Guru Purnima (Poornima) is a tradition dedicated to all the spiritual and academic Gurus, who are evolved or enlightened humans, ready to share their wisdom, based on Karma Yoga. It is celebrated as a festival in India, Nepal and Bhutan by Hindus, Jain and Buddhists. This festival is traditionally observed to honour one’s chosen spiritual teachers or leaders.
It is observed on the Full Moon day (Purnima) in the Hindu month of Ashadha (June–July) as it is known in the Hindu Calendar. The festival was revived by Mahatma Gandhi to pay tribute to his spiritual guru, Shrimad Rajchandra. It is also known as Vyasa Purnima, for it marks the birthday of Veda Vyasa, the sage who authored the Mahabharata and compiled the Vedas.
World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.
World Population Day aims to increase people’s awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.
The day was suggested by Dr. K.C.Zachariah in which the population reached five billion when he worked as Sr Demographer at World Bank. While press interest and general awareness in the global population surges at the increments of billions of people, the world population increases by 100 million approximately every 14 months. The world population was estimated at 7,400,000,000 on February 6, 2016 and reached 7,500,000,000 on April 24, 2017. The world population hit 7,700,000,000 in 2019.
In November 2020, UNFPA, together with the governments of Kenya and Denmark, convened a high-level conference in Nairobi to accelerate efforts to achieve these unmet goals. On World Population Day, advocates from around the world call on leaders, policymakers, grassroots organizers, institutions and others to help make reproductive health and rights a reality for all.
Theme for 2022:
“A world of 8 billion: Towards a resilient future for all – Harnessing opportunities and ensuring rights and choices for all.”
Loving yourself, self love, that is what everyone recommends when you are looking for love in your life. And no mater how cliche it sounds, loving yourself is not only a way to accept yourself, but also to set your norms and values. Know what you are worth.
Know what you are worth, know how you are put together, what your good and bad qualities are, how you like to see yourself, how you like to hold on, comfort and support yourself. Love yourself before you allow someone else. Learn from your past, from your mistakes, accept your mistake, and grow. You are your past, you are your present, you are your mistakes and your lessons. You are yourself, you develop, you want to grow and you want to feel worthy, you want people to treat you with dignity. And that’s why you love yourself. You love yourself, to be…
If revenge dining amd revenge travelling are the new buzzwords, revenge entertaining cannot be far behind and when it comes to entertainment in India, Bollywood and cricket arre the names that make the game. The effort to marry the two through movies is not new but the effects on the audience has always been different.
83 is another ambitious attempt to cash in on the two never dying demand sources of entertainment. Like any other movie, a movie on sports can also be based on facts or fiction. Director Kabir Khan decided to bat first on a green top wicket with windy conditions. A disaster from the word go. The biggest error in judgement of conditions is equivalent to an error in conceptualization of a movie before it is ready for production. If he had done a little homework, he would have known that the chances of succeding in a movie in a sports theme were more ,if it is either a fact based movie on an individual or a fiction based movie on an event. Kabir Khan did just the opposite. He chose the wrong combination of a fact based movie on an event.
Obviously, it needed a lot of research work and interviews of every individual associated with the event finally leading up to the victory to help build a string misc-en-scene. It was clearly not done. The result is a stroke less script that cannot get many runs in the box office. Bringing politics and border warfare and creating the scenes were unncessary deviations from the script crying for substance.The poor screenplay is sufficient to show the pathetic prepartion done in collecting information amd stories.
With a weak script it was now left to the other technical teams to give their best. Unfortunately, it was miserable in all machineries of production. The Art director generally rises up to the challenge on movies based on historical periods. Sadly, nothing in the sets,both outdoors and indoors gave the feeling of 83, other than the overused rotary dialer phone, rooftop tv antenna, the black and white tv sets and a heap of files on a table in the cricket board office in the opening scene. These are props used by nursery children in fancy competitions and celebrations.
With more than half of the movies covering actions on the field, the sports action director had more than a lot of role to play. He did a fairly good job in the batting actions of Viv Richards and bowling actions of a few Indian bowlers , particularly Kapil Dev. It’s here that Ranveer Singh’s hard work has really showed in his acting and actions and brilliantly picking up Kapil’s English accent. But without a good script and dialogues, a good actor can only go so far and no further. Pankaj Tripathy was impeccable as usual but Deepika Padukone was a waste.
Since success was eluding Kabir Khan for a long time since Bajrangi Bhaijaan, he has desparately tried to add a few successful characters and replicate a few emotional scenes from his previous movie for example, a large crowd swayed away by common emotions. The echoing voice of a child screaming and superseding the voice of the crowd, etc. But clips and cuts pasted on a new work make it look patchy and not perfect.
One of the most awaited movie releases on the big screen during the pandemic has left the audience, particularly the cricket lovers, definitely disappointed.
World Braille Day is an international day on 4 January and celebrates awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and visually impaired people.
The date for the event was chosen by the United Nations General Assembly via a proclamation in November 2018, and marks the birthday of Louis Braille, creator of this writing system. The first World Braille Day was celebrated on January 4, 2019.
Louis Braille (4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as braille.
Blinded at the age of three in one eye as a result of an accident with a Stitching awl in his father’s harness making shop, an…
December 11, “International Mountain Day”, was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. The General Assembly “encouraged the international community to organize events at all levels on that day to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development.”
International Mountain Day is “observed every year with a different theme relevant to sustainable mountain development. FAO is the U.N. organization mandated to lead observance of International Mountain Day.
The theme for International Mountain Day 2010 was “Mountain minorities and indigenous peoples.” It aims to raise awareness about indigenous peoples and minorities who live in mountain environments and the relevance of their cultural heritage, traditions and customs.”
On International Mountain Day 2018, Josué Lorca, president of Venezuela’s National Parks Institute, traveled to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, to announce measures intended to lengthen the life of Venezuela’s last remaining glacier.
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