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THE CONVOCATION DAYS The month of April saw a lot of convocation ceremony.

In this edition, get a glimpse of how different college celebrated their convocations.

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WEAPONZIATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA SHIVANGI DUBEY Internet was initially invented with the purpose to serve the military and later expanded to the purpose of communication among scientists.

When this idea of communicating over the internet came into the origin, the creation of social media sites was already in talks. The first recognizable social media site was created in 1997, it enabled us to upload a profile and be friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging site became popular, creating a social media sensation. In over a decade or a little more, social media has gone from being an entertaining platform to a fully integrated part of nearly every aspect of life. Social media has become an obsession. As quickly as social media has insinuated into politics, workplaces, and lifestyles, it continues to evolve at lightning speed.

Social media provides a platform where one can freely express their ideologies, flaunt their talents and skills, and connect with people around the world. It gives the opportunity to stand different among the crowd. In this rush to stand alone and be different, people express or negotiate their point of view over certain incidents or issues.

These ideas are sometimes appreciated and sometimes rejected. These differences between notions create conflicts. The major reasons that bring the circumstances of conflicts are the common traits of not accepting or unlearning things.

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WEAPONISATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA: In the book Wars: the weaponization of social media, Peter W. Singer and Emerson Brooking revealed the extent to which social media violent conflicts are being transformed on social media.

According to them, social media is to be the new battlefield and information is the key. Their content clearly depicts that social media has ”decisively reshaped the modern era.”

Ways in which the internet is generating a new civil war.

The wave of new internet communication can be beneficial to individuals, especially to repressive countries, and much beneficial to political leaders. It has become easier to protest. Getting informed about corrupt practices is easy to surface. Moreover, throwing allegations over fair or unfair concerns are slowly becoming the core interest of expression over social media platforms.

Inter campaign makes it easier for rebel groups to search for wider reach for resources which are money and people. Rebel entrepreneurs say that they could only gain local support then but now mere a strong post in the form of text or video can make you reach millions of audiences in no time. This could lead to more groups fighting against each other.

This Civil wars will sustain for longer times, as rebel groups will have seemingly unlimited financial supply. For most of the part, the ability to raise funds from supporters around the globe will be absolute and will head to more armed forces battling these Wars.

Players at every level of conflicts are likely to be affected by advances in information technology.

The outbreak of one civil war particularly when promoted online will increase the risks for additional wars. If one war begins, it will become more likely to start in neighboring regions. With unlimited use of the internet, ideas and incidents spread become rapid not only through information sharing but also through recruitment.

External support provides a wider range of connections leading to more human rights violations. The Internet gives away to an international audience, it untethers them from the local population. Studies show relying on a local public actually leads to less human riots.

EARLY EXPECTATIONS Social media was basically a platform created to bring known and unknown audiences together on the same page and give them recourses to gain and share philosophies, information, or to convey their idea of living. This was basically an initiative created to connect people around the globe. Merely as a source of entertainment and data. Media originated to facilitate with an open platform to showcase their field of expertise and reach an unlimited number of audiences at the same time.

TROLLS CAPTURED INTERNET In a study performed by Child Right and You (CRY), it was found that 9.2% of every 630 adolescents face cyberbullying, and half of them don’t even report. Respondents aged between 13-18 years who use the internet longer than 3 hours are vulnerable to cyberbullying, this amounts to 22%. While the next 28% of respondents who use the internet for more than 4 hours face cyberbullying. One of the most shocking reports says that 1 out of every 4 adolescents have seen a morphed photo or video of themselves which are even documented. ”There are three specific tendencies attached to cyberbullying. First, the naturalization of violence that is common on social media. Second, it deals with anonymously or distantly mediated interactions which takes away both human presence and social empathy often encoded in communication. And third, refers to the algorithm structures that target specific people in order to dominate them or harass them”, says, Nishant Shah professor at the Institution of culture and aesthetics of social media.

Spend time with people who make you forget to check your phone WHAT MAKES IT ADDICTIVE? Let’s come to the core reason behind what makes social media so influential. According to studies, using social media releases a chemical called dopamine which is exactly the same chemical that is released when we smoke, drink, or do drugs. Social media makes us feel good about ourselves. Likes, comments, and tags are playing major roles in self-approval. For an instance, let's say, someone likes our photo or comments on our photo, Facebook or Instagram notifies us because this is how they are designed to be addictive and they exactly know what people crave. And somewhere this addiction makes it easy to influence a crowd regardless of facts. Unfamiliar with real Issues, the crowd gets provoked towards a single side of the story: merely via a social media post these days.

SOCIAL MEDIA DIVISION No one is unaware of the fact that social media is creating a division in personal relationships. Study shows that in 2017 people spent almost an average of 2 to 3 hours a day on social media and within the past 3 years the count has more than doubled. People like to spend time stalking the accounts of people they barely know or would never meet but are least bothered to have concerns over issues with real relationships around them. It is believed that the time invested in a relationship determines the strength of a relationship and somewhere we are misleading or misusing the direction of time.

Not just emotionally but social media has taken over the sustainability physically as well. Irregular or late sleeping patterns skipping meals causes

anxiety and is all due to the overuse of digital platforms. Study says that people who spend more time on Facebook or Instagram or any other social media are more likely to have anxiety and depression. Such people face more mental health issues.

RELATIONSHIPS ARE IMPORTANT

One of the simplest and best things a person can do to himself is to be proactive in managing time to spend on himself, his family and friends.

Healthy relationships are vital components of health and well-being. There is compelling evidence that people spending more time in the real-world are likely to be fit, wiser, and happier.

People who choose to explore the real world come up with better and why are outcomes in different aspects of life.

Your family gives you the strength to survive in a tough time. Reviews of around 150 studies say that people who spend more quality time with their friends and families are less likely to die prematurely. Spending time around people makes you happier and ultimately, boosts your immunity making you stronger. You are more likely to feel alive and happy when you are around your loved ones. Caring in supportive relationships offers a buffer against the effects of stress.

So, the only advice is: stay connected offline and stay happier! This is the only way forward to stay away from the clutches of social media applications.

In the year 2016, I was at the peak of my social media game. I spent tremendous effort curating and posting content multiple times a day eventually corralling students spread across 4 states in India who searched and posted on the web every hour as part of their internship/jobs. A typical day started with scrolling several Instagram feeds, bouncing from account to account, tweet to tweet, post to post, scanning innumerable videos and stories, being on the top of the latest memes, and getting the latest news updates from various apps.

My app notification was always on, and so was my personality. I was, what we might call now, ‘living-in-the-web’. Yes, the rewards were lucrative, a larger audience to interact with, social media campaigns for my NGO – Wake Up India Foundation crossing the 10 Lakh unique users mark, and most importantly a stream of insights to measure my success using data points. It was a constant source of dopamine bath for my ‘online social media activist’ ego.

The year 2016 marked another important event in India. Reliance unleashed their telecom disruptor service- Reliance Jio. The company commercially launched its 4G services offering free data and voice services across India. This was eventually followed by almost all the major telecom service providers in India. This revolution made sure that internet penetration grew from 198 million in 2014 to 355 million in 2016.

I USED TO BE A HUMAN BEING SUYASH H. VARMA

As more people stood in queues and purchased smartphones, they were instantly connected to a stream of content, forcing them to absorb and integrate the online outpouring relentlessly. Twitter arose as a form of microblogging on the fly, Facebook introduced the concept of Free Basics, another app TikTok introduced a shortform video feature – and with all this came the never-ending, alwaysupdating intermittent feedback.

The Loss of Human Consciousness In Silicon Valley, another interesting event happened in 2016. Andrew Sullivan, blogging pioneer and journalist, published an essay in the New York Times Magazine. Andrew had an ‘audience of up to 100,000 people a day; a newmedia business that was actually profitable; and a niche in the nerve centre of the exploding global conversation.’ Andrew was always ‘ahead of the curve’, ‘re-inventing himself as a writer in the age of the internet. However, he was not able to reinvent himself as a human being.

Andrew’s essay was a 7000-word mediation on the epidemic of digital distraction and his attempt to ‘cure himself’ after famously ending his 15-year blogging career. His tone was alarming, ‘An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.’

Six years down the lane, the reality is bleaker than what Andrew cautioned us. People who joined these social media platforms to stay in touch with friends across the country ended up being unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with a friend sitting across the table. The deep face to face interaction among teenagers got replaced by the current obsession to maintain Snapchat streaks with their friends – as a long unbroken streak of daily communication is a satisfying confirmation that the relationship is strong. This urge for dopamine release got so strong that it started making us use smartphones compulsively, even in the most inappropriate (think: funerals) or dangerous situations (think: behind the wheel).

Compulsive Use We need to step back and ask what we really wanted out of the rapid advances of the past decade. We didn’t sign up for the digital world in which we are currently entrenched. We are being increasingly dominated by their influence, allowing them to control more and more of how we spend our time, how we feel, and how we behave.

The term ‘constant and compulsive use’ is not an exaggeration. A 2015 study by Common Sense

Media found that teenagers were consuming media 9 hours per day on average. Another study claims that young adults were picking up their phones 85 times a day. Most of these interactions were for less than 30 seconds, indicating habitual behaviour.

A separate study by British psychologists suggests that young adults use their smartphones roughly twice as much as they estimate that they do. In the words of Dr Sally Andrews, the lead author of the study: “The fact that we use our phones twice as many times as we think we do indicates that a lot of smartphone use seems to be habitual, automatic behaviours that we have no awareness of,” This compulsive use has become a source of draining negativity for many. This wearing and overuse of smartphones, their ability to reduce autonomy, banish solitude, decrease happiness, stroke darker instincts, and distract from important aspects of life made Andrew Sullivan say, “I used to be a human being’ – that’s why I kept the title of this article same as his.

My Experience with Digital Detox Starting in 2016, I started practising yearly digital detox. I would close my social media accounts for a few months every year and spend those time connecting with nature and having real conversations with friends.

Why was this necessary? Over the period, I have realised that excess use of social media brings out your inner troll. In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts.

I am a calm person otherwise, however, some part of the comments-based conversation on social media makes me say I’ll ruin the other person’s reputation by tricking him into saying something stupid. This started happening so often that it became normal. I saw people start commenting and arguing over a low-value post just to seek attention for themselves.

I started doing things, posting images and videos, writing posts about issues that I didn’t even believe in – just to get a rise out of readers.

I wrote stuff that I knew people wanted to hear, or, the opposite, because I knew it would be inflammatory and get the maximum number of reach (including comments, shares, and likes).

Like most social media addicts, I started categorizing people as ‘allies’ and ‘enemy’ so quickly that I ceased to perceive them as ‘humans. I stopped recognizing them as artists, writers, and most importantly friends. I started judging everyone based on the popularity number (followers, subscribers, likes, etc.) assigned to them by the social media algorithm.

Interestingly, all this transformation happened in the span of the last 6-7 years.

It was never a part of our daily life. Social media is not a fundamental technology and needs to be taken as such.

As Tim Cook, CEO of Apple correctly points out, “[Things] existed and thrived for decades without [social media]. If a business is built on

choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve out praise, it deserves reform.”

Research has shown that smartphone use can impair attention, productivity and memory, dampen creative thinking, increase stress levels, reduce sleep quality and lead to “cognitive errors” like forgetting meetings and walking into people – and this made me define a digital philosophy.

Desktop Use: Move all the noncritical apps like Facebook, YouTube, Netflix etc. to your laptop/desktop. This one step will drastically reduce your screen time as it is easier to reach out to your smartphone and have a quick glance than to start your laptop/desktop, log in to your social media account, and check your feed.

A Philosophy for Technology Use There are multiple ways to start a digital detox practice. I am writing down a few practices that have helped me over the years.

Define Office Time: If you are using social media professionally (think: for branding), make sure you have a log in and log off time. This can be best explained with this example: If you are a news anchor, you won’t be going on air right before bed and after waking up. Similarly, if you are a social media executive, don’t use social media right before bed or after waking up.

Deliberate Reading: Schedule time to read books, essays, and newspapers. Deliberate reading is the only way practice deep work in these times of constant distraction.

Restricted Use: On weekends, use only critical technology. At this stage, don’t confuse ‘critical’ with ‘convenient’. For example, it is ‘inconvenient’ to lose access to a WhatsApp/Facebook group that shares memes, however, it won’t cause any ‘critical damage’ to your life.

Schedule Watch Time: Make it a habit to stream movies on Netflix, Prime or other OTT platforms only when you are with friends and family. Don’t watch them alone on your smartphones.

THE IMMEDIATE NEED TO UPGRADE OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM PRIYAM SHARMA I remember I was an average student in the subject of Mathematics. But the subject of mathematics was important, so I sucked it up and did my best to cover all the important chapters- Probability, Trigonometry, Geometry, etc. During my examination, I remember spending a lot of time trying to solve a single problem. It was a Maths exam of three hours, but I got stuck on one of the problems for over 30 minutes.

I told my invigilator that something didn’t feel right about the problem and he told me to focus on my answer instead of finding mistakes in the question. I almost started to doubt my ability. After about 40 minutes, our subject teacher walked into the classroom and said that there was an error in that question. He asked us to change one of the values. I was furious because I was not able to complete a few questions towards the end of the question paper.

What the incident taught me, has been extremely valuable in life.

The insight was primarily in the form of three questions. What if the question paper has an error? What if teachers don’t know what is wrong with the system? What if I am doubting myself based on a flawed question paper set by someone else?

Standardization is no longer the solution The public schooling system commenced in the age of the industrial revolution about a hundred and fifty years ago. Big-time industrialists needed people to work in their assembly lines of production. The industry didn’t matter. What mattered was for people to be capable of performing a certain kind of task. The industrial system that was capable of employing millions of people is now getting automated and it is becoming difficult to take so much standardized talent for organizations.

The future belongs to the country with an education system that can provide both, employers as well as workers.

A skill-based education system is needed Some professions are highly appreciated and rewarded, but not everyone can reach that position in their professional careers. The regime followed in most schools and colleges is so outdated that it makes people question its efficiency and relevance. Degrees are starting to lose their value. People think they have to spend money on higher degrees if they want a basic job.

Thus, it is very important to develop practical knowledge and industry-ready skills.

IT and Web Developing should be mandatory subjects Any educational institution that does not teach anything technology-related to its students is doomed to produce mediocre talent. They should teach students the subject of IT and various technological fields that are shaping the world, data analytics, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, etc. Eight out of ten most valuable companies in this world are IT-based companies.

They are also the companies that have the deepest pockets to hire young talented individuals. Try to learn coding, online designing, and digital marketing skills as they are never going to be considered “old-fashioned” in the future.

Self-education is here to stay Look up some job skills that are relevant for the next couple of decades, and if your school or college is not providing those skills to you, you can learn them on your own. I try to spend one hour a day on the internet to learn some new skills that can be relevant for the future. Read books and listen to educational tapes to develop skills in demand within the industries that you wish to join. Do not just read this article and start blaming the education system for ruining your future.

Entrepreneurship is a curse Entrepreneurship is not at all rewarded by the education system. Most campuses have no ecosystem for entrepreneurship development.

Parents tend to push their kids toward pursuing a job. Their thinking is not wrong, except that it is not a sustainable model. There cannot be an unlimited supply of jobs in a country without a sustainable ecosystem for entrepreneurs, who can maintain the balance. Colleges should offer business planning and marketing strategy as compulsory courses. Most entrepreneurs fail in their first business because they don’t know how to build a sustainable business model. They either let the first failure stop them forever or sometimes they learn and make it big in their later attempts. However, my argument is that ‘If the first failure can be avoided and why shouldn't we avoid it '.

Life skills matter Public speaking, self-confidence, networking, leadership, emotional intelligence, management, and the ability to influence others are real-life skills that you need to have. No one is born with these skills, neither was I. But I try every day to polish these skills, and if I can do it, believe me, anyone can. Maybe you are a student, a parent, a teacher, an educational institution head — my suggestion for you is that you can start the cycle of change in your own way. It doesn’t have to be a radical movement or anything. All the changes in the world start with individuals and are then adopted by institutions. Always stay curious and not afraid to ask questions like- What if the system is wrong? What if the people in the system don’t know what is wrong? What if you are not stupid, but you are playing a game you can never win?

SEX WORKERS: THE TRUTH AT DENIAL

GULSHAN SINGH I’M A PROSTITUTE. I’m sorry to discomfort you in the very beginning itself, but that’s my identity.

That’s what everyone else calls me and that’s what every mother tells her daughter not to be like. But I exist, and I’m sorry that I exist.

I’M A PROSTITUTE. I’m sorry to discomfort you in the very beginning itself, but that’s my identity.

That’s what everyone else calls me and that’s what every mother tells her daughter not to be like. But I exist, and I’m sorry that I exist.

I have no qualification, no dream; well actually I do have a dream but I’m not allowed to dream, so I’m not a dreamer anymore. I have no respect and status in society. Although they are the ones who made me and visit me but still they don’t accept me. Well, I try to collect courage and fight and voice for how and what I feel but it’s too much of emotional draining that I go through every time a customer closes the door.

PROSTITUTES EARN A LOT This is the biggest myth of society. You’ve no idea what goes inside when the doors are closed and what happens when the doors open. My mother in the village is still waiting for me to send money so that she could eat a little better. My brother was recently removed from the school because I failed to send the fees. They have been sleeping without light for months because I couldn’t collect enough money to light their lives. Every evening I get ready to welcome someone of you, oh! Not at all because I’m happy to see you or the ride you give me, I’m only concerned about the amount you pay me. You know highly professional. So what exactly happens is when a customer comes in he gets a choice to choose us, and we don’t. But that’s not a problem, our society never allowed women to have choices.

And then someone someday chooses me to go and sleep with. I happily get in. And meanwhile, he closes the door I’m already done stripping my clothes. And he jumps on me and we begin having fun.

The moment he closes the door, I’m scared that what is gonna do, is he gonna be gentle or is he gonna bleed me to death? Is he gonna talk to me first, or just push me against the wall? And then he suddenly pushes me and starts eating me like an animal. I can’t even tell him, that it’s hurting.

I’m being paid for that. I keep myself in control and let him do all he wants. When we’re done, I gently ask him, sir, when would you come back?

And he slaps me on a face spitting and telling, I’ve eaten a lot of you and you don’t excite me anymore. I again ask him before leaving sir, money? He throws 150 bucks on my face. But sir we talked for 300 bucks, and to which he replies, Nikal be randi.

I honestly don’t have enough time to cry for that, because I will have to make up with the other more and more customers, because my responsibilities are way heavier than my pain. So I wipe myself and stand again in the queue, with the same smile again. And then someone else comes, some being gentle, some riding me to bleed, some kicking my vagina, some throws me like an object and some burn me with the cigarettes.

I LIVE SUCH AN EASY LIFE. You can never satisfy the society, they question their own made rules and make you live the worse showing the good.

Every night I have a dream, to get out of here and have a life for me. I want to work, but when people know who I’m they push me away like a beggar. When I was small I used to tell my mother, I wanted to be a doctor and she always told me to have strength in your dream even though when conditions are not favorable. But I’m all broken, and I’m sorry I couldn’t make you proud, Maa. The same society who made us, are denying us today. We’re denied from having education, food, clothes, shelter, and deprived of all our rights.

Why? Because I’m a Prostitute. And exactly, who made me a prostitute? You People. We’re are no different than normal people, we can have an education, we can have a dream, we can have a voice and we can have capabilities as well. Just give us a chance. Give us a chance to be us, give us a chance to work, give us the opportunity to grow. Hold our hand and accept us as well. Why are we paying for the damage that's not done by us? In this pandemic, we’ve been jobless, hungry and every day someone among us dies. There are so many questions left unanswered that will never be answered. We also deserve a life, don't we?

FOCUS OF THE MONTH

THE CONVOCATION DAYS The month of April saw a lot of convocation ceremony. A sneak peek into the convocation ceremony of different colleges.

IIM AMRITSAR IIM Amritsar awarded MBA degrees to its sixth batch of 212 students, in the convocation ceremony held on 2nd April 2022 at Hotel Radisson Blu, Amritsar. The students received MBA degrees on the recommendation of the academic council as per the IIM Act 2017.

The sixth batch of IIM Amritsar had the largest batch size among the third generation IIMs. The batch was the first to start their classes in an online mode, and witnessed a changing landscape of education and job market on account of the pandemic situation in the country. Notwithstanding the uncertainties posed by the pandemic, the sixth batch of IIM Amritsar successfully concluded their placements and, at the same time, excelled at academics.

IIM BODH GAYA The Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya organized its fourth convocation on 9th April 2022 with great elan and grandeur.

A total of 182 candidates of Master of Business Administration (2020-22) were conferred with their respective degrees. Of these graduating students, 116 were boys, and 66 were girls. The Chairman's Gold Medal, the Director's Gold Medal, and the Best Student Award were conferred to Rathnakaram Krishna Chaithanya. Bonde Pranav Tukaram, and Piyush Pallav, respectively.

The convocation began with the lighting of an inaugural lamp by the Chief Guest, Members of the Board of Governors, and the Director and a rendition of the Saraswati Vandana by the students. Dr. Vinita Sahay, Director, IIM Bodh Gaya, presented the Annual Report, where she spoke about the

significant updates at IIM Bodh Gaya for AY 2021-22. In her address, she congratulated the graduating students and said, "What an incredible group of students you are. You took on the challenge of the pandemic, and you succeeded." She reiterated that a fascinating aspect of India's growth story is the impetus given to women's education. "We are firm believers in diversity and realize that we ought to contribute to bringing our women leaders of tomorrow forward, and we are prepared to do so. We have made provisions to include female students in both our MBA and Integrated programmes. We are also attracting prominent women academicians to be a part of our teaching community, " Dr. Sahay said. She further highlighted that despite the threats posed by the pandemic, the Institute witnessed a resonant placement season, with fiftysix renowned recruiters extending 210 offers across various domains and businesses in AY 2021-22. The Director's address was followed by a presentation providing glimpses of the Institute's upcoming campus.

A total of 182 candidates of Master of Business Administration (2020-22) were conferred with their respective degrees. Of these graduating students, 116 were boys, and 66 were girls.

IIM UDAIPUR IIM Udaipur hosted its 10th Annual Convocation for its flagship Two-Year MBA (Batch 2020-22), and OneYear full-time MBAs in Global Supply Chain Management and Digital Enterprise Management (Batches 2021-22) and one candidate was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree Mr Sanjiv Puri, Chairman & Managing Director of ITC Ltd graced the event as the Hon’ble Chief Guest IIM Udaipur had earlier also hosted a convention for the alumni of Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 in physical mode as the 8th & 9th Convocations had been held online last year.

XIM UNIVERSITY XIM University successfully conducted its Eighth Convocation in the hybrid mode for its Postgraduate and Doctoral programs. The number of students receiving the degrees for the doctoral and postgraduate programmes are 05 and 630 respectively. A total of 33 medals were won by meritorious students for their academic distinction (List attached for reference).

Shri. Sanjiv Puri, the Chairman & Managing Director of ITC Limited was the Chief Guest and Convocation Speaker for the evening. He joined ITC in 1986. During his career of over three decades at ITC and its subsidiaries, he has held several business leadership positions and also handled a wide range of responsibilities in manufacturing, operations and information & digital technology. Presently, he serves on the National Executive Committees of CII and FICCI as well as on the Steering Committee of FICCI. He is a Director on the Board of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, Co-Chair of the ‘Business Commission to Tackle Inequality’ set up by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and a Member of the BRICS Business Council. He was conferred the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award of the year 2018’ by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

During the 8th Convocation, XIM University conferred Honorary Doctoral Degree upon Shri. Sanjiv Puri.

Among the eminent dignitaries present were Fr. Jerome Cutinha, S.J., Chairman, Board of Governors of XIM University, Shri. Rajive Kaul, Emeritus Chairman, Board of Governors of XIM University, Fr. Antony R. Uvari, S.J., Vice Chancellor, XIM University, Fr. S. Antony Raj S.J., Registrar, Fr. V. Arockia Das, S.J., Chief Finance Officer, XIM University, Deans of different schools and Officials of XIM University. Few of the elite Board Members also graced occasion.

Prof. S. Peppin, Dean, School of Governance and Public Affairs extended a cordial welcome to the guests and audience in the hybrid mode.

Fr. Antony R. Uvari, S.J, Vice Chancellor, XIM University in his report elaborated on the achievements of the University in the past year and highlighted a few notable points. Addressing the audience in his Chairman’s speech, Fr. Jerome Cutinha, S.J., expressed his views on learning and development . He mentioned that this degree is just a stepping stone towards more milestones in life. He quoted, “Your success is our success.” As the Emeritus Chairman Shri Rajive Kaul addressed the audience and spoke about the challenges in life in the unprecedented times.

Casual Outfit Ideas by Divya Katna Let’s admit it: We all have those days when lounging around in sweatpants and a baggy Tshirt sounds ideal. In fact, some days it feels like there are a million other things we’d rather do than put an outfit together.

Divya Katna (@divyakatnaofficial) , a Youtuber and a fashion enthusiast, collated an outfit collection from Spoyl to suit all occasions. Use these trendy outfits and make your closet feel fresh and alive again.

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To ensure you’re getting the coolest (and easiest) outfit ideas out there, wear your personality. For a long time, clothing was used as a mirror to represent where you belonged socially. But now the lines have blurred thanks to the rise of streetwear in fashion.

ONCE A DAUGHTER, ALWAYS A DAUGHTER SAUMYA SUMAN

The previous decade can rightly be called as the decade of Women Empowerment. From occupying posts of authority in various fields for the first time to defying primitive norms and hierarchy, it has been a glorious decennium.

In our own country, women representation in the corporate sector now accounts for more than 30%.The Stock exchange Board of India made it imperative to have at least 1 woman in their board. Many companies have launched women leadership programmes to encourage women to defy gender barriers. The practice of triple talaq has been declared illegal and punishable by law. Thus protecting Muslim women from partial decision making on their marital status.

The label of this article was quoted by Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as he stamped the final judgement ensuring Equal Succession Rights to Hindu women. “Once a daughter, always a daughter. A son is a son till he is married. The daughter shall remain a coparcener throughout life, irrespective of whether her father is alive or not,” he said.

A coparcener is someone who has equal share in the inheritance of an ancestral property. “Daughters will have coparcener rights even if their father were not alive when the Hindu Succession Amendment Act (2005) was passed.” a three-judge bench, headed by Justice Arun Mishra, said on August 11, 2020.

The support provided by the government and people from all spheres has played a major part in their upliftment. But they still face some challenges purely because of their gender. The common ones are listed below: Yes, a large number of women are choosing to work outside home. But in majority of cases jobs offered in faroff cities are usually rejected by family.

Women are taking up responsibilities and trying hard to work shoulder to shoulder with men. But how would that be possible if they are subjected to curfews and deadlines? How are they supposed to do the same amount of work in the same time, if they leave for home hours earlier before it gets dark?

Living alone in flats or houses close to the workplace is still a nightmare for most parents, especially when their wards are females.

In some abnormal cases women are abhorred from accepting high paying jobs.

This is because it is believed that the husband should be the one receiving higher pay, so it would be difficult to find a spouse for women receiving hefty salaries.

No doubt women have come up a long way from the past and started to stand up to their beliefs. But there is always room for improvisation.

Some of the practices that really need to be implemented as soon as possible are:

Paternity Leave: A major reason why women give up their careers is childbirth. The government has issued policies such as Maternity leave for 26 weeks which has been productive up to some level. But in many cases this is not very effective because a new born child needs constant vigilance and care for more than 6 months. A bill proposing Paternity leave for was proposed in 2017. This bill focuses on the fact that childcare is a joint responsibility of both parents.

Not only the mother but the father too needs to take leave from office work to take care of the baby. The bill should be enacted promptly.

Safer Society: No parent of a working daughter is assured of her safety.

Gruesome

crimes

against

women ensure that this stays the same. We can prevent many

heinous

crimes

by

ensuring that roads, paths to public washrooms and water points

are

well

lit.

Police

should

provide

proper

vigilance

around

secluded

areas and areas around prior crime scenes. Women helpline services should be prompt in their

actions.

training

Self

should

defense

be

made

compulsory in all teaching institutes.

A country is never powerful if its daughters are exposed and defenceless.

The

women

safety

issue

of and

empowerment must be dealt with utter priority.

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