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Todays blog is about the increasing suicides among students. I was reading the newspaper today and what grabbed my attention is the news that a 16 years old student has committed suicide in Kota who was preparing for her NEET Exams. This is not a single case but over 13,000 students died by in 2021 in India at the rate of more than 35 every day, a rise of 4.5% from the 12,526 deaths in 2020 with 864 out of 10,732 suicides being due to "failure in examination" according to the latest data as per NCRB’s ADSI report 2021. The question what really arises is was it a suicide or was it a murder by the expectations of society? The fact that a 16 years old has lost all the hopes from life is something we all need to think, that as a society we are failing.  What are the factors that have made this rise in suicide rates? 1. The gap between the reality and expectations has increased because of the existence of social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. We see happy faces, peop...

The UPSC results are out. So many success stories are coming out from this event and every story is unique and inspiring. But out of all these, one story that grabbed my attention is a story of the person who is not an IAS yet but has secured 667 rank and is still preparing for the UPSC exam for a better rank and this years attempt will be his last attempt the 9th attempt. The story of RAM BHAJAN KUMAR, 34 years old, head constable in Delhi Police. He is a married guy and father of two daughters. While reading the story of this I was so touched and inspired that I felt like sharing it.  He has seen many economical hardships and despite of everything he wants to motivate and help people and according to him UPSC gives that platform to motivate and help people. When he got married his wife was a fifth pass, Time has passed and the best thing is she began the journey of becoming a post graduate. The kind of support and devotion this person showed towards his wife and how they both gre...

  THE FIRST FEMALE DOCTOR OF INDIA Our human society has a norm of following set patterns. We follow pattern in all of our work in all of our habits, in all of our social interactions. And one of the examples that adds to this pattern is to consider women as a weak gender. It’s not a sudden thing that has emerged today but it’s has been there since the beginning of the human society. The basic rules of the society that we follow today has emerged from a patriarchal thinking so naturally women had always been kept at a disadvantage in terms of power, in terms of empowerment. Many women in our history have tried to break this pattern by doing extreme hard work, by facing hard resistance, by overcoming the social stigma of the society and tried to make gender equality a part of this civilization. One such lady was Kadambini Ganguly, the first Women Physician of India at a time when the Indian society used to think women education as an offence. Kadambini Ganguly was born on 18 ...

     “ गुरुर   ब्रह्मा   गुरुर   विष्णु   गुरुर   देवो   महेश्वरः गुरुः   साक्षात्परब्रह्मा   तस्मै   श्री   गुरुवे   नमः ”   Today on the occasion of Teacher’s Day first of all I want to say thanks and express my respect and gratitude towards all the teachers for their selfless devotion and contribution in making this society and this nation a better place, to always inspire us and to make it possible for us to dream. You owe the supreme place in our hearts and in our society.   Today is the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an exemplary teacher and former President of India. Dr Sarvepalli who dedicated his life to education and the youth of the country.   "Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if September 5 is observed as Teachers' Day," he had said, and henceforth, the tradition to celebrate Teachers' Day started from 1962 and to honour him and the teache...

Programming, a vast sector which remained in demand from the time it was introduced till now and will always be in demand. The main reason for this is that programming actually gives shape to our thoughts in the form of program. Today, we have programs for each and every thing. May it be e-commerce, e-trading, entertainment, photography, cinema, video editing tools, online food apps, online learning, data analysis, artificial intelligence and what not. You name it, you will see that every field today requires computer programs to operate. So, possessing the working knowledge of programming actually allows you to know how the programs of your particular field works. You can introduce your innovation and improvise the programs. In todays world, its something which everyone should at least know. I am in the medicine profession so; I am going to talk about the importance of programs and programming in my field. IMPORTANCE OF PROGRAMMING IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINES We are in the era w...

Today I am going to talk about how our body reacts to the infection of corona virus. To know how it enters the cell and hacks it to produce its own copy click here . So, let’s start: - After infecting the cells and making multiple copies, these copies moves out from the cell by exocytosis. Now when the cell gets infected the cell releases certain intermediates: - 1.The Interferon α and β which goes to the healthy alveolar cells of vicinity and this results in the release of antiviral peptides (these peptides are kind of self-defense mechanism). 2.They also release Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs are endogenous molecules that are released from damaged or dying cells and activate the innate immune system(macrophages) by interacting with pattern recognition receptors). Now these macrophages activate the inflammatory mediators (Interleukin1, interleukin 6, TNF- α ) so that they can be used to kill the virus. They also move to the pulmonary capillaries whic...

 Structure and mechanism of attack of corona virus Let’s talk about the structure of COVID-19 Virus SARS COV 2 and also the mechanism of its entry. There are four families of corona Virus: - 1.        Alpha Corona virus 2.        Beta Corona Virus 3.        Gamma Corona Virus 4.        Delta corona Virus Out of which Alpha and Beta corona virus has shown transmission in Human being till now. Many outbreaks like the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in the 2002 and the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) had been there in the past and both are related to the Beta Corona Virus family. Now let’s talk about the COVID-19 Virus (SARS COV 2) Structure of the COVID-19 virus SARS COV 2 is a virus of the family of Beta Corona Virus. It has a lipid bilayer which has 5 main structural proteins on the outer membrane of it and many...