Random Thoughts And Opinions

The movie where Kareena Kapoor showed off her size zero figure had become more popular due to her statistics then the movie’s quality and finally it bombed at the box office! But it did its part in influencing people around about what’s the perfect figure is. A sneak peek into any of the prominent schools in the major cities will give you a picture where most of the girl are either seriously overweight or underweight and the boys have started taking regular protein supplements to get their much admired six packs! Wanting to have a marvellous body is obviously not a problem but the fact that most adolescent children take help of severe dieting to reduce weight or adopt artificial method to gain muscles is what causes the worry. 

Regular exercises, sports activities, walking or even cycling has educed to almost null due to present sedentary lifestyle of the students where they are either sitting in a classroom in school, coaching or music classes in the evening and then spending the rest of the hours in front of the computer or television. Sedentary lifestyle have made overweight a serious issue and some adopt dangerous measures to cut down those flab and get their dream figure. I think sport activities should be given more priority and that will help the teenagers from worrying too much about their weight and still being healthy and fit. 

Keeping track of what children eat is becoming more and more necessary given the increasing number of cardiac issues or nutritional deficiencies n children who either overeat or don’t eat at all… 

On February 3rd India unveiled what may be termed as the cheapest laptop worldwide priced at around Rs 500 which is almost equal to 10 USD during the launch of India’s National Mission on Education! It’s a wonderful news for Indian students as most can now afford to have their personal laptops once its released into the mass market. This cheap laptop was designed by students at Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists at Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru , IIT Madras and Semiconductor Complex.

It has features like 2GB memory, WiFi, fixed Ethernet facility and an added advantage of expandable memory. The designers also claimed that these laptops will only consume 2 watts of power which is again a blessing to the poor students. These laptops will be available for Indian students nationwide in colleges and schools.The National Mission has planned to provide personalised and interactive knowledge modules which will be provide to the students via Internet and these laptops are made available so that every student can gain from these modules irrespective of their economic conditions.

 According to Government reports around Rs. 4612 crore will be incurred during the 11th Five Year Plan on this Mission.Many Indian students now buy computers, which have become necessary for every field of education, on bank loans. Many students can’t even afford to take a loan or does not have the income source to give security. Such computers which will be provided very soon in the coming years is definite to cause an immense improvement in technological literacy of common man of India.