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A GENERATIONAL PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE OF INDIA: CHANGING AVENUES WITH GROWING NEEDS. It is business studied most commonly in business and psychology called ‘The Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’. This need is studied as a triangle which studied what human beings true needs really are and where they are placed in terms of immediacy and after fulfillment of these immediate needs. The needs are places from bottom to top in the following order:- Survival Security Love Self Esteem Self Actualisation It is a common known fact that the most basic need of an individual is to first survive and then thrive onto other needs that lie above it.  I would like to take this principle and apply to a real demographic. The journey of India began with its independence in 1947 and it was the time of mass unrest. The luxury of doing business or having an employment was a luxury when people were literally hanging onto their lives. It was a time of unjustness and the only thing that peopl...

IN FOCUS: HUMANITIES AND EMERGING CAREERS Mass Communication & Film What careers does the field of Mass Communication involve? The fields of mass communication involve the basis of conveyance of messages and multiple interactions to widespread channels such as Television, Radio, Newspaper, Cinema and now social media etc. So in a web of these different channels who most often intertwine with their own mediums there is mass employment in multiple different sectors. A film cinematographer and a TV news reporter work in the same sector of Mass Communication. So to name a few careers in the field of Mass Communication:- Publishing Editor Radio Jockey Video Jockey Anchor TV producer Journalist in print/broadcast/other mediums Camera Technician News moderator What are some more broad options when you wanna work in the field of ‘film’ Working in the field of film is a highly broad umbrella because working with celluloid is anything but a unidire...

EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED CAREERS IN HUMANITIES In the federation of of the giant mammoths that strike every individual at a rather nascent stage in their lives is the career defining and equally irreverent choice of choosing the streams of academic subjects for their supposed academic pursuits. There is a plethora of integrity and surge of  choices umbrella under the streams of Commerce and Science but what has already been overlooked (although things are looking up) is a rather negligent stream of ‘Humanities’- an academic pursuit that has vague definitions right across the literature of disciplines. But let’s for the safety of subliminal context, assume that humanities largely relates to the study of society and individual through different perspectives. It is a very academic pursuit with a practical application yet again underestimated. Humanities, unlike science or commerce does not involve ‘creation’ but it definitely does involve ‘revelation’ through study. Over th...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF CURRICULUM Education as a terminology is an abused term. The umbrella of the topics and expectations that this term covers and pandered to; most of it goes highly unnoticed. Normally one would confidently assume, that studying the books prescribed by NCERT would give the privilege of somebody being labelled as ‘educated’ but that barely covers the legitimate grounds and the true essence of the term. So what does it really mean to be educated? I think the perfect example of  someone being truly literate and possessing undiluted, pure knowledge is someone who doesn’t get stuck in the brackets of  curriculum and truly studies for the sake of betterment and not passing an exam. Education in the truest sense of term liberates a person and gives him a true knowledge of rights, responsibilities, duties and identity of being a citizen. It makes him more aware than just somebody equipped to write an exam and pass it with glorious scores. It enrich...

HOW FAR SHOULD ONE STUDY? Gone are the breezy days where even getting into an undergraduate programme in a college was considered to be a ‘prestigious’ feat and the most far fetched dream for somebody who actually wanted to have a complete, holistic experience of education. But jump a couple of years later and you will find almost everybody in an undergraduate course in some university or the other; it is not even a big deal anymore, at all. Even going to a postgraduate school isn’t an excellent feat in education, the closest that probably comes to achieving it is having a PhD. degree but we all know that the sheer number of people in those places are also actually true. So what’s changed and how appropriate is it all really? We shouldn’t just look into the trends in education to trace what really has changed. The numbers have gone through the roof; the acceptance percentages, the people who normally attend college, their grades. What we need to observe is the trends in the ...

WHAT THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS MEAN FOR EDUCATION The summer of 2019 is going to be pretty hot; and I am not just talking about the weather here. The general elections have commenced and it is a battle of the supremes. The frequent sensationalization and tabloidization of the politics in the world we live in has made quite an impression on the citizens of India, the voting decision is governed more by sensational sentiments rather than rational and factual critical thinking. And that is one boat, the nation shouldn’t be a part of but sadly finds itself pedalling through the oceans of media debates, jingoistic speeches and pools of propaganda. The issues are large and there are a huge many things that could be subjected to a necessary albeit heated debate. But, the only sane way to go about them is pluck them one by one, nobody ever retained their sanctity by keeping each foot in different sails. Education is something that is worth of monumental investments but the returns won...

#3 It is made clear in the opening moments of ‘Good Will Hunting’, a film I harbour deep love for that our protagonist, Will is an unrealised genius. A mathematical wizard, Will is a victim of his circumstance and his ironical fate subjects him to the life of deprivation. The saddest part about that is that he doesn’t even know it, his deprivation is guised as a life of supreme fulfillment in the form of his immature albeit fiercely loyal friends. Of unrealised geniuses is a story of tame and torture. And of undiscovered, under nurtured ones is a story of tragedy. That is the Indian education system; the saga of it’s students who are either unrealised geniuses or undiscovered ones. Like Will, most students in India live a life of freedom, a perceived freedom which in actuality is slavery. A gargantuan lie that propels victory in the units of grades and boasts it in a noble flamboyance when in reality, this nobility is the very substance that their binding chains are made o...