Like someone said above, we should do our best to get our near and dear ones vaccinated. The drop in fatality rate of senior citizens is proof that vaccines are our only hope. If possible, cover expenses of your maid, cook, milkman, vegetable vendors etc whoever has the potential to be super spreaders, or encourage them to get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is, unfortunately, real, and it doesn't help that some vested interests are maligning our only hope against this pandemic.
Proud to say my mother took the initiative, covered the costs of vaccination for our maid as well as her husband and gave her a couple of days off to rest. She's also encouraging all her friends to do the same. It is only through a collective effort that we can overcome this disaster.
We'll have the chance to get vaccinated ourselves soon. Meanwhile, wear masks, wash your hands and stay inside as much as possible. We shall overcome!
I have a query:
Today, I was going through Rank 15 sociology's strategy. After reading her strategy,I almost felt like a dwarf in front of whatever she has done for sociology.But when I saw her marks I realized that she got similar marks as mine in pap 2 and not much more in pap 1(where I had misinterpreted 2 20 markers).
Now my query is do toppers always do what they tell or all this talk comes after getting a rank,I believed its humanely impossible to retain so much in the exam whatever she wrote.How can one do so much?If people do so much should'nt they be getting 300 marks and not marks similar to mortals like me.
This query is being written purely out of anxiety.Should I start remaking my optional notes again?How do people follow so many sources and still able to retain so much?Should this free time be used in making optional notes again again
I was going through that same blog yesterday and I felt overwhelmed even though I'm going for CSE2022. It's VERY comprehensive. Reading the amount of work she did just for optional is making me re-evaluate my whole decision of appearing for this exam 😂
For what it's worth though, she seems very genuine to me. Kinda opened my eyes to the sheer hard-work that lies ahead.
for those asking for telegram group, it is the same mains result countdown group hosted by kaptaan and yoyo now renamed as pre support group. check the pinned messages for the info posted. also scroll all the way up to find link to intv support group.
heres the link: https://t.me/joinchat/XuVuBrBE2x01MWM9
Yikes! Made the mistake of going through this group. Safe to say won't be going back anytime soon. And these are civil service aspirants no less. Kudos to Forum community members for keeping this space sane with the madness that's unraveling all around us.
@Usain_bolt its not teaching its business. They have to justify there price. I have strong feeling they forced Mrunal Patel to stop uploading videos on his youtube channel.
Is it really true? I thought he was unwell?
@nerdfighter The fetishization of productivity is a plague. Feel so alien seeing Youtube videos titled "Why I study 16 hours a day" and such featuring 9 sponsors for various apps and a whole legion of fans in the comments section. It's like we're searching for that same micromanagement that we used to get from parents but now through apps and the Internet in general.
With each passing day I realise I'd be in a much better place if only I had listened to theoutdatedadvice of my parents which seemed ill-suited to themodernworld.
I think Israel and Palestine is one issue, where I'll always struggle with to take sides. I largely disagree with people try to paint this as a religious issue, when the history of the conflict tells us that its a deeply political issue. Calling it a religious issue, would assume that the Arab League and other Muslim states support the cause of Palestine, but actually when there was time to realise the Palestinian state, Arab League along with the Western powers backed out. With the recent development, we further see the waning away of the smoke screen of championing the Palestinian cause which the Arab states used.
Apart from the immediate cause of the revolt (the land rights issues surrounding the Haram-e-Sharif area), we have to keep in mind why it has to be this way. Israeli politics comes into play here. Its such an electorally and politically divided country that no party ever commands a complete majority. Likud party of Netanyahu is barely holding it together right now in a complicated coalition. As a result a lot of vote bank politics and coalition politics comes into play. Now, Netanyahu to resolve this problem, has begun openly courting the far right extremists in Israel (which by the way are in minority, though increasing). Pandering to the orthodox right involves costs. They want complete exclusion of the Palestinians from East Jerusalem which Israel has come to occupy. This is why we keep reading about the forced Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas of Jerusalem. This also explains why in 2018, Israel passed the Basic Law, declaring itself as Jewish nation state. Contrary to popular belief Israel was not formed as Jewish nation. It continues to have substantial Arab population (excluding the Palestinians). It would be also be a mistake here to generalize the entire Israeli population as ethno-nationalist, the well off cities, especially Tel Aviv, do not identify with such goals at all.
Coming to Hamas, its origin is equally troublesome. Hamas which originally formed as a sister group of Egypt based terrorist organisation Muslim Brotherhood, was actually propelled to power by support of Mossad (Israel's intel). And yes though its dubbed a terrorist organization, which practically it is, it is also a democratically elected govt. Now why would Israel support Hamas? Well, at that time the Palestinian cause was led by PLO. PLO was a secular organization, which relied on largely peaceful means of negotiation. Israel made a cold politically calculated call, and it supported the Islamic fundamentalists as a way to divide support for the PLO and to delegitimize and discredit the the Palestinian Liberation Movement in general (by painting them as extremists). That short sighted political move is now costing Israel big time, now that Hamas is a full blown militant group.
So, is Israel to be blamed for the mess that its in? Yes and no. This can be seen as a parallel to US and Taliban in Afghanistan. US supported the Mujahedeens in Afghan for it was way to get rid of the Communist control of Afghan under the Soviet, this was in the backdrop of Cold War. They supplied weapons, trained them to fight the Soviets. What followed that was the Taliban grew out of control, and eventually led to 9/11. Its kind of a similar case here. To blame US for the formation of Taliban is true, but to consider the whole 9/11 as an inside affair is a conspiracy theory. Similar is the case with Israel, this protracted asymmetric warfare will continue to stretch as long as it serves a political purpose, be it for the Palestinians, or Israel.
This morning, I came across a comment on Reddit, where some guy quoted his political science teacher on this conflict. He said (paraphrased): "If you read up on this issue for an hour, you'll be convinced the Israeli's are right. If you read for 10 hours, you'll be convinced the Palestinians are right. And if you read anymore, you won't be sure about who is right." This is the best way to put how deeply complex this issue is. If its painted as a yes or no, or simple religion against religion answer then, most often than not, we have chosen which side to defend (not saying that it is bad).
Friends I humbly submit this beauty. Feeling cute, might die of second-hand embarrassment later.
Still amazes me to this day why it wasn't nominated for the Oscars :)
