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Manipur Violence 2023: Finding solutions to resolve Ethnic clashes.

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Manipur Violence and Way Ahead. Introduction:  Manipur, one of the smallest states in India, is currently facing extreme violence and unrest. In the past two months, the region has witnessed houses being set ablaze, religious places burnt down, and a significant loss of lives and injuries. While the Prime Minister's office is yet to release an official statement on the current situation of Manipur, this blog post aims to shed light on the underlying causes of the violence in Manipur. What is the cause of the violence in Manipur? • Ethnic tensions:  Manipur is home to various ethnic groups, including Meiteis (the majority), Kukis, and Nagas. Meiteis comprise a little more than half of the population while the tribals, Kukis and Nagas, are nearly 40%, 25%. Most of the Meiteis live in the Imphal valley while the tribals live in the hill districts.The Meitei community, which forms the majority, has been accused of dominating the political and economic landscape of the state. Howev...

Discrimination Diaries 2 : Hairs can be problematic

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 DISCLAIMER: The following blog is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, locales, places, and events, used in this blog are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental and is not to be taken as true. Read As usual, it was a normal pleasant day. I received a call from Tajar, a third-year graduating resident, regarding the leniency in hostel management. So, I asked Tajar, “shall we go to the principal office and file a complaint about the problems that the hostel residents are facing.” Tajar accepted my idea. However, it was not our first attempt to meet our principal. Earlier, around a month ago, we had made a similar attempt to contact her. But the only thing that we received in return was an “assurance.” An assurance that she will visit our hostels within two days. However, since then a month has passed but nobody came to visit to us. We all wa...

Discrimination Diaries - Stories of Discrimination in Every day Life -The Odd Angle

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  Discrimination Diaries By- Shreyansh Nishchal  We all have been denied our reasonable rewards and we all at some point have missed our opportunities just because we could not fit among the people around us. Sometimes you may be judged based upon your class, or ethnicity other times you may face discrimination based upon gender, caste, and religion. But the real problem is not the discrimination but our acceptance of it. We all have sometimes faced extreme discrimination based upon a social identity that mere comments upon your class and ethnicity do not seem discriminatory to us, sometimes even your social identity-based humiliation is tolerated by people based upon the belief that conditions were worse before. This has led to a collective acceptance of a discriminatory mindset among us. So we have come up with a collection of stories that may seem ordinary but are an outcome of a discriminatory mindset. DISCRIMINATION DIARIES  Recently, I watched a web series titled Pa...

Personal Development For Students|Self Improvement-The Odd Angle

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Self improvement for students Whenever we discuss about personal development or self improvement we seldom include teenagers or students. we may be living with a notion that these processes does not apply to students but these notions would have been true if we would be talking 50 years ago. But today's students face a lot of issues which has to be taken care of majorly in post COVID time where mental health is severely affected and people are suffering from mental trauma, aloofness, and are stressed out.Thus preparing oneself for countering these problems becomes mandatory for living a happy and prosperous life. A student can never succeed without constant improvement.Here are four aspects which students can work upon for daily self improvement :  1) Concentration As a student moves into new and upgraded grades every year, so the burden of good academic performance increases and complexities of educational concepts raises and to counter it students should try concentra...

6 Useful Tips To Improve Focus And Achieve Mental Stamina.

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- jatin Mathur image: unsplash Too much information is bombarded to us from too many sources and it is not easy for us to focus and this information overload results into distractions and further which contributes to poor concentration but you need to improve your clarity of focus and achieve Mental Stamina to get what you want. 1. Long-term concentration is a must have skill in today's world and reading is a powerful way to achieving it.  Not only does reading damage your ignorance but also challenges you to focus long enough on a topic; eliminating all forms of distraction. What's more if you are in a serene environment absorbed in an especially engaging book. It pulls you into the narrative and silences your busy mind. It's one of the best pleasures in life.  2. Exercise: while strengthening your body through exercise, you are also increasing your ability to  —recall —concentrate & — enhancing your creativity  3. Meditation/ connecting with nature...

Virat Kohli's 100th Test: Leadership qualities of Virat Kohli -The Odd Angle

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#viratKohli #VK100 #captaincy #INDvsSL #100thTestForKingKohli #TeamIndia🇮🇳 5 leadership lessons from virat kohli Were you also astonished when you heard about virat kohli resigning from test captaincy? Last some months have been really shocking for Indian cricket fans and team India admirers around the world as virat kohli himself left T20 captaincy and then Rohit Sharma replaced him as ODI captaincy and now virat kohli has left Test captaincy as well. India was at 7 th position when virat kohli took over test captaincy and now for last 4-5 years Team India has been at the top. One of the finest and most successful test captain has said good bye to captaincy. #thankyoucaptain #thankyouviratkohli But we have to respect what he has decided.Today we shall find out the odd angle into the situation and I would tell you about 5 leadership lessons from Virat Kohli . 1. Leadership is not title or position One thing is clear from Virat Kohli's decision that great leaders are always ready ...

Best Story of all time | What Makes a Story good? -The Odd Angle

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The Greatest Story Ever   Told! Great story of all time. Best story ever. Before i tell you about the Greatest story ever told let me tell you, What are the elements of a great story? 1.Experiencing For a story to become great it has to be Experiencing, Do you remember any story that you were told long ago but you remember it today with all the details and with the same emotions which it stimulated at that time. It is because it you had experienced the story and you were fully involved in it. And the most experiencing story  is .............. 2. Alive and Real For a story to become great it has to be lived , whenever you are told a story that is lived by some one it makes you experience it and it makes you like it, can be a situation or a life event encountered by some one. Many great stories are nothing but the daily life moments or life events told by people who lived it and experienced it  And the story most lived is ................. 3. Teaches a lesson   All the...