A Trip To One Of The 7 Wonders of WORLD

                                A Trip To One Of The 7 Wonders of WORLD 

Hello everyone! My name is Carlotta, I am a 22-year-old Italian student, recently graduated from the University of Padua. Following my graduation, I decided to apply as project coordinator at the non-profit organization HEEALS, in India. I would like to share with you one of the wonderful experiences I was able to have, during my internship. 

A trip entirely organized thanks to HEEALS, with an experienced guide, meals included, and a private taxi driver, made it possible to realize my dream of seeing the beauties of Agra City in one single day.

My journey began at 2 a.m., when the taxi driver picked me up directly from my accommodation and drove me to New Delhi, where I met the second driver and those who would be my traveling companions.

From here, my overnight journey officially began. After meeting and exchanging some small talk with my traveling companions, I was finally able to relax and admire the scenery outside the window with the dark and half-empty roads of the night. It is fascinating to think how the same roads, which are crowded with cars, motorcycles and tuk-tuks during the day, can empty out completely at night and make way for an almost unreal silence.

The trip took 3 hours in all, and I woke up at the crack of dawn. After a few minutes, the car stopped and a guide joined us. We had finally arrived in Agra! The first place we visited was, of course, the Taj Mahal!

We left our backpacks in the car and immediately headed for our first destination.

Sunrise is the best time of day to see and photograph it. The sunlight reflects off the white marble from which its octagonal walls are made, and makes it bright and radiant.

The guide gave us some time to take some pictures with our cameras and after that he began his explanation.

The first thing we were able to admire was the Guest House (or Darwaza), that is completely built of red sandstone in contrast to the main building in the center, the mausoleum, and that is perfectly simmetrical and of the same appearence and proportions of the Mosque, which is located to the east of the Taj Mahal. The gateaway of the Guest House is positioned so that the arched door forms an artistic frame for the Taj Mahal.

In contrast to these two structures, the Taj Mahal is built entirely of white marble and meticulously decorated. It is a perfect symmetrical planned building.

What impressed me the most were the detailed floreal patterns carved in the marble and the elegant arabic calligraphy at the tomb entrance.

Entering to the mausoleum, we could admire the tomb of the empress consort Mumtaz Mahal, located exactly in the middle of the octagonal structure, and on the left side, constructed 30 years after, the tomb of the emperor Shah Jahan. It was surprising to know that these ones were only illusory, in fact the real sarcophagi of the two emperors were situated in the crypt, in the lower part of the chamber. Unfortunately, tourists were not allowed to take pictures here.

At the end of our guided tour, we went to the roof terrace of the Taj Mahal and, after walking into a small dome, we had an amazing view of the Yamuna river and of the Mughal garden. The beauty of such a landscape left me speechless.

We had some time to rest and to take some other pictures before the ending of our journey.

Before leaving, we had also the opportunity to buy some little gifts for our loved ones at the very recommended shop “The Silver Hut”, where I bought two tiny and colored elephants that could remind me the colours of this city. I only wish I will have the opportunity to visit it again, in future!

For the moment, it has been a unique experience that I will never forget. 

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Gender Equality In India: the importance of education in creating empowered women

 

Gender equality in India: the importance of education in creating empowered women

• by Valentina

 

Gender equality has always been and still is a crucial issue in the development of a fair society, but education can and must play an active role in shaping it.

However, despite a high growth rate and various Government measures to encourage gender equality, the gap still exists in India. The fact is that educating women can play a very significant role in the improvement of the country, helping to reduce inequality and functioning as a way to upgrade their status inside the family and throughout time.

The empowerment of women has therefore become a worldwide topic of discussion, but this inequality and discrimination against them is an eradicated centuries-old global issue.

Thus, the question is, what do we actually mean by equality? 

Generally, women and men should be treated equally in terms of work, education, marriage and politics. However, although the Constitution doesn’t make distinctions between them, the society has deprived the females of basic rights theoretically granted. As a matter of fact, the Indian Constitution considers equally the rights of its citizens, but in reality women and their representation in public roles and politics are still marginalized, leading to a lack of central control. 

The EMPOWERMENT process can really make the difference by enabling each kind of individual to reach his full capacity, bettering his social, economic and political participation. Women can be the key element able to move the country forward and to funnel it in the right direction and transformation. They are needed for the living humanity and therefore it is imperative for them to be educated.

But how can we make a change?

By moving from marginalization, underestimation and weakness towards the exercise of power. And the most useful tool to do so and change the status of society is of course education, whose encouragement can help minimize the gender bias in the educational environments. It can also foster the concept of women participation in public roles for the attenuation of discrimination based on gender.

Another factor of fundamentally determinant in the Indian gender gap is POVERTY. According to data, the percentage of women in the total number of poor is 70%, a number which is strongly and directly correlated with the lack of employment chances and possibilities. But poverty means also lack of food resources and therefore malnutrition, hunger and other health problems, as well as an increase in mortality, homelessness and exclusion.

Finally, gender gap is also influenced and fostered by the absence of decision-making involvement of women, which could contribute to a better social, civil and cultural way of living.

All this said, the backwardness of females in the education system, as long as it continues to exist, will always be seen as a reason to not invest in the development of women's knowledge and to keep considering their role strictly bound to marriage and family.

And maybe, unluckily, this could be the starting point to solve.

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Climate Change and Its impacts on Water Sources in India

 

Climate Change and Its impacts on Water Sources in India

-Ecenur Dede

The climate change is one of the challenging issues that the world faces with.It not only affects the quality of life but also is the essential issue that affect both economic social and political lives of individuals.Therefore,it has to be considered and has to be found some solutions regarding it in order to be able to enhance the lives of human being.In particular,India is the one of the countries that faces the issue of climate change.For instance,the country reported the highest number of deaths in 2016 was due to the extreme weather.(Lahiry,2018).Therefore ,it is one of the challenging problems that the country has to overcome with.In this article,it will be elaborated how climate change impacted the water sources of India and its impacts on the society.

In India,the water is one of the crucial sources that country has to take care of as any other places in the world.The importance of water specifically for India is due to being one of the most important agricultural producing countries in the world.Therefore,water even becomes more essential for India in terms of its economy.For instance, decline in monsoon rainfall since the 1950s have already been observed in the country.Therefore, the dramatic change in the monsoon could initiate more frequent droughts as well as greater flooding in large parts of India.The economic survey 2018/19 observed that during the years when rainfall levels drop 100mm which is below average, farmer incomes fell down by 15 percent during the kharif and seven percent during the rabi crops seasons.(Lahiry,2018). The survey points out

that climate change could reduce annual agricultural incomes in the range of 15 percent to 18 percent on an average and up to 20-25 percent for unirrigated areas.(Lahiry,2018).Therefore,climate change brings problems for the society which deals with agricultural production so their economic lives.In order to combat with the climate change,India can take into consideration severe precautionary measures which can be specified as ; a. demand management to suit the supply, by choosing appropriate cropping

patterns and technologies to reduce water consumption in industry, b. increasing efficiency of water usage, particularly in the irrigation sector,c.solutions to use the flood waters as a resource through diverting flood waters to have potential groundwater recharge zones,d..having large scale recycling of wastewater; and lastly having desalination of

seawater to meet the governmental needs.(Shrivastava,2015).Thus,those precautions can be applied so that the impact of climate change will be decreased as much as possible.

Lastly,the climate change is inevitable so the its impact on the environment as well as water sources.However, by taking some measures can be implemented in order to diminish its effects on the environment as well the society.Therefore,India being agricultural producing country can take such precautionary measure in order to be able to cope with the climate change on its water sources.

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Bibliography

Lahiry,S.C.(2018). “Climate change and its impact on water resources”India Water

Portal.Available at

https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/climate-change-and-its-impact-water-resources

Shrivastava,P.(2015). “Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources of India”Department

of Geology, Govt. V.Y. T. P. G. Available at

https://www.krishisanskriti.org/vol_image/11Sep201504094916.pdf

HEEALS Gender Equality ,Menstrual Hygiene and WASH In School Workshop In Gurgaon ,Delhi And Uttar Pradesh Schools

HEEALS Gender Equality ,Menstrual Hygiene and WASH In School Workshop In Gurgaon ,Delhi And Uttar Pradesh Schools

HEEALS Gender Equality ,Menstrual Hygiene and WASH In School Workshop In Gurgaon ,Delhi And Uttar Pradesh Schools. Workshop Comprise Orientation About Importance Of Menstrual Hygiene And Gender Equality In Our Society. Research Survey ,Behavior Change Communication Outreach program ,ICT & IEC Tools, Games , Etc.

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