Amphan Cyclone: The Untimely Nightmare

Amphan is a super cyclone that devastated Eastern India particularly West Bengal, Odisha and also Bangladesh. It is the first strongest tropical storm to occur in the 2020 cyclone season and is the first super cyclone to hit the Bay of Bengal since the 1999 Odisha cyclone. On 20 May, 2020 Amphan made landfall in
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How Cafes are becoming more than food corners in India?

Cafes are modern forms of historical coffeehouses established for eating, drinking and hangouts. The English name café came from French which also derived from the Turkish word, kahve that means coffee. Earlier such eateries only served coffee. But today in the postmodern century cafes have turned into a more inclusive world. Today cafes not only
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The Idea of Global Governance

Daniel Bell, an American sociologist once thought that the national government is “inadequate” to solve bigger problems like the influence of global economic competition and the destruction of the world environment. But it has become “more than sufficient” to deal with simple issues related to cities or localities. (Anthony Giddens, 2012). It is quite reasonable
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The Role of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Women Empowerment

Self Help Groups (SHGs) are informal groups involving people of similar socio-economic background who perform common tasks together in a collective fashion. SHGs mainly consist of 10-20 women or men from the underprivileged section who work together and save an amount of money from their earnings in a common fund. The members of the group
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Prospects of Cultural Unity in India

The term culture itself is very inclusive and covers a much boarder area. The concept includes both material and non-material objects. Both the material and non-material ones mark the identity of a definite group. The material culture includes weapons, art, ornaments, buildings, monuments and everything that is tangible and can be touched whereas the latter
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The Influence of Social Media on Millennials

Social media involves various websites and applications (apps) which are easily available in the electronic gadgets like tabs, smartphones, laptops, computers etc for public use. Starting from sharing contents to creating different types of contents has become the main basis of using any social media platform. Social media websites have made information quickly accessible and
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Can Face Masks be dangerous too despite being protective?

Putting on face masks, shields before faces, gloves, etc have become a new normal after being hit by the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) of 2020. Most of the countries have made it mandatory to wear a face mask to avoid the impact of the contagious disease. The way the deadly virus started spreading rapidly across
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Effects of Lockdown on the Environment

The widespread coronavirus has forced all the affected countries to impose lockdown followed by social distancing and quarantine norms. It has killed more than 2 lakhs and left many people infected across the world. However the natural environment seems to have gained from the benefits of lockdown leading to a fresh abode of nature. Everything
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The Missing Discourses on Menstruation

The Missing Discourses on Menstruation
Menstruation is still considered as a taboo where a woman’s body becomes the symbolic representation of rules and regulations imposed by the society. Like other societies, in India, too this subject has been a taboo until date. Mostly euphemisms are used to explain the phenomenon in order to avoid uncomfortable glares in public. It is
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Peer Groups as Agents of Socialization

Peer Groups as Agents of Socialization
Socialization is the learning process where an individual acquires skills to adjust to the group and conforms to the norms of the group. The process of socialization makes a child a social being and he/she learns to play the specific roles assigned by the society. There are a few agencies of socialization which play an
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