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Ease of Living Index

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  EASE OF LIVING INDEX   The Ease of living Index released by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs provides a holistic assessment of cities based in India  on their efforts to make a better environment for people to live under, provide better infrastructure and also addresses challenges of urbanization. A revised edition of Ease of Living Index was published in 2019, February.   When interviewed a few citizens of Bangalore they had to say that the Ease of Living Index has been beneficial in some ways such as working area is better, in certain areas the roads are better, but some did not feel that this Index had been beneficial since town planning is not efficient and the roads is in an uneven condition.  Also people had to quote that "in order of doing the city better it is causing a lot of damage in return to the citizens. Such as these days there is metro coming up and flyovers are being built which is causing pollution and reducing the number of tree...

The Gift of Magi

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                                                                  It was the day of Christmas and also Thanksgiving was around the corner . Mia was very excited for this day since it was the day to gift something to her loved ones, primarily her parents. She had faced a lot of difficulties during her teenage in terms of education and tuition for which her parents had to sacrifice a lot. Her parents were having their own small family business due to which their earning was not much. Then they had a child who was Mia. She was very intelligent in her primary school. But once she came to secondary school studies became difficult for her and she had to attend tuitions for which the fees were a lot for her parents to afford. Her parents for really worried because they wanted to do all that was possible for their only child. They h...

Offline V/S Online

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  Joy of attending offline and leaving online   Since there is a pandemic which is still lingering around the world, due to which a lockdown had been imposed for around 7 months the whole world had shifted to online mode of working, leaning etc. educational institutions swapped to teaching online. Around 22 nd March the lockdown was announced and around January 4 th the colleges slowly started re-opening.   Mr. Kapil from the Centre for Media studies was interviewed, and this is what he had to say for the topic offline V/S online mode, “he preferred offline more because student interaction with the teachers was more”.   J.R Aaradhya a first year student currently studying in Jyoti Nivas College had to say, “she preferred online mode since there was not much physical interaction with people such as touching, meeting them face to face”. Megha a third year student who is currently studying in Jyoti Nivas College had to say “she preferred online mode since...