puhblic private sector ads and dis ads essay

Many young professionals are found to be changing their career much more frequently today than before, and as a result they change their place of residence too.

What advantages and disadvantages do they enjoy when they switch careers and place of residence?

When it comes to one’s career,
different people have different likes and dislikes.
Some prefer private
Some prefer public.
They have reasons too as there are ads and disads for both.

Private
Major
Ads Dis ads.
Huge salary and perks No job security
Great growth prospects No pension. Dependant benefit
Sophisticated environment Health risks, limited leaves
New challenges and rewards Pressures and stress
Needs many skillsets
Public
Ads Dis ads

Job security for life No change: boredom
Service award and Pension Frequent transfers
Social status and value Social responsibility
Family gets medical cover Poor promotion
Free environ: enough leaves Limited income

Conclude
The choice is individual
Depends on one’s attitude
Success in ones career is attitudinal
So, hard to say one is better than the other.

Jayp.12.12 pm. 11/11/08

changing careers an essay skeleton for ielts

Many young professionals are found to be changing their career much more frequently today than before, and as a result they change their place of residence too.

What advantages and disadvantages do they enjoy when they switch careers and place of residence?

Intro:

Professionals are living in a world of opportunities:
These opportunities are mostly from private sector.
Chance for growth is very high, and job satisfaction is relative
Ambitious professionals switch their career
Change is taking place much faster.


Career advantages and disadvantages

The enjoy many:
Better pay packages Rising cost of living
Better working environment Takes a little time every time to adjust
Opportunity to learn new things A Regular career may be difficult
Experience change and challenges. But more responsibilities


Change of residence advantages and disadvantages.

Young professions get many advantages and disadvantages:

Better quality life in a different place Packing and moving
New neighbours, new social life Adjusting with a new set up
Frequent changes make them smarter it’s hard to have regular social life


Conclude:
Change is always good.
Opportunities are challenges,
Living a different life, and doing a different job is interesting.
It is more advantageous. jaypee

Careeer change an essay for ielts

Some people say that shifting careers frequently is an opportunity to grow differently, whereas some others say it creates so many difficulties to a person.

What advantages people enjoy when they change their career frequently?
Why is frequent shift in careers very common today?


In the past, people were giving much importance to job security. But today, the situation has changed and people think that job satisfaction is more important than job security. So, the people are changing their careers frequently, especially youngsters. They argue that change is an opportunity to learn and grow differently. This essay discusses the benefits that people enjoy out this and the reasons for the same. 65 words.

There are so many advantages for this frequent shift in careers. Firstly, change itself is a learning experience. Each individual can learn about new working methods and new technologies. Secondly, better opportunities lead to better pay packs. In today’s world money is supreme. So, people will go for high paying jobs. Thirdly, everybody wants to stay in tough with the emerging trends. As we are living in a fast changing world, there is always change in people’s professional attitude. For example, before some ten years, people gave importance to medical field, but now it is IT and management. 95 words.

If we investigate the reasons for its prevalence today, we can see that the presence of global organizations in the third world nations is very high, and they compete each other for hiring productive employees. This can make employees leave one organization and go for another. Another reason is that today’s youngsters are highly ambitious and they always look for betterment in their career and life. This is more common when the cost of living rises much faster than ever before. 80 words

In conclusion, it is right to say that frequent career change is more common today, and it is contributed my many factors such as professional, social, individual and global. And this trend is likely to continue like this as the world is always on the move and is changing. 45 words
280 words
Written by Elizabeth Baby
Preparation. 6.12.08
Type et by jaypee.

Earn while you learn. an essay skeleton for IELTS

Earn while you learn is an in-built academic activity commonly seen only in rich nations, and students are found to be enjoying a lot many advantages out of this.
What advantages do students enjoy?
Why is this practice not seen in poor nations?
A skeleton for level 2. 5.12.08.
Intro: Min. 40 words
Academic expense is increasing
Earn while learn is an excellent idea. It helps students
Today, people give more importance to multi-tasking.
Spending many years purely for academics is no good.
Student life is the right time to foster attitude in children.
Doing something is learning something.

Adv: There are many
If look at the advantages…
Students enjoy many….
It helps students in many ways.
Major ones: Min. 90 words
Supports ones studies financially.
Helps utilize time excellently.
Students can support their family.
They identify their skills, talents
They know about their strengths much early
Develops soft skills and work culture
Offers hand-on experience
Boosts their morale and makes them confident
It prepares them to face the world.
Offers them great variety in life

Not common in poor nations: Min. 90 words

Earn while you learn is serious academic activity
It involves students.
Poornations are hugely populated.
Infrastructure is poor.
Students may be exploited
Case of abuse may be there
Limited rules and regulations to safeguard children.
Private participation in schooling does not promote it
Concl: Min. 40 words
It is a brilliant idea to allow students to…
If implemented, it would help….
The advantages show that it is good…..
Earn while you learn can be implemented in poor….
We must educate the parents about the….
Total 260 words
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Shortcut to shame: any takers?

Shortcut to shame: any takers?


You may have innumerable ways to be famous. A hundred more ways are there to be infamous too. Have you ever seen someone seeking a shortcut to shame? Has anyone tried to taste shame much faster than what it normally takes to be shameful? Is not shame something worth pursuing if it is achieved through some shortcut? Questions galore. Don’t forget it.

We are living in an environment where everything has some takers. Keep any service or product or dirt or dust, filth and waste for sale, you would be unpleasantly surprised if some doesn’t turn up bargaining for the same. Say, you are keeping a used toothbrush, used by Aiswarya Rai Bachan, for sale. You will be inundated by trade enquiries. On the contrary, a pen used by Rushdie, a pair of spectacles used by Einstein, a paintbrush used by Raja Ravi Varma, or something like that would normally invite some pleasant bids for purchase. We can understand the spirit behind such bids.

On the other hand, a bitten apple, a used towel, an over used bikini and even a tooth pick, if used by some erstwhile limelight personae, would grab the enthusiasm of some crazy ones and they would go to the extent of finding eternal peace by owning these filths. Here they are not going for fame by shelling out bales of hard currency, but they are desperately out trying to be shameful via shortcuts. Their means are shortcuts, their intentions are insidious, their happiness is despicable and finally the limelight they in turn come to hog is outright purchases.

What doesn’t go here? What doesn’t sell here? What is our place not a market for? Fame is out for sale, shame is out for sale, greatness is out for sale, successes and failures are out for sale. If lethal venom is served free, we WILL queue up and gobble up a little.

We are increasingly becoming immune to many of our innate qualities like decency, dignity and shame. Our ways are short. Our deeds do not last. Our thoughts do not transcend. Our life doesn’t trendset. We are marching past everything that is hard-earned. We look for shortcuts, even to shame. Pity.

The dogging insensitivity

The dogging insensitivity
Vaatupura A Jayaprakash

Night does not fall on us these days,
We fall prey to night.
So are our thoughts,
that they do not come of us
We simply are of them.

Rain and wind and sun and moon and mist
And whatever rest we have for free
Have been here for millennia
So are they going to be.
The change is in us,
that we do not want them to be.

A way to virtue now looks vile
All good ways are but for a while.
Once they are seen and understood
We know how and when
to hoodwink the ones who come to find,
the same thing we all had once come for.

It is our religion, and our psychology
That we should venture not into sense.
It is insensitivity that we all being fed
Not to be dogged down by the opposite.
We are well off when we are cruel.
Sorry to say, not the other way round.

Alcohol and tobacco: no longer slow killers

Alcohol and tobacco: no longer slow killers
A. Jayaprakash KOVILLOOR

The medical fraternity around the world and those advocates of human welfare and fitness keep us believe that alcohol and tobacco are slow killers. This is no longer true. It is really ironical and ridiculous to be under the impression that something that keeps you live longer is called something else and something that kills you much faster is a slow killer. I do not understand why people believe that these two are slow killers.

Who in this world is interested to die a faster death than what he or she is destined to live in this sphere? Is there someone who can say that ‘I do not want to live longer in this world, so I want to die faster than I would?’ In today’s world of sophistication and comforts, there will be hardly any one who would make a wish this way.

Eventually, I am prone to ask; need there not be a little reason when these advocates make a claim of this magnitude which is likely to affect the lives of millions of people around the world and a multi-billion industry which flourishes on the same? We need to. We need to have a strict regime of terminology in place to define and brand things as they actually are.

In my opinion it is our good eating habits, healthy life style practices, encouraging and rejuvenating hobbies, our sense of humour, medical awareness and above all our will to stay away from the temptations of drugs, tobacco and alcohol are the things that make us live longer, that is, they do not allow us to die faster. They are the real slow killers. Are they not so?

Is it not true that when we do follow a good diet and healthy lifestyle, we are likely to live to be octogenarians and nonagenarians? Such people do not face faster deaths the same way the ones who take alcohol, get addicted to drugs and take on tobacco do. They do die faster.

Therefore, it is unfair to call alcohol, tobacco and their allied products as slow killers. They are fast killers, or faster killers. We have people who get killed in their thirties and forties and fifties thanks to their association with these bad habits. So long live slow killers like healthy life styles, balanced diets, timely eating habits and similar health regime.

Healthcare watchdogs and advocates of human welfare, you may please take stock and brand alcohol and tobacco as fast killers, not the other way round. I am sure it would make great changes in the way people take on these habits. Let all people die slowly and slowly and slowly, living life to the full, or taking life to the dregs. Not taking their life by drugging and drinking.

Therefore, world Tobalccoholics, beware you are on a much faster way out. And all those ones who have a little love for life, may get chronically addicted to slow killers like good food and healthy life style practices. Anymore takers for a novel addiction???

Human callousness: we need to mend our ways

Human callousness: we need to mend our ways
Vaatupura A. Jayaprakash

We all naturally claim to be beings of good reason and most of our actions are supposed to be either governed or dictated by reason or in common parlance, common sense. But it is true in most of the cases too. But if we look around, we will be able to see innumerable actions we meticulously carry out thinking that they are ineffectual and the same are not going to have any impact on others. And there are occasions in our life where we feel complacent and conclude that it is OK to be not OK, and we go o0n doing things that are not at all alright or acceptable to others. Yes, it is very difficult to do all things confirming to the expectations of others. Let us see a few activities that, in my opinion, are nothing short of chronic callousness.

· A small gutter that gets formed in front of our painted compound wall is a threat to the wall. So we callously place a huge boulder on the gutter so that the automobiles would not splash water on your wall. How many of us take time off to fill that gutter properly? Do we ever think that an unsuspecting road user is likely to lose his life thanks to this indigenous ‘road rule’? Do you not think it is callousness?
· You are held up in a traffic jam. You have the clear idea that you cannot move your vehicle unless the one in front of you moves. Still you honk your horn continuously as if the person in front of you is the reason for the block. And if possible we will nose up our vehicle to the down line and try to overpass all the held up vehicles making the whole process an unmanageable mess. We do it.
· If you are on a two-wheeler, you have no road rules. If traffic is blocked, you will take the front wheel of your two-wheeler through any narrow divide that you find in between any two vehicles ahead. The picture is clear; you have done your little share to the mess.
· Let’s come back to our homes. Imagine that you unload a tipper full of sand in front of your house, right on the public road. Instead of removing the sand dune as early as possible, we keep it protected from being washed off by barricading it with either hollow bricks or the ball like boulders that we unload for construction. They will be there prepared to fell any road user or motorist or flatten tires of any make. Do we not do it? And if the unloaded boulders and sand happen to be a little more than what is needed, we simply abandon the remaining on the road itself, as if they had been there for ages.
· You are engaged in a cleaning spree, your room, back yard and surroundings. The spree leaves you with a heap of waste degradable, non-degradable, inflammable and bursting-if-heated things. What would you do with that? We simply abandon it on the roadside. Or we pack them in a gunny bag and along with the kitchen waste, we take it to a ‘no man’s land, some public place where we not find any public. This nasty waste management is prime sign of human callousness.
· Take this example. You are in a queue. You know you are supposed to follow the person right in front of you. How many times you wouldn’t lean or leap over the shoulders of the person in front of you? You know he cannot help you. You know this behaviour of yours does not help him either to speed up the process.
· Walking up two floors takes a few seconds. And it is good to avoiding lifts and elevators for your physique. But we find it alright to wait for minutes to get the lift to the third, second and even first floor.
· Shell we take a look at the way when we walk on the road? Roads are meant for pedestrians. It was true. But today, roads are meant for automobiles too. You blow your horn one or two times when you see a buffalo on the road, it will give you way. On the other hand, you sound your horn a hundred times seeing a man on the move; sorry you have to manage your way ahead on your own.
· You may have seen mothers taking their kids for a walk or letting the baby walk. Most probably these mothers let the baby walk on the tar and the mother would walk through the roadside. The kid with spring like behaviour is a potential threat to any road user. They skip or slip off their parent’s hands and fall prey to speeding vehicles. Have you not seen this callousness of mothers?
· Haven’t you seen cyclists taking the right side? Two wheelers overtake on the left. Auto-rickshaws plying crammed with scores of kids and their bulging school bags suspended all over the upholstery? And tell me what haven’t you seen? Still, do you not do it at times?

The above said are a few of our civilized callousness. Using mobiles while driving and riding two wheelers, indiscriminately eating things that kill us, making the world much more noisy instead of making it peaceful when you find some happiness in your life. Shouting, whistling, hauling, bursting crackers and so goes that list. Racing two wheelers much faster than the machine can do and ramming against speeding trucks, alter that two wheeler with all the noise making devices to make the people in the vicinity suffer from heart attacks, channeling our effluents and green water to the surroundings thereby threatening the neighbours and the society with communicable and water bourn diseases; and the list is endless.

We all need to be thinking minimum two times before we do any one of the above-mentioned callousness which we do presuming that they are not harmful, but they actually are. Because these behaviours have claimed many lives, made many crippled and a lot more better-dead-than-living. Shall we make amends in the ways we behave? For good of course.

Love at the times of life

Love at the times of life
Vaatupura A. Jayaprakash

By way of definition, it has been hard for people of all ages to come up with a complete one for love. It is one for one and another for another. Parents to their children, husband to wife, wife to husband, brother to sister and sister to brother, teacher to student, student to teacher, a friend to another and god to his devotees, devotees to their idols; and so goes the dimensions of love. And it is the only force that life has got to deal with whatever dimensions it takes in its course. It is so ubiquitous in the sense that it is found even in the severest of adversities and in the minds of the cruelest of adversaries, to be precise.

However, by way of definition, we have failed to come to a conclusion on what love actually is. This failure could be either our strength or our weakness. The interesting thing about this is that love is able to make us strong when we are weak, and it is at the same time able to make us weak when we are strong. It binds us together when we are at odds. It even makes us touch the extremes of our potential. It enables us to salvage ourselves from all depths. And there are instances to prove the fact that love is able to bring back people from the brinks of death, abysses of despair and deluge of utter doom.

Unfortunately, it is this same love or one or many of its dimensions that make people kill their fellow beings. A good number of murders are committed out of love; love for money, love for blood, love for pleasure, love for lust, love for dignity, status, social value, and there are murders committed just out of the love for seeing people suffer and die. If we take a cursory glance at the reasons for murders, we may understand that love down human history has killed much more than what hate, animosity or disputes have killed. It is the love for one’s country that makes a warrior kill and again it is the love for one’s nation that makes many soldiers face bullets with their bare breasts.

Jesus was a victim of love. It was his love for his Master or his disciples. Judas was a victim of love. Satan was a victim of love. God himself was, and so were Adam and Eve. And all their descendants are but the same. Father, mother, brother, sister, friends and foes, neighbours, both good and bad, lovers, male and female; and who else does not come under this labyrinthine fabrics of love that lie encompassing the whole cosmos?

Love, if thou art so unfathomable in these fleeting times of life, I would love to dwell deep in you so to know yet another dimension of your visage. It is in the prayers that Gods live, not in their answers. So is love. It is in its manifestations that love lives, not in its definitions. At these turbulent times of love, it is better to fear love than to fathom it.

The World E Day: Are we going to Pick Right?

The World E Day: Are we going to Pick Right?

Are you going to seriously pick something right to save the environment you live in? If yes, please start doing it from May 5, for it is the World Environment Day. All the national debates, seminars, symposiums and even the periodic ritualistic intentional summits on environmental protection like the last Bali conference notwithstanding, the real change is going to take place only when we think in terms of proactive lifestyle picks aimed at either saving the already harmed environment we live in or not harming it anymore in anyway.

It’s all fine to be concerned about the environment. But all the concerns get their due meaning only when they are translated into responsible actions that every thinking individual is capable of performing. However, our very attitude towards environment is more of words than of deeds. We hardly do anything on this line unless the so called environmental hazards start affecting our personal lives, the lives that flourish among the four cozy walls of our homes, to be precise, in our bed rooms. We claim that we are educated, civilized and advanced. Though it won’t be too far when we happen to have such a hazardous environmental scenario, we individually do precious little to save the planet.

On this day, May 5, let’s all reiterate that everyone is responsible for whatever environmental impacts we are suffering from and it is we who are going do our due shares so as to cut down on environmentally unfriendly deeds. What shall we do individually to Pick Right?

1. Shall we learn to live with smaller families and minimal needs and comforts? It pays to be taking what one actually needs from the environment. This will help the nature maintain its recycling mechanism in tact so that the whole world will be able to sustain whatever number of beings that may come to occupy in it in all the ages to come. We are able to do something towards this, I am sure.

2. It is the well being of the world outside that is actually going to decide the well being of our world inside our homes. Therefore, never ever spoil, litter or deface the environment thinking that, oh, it is some else’s issue. If you think so, please remember that you are a mere someone to every other person you see outside your family. So, think inclusively. Please ensure that you help the society process the wastes of all types that get generated in your homes. Do not discard gunny bagsful of your wastes on the wayside. It is hazardous to be so uncouth.

3. Buy things that come with very little wastes attached. Go natural for your personal care needs. It is the personal care goods that leave the biggest chunk of waste in our indoors. Tubes, sachets, containers, covers, packets and their inlays and consoles are unmanageable. They come for a price and they come here to stay. So please adopt responsible and eco-friendly shopping practices.

4. Meanwhile, please keep a shopping bag with you. It would discourage the most hazardous plastic carry bags. Don’t buy things that harm your well being. Take a decision today that you would never buy things that come with freebees. They are threats to environment. In today’s commercialized world order, you get much less than what you pay for. There is nothing called a free meal. No manufacturer is idiotic enough to offer you things for free. So, responsible shopping is more environmental. Make good buys, and say good bye to all those things that the market forces thrust upon you. They may force you to buy. But you need not force them to sell.

5. How about our eating habits? Do you know one thing that our ineffectual tongue does greater harm to our environment than all the industrial exhaust pipes and chimneys do. In order to satiate the taste buds, we go for exotic dishes and junk food. They are hazardous not only to our health but to your natural wealth also. You eat much more than what your anatomy needs. It creates imbalance in the supply demand chain. As you demand more, the nature and manufacturers have to produce more. More production leads to environmental concerns of various types. Producing more by spending too much raw material, exerting undue pressure on the power grid, burning a lot of fuel in transport, emitting a lot of gases and fumes in the process of production and transport, and so goes the list of environmental disorders you make out of your efforts to satisfy your taste buds. So it is a better idea to eat to be fit and be fit to be eating all life long. It is not only environment friendly, it is you-and-your-family-friendly also. Go for home-mades and thus go green. Glass bottles, ceramic cups, containers and plates are much better than their disposable counterparts.

6. When it comes to our mobility, what if we walk short distances? And for moderate distances let’s have a bicycle ride, and for family trips we may go for our cars or two wheelers. What if make long distance journeys in buses, stage carriers, trains and such modes of mass mobility! It is fun travelling together. It is great fun when you travel with strangers or people who you have no knowledge of before. Doing so, you are not burning petrol or diesel for your selfish travel comforts, your vehicle does not add to the traffic congestion and the pollution thereof, you do not face death and deformity on the way in the form of accidents, and finally your wallet will have regular breathers. Walking, the healthiest of human actions, is mentally and environmentally relaxing. Agreed!

7. Luxuries like palatial homes, their exotic interiors and power supported appliances and light fittings, costly mobiles, automobiles and similar cosmetic social value parameters, our insatiable greed and ever increasing glut for more, our chronic obsession with what is in store for us and finally our uncouth attitude and criminal indifference towards whatever is not ours are much more hazardous to the environment than all those parochial claims and petty counter claims the developing and the developed nations exchange at international environmental forums and climate summits.

8. Please remember, it is the above said human behaviour that necessitates this life threatening environmental uncertainty. All claims on carbon emission, green cover loss, temperature rise, ozone depletion, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, climate change and the like are results of the same human behaviour. So it is time we all came to the picture, an all encompassing frame.

If we all could live sustainable and mutually depending lives, the environment we live in will be a much better place in the coming days too. So, on this May 5th, we may take a resolve that our coming days are more environmentally responsible days, and every one of us stay bound to do our shares not to harm the surroundings any more, no matter whether the Bali Climate Summit is rejected by the US, or the Kyoto Protocol is a farce for some nations or the developing countries are bearing the brunt of global environmental impacts necessitated be developed countries. The onus lies in every one of us.


Please act, not react. And we all may pleasantly come to understand in the long run that every responsible action is a reaction and every such action will make many a people react in more ways than one. Will this May 5 mark the beginning of such a responsible behavior from you and me and all around us? Please say, yes. Yes, from this May 5 onwards, I repeat, right from this May 5 onwards, I am going to Pick Right lifestyle choices.

Road safety at the times of school opening

Road safety at the times of school opening
A Jayaprakash Kovilloor

Yet another academic year is around the corner, and as usual, so is south west monsoon. Our kids are going out again to pursue their next levels and a great number of toddlers are going to attend schools for the first time. Their fears and the apprehensions of their parents are not unfounded because they are going to have tough times ahead when they think about the roads and the transport infrastructure these kids are going to depend upon.

Have we done the ground work to accommodate the fresh school goers along with the regulars this time at least? We have the notorious tendency to act upon something only when we taste the bitter aftermath of a tragedy. Our kids are going to face a lot of difficulties on the roads and we need to do lot many things to avert eventualities. What shall we do to ensure a smooth ride to our children to school?

· Parents have to be strict in not cramming their kids in auto rikshaws and similar precarious modes of transports.
· When private bus operators are found to be skipping bus stops, the responsible citizens should raise their voice against it.
· If the same is found repeated, the best thing the elders could do is to boycott such buses on a regular basis. We have to tell them, if they fail to be considerate with our kids, they are not going to get passengers.
· The state owned transport corporation may run enough buses during peak hours, say between eight and ten and three and five.
· The staff of these buses need to be given strict instruction to take maximum number of children and take them safely to their destinations.
· Those nasty road abusers need to be nabbed and brought to book, and their licensed cancelled outright.
· Heavy vehicles like those notorious killer tippers need to be banned from roads during peak hours.
· Traffic officials may ensure that traffic is moving smoothly. They may deploy enough staff at strategic places so that drivers, pedestrians and passengers will enjoy smooth flow.
· All electric powered traffic signals should to serviced and kept in good condition because monsoon is around and repair work may not be possible once it is raining.
· All major bus bays need to be fitted with quequeing facilities so that children can queue up to their buses and thus we may avoid stop-and-run accidents. We have plenty of such stories to our credit.
· All school authorities who own their fleet of buses have to train their drivers and cleaners so that children will get better movement to and fro.
· The telephone service providers who periodically dig drenches and canals by the roads should be asked to do their job responsibly.
· All private vehicles owners may take time off to take their vehicles to the work shop and have a check up and fix those sensitive spots like brakes, tires, wipers, horn, indicators and head lights.
· School authorities may deploy a few teachers in front of the school before and after the school hours to ensure that their children cross the road safely.
· School children should not be allowed to take two wheelers in the school compound.
· Parents may be given instructions not to let their kids travel by bikes.
· Bicycling to school is a good idea, but students need to give strict instructions to follow all traffic rules.
· School children should not be allowed to travel pinion on bicycles, and cycling to school in groups, at times, is dangerous.
· And parents who take their kids to school on their way to office must remember one thing. When they take two kids and their bags and baggage along, they are taking their whole life with them. Be careful and do not cram your two wheeler with more than it can afford.
· And parents, please don’t be over ambitious with your kids. Let them travel freely, let them play out, let them climb, run, go under sun and get wet during rains. This will do them good.
· The notorious school bags that include, Tiffin box(es), water bottle, even oxygen cylinders are a big problem to growing kids. Let these bags be small and handy enough to carry.
· Children may be given the freedom to walk up to their school if the same is located nearby say a few kilometers away. A street conscious student will grow healthier than comfort-conscious one.
· And finally we the grown up ones will have to (man)handle those eve teasers and female mongers who pry on growing school girls.
· Female police officer can be deployed in buses and bus bays and they may be given enough leeway to handle such menaces with iron hands.
· Political leaders and the so-called social reformers need to stay off the cases registered against traffic offenders.
· The police need to be pupil-friendly and public servants, and school children should feel free to approach them whenever their service is needed.
· The private bus operators who grease the hands of the police must understand one thing that they are playing with the lives of innocent kids and the great expectations of their parents.
· And finally, even if everything is said and one, the department of health need to stay prepared to manage any eventuality that may occur, of course, accidentally.
· All road users must remain calm and decent on the road and when they pass by a school, please sound horn, slow down and show respect to road using kids.

If we can do our due shares in this direction, a lot many accidents could be avoided and our children will enjoy better schooling this time. The education department is doing everything possible to keep the confidence level of kids at new highs at every new result, and it is the responsibility of the ministry too to make things work in such a way that this academic year is going to be free from accidents and accident related traumas.

The Parent Teachers Association, Teachers Assocations, students’ wings of political parties and all those ones who have a boy or girl studying somewhere need to be concerned about the well being of all the kids on the road.

THE media and fake advertisements: Surveillance needed

A. Jayaprakash. Kovilloor

Newspapers and similar press mediums are overflowing with advertisements offering higher education opportunities. Both the parents and their children are equally confused about the authenticity of the claims these ads make when it comes to a crucial decision making; say, what is after Plus two, what is after SSLC or after graduation for that matter. This is much more confusing today than at any time of the year, for this is the time when students pass out and go for higher studies.

It is a fact that all media are by-products of advertisements, and we cannot expect a press organization to offer us 25/30 pages for three or four rupees on a daily basis. So is the case with electronic media. We get some 100 channels on 24/7 basis and we pay a hundred or a little more for these channels. The major chunk of press revenue comes from column centimeters and commercial seconds split out in various time slots. These centimeters and air times are meticulously calculated and billed and finally the public is left with the option ‘believe it or not’, you have everything plattered out on a daily basis.

A great number of ads on higher education that appear in today’s Dailies make false claims and sport fake recognitions, and these institutions have their own networks all over the nation to entice unsuspecting parents and their kids to their nets. And once they are in, it is going to be a matter of mercy of institutions not the merit of the candidate that is going to decide the future.

Many parents blindly believe and follow the instructions given by these ads and they come to know of the pitfalls only when their wards complete a few semesters of their studies. This is dangerous, and there needs to be surveillance mechanism in place to monitor and authenticate the operations of these institutions and there should be provisions in the law to bring these culprits to book who pray on the future of the younger generation and the hopes of their parents.

The fourth Estate, Press, has a crucial role to play. When an ad enquiry reaches its office or its franchisee office, there needs to be a system in place to verify the credentials of these institutions and ascertain that the claims made in the ad are genuine and the recognition is valid. Once an institution is found fabricating or providing misleading leads to parents and students, the issue needs to directed to the academia and education authorizes like State Board of Studies, Medical Council, AICTE, UGC or such bodies and alert them of these fakes. This would enable them to publish the list of such fake-listed institutions so that the general public would not get cheated. In the meantime, they may take time off to list out those institutions and courses that are authentic and publish those lists at certain intervals every year.

The most powerful democratic tool, press, can do a great job in this direction and if this practice is continued for some time, there would be marked fall in the number of such institutes and higher studies conglomerates in the future. Since newspaper is taken as an authentic platform, people will take this information too, i.e. the list of fakes, in the same attitude and they will shun such organizations.

That these ads keep the press organizations survive does not make the latter accept whatever rubbish they bring out to be published. The Press has to have a say in finding out the credibility of the ads, though it is not always possible, it is worthwhile doing it at a time when hundreds of thousands of students pass out and go for higher studies.

The Press must act. The public must stand with the Press when one such fake case is brought to light thanks to the intervention of the press. The people should shun these institutions and let them die their normal deaths out of neglect and rejection.

What is Bush good for?

What is Bush good for?
A. Jayaprakash Kovilloor
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For all the deeds of Bush, the world community would record in their respective histories that there was an American president who had been good, not at keeping the world peaceful but ensuring the rest of the world in pieces and geopolitical regions.

THOUGH THE world is not worried much about its continued existence, thanks to the interference of an ordinary mortal like George Bush, it is a good idea to ask an individual question to each one of us – what is Bush good for? The question may sound simple enough, but answering the question may demand a little sense of humour and a tinge of cynicism.

The former requirement, sense of humour, is what the world comes to experience as and when Bush makes a statement on international affairs, and the second requirement, cynicism, is what goes into the making of such comments. See some of his comments and suggestions on international affairs.

“The US would help the oil giant Saudi Arabia to protect its oil reserves.” What does the world understand when it listens to such a comment? A comment is made by whom? And what is he commenting on? When was he making the comment? Where does price of oil per barrel stand in the international market?

“We are happy to assist Saudi Arabia to generate nuclear energy.” What does Saudi Arabia need more than this? Are not the Arabs powerful enough now to dictate oil terms with the rest of the world? They are. Still as Bush needs to be good for the world, he is offering a little help to the ’king’.

When it is of Palestine, Bush cannot resist making a comment that ’independent statehood is what is needed to keep peace in this part of the world’. Since the rest of the world is left with lasting peace, thanks to Bush incorporated, and as Iran is staying in where it has always been, now it is time and the same is ripe for Palestine and then Egypt. Again Bush is becoming of some good to the world order.

Closely following the comment that it is Indian middle-class that is eating away the due food shares of the rest of the world, he had come up with yet another comment on Kashmir the other day. “It is time India and Pakistan found a solution to Kashmir issue.” Are we not going to respond to that comment? A brokerage from America would work wonders in bringing peace in the borders.

His West Asian regional tour focussing on peace comes to close this week, he would have made himself good to a lot of communities around the world, and by the time he leaves office not very soon, the world community would, including those bereaved families of thousands of American marines who got killed around the world, record in their respective histories that there was a president in America who had been good, not at keeping the world peaceful but ensuring the rest of the world in pieces and geopolitical regions.

And this President had had the rarest reputation of bringing disrepute not only to the US but to the rest of the world too. What, an ordinary mortal like Bush, is good for after all? Good for not a good thing!

Managing water: the domestic route

Both social scientists and environmentalist warn that there is going to be war for water in the future, and the available water resources are unable to be sustaining life in this planet if the attitude of the whole world does not change for good. That we have enough water gives us the false impression that we can waste water or use water the way we like. But it is not the real case when water is taken in a holistic perspective. Yes, the water security an individual currently enjoys gives him/her a notion that the water s/he has is his/her water and nobody has any claim over it and no one can question the way s/he utilizes the water.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. Whenever there is water shortage, the same individuals who had had the luxury of enjoying water to their full for long would turn to the society and government and demand for alternative measures. They may claim that it is the responsibility of the state to supply its populace with enough water. But we hardly think of how precious each drop of water we waste in innumerable indigenous ways in our homes. We have no water management policy in our families. I think we all need to have a water culture to be able to lead a water-secure life today and tomorrow.

What are we doing towards this on the contrary?

· Good water habit, like any other good habit, begins at home. Our kids are not taught to pick up that habit.
· Unfortunately, unlike in the past, now we do not have separate water for washing purposes and drinking. We have one source and we use that source for everything: from washing our cars and carpets to drinking, bathing and flushing the toilets.
· How many of us know that when we flush our toilet once, minimum six to ten litters of drinking water goes down the drain.
· When we do our dishes, we keep the tap running so that we can wash and drain at the same time. It takes four to five times more water than what is actually needed.
· When we do our teeth, we keep the water tap on so that we can use it in between; the time we start brushing and the time we spit out the last spray of water. We could save one to two litters of water if we could use a mug or container at the time brushing.
· Our toilets are no longer a places for ‘that thing’ alone. They are now glamourooms where the hindwares we use consume ten times more water than required.
· Our luxury takes lusty connotations and dimensions and we spend much of our time in our glamourooms, indulging in nobody knows what.
· Taking bath is an indulgence and the shower does not have any idea how much water, both cold and hot, it should spray down on us. And the person takes bath gets into a frenzy of freshness at the cost of some hundred litres of water.
· Our wells near our homes, water tanks under ground and up above, are supposed to be full all day long. The electric pumps attached to these are doing more harm than good to our water sources.
· If people are made to draw water manually, their interest in spending hours in the bathroom will die out in a few baths. We need to get a minimum five hours’ power outage to understand this.
· When it comes to washing clothes, we do it with detergents that form into buckets and buckets and the amount of water needed to wash out this soap and suds could be better managed if we use washing cakes and do it manually.
· Cleanliness is next to godliness. But it need not be at the cost of life. One can be godly only if one lives a healthy life. Wasting water excessively for personal cleanliness need to be controlled. Cleanliness need not be an obsession.
· Personal possessions like cars and motor bikes need to be kept neat and tidy. The frequency of their washing increases according to the availability of time and water. If these isn’t enough water, we are happy to drive out our car with some dirt and grit on it.
· Going to a service center and washing the car once in while will do to keep a car in good stead. Washing it with drinking water every other day is an obsession.
· Raising garden of flowers or vegetables is good idea. The water used for watering the garden need not be drinking water. The water we spend for washing vegetable, rice, fruits and similar edibles could be reused for gardening.
· And when we raise concrete edifices, let there be a little open space around so that a little rain would seep down our own soil. How many of us do it? We marble the whole area and let the rain water go its way back to the rivers and seas.

Unless we make amends in the way we look at this precious natural resource, we will come to have water related tussles, both internal and international, in the coming days. We need to inculcate in our kids a healthy water culture so that their future will be water secure and the coming generation will live their life drinking enough water at least, not taking three square meals a day.

As educated, informed individuals, we all have a moral responsibility to sustain the available resources and ensure that every drop of water we spend is well spent. The rivers and similar public water reserves need to be kept neat and healthy, and they need to be declared pristine properties of humanity to be maintained the same way by every one who comes to harvest its benefits. The MNCs that flourish on aerated beverages and bottled water need to be kept off the bay. They are terminators of life.

The time for paid email ids has come

The time for paid email ids has come

LOOKING AT the way people take email services these days, I think it is a good idea to impose a small fee on all the email ID holders. Such a move will create ripples in the net operated software world of today. This is more so when it comes to the individuals having multiple email IDs. In this virtual digital place, or cyberspace, everyone comes to have their own electronic presence and the same is being uploaded and downloaded innumerable times in one’s lifetime and the process is endless.

Unfortunately, this virtual communication network is being widely misused more by email users than by anyone. Net, as a free space, is free for all. Anyone can get in and out of it without an email ID. Many email ID holders use their address just to keep themselves connected with the rest of the world. But the number of people, who exploit this communication platform for asocial purposes, is increasing by the day and email platforms are becoming breeding grounds for all sorts of crimes, threats and challenges.

Of course, there is a system in place to track and locate the ID holders and their credentials, but the time and effort involved in this could be saved if we could make this service a paid one. Or there could be a separate digital platform for all those, who are ready to pay a subscription so that they will be viewed by the service providers as promoters and they could be given special services. The one, that could be called space-for-all Netscape, can be a platform with minimum facilities.

These two sets of net users will utilise their individual spaces according to their needs. When a free user finds that a paid subscription is going to give him a little extra edge on services, more and more people will subscribe to it. The service providers, on their part, can earmark a share of the subscription money for development activities in their operational areas.

Wiser use of the net will make it a much more freer space without junks and those unwanted data loads that convert our inboxes into trash cans and dustbins. Managing unwanted mail takes a lot of time and the service providers do not seem to be giving any serious privacy policy to their address holders. Emails get leaked to unwanted people, who use it to send in mails of all sorts. Further, managing the stuff is a kind of forced labour. So, it is high time that we change our attitude towards emailing, and a small fee for getting a strictly personalised email ID would look attractive to many discerning netizens.