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As the year ends, let me take you down the memory lane through my experiences, when all ruckus began.... "the Summers of 2020."  The summers this year started a bit early; the scorching heat of the sun made me sweating from early March itself. Even the vacations began very soon and lasted so long that it hasn’t come to an end yet. This summer, I have gone through a series of emotions and experiences that are full of contrasts. Unlike the rest of the years, after a point- I felt like I want to be in college, be with my friends, play together, attend lectures, and plan out for some activity outside. In the beginning, for a few days, I experienced Joy; I was delighted that I’ll get some time to rest and to learn something new.  Due to the lockdown, many people started losing their jobs - the economy began to fumble - I experienced a sense of fear, anxiety, and insecurity, thinking about what will happen to us if we also go through the same financial crisis. Since we got off fro...

The views expressed in the blog are solely of the writer. Dayatva blogs does not endorse these views in any way. Laws were originally established to create order in the society. It is a simple idea that bad deeds or crimes are followed by proportional consequences, or punishments. However, being right or wrong not always a clearly objective question. For example, it is a little wrong to say that tomato is a vegetable. It is very wrong to say it is a suspension bridge. Similarly, not every crime is equally serious, which calls for different punishments of varying severity. The one to be discussed is the capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, which, as the name suggests, dictates that the perpetrator of the crime be put to death. It is a widely debated topic whether it is morally correct for the law enforcement to play god, taking away the life of the people that have been convicted of proportional crimes. Before we get into the argument, let us assume that we are talking a...

  In a world where young students are still pressured to obtain a certain degree to prove their worth, this is a tale that reminds us that life is much bigger than what we end up thinking of it, and relies more on what we make of it. Born to a lower middle class family, Ranjitsinh Disale dropped out of Engineering, and was persuaded by his father to undergo teachers training, hoping that might interest him. Ranjitsinh indeed not just took to teaching, but did it in a way that revolutionized education, improved the condition of his small village by several fold, and brought himself and the country international recognition.   Disale won this year's Global Teacher Prize, by Varkey foundation. This included a cash prize of 1 Million US dollars - half of which he donated to the other top 9 contestants. There were over 12000 nominations across the world this year. "I may have won the award but I can’t change the world alone, one Ranjitsinh Disale can’t do it on his own. And...

The text is based entirely on my views and does not intend on hurting anyone’s feelings. “But why the need for punishment?” is a question many of us would have asked as a child who hadn’t done homework. For me it was while standing outside the class in the 1st grade. Imagine a city of chaos full of odious monsters with the audacity of Satan jumping freely on the remnants around the city. Nothing short of a living hell. Yes, this is close enough to a world without punishments. Punishment- an imposition of rancid outcome over a person or a group, pointed out by the law, as a result of any particular behaviour often thought as an unwelcomed curse is actually a boon in disguise which keeps people within their lines, thus maintaining proper decorum in the society. Punishments have been a part of each and every society since time immemorial. They are known to have taken different forms- slavery to burning alive throughout history. Why? More than the punishment itself, the type of punishment ...