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ONLINE EDUCATION – An Advanced or Futile attempt during Covid-19 Lockdown?

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A 13 year old student studying in class 8 lives in a rented single-room with his parents, only to pursue his school-class education in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh , originally hailing from a nearby village 'Dhankher'. His father works as a mechanic in a car service center but after the imposition of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus he was fired by his employer and had no option but to return to his village in order to get his family a two time meal. Consequently after the imposition of lockdown, the teen was asked by the school teachers to join a WhatsApp group and also to attend the touted highly skill developing exciting "Online Education classes". This left the boy with hardly any option but to deal with much agony and grief of not being able to attend his classes which he anyhow managed to attend pre-lockdown. Why was he not able to attend the classes like his other friends on Zoom, Google meet or any other video conferencing and learning apps and s

DON'T FORGET - Literacy is equivalent to Humanity

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Animals are one crucial component of this beautiful ecosystem we live in. We are familiar with this very fact, but still our attitude towards animals is unalterable, it’s menacing .   Our harsh atrocities on this land is turning various species of animals endangered and extinct. We are contributing well to make our place more suffocated and retarded. According to the Red Data Book of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) there were 47 critically endangered species as on September 2011 and 4 species of fauna has gone extinct in India according to the Wildlife Survey Organisations as per the data tabled by Ministry of Environment, forest and Climate change earlier in July, 2019. The numbers and graphs are steadily increasing with the passage of time. " Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."                                                                  - Henry Beston   Re