he has human weaknesses and can be defeated.
While the first movie just saw a brief glimpse into his character and more about his murderous tendencies. The films subsequently released delved more into him as a whole. We probably owe this to his then rising popularity as a terrifying Hollywood villain. The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise consists of five films, and the villain and premise remain the same.
The third movie delved more into the villain himself, fleshing out his character, telling us his story. A serial killer from the ’90s, Freddy was a serial child molester originally. Later, the director of the films, Wes Craven, changed his character to a child murderer.The third movie gives more explanation to why he turned into the killer he did. Beginning from the rape of his mother to the murder of his abusive father, the movie is horrific. It ties up a lot of loose ends.
The True Horror – The World is Full of More Freddy Kruegers.
The scariest part of this, however, isn’t all that Freddy faces or what he eventually became. It is that a serial killer like Freddy can very well be lurking in the real world right now. We have world-renowned ones already. Jeffery Dahmer, the Cannibal. Or maybe, Ted Bundy, the charismatic cutthroat killer. The stories The Nightmare on The Elm Street symbolise the similar feeling of the trauma they induce in victims. Of course, this would leave out the death in dream parts.
However, Wes Craven said that he took influence from a string of some mysterious deaths in the ’90s. These murders were of people who were simply sleeping and dreaming when they passed away.
Freddy Krueger is truly iconic in the horror film genre. It could be attributed to being in the generation that truly pioneered the modern style of horror movies. It also has a lot to do with the story. Showing the traits of a serial killer, the possibility that he is not just our imagination was a masterstroke. The element that makes a horror movie so terrifying isn’t its jumpscares or even the storyline. It is the feeling that lingers with you after the movie is over. You know a horror movie has succeeded if you as an adult wake up in cold sweats after watching it.
Theatres do a lot to help the cinematic experience that a horror movie provides. The Nightmare on Elm Street, however, didn’t really need them. People remained terrified despite them. Add to that the recurring theme that Freddy could never be killed fully.
The entire backstory of Freddy Krueger, the trial, the frustration on the part of the people of Springwood, even the killer name given to him, had a strain of realism to them. While a lot of horror movies fixate too much on the supernatural aspect of the show, Nightmare on Elm Street gives you enough background to actually feel like you know the villain, and then horrifies you. It leers you in with how real every situation faced by the antagonist, and then shows you how despicable the acts they commit are.
Revisit It, And You Won’t Sleep For Days.
The truth is, Freddy Krueger as a character exists in a lot of us in society. These people need help, medical and psychological guidance. We owe it to the negligence of the community towards mental illnesses in children. We do not experience the horrifying repercussions until they are older and capable of doing significant damage. While Freddy cannot kill us, remember that there still exist many such villains we must evade.
Hopefully, as the earth becomes a kinder place, people are aided and treated. Hopefully, before they become lifelike symbolizations of the epoch-making Springwood Slasher.
So it is the quarantine. And you have been sequestered at home. You have learnt how to dance, sing, write and draw. You have completed all the chores there are to do, and swept all the floors. There is literally nothing left to do. Except for that dreaded monster. Study. You have to study, have had to for weeks, even months now, but you have been successfully avoiding it. Until now. Time is running out. You need to realize, it’s not going to go anywhere unless you sit down and actually tackle it. And like all chores, it only feels menacing as it is at a great distance from you. When you do get down to the roots of it, studies aren’t asren’t as scary as you would think.
Now, before you begin, you need to plan your course of action. And a course of action of yours, has to depend on your studying habits and time management skills. Managing time effectively actually frees up your life in ways you would find unimaginable now. Prepare a questionnaire for yourself, and then customize your own timetable to stick to. To make it easier, we’ll pose the questions for you, and you can answer and analyse for yourself.
Are you studying something that is more analytical such as Mathematics, or something more theoretical like History or the languages?
The type of subject you are tackling demands different environments from you. We are not talking about a physical environment. What we are dealing with is a more mental environment. Suppose you have to study history. History is not an especially demanding subject. You can make notes, walk around the room, reading out loud and memorizing. And in the end, you can enlist a family member’s help to check your memory.
But, if it is a more analytical subject like maybe Mathematics or Physics, you need to really rack your brain. Your neurons are constantly firing and your brain is actually putting in a lot of work for each problem you do. A small tid-bit for you, why do you think practice makes perfect? Basically, when you perform a certain activity, a new neural pathway is uncovered that follows the procedure, emotions and responses attached to the activity.
So when you practice, it’s like making this a well-worn path so that it doesn’t get unfamiliar soon. And maths and other analytical subjects demand this type of practice too. Practicing more means you create and utilize neural pathways well, not forgetting certain procedures. And when you practice so much, your brain finds it easier to create new neural pathways without stressing the brain too much.
But even activities like this require a lot of energy. Analytical subjects can be practiced for an hour at maximum before you would need to give your brain some rest. But well, that is the content for the next topic. So sit tight for the next question.
Have you been studying for a minimal amount of time since the start of the quarantine or have you been completely avoiding it?
Your habit also paves a way to the kind of timetable you will need to create. Have you been studying a nominal amount since the quarantine started? If so, then you just need to slowly increase the bar and get to where you need to be. Be warned, right now, our brains are in a fragile state with all the uncertainty going around and it’s okay if you dip sometimes. Studying for a total of two hours a day is also great, as long as you utilize the entirety of the two hours.
If you have been completely avoiding studies, there are some ways you can get back into it. Regardless of what you are studying for, there are some subjects that will always be close to your heart. To stimulate your interest back into the subject, begin with these, and then slowly but surely, move on to the rest.
How many breaks do you take in your allotted time? And how fleshed out are these breaks?
How many breaks you take also plays a crucial role in the amount of work you get done. It is not specifically about you studying less. It is not even about the amount of time you have left. It is about your discipline. There are a lot of posts on social media that have been going around saying that even if you don’t get work done, it is alright. And yes. They are quite right. If you are consciously not well, physically or mentally, leave the studies. Tackle them some other time. However, take the time to introspect. Are you using this argument as an excuse? Are you really not well, or is it just the lethargy talking?
Suppose you take frequent breaks, each of ten to fifteen minutes maximum and you still find yourself not completing much of anything. That is most definitely because of the number of breaks you have been taking. When you sit down to study and keep taking breaks, the brain invalidates the number of breaks taken using the simple idea that since each break is so short, it isn’t really eating into your study time.
But it is. Your fifteen minutes repeating for twenty times translate to a total of 5 hours per day, which is a quarter of a day.
Taking long breaks is a better choice, but here you need to be very careful with how you time them. Any break longer than forty five minutes can induce a complete sense of lethargy and if your body is convincing enough, you will end up abandoning studies for that day. Also during these breaks, refrain from using any gadgets and instead take power naps. They rejuvenate and give your brain time to completely rest.
Other than these, some general rules that you should follow are to study in a quiet, cool place, have frequent drinks of water, and take adequate breaks. You could take notes to better retain the information. Look up videos on youtube or streaming apps like spotify for study music which helps calm your mind and get you into the study mode.
The importance of a professional online presence is more important than ever now. One way to increase the presence and visibility in the digital world is by making an online portfolio. Online portfolios come with the benefit of showcasing your work easily with employers you wish to work for.Â
With a well designed online portfolio, you can show off and attract the attention of recruiters and employers. The worldwide web is occupied with over 3 million websites working towards online portfolios. Â
With the advancement of technology, it is difficult for a leman to differentiate between an average website and a good one. Online portfolios specifically come into place while building a web presence.Â
An online portfolio does not measure an individual with the level of experience he has. Anyone looking for an online appearance will be able to craft a page with the services, you can render and design it to catch the attention of most recruiters.
Don’t worry if you are not technically savvy.
The websites mentioned in this article takes care of the entire design content. Most importantly, they have free design layouts for your convenience.
You can either choose to use a pre-designed one or customize them according to the details and content you want to fit in. To best resonate with your project it is advisable to go the extra mile and modify the predesigned ones to get a better view and stand as one unique portfolio.
Most of this online website has the drag and drop builder with numerous other options you can go for and be as creative as you want. There is no bar on the number of edits you choose to make, the number of designs you want to apply. Go on with full potential and create a super cool online portfolio.
You can always come back to the same website and edit it later, although most of the websites are free of cost and give you access just by registering with them. Some of the best ones charge a monthly, quarterly, or yearly fee.
Being one of the most widely used free portfolio websites, the designer community uses it to attract photographers, artists, and others making it a point to stand out of the market as a unique one.
If you choose to get an online portfolio done with this website you will have the advantage of getting connected with countless interviewers, managers, and recruiters for browsing your portfolio. Here they look for new talents. Simply signup and create your profile.
Give all your basic details including your social media information, and contact details. If you are willing to work with your teammates you can add owners to make a collaborative project. This website leaves no chance to interact with a site visitor and makes sure to get a comment back on the portfolio so shared.
With this website, its easy getting on the mind of teenagers and fresh job seekers. The versatile service enhancing day by day, making it affordable, hassle-free, and easy to use has gained importance.
The services help you realize the simplicity of crafting any design any page needless of time. No wonder Wix has been rated as the best portfolio builder by a lot of other websites. Apart from an experienced individual, a freelancer, a novice and an agency can also benefit from the advantages it has.
The artificial design intelligence does the majority of the work for you. To refine the work later, you can use the Handy editor to fit your brand exactly as planned. Like others, it has a drag and drop builder, along with several template editors – capable of being used without a minimal knowledge of coding.Â
Another free website for UX designers. Here one who requires an online portfolio can get it easily by sharing small screenshots of the designing process, concept, logo designs, interactive prototypes, and the drafts prepared.
This site is specifically made for designers to have multiple views of their plans. Designers can get an edge by improving their designing skills, communicate, and share ideas. Create a profile and you are ready to explore. For a photographer making an entry into the market, you can showcase photos of different works and follow outstanding designers to communicate ideas.
It has a block section to interact with the community at large and you can also get a chance to join any other designer communities already participating in the website. One major disadvantage of this website is, the presentation takes place in the form of screenshots of the design.
You have to work a little hard if you want to attract more recruiters to your enhanced profile and share a link of the dribble profile there.
For one who is not technically savvy and looking for a sudden boom in the online industry, well, create a beautiful website showcasing your proficiency, and swiftly gain yourself and access to the Weebly site.
Weebly has built over fifty
million websites so far. This website will give you an out of the box design with numerous ready to use templates. You can put these templates straight to use. You can also keep the free design templates or adjust them with time the fancy personalization.
Weebly has a suitable taste for every tongue. This website is free and accessible from the phone itself. You can give it your name, design it with video background and block support.
This website has strategies to enhance its technology with improvements than running expensive marketing campaigns.
By now, you hopefully have a small picture of what online portfolio websites are all about. They create a top-notch reliable and easy solution for all your website questions. This one is another spectacular service provider crafted with all the necessities of internet presence.
This website gives design options. One is the dolphin option, and the other is the creator. If you want the website do create on your behalf, you can use the Dolphin option. The design will be ready in 3 minutes.
However, if you want to personalize the stuff that you have gathered from the ground, the creator is the option of satisfaction. Both options produce a stable outcome, in the form of high performing refined and optimize websites.
For those enjoying photography, SmugMug lets you enjoy photography as a fashion. Professionals and passionate photographers get a good ordeal when it comes to making an online presence with their hard work.
This website does not look upon the photographers as opportunistic. Instead, describe the art of taking a photo as a hobby. Do not keep all your Good Works to yourself. Bring it online and share it with the Global audience.
With SmugMug, managing your online portfolio, you can choose to hide this from viewers you do not entertain. You can choose the communities that we have access to, the designs you upload, and the ones that do not.
Of course, your hard work is not for someone to copy or steal. Having said that SmugMug gives you an option to reserve the most precious designs for VIP users and you can often charge them for prints and downloads. Build up your dream gallery and outline with templates. That brings it all together.
Artstation
Talking about the best community of graphic designer websites, the Web art station grabs its name on the top. It does not have too many designs or too many templates to confuse visitors. It is pretty much with minimal designs with a grid structure.
The homepage displays popular art, with minimal design. A positive aspect of the art station is appreciation. If your work is appreciated here, you know it is good undoubtedly.
The new features of the website include blogging and an online marketplace. The price of art here stays pre-decided. Freelancers and artists have huge selling and buying options. Make money easy.
Apart from hosting add, this website posts the requirement of the job of gaming companies. It includes jobs from game loft, 343 industries, and blizzard among the many others.
It’s not an immediate task to get through a job hosted by the art station. However, a lot many gaming companies and indie developers appreciate new designers and reach out to themselves. The competition here, in the art station, is graver than the others. So if you own an appreciation here, you know you are exponentially better.
500 PX
Only photographers are welcomed. If you are a photographer, nothing better than 500 PX is for you to create a portfolio. The most prominent advantage of this website is your business.
The Built-in store or 500 PX has selling options, where you can store your pictures and not make it public. Later you can sell them to customers at a great price.
You can also learn photography from the tutorials it hosts. It has access to one of the largest communities of photographers who act as a critic of the work you upload.
Don’t get demotivated by the comments they post. It’s only a way to make sure you learn better. This is not a free website and your subscription is totally towards the money.
So if you want to begin with learning good and gaining access to the lens community at large, 500 PX is all you need to get through.
DrawCrowd
If you are enthusiastic about the concept art of characters such as your favorite cartoon channels and fantasize about your superheroes. Well, this community portfolio website focuses totally on comics and Manga designers.
The community is not at its peak stage, it is still growing and you have a better chance of getting discovered than on any other website present in the list. Here the community is not exceptionally learning.
All of them are booming in the career and still learning to develop skills. The community provides genuine feedback on work. Being one of the most potential websites, draw crowd has stood out as
Undoubtedly, this website is all about you. If you enjoy creating and do not like to find yourself lost in the process, this is one such place where all your creativity comes into the picture. Zero complications, a guarantee.
It’s self-explanatory, straight forward and as simple as reading your favorite book for the first time. You do not need any programming knowledge at all, apart from some sense of style, sophistication, creation, and creativity.
Online portfolios, art galleries can be created with barely any effort instead of developing a page, you can keep doing what you are best at.
It works well on mobile devices and support retina screens capable enough to acclimatize to all modern web browsers. Also, incorporated with an intuitive frontend editor, making tasks even simpler.
If you have made your mind in creating one, nothing should stop you when it comes to using this. Jump with both feet in and convince yourself for the coolest online portfolio you can get.
What about technical skills and programming language?
Well, you need nothing. Be in safe hands with an amazing option to explore and design to create. Its entire dedication stays towards online portfolio, regardless of what you are excelling at.
No matter what your professional capacity is – whether a graphic designer, photographer, on illustrator, this website has its expertise in all domains. It has more than 30 demo templates and you can start by choosing from the pre-designed ones.
The effortless style editor is another option that instantly adjusts the basic changes by setting text color, font size, and alignment. It also has the added advantage of a CSS editor that takes the online portfolio to the next level.
Web designers always have their eye on beauty. You don’t have to be a minimalistic noncreative one when it comes to designing your online portfolio with aesthetics.
What you see on the bed should be appealing to the eye. It is for sure that simplicity is the most overrated design of the time value. Introduce your simplicity with special effects and other features.
It will only add up to spice up the experience. Moonfruit has its assets in the form of website templates, SEO readiness, ready to use samples along with hosting, and adding the domain name to stock images.
Have a simple kind of busy creativity?
When it comes to Moonfruit utilize all of its potentials. Add animations and link effects by implementing different applications. It has the option to get you connected to Google Analytics and most importantly the Google search console. With the help of these two major applications, you can have a check on the performance of your page.
This website is considered a portfolio website for freelance writers. If you wish to generate a digital portfolio with a modern style and a sleek design, this website will make it easy for you.
There are a total of six distinct themes to enhance your work. You can easily upload an article by pasting a URL and clicking on the add button. Once you press on the add button, you will further be asked to compose a title, give the entire content an edit, add images, provide a Publication date and you are good to go.
It integrates with Google Analytics so that the built-in analytical tools are capable enough to measure visitors. It also makes your website mobile-ready and you may not lose an option while logging it from your tablets or Palm devices.
This website is an additional website for online portfolio makers. Originally a database connecting journalists and PR professionals of the world at large. This website is used for niche marketing and networking.
You can choose the topics you do not want to cover and the website will filter out the unfit pitches. Your portfolio is maintained by this website automatically by compiling articles and social media profiles.
Only after this big part is done, you are given an option to customize your bio and choose to spotlight certain areas of your art.
Final Thoughts
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The word warli is the symbol of a piece of land. Warli art is the form of historic art from the ancient period. The emergence of warli art begins from Maharashtra, India. It is also known as tribal art. This kind of art get designed from north Sahyadri range, India by the tribal people. As in India, warli art is one of the most desired art, but then also it did not get any identity except, from India. In today’s scenario, warli art is still put into practice by the people of Palghar district.Â
Historical background of warli art
Without having any evidence of the roots of this art get traced in the 10th century. Researchers covered that the tribal people were from the culture which becomes prominent in the Neolithic Period. This period was in the middle of 2500BC-3000BC. The paintings of tribal people get disclosure on the wall in today’s era. From these paintings, researchers find that the paintings were identical to some art. Further, they get to know that these are those paintings which get disclosure between 500BC-10000BC. They get disclosure in Bhimbetka’s rock shelter, Maharashtra. The rare mural paintings make use of rudimentary visual structure like circle, square, and triangle. These visuals come across them after observing the nature. As the circle came from the moon and sun on the other hand triangle came from pointed trees (fir) and mountains. The squares were their discovery which consists of logic.
Warli art in present day
Tribal art in the 21st century with effective colors.
The lovers of warli art flourish the monogram with dignity. They follow the custom of warli art and still create this art on red backcloth with white paint. The only combination of the red and white colour is used in this art. In India, the team of coca-cola has started a movement to emphasize the legacy of warli art. Their motive of this campaign was that the people can know the sense of togetherness. The coca-cola has played an imperative role in bringing the monogram of warli art in the 21st century. But these days that variety of colours is used which makes the product attractive.
These earrings give a bohemian touch to the look. Thus, merging the different vivid colours make a perfect colour combination which perfects with any attire.
2. Warli nameplate
It beautifully enhances the beauty of the entrance of the home. It is a piece of magnetism for the guests.
3.Warli Keyholder
It perfectly organizes the keys at one junction. This is also used as a wall hanging. It gives a vintage look to living spaces and walls.
4. Handmade birdhouse
It is used as a garden hanging for feeding the birds. The string of the birdhouse is made up of nylon which can’t be damaged by birds or squirrels.
5. Hand-painted pots
The distinctive painted shapes on the pots give an elegant and attractive look to it. It can be put on the bedside table or on the shelves.
6. Warli in light
The artisans beautifully craft the lamp with delicate details. The basic material used in this is terracotta. It strikes the energetic and spirited glow, which makes the home shine. For the vintage look, it should be placed in the bedroom or living room.
7. Coffee and teacups in ceramic
The ceramic teacups make the morning perfect. It spreads love and is a symbol of togetherness. Adding these coffee cups in kitchen spaces display the glimpse of tribal tradition.
8. Storage jars
It depicts the traditional culture of warli arts. It is perfectly used for storing the snacks, cookies or dry fruits. The jars are crafted with pinewood and glass.
9. Handmade necklace
It is totally made up of eco-friendly backed clay. It’s various magnitudes, monograms and shapes makes the soul to believe in making attractiveness a part of life.
10. Wall-mounted wax candle
It exclusively represents the candles mango wood which crafted with the Dhokra art and warli art. This is an antique, hand-painted art of the craftsman. It naturally brings out the traditional and cultural look of the wood.
Artisans of warli art
India is known as the land of traditions and cultures for its vintage arts and crafts. The tribal and fork art of India is so simple and ethnic that it speaks about the heritage of the country. To make this art more beautiful the tribal craftsman of this country portray the shadow of their god in the painting. The reason behind this is that they think, they will get the blessings of their god through painting. To craft the warli art at weddings, festivals, birthplace and at the place which is pure shows the symbol of deities. By crafting these symbols, they ask from god for continuous showering of the kindness for them. The artisans use the white colour to craft the pure image of the goddess. The reason behind using the white colour is that itis the pure and holy colour.
Effective art of artisans in this era.
Background of artisans
The beautiful warli folk art has been religiously crafted by the tribal women. This kind of tribal art discloses its identity in the 17’s. And from that period it has been known as warli art. Making the paintings on the walls of the house, tribal people explore themselves. The reason behind this crafting was not to bring out the myths or the pictures of deities but was to explore the social life. Warli is the largest tribe which has been found on the outskirts of Mumbai. After that in thane district, the number of people was there who still used to maintain their tradition. But today the focus is on the artisans of warli arts. From many two of the profiles of warli artisans are Meenu Shrivastava and Sangeeta Vaishnav.
In today’s research, the conclusion was that most of the warli art artisans belong to the scheduled tribe. After many years, people accept that tribal art is an ancestral work. The researchers of warli art got disappointed about the low demand for this art. Due to technology, the growing revenue of warli art upholds the rising potentials of tribal people.
An age-old saying stands to be the biggest truth in the current COVID-19 pandemic. It goes “in every adversity lies an opportunity”. Adversity is an opportunity in disguise. The saying is particularly true for developing countries, especially for India.
The modern progressive democracy we are in has tied us down with the brutal opinions and traditions. Some of the traditions in India do not seem to have meaningful existences. They only cause hindrance to common logic and what’s correct. Most of the deep-rooted opinions exasperate political outlook, primarily.
Introduction
Urban and rural divisions religiously believe racial discrimination, language discrimination, and caste-based discrimination. Only situations of great adversity, like the current pandemic, unifies the country. Although this adversity is unfortunate, a slight hope may bring the necessary reforms needed to curb the deep-rooted traditions into changes that may help people live easy.
Compared to the other developing countries, India has coincidentally suffered less crisis than most of the developed leveraged economies of the world. Coping up with the ongoing crisis up to a measure never witnessed by humanity before has left the governing bodies of the world galvanized.
This pandemic has caused an existential threat keeping recovery farthest. Given the sentimental value of Indian citizens, deep reforms are keeping pandemic measures at bay. To bring about changes through conventional sensors, opportunities are paving ways. Both the houses of the Parliament have the ruling party.
The only challenge now is significant planning, imagination, management, and organization. A major theme of hygiene and sanitation has taken over previous concepts stuck to beliefs, that had ignored the importance of sanitary health.
People are now looking for better healthcare along with the emergence of a better supply chain system, storage of emergency supplies and primarily being self-sufficient.
Alongside chopping onions, dicing garlic, and cleaning coriander leaves, we are all finding ourselves joining hands together across the world. The contemplation of the future and what COVID-19 awaits has left the current situation as a purposeful oracle. It is only revealing our past.
Ignorance is standing between humanity and disparity. The tasks we perform as “work from home” are now tasks of substance and not profit. We do not leave our kitchen dirty and sleep anymore. Once we are done cooking, we clean, go to bed, wake up, clean again, and start afresh.
We are asking for help without disguising it in the name of collaboration or partnership. Today with the world sticking to the screens of its glowing devices, a small community on Facebook sharing simple recipes for this lockdown has grown to be a 2000 + peoples group.
Everything is in the introspection of opportunities. The choice is no more the solution, choice has become a compulsion. Your behavior is tending towards the “next is what”. You are constantly looking for something to fill your mind. Today, political nuisance, personal grudge, and lack of commitment are of no value.
You are only looking to strive better, earn better keeping in mind the forlorn hope of your job to sustain.
With increasing choices you get an increased number of matches. The higher the number of matches you have, the higher you are on the ladder. Try connecting, however, don’t commit. You know your destination well. This only feels tedious in a world, where once to get lost, meant to commit to an open-ended journey. And now you are lost amidst the crowd.
But We Can Finally Find Ourselves
This confrontation is hard but it is the right time to confront yourself and ask what next? Today, privilege is the difference between the rich and poor, the expectant, and the non-expectant.
Some are happy about the French omelet being served every day, and some are cherishing the return of dolphins in Venice. Today this pandemic has given us a choice that had almost paralyzed us.
If we prefer rewinding to a prelapsarian era, the days of Doordarshan playing Ramayan and Mahabharat would still be much more appreciated than the world of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest we depend on now.
Looking At The Bright Side of Life
Every cloud has a silver lining. The darkness of the coronavirus pandemic with people dying, companies going bankrupt, stock market collapsing, overloading of the healthcare system, and millions of employees losing a job. COVID-19 is the biggest seizure triggering years of uncertainty.
The upsides rather than the silver lining of the cloud have given some of us opportunities. For example, now for all the work from home meeting, companies like Zoom, and Go To Webinar has built virtual meetings options.
Today as of recent reports, Amazon has planned to hire 1 lakh employees. Because of the increasing number of orders and deliveries to meet the need of the hour. This all of the sudden hiring by Amazon may sound more like a threat however it will employ a part of the population instead of keeping them unnoticed.
Here Are The Major Opportunities This Crisis Has GivenUs
Ample Time
The economy of the country is overheated. Time has emerged to be the most valuable and sparse item. We had the entire week full of social gatherings, theatre visits, parties, movies, festivals, and concerts. Suddenly all of them seem to be the forbidden fruit.
This has given us a significant amount of extra time. Even though we are not able to live high on the expectations, our lives are going on. This shows how easy it is to just divert our minds from the busy schedule we were living in and engage in productivity.
This does not apply to the health care workers or workers associated with the entire sector providing health assistance and restoration work. Although it applies to the majority of us, this time can give us ideas to conduct DIY, writing, reading, and contemplate the current situation.
The key to better utilizing this free time is reserved for something productive, leave no scope for an idle mind.
Breakthrough Speed And Innovation
The organizational work-life balance suffered from rigid hierarchies, slow procedures, and complex bureaucracy. This led to the making of work-life balance into the utter disturbance.
The immediate plan for “work from home” has given the opportunity to these organizations to break through the glass of rigidity and act instantly. Suddenly the slow procedures can be readily skipped the rigid hierarchies can be made autonomous without formal approval.
Suddenly planned, unplanned, casual and sick leaves have all been approved to a new “work from home” model without direct supervision. The strong stimulus driving necessary changes has made it clear that metal can be melt without fire. Remarkable innovations can take place without much contemplation.
For example, a recent change in the delivery option by restaurant delivery partners has been the “no contact delivery” mode. The delivery guy specifically drops your package at the doorstep upon confirmation of the residence.
Suddenly schools have shifted online classes, of course by mandating attendance. Innovations can now maintain a constant work-life balance even during a crisis.
Given the constant pressure we were all in for work, waiting for the weekend to relieve ourselves of all the stress we run through for 5 days. Detached are our social connections. The challenging time today is an opportunity to bond over and connect with people.
Previous visits to restaurants, movies, theatres with family and friends have left feelings of loneliness in some cases. But remember we are in this together. This simple thought can trigger interesting ways to connect. For example the most viral social connection has been in Italy. Videos surfaced the internet where people have been seen singing together from their balconies and windows.
In India the government took forward the nine minutes at 9:00 p.m. move with the provocation of sound in the form of claps, bells and other instruments to make us all aware of the active mindset we are all living with. The need of the hour has emerged to become the need of the future. Activities building social coherence will live even when the crisis is no more.
These initiatives have given a medium and opportunity to show how people are caring for their families, hoarding food, medicine, and essential to keep the loved ones under the blanket of love and care.
Clean Environment Better Environment
With almost no industrial activity the virus has shutdown modes of pollution and improper hygiene. Factories are now operating below the capacity with little or no transportation. Traffic has reduced radically. Satellite images of the sky have shown how the past few months has cleared the air, water and brought back our natural habitat.
Overcrowded cities such as New York, Amsterdam, and Venice are witnessing the emergence of rare animals that were thought to be endangered. Greenhouse gases, pollutants in air and water have reduced significantly. The lockdown and shutdown have impacted positively on our nature.
Although for the short term our environment is breathing clean and safe. This is an opportunity to make cleaning habits a part of your life. The line of previous opportunities runs parallel with the habit of keeping your environment clean.
The crisis has shown how an opportunity like this can help us reconsider our life and organize it in a way that has a less negative impact on the planet.
Educational Opportunities
Before the crisis hit us, the World Bank shared the learning poverty indicator. This indicator measures the percentage of children unable to read and understand at the age of 10. Previous to the pandemic, the percentage of children stood at 53% and now people have forecasted the situation to worsen.
These children are suffering from loss in their learning aspect, dropout rates may increase and some of the children being served with mid-day meals will lose the most important meal of the day. The availability of a laptop or a computer has made it possible for educational institutions to reach out to children from better-off families.
All possible delivery mode should be put to use. The crisis has given the ministries around the world, time to formulate strategies, to deliver educational information to children. The ministries are planning on using podcasts and other resources which use fewer data compared to zoom classes.
Recent thoughts have been given to radio and television to act as the source of education. Remote learning is not only about learning from home or online learning. Ministries are now planning to make remote learning all about mixed media learning in order to reach as many students as possible. This will help keep students engaged and passive about education.
Winners Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
The global economy has been driven into a tailspin. The unprecedented recession has caused catalytic changes. It has kept industries challenged from being reformed, and restructured. The new era of business we are looking at will highly depend on scalability, automation, and agility.
Industries growing with these virtues will be clear winners. With economic packages being pushed from the government, some forms of liquidity are brought into the market. It will help the economy stay afloat and dodge a recession once the lockdown is lifted.
However reports suggest better capitalization of businesses to benefit over small operators. The economy shall be seen as a competition between the incumbent and the upstarts. COVID-19 will force the rebirth of industries that were in lockdown previous to the pandemic.
Companies have got the opportunity to raise and re-imagine, increase modes of consumption, productivity, supply, and interaction has already boomed business. For a few the shift of paradigm against existing threats will either keep the economy accelerating or not.
If you have noticed, the cashless mode is booming already, rather clearly accelerating. Approximately 31 countries have lifted the limits and restrictions of cashless payment to keep social distancing measures in place.
The trend of bringing your own device is already in business and is seen as a supercharging session conducted daily. People are now socializing remotely and all of a sudden tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and even the Houseparty app are known to support millions of corporate interactions.
The demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other medical essentials has spiked, leaving the supply chain to organize and reconfigured themselves in real-time. For example, the Royal Mint is now producing medical devices whereas Dyson is producing personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators.
Controversy Of Good And Bad
The economy of India is bound to suffer in FY 2020. Majorly because of weak demand, no export business, acting together leading to failing revenue modes of the country. With the extension of lockdown, India has hit a recession in no time. The government is trying to put a fiscal stimulus as a cushion against the economic setback. This initiative will help entrepreneurs and industries to keep up with their operations.
The purchasing manager’s index (PMI) of India has fallen from 51. 8 to 27 points. The normal market census is measured at 42. This shows how India is struggling below normalcy to cope with what’s lost. The projected increase in 2021 is 51, however much has to be done.
The second quarter this year is expected to pick the lost run which will also witness supply chain streaming all over again. At present, India has approximately 231 special economic zones. The government is coping up with provisions of incentives to meet capital inflows and Indian competitiveness. India’s SEZ policy has allowed foreign investments and foreign operations in the form of FDI.
MSME Impact
The micro small and medium enterprises hold another sector that acts as the backbone of the national economic structure of the country. Of the total number of operating industries in the country, approximately 97% of the industries fall under the MSME category. This segment of the industrial development pools great economic development, employment, along with innovation.
MSME is known to contribute more than 30% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of India. This sector is badly impacted due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The current contribution is below 25% and some of the firms in this sector are already on the way to permanently shut down.
The Government is trying to keep these sectors alive with initiatives like the “Make In India” all for better reasons. It is now known that the new normal will not only enable the manufacturing sector to grow better but also drive better technology and employment opportunities.
The Ministry of Commerce is putting their hands together to conduct a well-coordinated effort along with the state governments.
Online education in India has developed itself with the help of technology. Indian government is opening up the market for online education. Nowadays you can find numerous courses online. If you have time and are interested to study something, then you will surely get the chance online. In terms of technology, India is developing at an exponential rate. The advancement in technology has caused the growth of online education. The rise of Internet has changed the lifestyle of Indians. Due to the availability of high-speed Internet and smartphones, technology has penetrated into the lives of people.
Growth of online education
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Online education is a part of the digital India initiative. Today people have become fond of Internet, which is the reason for carrying out many activities online. This applies to education also. Online education market in India was valued at $247 million in 2016. It is expected to reach nearly $1.96 billion by 2021. This shows a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 52%. The total number of users enrolled in different online courses was around 1.6 million in 2016. This is expected to reach around 9.6 million by 2021 end. The cost of classroom education is increasing day by day. This has led to preference of online education since it is cost effective. The target market for online education in India are people with high aspirations but lower income. There is high acceptability of online education in the younger demographic. There is good potential in India.
Advantages of online education
Usually people opt for online education when they do not have access to classroom education. But online education is better than classroom education in some ways. They are
One can learn anywhere and at any time
The primary requirement of online education is high-speed Internet. Other than that, it needs desktop, laptop or smartphone. This flexibility helps students and working professionals. They can pursue new courses without giving up on anything. Students can learn new course during their vacations. Working people can learn on weekends and holidays. Anyone can learn something in free time. The course materials are available in the portal.
One can save money and time
The cost of online education is much lower than classroom education. It helps the students who cannot afford classroom education for the same course. It saves time because you do not have to study at a fixed time. You can take the course whenever you want. If you are busy anytime, then you can pursue the course at some other time.
Everyone has a different pace of learning. In a classroom where many students are taught together, some students find it difficult to follow. This is a disadvantage of classroom education. But online education solves this issue. In online education, students are provided with course materials first. This is good because they get an idea about the course by viewing the materials. Then the students learn the course by taking their own time. Students can clarify their doubts through that forum.
Recognition of online degrees
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Many companies in India are accepting online degrees. But the degrees should be approved by Distance Education Council (DEC) of India. Some organisations ask their employees to get online education. If you complete an online course from a valid forum, then you can mention it in resume.
Online education industry in India
Online learning has changed the scenario of education in India. It is growing at a good rate. Online education goes beyond secondary and tertiary education. It also includes courses for competitive exams, non-academic subjects and enhancement of professional skills. The categories of online education are
Primary and secondary supplemental education
Online learning acts as a supplement to school learning. It is for school students studying in primary and secondary classes. Online education has replaced tuition classes of students. This is convenient for students and saves their time.
Higher education
Online education acts as an alternative to traditional higher education courses. Though classroom education is best for higher education, yet it is an option for students who cannot avail traditional education.
Test preparation
There are numerous entrance exams that occur throughout the year. There are online learning programmes which aim at training students in the preparation of competitive exams. This is physically convenient for students who cannot commute for classroom education. Some online programmes are an addon to the classroom education offered by an institution. You may have seen this feature in some coaching centres where they have an online portal. Students can practice questions and take tests online in that portal.
Reskilling and online certifications
There are some online courses which reskill professionals. They assist people in enhancing skills and offer certifications. The certifications encourage people to take up online courses.
Language and casual learning
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Online learning does not teach only academic content. They offer learning on various areas like languages and hobbies. We can learn anything through online medium.
Online education industry is thriving in India and it will show tremendous growth in future.
Online learning is growing at a swift pace in India due to certain factors. They are
Internet and smartphone penetration
Internet has become a part of our life due to its accessibility. It is expected that the number of Internet users in India will reach 730 million by the end of 2020. India may become the second largest user after USA. Smartphone has also become a part of our life due to its usefulness. The number of smartphone users is increasing day by day. India is the third largest smartphone market in the world. It is only because of internet that people are able to enrol in online courses. The young demographic is an active consumer of Internet and smartphone. They look out for online education in order to fulfil their requirements. Internet makes it possible even for rural population to access different courses and certifications from around the world.
Traditional education is unable to fulfil additional capacity
The aim of government is to increase the number of literate people in India. But considering the total population in India, it is somewhat difficult to cater to all educational needs of people. The existing infrastructure of education cannot meet the additional capacity. Online education can fulfil this gap to a considerable extent. Online learning can supplement conventional education. For tuitions, online learning is of great help. Due to the vast population everyone does not get opportunity to go to tuition classes. But they can have that through online mode.
Digital friendly government policies
Government has launched many programmes under initiatives like Digital India and Skill India for spreading digital literacy. The aim is to create a knowledgeable society in India. Government wants to implement three principles of the Education policy which are access, equality and quality. For establishing digital infrastructure, Government has launched National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN). That aims in expanding broadband connectivity and fast network.
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Platforms of online education
There are various platforms of online education. Some of the platforms are Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, edX, Udacity, Academic Earth, Codecademy, Alison, Pluralsight, Open Yale Courses and MDN Web Docs.
Covid-19 has impacted our economy badly. It has not only hit the secondary and tertiary sector, but also the ambitious dream of Modi Government of doubling the farmers’ income by 2020. Farmers are not just a segment or a sector; they are the ray of hope in this covid-19 for every citizen, who is staying home, walking miles to reach home, working day and night to treat the patients. Food is the utmost necessity for survival. Hence, every grain produced by a farmer is equal to gold. When the first lockdown was announced on March 23, people rushed to markets to get the food grains as it was the first thing needed for staying at home for a long period of time.
Shift of Indian Economy
UttamKrishi, MadhyamVyaparkanisthanaukri (Supreme is farming, mediocre is a trade, and most lowly is service), the ancient philosophy of the Indian economy is no more relevant now. Gandhi is still true that ‘India lives in villages.’ Agriculture is still the primary source of livelihood for about 58 percent of India’s population. The contribution of the agriculture and allied sectors is 17.1%, the industry sector is 29.6%, and the service sector is 54.3% (2016-17). Growth in Gross Value Added (GVA) by agriculture and allied sectors stood at 2.1 percent in FY 2019-20 (Indian agriculture and allied industries report, March 2020). Barclays report (2014)had estimated that 35% of the urban population could contribute 70%-75% of Indian GDP by 2020. Probably, it is not possible due to covid-19. The policy of the government has never been towards the majority population, which could contribute much more to the Indian economy.
Reimagining Indian Economy
Aajeevika Bureau estimates 120 million people migrate from rural to urban space, and the biggest employers are the construction sector (40 million), domestic work (20 million), textile (11 million), Brick kiln (10 million) and others like mining, transportation, and agriculture. This population constitutes approx 11 % of India’s population. These migrants are especially from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odhisa, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. They are ‘the GDP maker’ of the Indian economy for the secondary and tertiary sectors. They are the most affected population of the country due to covid-19. They have started coming back to their home, the rural space. As per many reports, the GDP contribution of secondary and tertiary are drastically damaged while the primary sector has got good production food grains in the rabi season. This reverse migration has resulted in unexpected/ unpredictable burden on the rural economy (especially on agriculture) due to no proper plan ever of the consecutive policymaker on govt. Once again, the covid-19 has made us realise the ancient philosophy of the Indian economy. Modi calls it ‘Aatmanirbhar,’ Gandhi calls it ‘Swaraj,’ Tagore calls it ‘completeness,’ Vivekananda calls it ‘self- reliant’ and so-called post-modern thinker may call it ‘Alternative to Development.’
Understanding the current scenario of agriculture
In India, agriculture gets three seasons for cultivation; Kharif, Rabi, and Zaid, which starts with June- July and ends with May- June, respectively. If the meat and milk industry put aside, agriculture is a totally unorganized sector. This is the only sector in India, where new technology is the matter of controversy (Damodaran, 2016), and traditional technology are considered as a backword. One side, Green revolution in the 1970s and currently Genetic Modified (GM) crops are a matter of controversies; on the other hand, we are trying to believe in organic farming, bio-dynamic farming, and natural farming which we were master. Over the period of time, we are standing on the middle path. This situation has given the following adverse result to Indian agriculture due tounpredicted nobel covid-19
Shortage of labour for harvesting rabi crops: March and April months are the harvesting months of rabi crops across India. Mahendra (IFPRI) writes that non-availability of migrant labour has interrupted harvesting activities of wheat (especially in Punjab, Haryana, and western UP), Pulses, and summer paddy. Arpan Mondal and Somen Jena say that non- availability of labour resulted in delayed harvesting, which led to crop loss in terms of quality as well as quantity due to unexpected rainfall in this season. Arpan and Somen belong to East Midnapore of West Bengal. As per the report of The Wire newspaper, some of the farmers of Punjab and Haryana do not expect to get the minimum support price for wheat.
Problem in selling of perishable products: In one of the webinar discussion, Manas from Satara district of Maharashtra says they have got bumper production of Onion and Grapes. They are worried about export market, even inter-intrastate selling. They are dependent on the finger counted merchant, and they are purchasing such produces in their rate. The similar situation is being faced by commercial vegetable farmers of Ranchi districts, Jharkhand. The videos and photos are getting viral on social media of vegetable farmers, who are leaving theirs produces on the field. Tonnes of tomatoes have perished on my field, adds Mohan Kirade from Khargone districts of Madhya Pradesh. The economics time (March 19, 2020) reports that the bulk demand for perishable items has fallen hotels and restaurants, and also, the price of agriculture commodities has dropped 20-25% post-covid-19 outbreak.
Floriculture has a most affected sector of agriculture due to shut down of events, hotels, religious places. The flowers were damaged on the field due to the total lockdown of the supply- chain in this sector. Farmers did not get single rupees from his farm, adds Suresh, a PHD research scholar of RKMVU.
Worst affected animal husbandry sector: The animal husbandry sector has been largely affected by the effect of covid-19. There has been a sharp decline in the demand for chicken and meat since the outbreak as there have been various rumors amongst the people that virus can spread through the animal’s meat and chicken. As per the ResearchAndMarkets.com report (April 22, 2020), the US, China, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, UK, and India are affected significantly due to covid-19 in dairy, meat, poultry, and aquaculture. In India, Holi is one of the largest festivals in India, where meat consumption is so high. Due to Covid-19, the demand for poultry was negligible inspite of low rate INR 25/poultry of 2-3 kgs. News of poultry farmers killing the chicken and dumping went viral. The demand for meat goes high from Feb-June in India due to the marriage season, Covid-19 has affected it badly. Mahendra (IFPRI) says poultry farmers have badly affected by misleading social media reports; The economics time reports the same (March 19, 2020). The demand for milk has sharply fallen due to lockdown. Medha and Sudha dairies are procuring milk one time only in Ranchi.
Hike in agricultural input costs: The cost of fertilizer and seeds has gone up due to dried up in the supply chain of the agricultural inputs market. On April 16, we procured bleaching powder for fish farming on 1.5 times the price. My father did not find the desired seeds of sweet corn for sowing in mid- April. The cost of animal feeds has risen due to lockdown in factories and its lack of distribution.
Functional flaws
The agricultural system is exposed in the agriculture sector. It has failed to support the savior of humankind. The situation of agriculture is fully dependent on the physical market, which seems to pay high in pandemic like covid-19.
Technological gap: India files its name in information technology in the world, but its fussed in the agriculture sector. Govt promises to have an online platform for an agricultural transaction, at the same time district collector of Ranchi tweets on behalf of farmers to sell tonnes of pumpkin. There is no e-commerce platform, which maintains supply and demand in agriculture. There are some e- platforms for the farmers to sell online, but farmers hardly equipped to manage such.
Lack of capacity building: In India, Farmers still follow the traditional way of agricultural transactions. If govt launches any schemes, it needs to bring at the farmer’s doorstep—the agricultural govt. Functionaries need to be activated at ground level. Farmers need to revive their own knowledge system of agriculture aligned with new technologies.Â
 Lack of promotion of collectives: India is far behind promoting collectives in the agricultural sector if we put aside a few states like Maharashtra etc. Lack of collectives has left the farmers in a vulnerable stage in terms of inflow and outflow of agricultural goods and services.
Hanging with risk: Indian agriculture has slowly shifted to mono cropping due to commercialization to get maximum profit. It enhances the percentage of uncertainty in terms of crop loss and price fixation. The covid-19 situation has found many such shreds of evidence, as discussed above, where either less market demand or production loss. Mix cropping could be the way to distribute risk in terms of both crop loss and incentive gain.
Knowledge dilemma: Farmers are fully dependent on the market now for everything from seeds to pesticides etc. In covid-19, the market has stopped functioning. On the one hand, Farmers are on the verge of forgetting their traditional knowledge system, and on the other hand, they are not equipped with technology. They do not have traditional seeds to grows; they hardly remember the traditional process of cultivation like pesticide control, etc. if the market does not supply inputs in such a pandemic situation, the whole agriculture sector will collapse.
Kharif on alarming edge
Lockdown has put Kharif season in a stage where fear grows faster than covid-19. Kharif season starts from mid-June. This is the season where the maximum agriculture field are cropped in India. The rainfed state, like Jharkhand, grows staple food paddy in all three types of land. India needs 250 lacs quintals of seeds for the Kharif season. Seeds production ecosystem is the complex phenomena, which stars from March-May, as per IndraShekhar Singh to the Hindu Business Line (April 3, 2020). As per him, the agri-input ecosystem is collapsed right now due to its dependency on packaging units and paper units. One side, the cost of seeds would go up due to different factors and other side, farmers are away from financial transaction due to lock down on covid-19. The fertilizer and pesticide industries are shut down till May 31, 2020. Labours are busy returning back their home. The production of agriculture inputs could affect. This has put the agricultural community in a super panic situation. I remembered this time last year and backward, paddy seeds use to come in the market, but this year handful amount of seeds has reached the outlets. If the situation remains the same, seed companies’ monopoly will dominate the market (Indra Shekhar). This situation would get worse if the supply chain of other inputs like fertilizer and pesticides dried up.
Conclusion
Both the burden and expectation of agriculture have increased due to covid-19 and reverse migration. The most neglected sector has become the top priority sector for everyone in the country. Due to Covid-19, farmers have faced and still facing difficulties in terms of backword-forward linkages. The situation in livestock, horticulture, and floriculture sectors is worse, as non-veg, fruit, vegetable, and flower growers are unable to find markets due to restrictions in movement and fall in demand. The supply chain of agriculture is not so smooth that it should be. Post covid-19 policy of the country has a great role in defining Indian agriculture, where still more than 50% work forces are employed.
Lockdown has prevented us from going out of our homes. Except doctors, police officers, bank employees and shopkeepers of some shops all other people are staying at home now. This has made the celebration of birthdays and anniversaries difficult. There are festivals throughout the year in all religions. Because of lockdown, we are unable to visit some places where we can celebrate the events. Still we have to find ways in which we can celebrate the occasions with our loved ones. Instead of grieving for the plans made earlier for celebration, think about celebrating in a different way.
Home Decoration
We are staying at home in order to be safe from Coronavirus. Now we have enough time to look after our home and clean it. We can keep our home in an organised manner and think of interior decoration. During special occasions, we can decorate our home. That will give us a feeling of celebration which we could have got in other venues. We have to carry out home decoration with whatever things are available now. Cards can be made at home by drawing and writing in a creative manner. Old photographs can be used in the decoration of birthdays and anniversaries. Candles, lamps and lights can decorate the house for any occasion. For festivals, you can worship God by being at home. You can use any flower to make garlands and offer that to God. Home decoration will certainly give a feel of any event.
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Developing culinary skills
Lockdown has given us a good chance to learn cooking. It is because all restaurants and eateries are closed now. Even Swiggy and Zomato are not operating now. So, we are left with the only option of having home food. We cook every day for having the usual food. But on events like birthdays, anniversaries and festivals we can make some special food. We can prepare various cakes on birthdays and anniversaries. For festivals, we can make specific food items that can be offered to God. Though we cannot match the taste of the dishes cooked in restaurants, yet we can try our best. For birthdays and anniversaries, we can make as many cakes according to the availability of ingredients. Some icing can be made on cakes for writing about the particular event. Various dry fruits can be added on top of the cakes for making them attractive.
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Nowadays there is no hindrance in cooking any dish. Due to the presence of numerous cooking websites and videos, anybody can prepare a dish. But the constraint imposed by lockdown is the availability of all the ingredients needed for a particular dish. In spite of that we have to cook with the available ingredients at home. We can search for dishes that we can readily make at home. Cooking is an interesting activity and it will add more excitement in the celebration of any event. Involving people who did not know cooking earlier will benefit them. On birthdays and anniversaries, we can cook the favourite dishes of our loved ones. The presence of many dishes on any occasion will certainly make it special. Food is a great way of celebrating any event during lockdown. It is because good food is a sign of great celebration.
Though we are having social distancing due to this pandemic, yet social media is a good connection platform. We are more active on social media because of lockdown. On any special event, we can send greetings to people through Internet. We can also customize our greetings through particular websites. By sending an e-card to those away from us, we can make them happy. During lockdown, e-card can replace celebration held at venues. E-card is something that people can save in their phone and laptop, so that they can see it later.
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Dress up in a special way
We cannot dress up and visit places but we can take numerous photos of ourselves by being at home. On events like birthdays, anniversaries and festivals, you can wear new dress if available. Then you can upload photos across all social media. If new dress is not unavailable, then you can apply makeup and look different. Then you can upload your photos in social media and this will give happiness.
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Spend time with family
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Lockdown is like a house arrest but we are lucky if we are staying at home now. Now we have sufficient time to spend with our family. On special events, a family can spend quality time together. They can play indoor games and look at old photographs together. This will enhance their bonding and they can relive old memories. On occasions, the entire family can work together while decorating home and cooking dishes. In this way they will enjoy that time and create memory of lockdown birthday or lockdown anniversary. On festivals, they can worship God together and cook the items. They can get information about the festival and know its significance.
We cannot meet our relatives and friends on their birthdays and anniversaries, but we can connect with them through different mediums. You can call them on that day. To make the events better, you can have video conversation through WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook and Zoom. In this way, all of you will be glad. Your bonding will be enhanced and there will be a spark in relationship. Anybody will definitely feel happy if his or her relatives and friends connect on birthday and anniversary. You can even message your relatives and friends on these events. On festivals, you can have video conversations to see how others are celebrating in their homes. Through this mode, you can get more ideas of celebration.
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Engaging in social media
Social media is an amazing platform that keeps people connected in any situation. Facebook shows the birthdays of our friends so that we wish them. Social media is an enjoyment in lockdown because people can interact with each other through that. On any event, you can upload photos of the celebration that you had at your home. All your friends will see the photos and then react to it. Social media has proved to be an excellent connecting medium in lockdown. Though we are maintaining social distancing in life, yet we can be in contact through this channel. We can check social media and see how others are celebrating events.
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Beating stress by indulging in celebration
We are having stress because of Coronavirus pandemic. But by celebrating events we can forget our stress for some time. Holidays are given by organisations for the festivals. Celebrating festivals and making holidays special will create distinction from one day to the next day. In a world of isolation and uncertainty, celebration means a lot. Finding moments of delight and celebrating them will give courage to face the tough times. We celebrate events joyously even during lockdown. Mother’s Day, Earth Day, Buddha Purnima, May Day, Ram Navami, Good Friday, Ambedkar Jayanti and Easter have been celebrated. There were digital ways of celebrating these festivals. People enjoyed themselves in the celebration of events.
