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Following your passion, what it takes

Have you ever wondered what your passion is? I always and I am yet to find one. Passion seems to be a small word but carries a lot of meaning and belief with it. It reminds me always of Steve Jobs who was the man behind Apple. I remember a quote from him “The only way to do great work is to love what you do”.  He was a creator, technocrat, entrepreneur and a businessman. I always thought, how one person could be passionate about all of these at once. How he derives all of these at once whereas I am still figuring out what my first passion is? In fact, I went through a lot of view of people passion and success but still unable to prove this. Could success follow a passion or the opposite could also true? Let me tell you a story about a young man who took admission in liberal arts and History College. He was passionate about learning Western history and dance and dabbled in Eastern mysticism. In the span of the 1 year, he got bored of the curriculum so he dropped out of college b...

Child Marriage - a disability to our growing society

There was a girl named Saakshi who was studying in 6 th standard. Saakhi lived along with her family in a village of Rajasthan called Bhilwara. For her Bhilwara meant an entire world.  She was very intelligent, energetic and a hard working girl. Her dream was to become a doctor so that she can cure and help her people of the village. And she knows that everything she needs to achieve her dream is by properly following her studies. But one day she gets married away. Do you know what forced her father to take such a harsh decision? Her father occupation was farming and due to the certain climatic condition, he was not able to earn up well that year. He was thinking to avoid money for Sakshi education as it seemed not very important to him. Good morning ladies and gentleman Thousands of children esp. girls across our country share the same fate as Saakshi. Don’t be shocked to hear childhood marriages are still prevailing in the 21st century. A centur...