Month: March 2021

A woman. A woman is a wife, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a mother, a guide and what not! She has multiple roles to play in our society. Women are homemakers and that is the problem. People think that managing a house is an effortless job but women are homemakers because men cannot manage the house as perfectly as women. Women can easily handle all the problems which we face in our day-to-day life. And so, to give them respect, love and a big Thank You, we celebrate 8th March as the International Women’s Day. Each woman has the zeal to live and make life better than ever before. She takes the responsibility of the society as well as her own family. 

Indian history proves that women are no less and even better than men in many fields. Every woman is special and has wonderful qualities within. Women are the backbone of this developing society. Every woman has an inside beauty and certainly a powerful brain. Yes, they do have a weird fascination towards beautiful things which is one of their specialities. And yes, women always prove the mentality of the society wrong which thinks that women are just made for managing the house. Every woman is an artist. She cooks, designs and finds something beautiful and good in everything, which is her natural talent. They teach us to show love towards everyone and help each living being possible. At last, I would just like to agree with Virginia Woolf that- “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”

A hobby is an activity that we like to do in our free time. My hobby is playing with scale models of cars. Scale model of cars means the smaller version of original cars. I have a collection of around 300 cars with me and all of them are scale models. The attraction towards the cars started at the age of 2 when my father brought 3 scale models of cars when he was returning from Jaipur. The cars he brought were BMW Z8, BMW M3 Coupe and the world’s largest car, Limousine. All of the models are made of metal. Most of them are foreign cars, only a handful are Indian cars. 

I was very fascinated with cars and started playing with them alone. Gradually, I started collecting information about cars that I had and also about other cars. I am very fascinated with cars and because of them, I have gained knowledge also. Some time ago, Patrika Plus featured an article about my car collection. 

I have decided that in the future, I will be an automobile engineer or automobile designer. As an automobile Designer I would get to design the cars and as an Automobile Engineer I would be able to assemble those cars.

India is a vast country. We are the world’s largest democracy in terms of population. We have so many cultures and diversity existing in huge forms in India. Despite our diversity, we all are still united and will stay united. There are so many monuments in India like The Taj Mahal, Hawa Mahal, Qutub Minar etc. I can continue to recount India’s achievements and chant tales of its glory, but today’s major problem is unclean India. There are huge heaps of garbage in cities and villages and they are not planned well. The Municipal Corporation has not built many factories in which the garbage can be turned into a source of energy.

A city in Gujarat, Surat, had a plague scare in 1994. In Surat, houses, hotels and restaurants would dump garbage into the streets or drains. Also, The Municipal Corporation did not collect the waste on a regular basis which led to people losing their lives and leaving the city. The scare of plague ensured that the government of Surat completely cleaned the city. Thank goodness, the Municipal Corporation woke up and now the city is spic and span.

A clean India will definitely be a healthy India. Diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya etc. are caused due to stagnant water. If garbage is collected on a daily basis, then the water would flow constantly and the people would be protected from these diseases.

There are basically 2 types of waste that are biodegradable waste and non-biodegradable waste. Biodegradable waste decays and mixes with the soil. Non- biodegradable waste does not decay and mix with soil. This includes plastics {for example, bags and packaging material}, metals {containers, cold drink cans, pins and needles}, and glass {old bottles, broken glass pieces, bulbs}.  So, the excess use of non-biodegradable wastes would do nothing but harm the environment and would increase the amount of garbage in an area.

When plastics were introduced, they were hailed to be a wonder material. However, today plastics have become a serious worldwide environmental and health concern. This is because of its non-biodegradable nature and widespread use. Careless disposal of plastic bags chokes drains, blocks the soil and hinders the absorption of water by soil. If eaten by animals such as cows, it can choke and kill them. In India, some municipal areas have banned the use of plastics and they seem to have achieved success. For e.g., today one will not see a single piece of plastic in the entire district of Ladakh where the local government imposed a ban on plastics in 1998.

There are a few significant advantages of recycling waste. It leads to reduced consumption of raw materials. It makes the surrounding cleaner and healthier. It helps to save on landfill space utilized for garbage disposal. It also reduces environmental impacts arising from waste treatment and disposal.

So, recycle and reuse whenever possible, and make a small effort in making India clean and consequently, healthy.

“Don’t pollute nature, otherwise it will pollute you.”