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To My Dear Youngies!

  21 st century is a boon but more of a curse especially for the youngies. Let me say you why I think so, once I was attending a webinar (the new trend of Covid -19) while I was listening to it I suddenly realized that how all of us had to compete so much with each other just to survive in this world. Obviously, this realization is not something new but the idea and sense of this existential crisis made me wonder.  So, one morning I had this odd feeling to write on this and allow my contemporaries to shed a light on this idea. With abundance of exposure through various platforms and varieties of sources availability, our choices are tend to get confused at times. It is natural to feel nervous because of our habit to achieve a specific goal by a certain age. On the contrary I also feel, who decided that at some specific age we need to be at a certain position? I am not denying here the idea of accomplishing goals but just a question on these set of limits? Today everyone from an earl

Bardoli - The Land of Inspiration

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A trip with college friends is always fun but when we together visit a place which tells us a story of glorifying history about our country is just a cherry on top. It was fascinating to visit at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Museum, Bardoli situated 34kms from Surat in Gujarat. Its really amazing that most of the museums in India charge very nominal yet their maintenance is appreciable. As we all know that, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the foremost leaders of freedom fight, and faithful follower of Mahatma Gandhi. But there is a short story behind the relationship of Patel and Gandhiji which is well presented in the museum. There is a diorama of Vallabhbhai Patel in the museum, smoking cigars and playing cards at barrister's club along with his friend. An elaborate description is given beside this diorama that somebody invited the members of that club to meet M.K. Gandhi who had come to explain his ideas about an Ashram and a national school. Initially, P