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No Country for Migrant Workers

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I hope everyone is doing well during this lockdown period. Some fortunate people are at home with their families, while some may be crawling in their cribs, away from their loved ones, hoping this pandemic to get over soon. It is obvious that everyone is suffering, up to some extent, due to this invisible enemy-Covid-19. The people in upper strata of the society are still able to, somehow, manage the situation, while there is another class –that is most vulnerable; most neglected, amongst all. They are ‘Migrant Workers’.                                                                                                                             Image for representation ...

Fifty Shades of Social Media

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For last few years, we are witnessing a kind of social media revolution in our country that can be labelled as The Great Indian Vomiting Revolution . Now we are not ordinary people; everyone has become global content writer, philosopher, international transmitter and broadcaster. There is hurry everywhere to jump on the social media bandwagon before it’s too late. Then there are social media groups for everything. One single person is part of dozens of such groups. Family, relatives, school and college friends, office colleagues all are connected through these groups. Type of posts and content of each group is different; however, there are some similarities also. Our normal day start with facing bombardment of lot of morning wishes, sanskari messages and posts over such groups and the creator of such chain messages threaten people to like/comment and forward such sanskar to ten more people or face serious consequences. By afternoon, sanskari messages are replaced by hatred...

Jojoda : A Unique Marriage System of Jaunsar-Bawar

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I was grown and brought up in various small towns and cities,despite this,i am very much attached to my native place.I always believe: no matter where you go in your life,no matter what you become,how much you earn, you should never forget your roots.This sense of belongingness with your society always prompt you  to understand it, its tradition and its socio-cultural identity. PC-  Chakrata- the heart of Jaunsar-Bawar I belongs to an ethnic tribe called ' Jaunsari' , which traces its origin from the Pandavas of Mahabharata & Rajputs of Rajasthan.We are called descendants of Pandavas.Topographically hilly,Jaunsar-Bawar area is situated in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand state,having two parts:lower part is called Jaunsar and upper part is called Bawar.This area remained cutoff from external world for centuries,that leads to the retention of our unique tradition and culture till now. Every society has its unique tradition and socio-cultural system which is different from o...

A journey to a mystique place: Sikkim

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It was a funny,sunny day😎(not Sunday) ,having some scattered clouds here and there, that gave me some sort of warning that it might rain in the afternoon, but,i wasn't concerned about that warning because by afternoon i would be on the other side of rain-spectrum to catch the trade-winds,the spectrum that is famous for its ever-green rain forest. We started our journey to Sikkim,which is called a land of mystique on 21st June 2017.On that day,I awoke around 8 am in the morning with the help of an alarm clock, that forced me to step out of my comfort zone, "My Bed" 😊.I was supposed to leave to airport by 10 Am in the morning.I went to market to purchase some goods( that's a secret ) and returned by 9.30 am .My friend, who was also going with me, informed me that flight was delayed due to some operational reason( well,operational reasons always sucks because of their lack of clarity and transparency..i wish i could also use these reasons for all of my excuses😜 ...