Unleash the power in YOU

All of us are very familiar with the stories of Fairy Land, the Magical Lamp, Fairy Godmother and many more such stories which take us to the world of fantasy of to a world of magical spells. At times we wish to have a magical lamp or a genie or a magical wand as part of our lives, just to make things easy and favorable to us. On the other hand, most of us dismiss these fairy tale adventures as wishful thinking, and leave it. Yet, wishful thinking may not be very far from the truth after all. We are not just speaking about the lottery tickets or lucky draw winners, but those who seem to glide from success to success. They are not just wealthy but the blessed, healthy and happy; they who seem to be happy and content in whatever they do. They are just the minority. But, what is it that makes them successful in every step they put forward, why is it that luck always favor them these are just the most common questions thought of. The fact is that, each of us have a genie within ourselves. We are gifted with the incredible power of attraction. That power has the ability to make our wishes come true. It is not something that is mysterious or magical; it is a positive energy, which connects to the universe. If we can tap this energy, then we can attract all that we desire towards us. But what is this positive energy? Or how do we increase it? We have some idea that if we believe something to be real or be possible, that knowledge or belief entirely just changes our perception of it. We also know that there is some truth in coincidence. Many a times it happens that we wake up expecting a bad day, and a bad day is just what we get. If we feel happy, optimistic and look forward to an event, it often turns out to be an enjoyable and uplifting experience. It is the mind that is playing. Mind is an incredible complex and powerful resource. Its power is just potentially high and unlimited. It controls our fears, which affect our determination and confidence; it controls all our emotions and shapes our believes and faith. We cannot see it nor touch it. But our power and potential to direct it is limitless. It is an incredible resource and it is all ours. Most of us literally believe that the world deals out bad things to us. It is fairly easy to hear such people, as they are everywhere. They are just filled with blame and negative thoughts and feelings. By just changing the way we think. We can actually change our lives. It just requires us to reach for thoughts that make us feel better at all times. Mind has a special character whatever we fill our mind with, it has the habit of attracting it towards us. So, focus on the positive and the light. Thereby, we are making our lives happy and making others happy. Marina Mathew II Sem, MCA

INDIA My Dream
All of us want India to become a respectable super power nation, in par with the other developed nations. India has a rich past and hence was invaded innumerable times and its wealth drained to other countries. The British rule exploited us and the whole of India was in anguish and turmoil. India starts with I, I means me. I have a dream for India a peaceful, progressive, literate, developed nation. Free from the pangs of poverty, where every citizen feels free and secure, where health is given top priority and where every women of the country is treated with utmost respect and dignity. It is true that one person alone cannot solve all the problems of removing corruption from the society, educating every child or to fix the roads. But, still each of us can do many small things thereby contributing a LARGE deal to our nation. That is to say we must work right at the foundation, which is at the YOUTH LEVEL. The foundation of the youth is shaped with the primary education. At primary schools, the spirit of patriotism, strong leadership qualities, moral and ethical values are taught, nurtured and developed, which help the individual in realizing his/her potential and thereby contributing their best in developing our INDIA. Honest, principled leaders are required and they can bring a drastic change in our country by bringing down the rate of corruption and other social evils of the society. Thereby, wipeout the filth from our country, and help it grow much stronger and stand in par with the developed countries in every fields of technology.

Marina Mathew II Sem, MCA

Women For a Better Indian Society

In the past, the Indian society treated women as maids or slaves as if they had no desire of their own. They had to follow their husbands in all matters. They were made as payments for loss in gambling, they were forced to burn themselves alive by jumping onto the funeral pyre of their husband practice of satti. The practice of satti existed to some extent till the end of 19th century, though strictly banned by law. Even today, the practice continues in some remote villages in India. Some regions even offer women to be exploited. To the women sect, it was forced that the women may live without a choice regardless of whether she is a little girl, a young lady or a matured woman. A young girl is under the command and choice of her father, a married woman is under the command and choice of her husband, a widow is under the command and choice of her sons, and she may never become independent. Further, a widow may never re-marry, but rather, she was forced to neglect all that she likes in terms of food, clothes and cosmetics until her death. Women had no ownership to anything they acquired or gained, as it would go straight and immediately to the ownership of her husband. Over all this, when a male child was born into a family, it was celebrated with lot of pomp and joy but for a female child it is just sorrow and curse. Female feticide prevailed to a great extent in the society. Though our constitution assures and promises to secure all its citizens Justice economic, social and political, equality before law and equal protection of laws for all, even today raising the status of women to the one of equality, freedom and dignity is still a question mark. Women are responsible for baring children, yet they are mal nourished and in poor health. Women are made to over work in the fields and take up all domestic work. Most Indian women are uneducated. Although our constitution says women have equal status with men, women are made powerless and ill treated inside and outside the home. We are still living in a society where the male is greatly revered and hence, women, especially the young girls, get very little respect and standing in this country. Very few women seek medical care while pregnant because it is thought of as a temporary condition. This is one main reason why Indias maternal and infant mortality rates are so high. Starting from birth, girls do not receive as much care and commitment from their parents and society as a boy would. Our constitution further guarantees free primary schooling to everyone up to the age of 14 years, very few girls attend. Only about 39% of all women in India actually attend primary schools. People are still of the notion that

 Nothing is got in return for educating their daughters Though they are financially able, they feel that females in household have the responsibility of the household work and that, the time she spends in school could be used in doing the chores. Even if educated, especially in the poorer regions, there is no hope for a good job and most jobs women perform are agricultural or domestic which do not require any formal education. Cultural believes and traditions that discriminate against women may be officially discredited but they continue to flourish at the grass root level. A number of laws have been brought forth to protect and fight for the rights of women, but still there exist a sense of insecurity, humility and helplessness that always keep the women mum. We need to encourage the women of our country to come out of their hindrances and thereby build our economy. Today, half the total population is women, but it earns only 1/10 th of the world income. By encouraging women we are giving them the opportunity to do what they want to do, may it be studying, stay at home or work and be free from violence. And this is what makes gender equality complete. And not just respecting women, non discrimination against women and a civil justice system that guarantees womens rights. We never know India may have many more Prathiba Patel, Indra Nooyi, Barka Dhutt, Chanda Kotchar, Sunita Williams. We must support and encourage women for a better India, for a developed India and must be done from villages to cities.

Marina Mathew II Sem, MCA

Repeat thrice rapidly

I used to regard tongue twisters merely as a childish pastime, which our elders permitted because these oral tricks were supposed to teach us to speak carefully. However, since I started collecting them I have found that they perform many more function. A successful singer told me that twisters are a part of her daily practice. Radio announcers, I am told, are often required to recite difficult twisters as tests; for instance, The seething sea ceaseth and thus sufficeth us. To make her mouth small, a woman was told to purse her lips and say Fancy Finch fried five floundering fish for Francis father. One man credits She sells sea shells with having cured him of lisping. I wonder if he can lisplessly say The Sixth Sheiks sixth sheeps sick. A young woman writes that her dentist father makes patients with new plates practice on Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fist against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. Here is a difficult old English tongue muddler

She stood at the door of Burgess fish sauce shop welcoming him. Try this delightful dialogue between the Dutchess and the Tinker Are you copper bottoming em, my man? Nom, Im aluminiuming em, mum. Here are some of the older tongue twisters. Remember, you have mastered none until you can repeat it thrice rapidly and correctly Truly rural. Strange strategic statistics. Tie twine to three twigs. Six slim slick slender saplings. New twisters are constantly appearing, either accidently or by deliberate creation. For example, Pre shrunk shirts. Double bubble gum dubbles double. A blokes black brake block broke. And now, if your tang is so tangled that you cannot stalk trait, try three doses of old fashioned Lemon liniment

Marina Mathew II Sem, MCA