Food for Thought

Freedom

By Aditi Agrawal

This is the beautiful sky, where the birds fly, 

There is nothing new, but the birds are now few, 

It’s a city or a village, birds are found caged. 

If  you say you love nature, then why harm these God's little creatures??? 

How can you be glad , by keeping them sad. 

Come; let them set free, as you and me.

Attitude decides life

By Heeral Madan

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Born to Buy

By Chahna Motwani

In every walk of life, we can find advertisement. It is the mirror of our society. Advertisers design advertisement according to the characteristics of society. They try to influence consumer behaviors according to their emotions. That’s why they make different advertisement for different age groups or different communities. Among them kids get influenced the most as they are defenseless ,innocent and not so mature. Studies show advertising begins influencing the requests a child makes to their parents at a very young age. The average child reported spending more than 22 hours in front of the screen each week. The children admitted to having requested about one toy a week and two requests every three weeks for food or drinks. Children today often feel the influence of advertising's subtle messages more strongly than those provided by schools and even parents. When children see these advertisements it gives a wrong impression on their young minds and they start giving a lot of importance to materialistic joys. Children tend to misinterpret the messages conveyed through the advertisement. They end up having wrong notions about many issues.

For example , when children watch young adults in good shape eating junk foods in the advertisements they assume that it is good for the health. A research conducted has shown that children increased their consumption of junk foods after seeing these advertisements. A few countries have banned marketing and advertising targeted at children below the age of twelve.

Advertising companies understand that many parents are looking to please their children, especially if there is a strain on the relationship between the two parties. This means that advertisements will look to coerce children into getting their parents to buy whatever they see on television or on the internet. Children are falling into the world of consumerism today, and parents are as much to blame as the advertisers.

Student Diary : A walk to remember

By Ankita Garve

   

Hey friends! I would like to share my experience of this walk with you all. The “HERITAGE WALK” of our college which was organized on 18th February,2013 was really superb…… We enjoyed a lot as we all were together including the 1st and 2nd year students. This walk was open to all but only the 1st and 2nd year students participated because the PGDMC students had exams. The students who came for the walk were in huge numbers than expected… really…..!!! We had lots of fun in the bus too…… 

All the students were picked up from particular points and were dropped back at their respective points. We first reached “KAMALA PARK” lead by our teachers Rolii Ma’am and Amit Sir. Our guide was already standing at “KAMALA PARK” waiting for us to arrive. He was Mr. SIKANDER MALIK – a person having loads and loads of knowledge about the history of Bhopal…. He was really an amazing person who provided us with lots of knowledge about ancient history. At every spot he guided us with the information of that particular monument. Our walk was for about 2 to 2.5 kilometers which we could not even realize in our enjoyment…….! 

After “KAMALA PARK” we went to “GAUHAR MAHAL”. It was truly a wonderful place. The only sad part was that we could not enter the “MAHAL” because a fair was organized at the “MAHAL” due to which we could not get permission. The fair was named as “SHILPI MELA” of handicrafts. Then we reached “IQBAAL MAIDAN” which was a great place. It had a wonderful garden. But people had spoiled it by throwing eatables and other waste. Government as well as the people must preserve it by understanding its importance.

We took our steps forward to “SADAR MANZIL”. Wow…… the place, the architecture, the garden, the fountain… truly spectacular…… The walls there displayed BHOPAL’S connection with FRENCH STYLE architecture. The office of Nagar Nigam was also situated at the “SADAR MANZIL”. Overall it was a nice place where we had another interesting tour. 

At last we all boarded the bus to our respective points where we were dropped. Overall it was a great experience and immense learning and we want to experience more such visits……… In my view, the Government and people should take initiatives to keep all the old monuments protected and safe because these are the “HERITAGE” of our country. Also it is the responsibility of us as individuals to do our bit……….! 

We moved ahead to our last spot which was “NATIONAL ARCHIVES” where we got to know about the oldest and oldest of records. We also saw some of the records which dated back to 1857. We also saw the preservation room where the documents were being laminated and we also saw how these documents were stored.