8Aug, 2021
    Offbeat destinations for new year’s getaway

    Offbeat destinations – This holiday season, treat the traveler inside you with offbeat destinations nestled in the lap of refreshing natural landscapes.

    1. Ponmudi Hill Station, Kerala

    Ponmudi offers so much to travelers who love to explore the winding paths and surely have a thing for long drives. Set in the Western Ghats of Kerala, it is a picturesque hill station that is surrounded by lush greenery and a sheen blanket of mist. Trekking is one of the most adventurous activities that one may wish to delve in, here.

    The place has started getting traction in recent years, which has resulted in the creation of cottages and resorts in the hilly area. A hill so close to the city, Ponmudi hills makes it a perfect choice for travelers who look for small weekend getaways.

    Those planning to visit Ponmudi, the time between November and March is highly recommendable.

    2. Silent Valley National Park, Kerala

    Another natural piece of wonder located in the godly lands of Kerala, Silent Valley National Park is the finest destination for every nature lover, ever existed. It offers the opportunity to be exposed to wild jungles and its wilderness enveloped by numerous adventurous activities.

    Apart from the purest marvels of nature, this place offers rich history and grandeur and remains the largest tract of evergreen rain forests in the North-eastern corner of Palakkad district. The flow of river Kunthi that descends from the Nilgiri hills makes it a natural splendor and one may want to keep watching it, forever.

    It is recommended to visit this park between December and April, as heavy rains from June till November makes it difficult to explore the beauty of this place.

    3. Sandakphu, West Bengal

    Situated at the peak of West Bengal, Sandakphu is the highest point of the Singalila Ridge where tourists can enjoy the dazzling peaks of Everest and Kanchenjunga as the first sunlight strikes the surface. River Teesta that flows through this place makes it a perfect destination for water-sport aficionados.

    To enjoy all of these, one must trek around 8-10 km from Maneybhanjan. It will take around 12 hours to reach the finishing line. Although it sounds tiring, the activity will certainly make you feel refreshed when you finally reach the peak – the beautiful vantage point from where you can clearly view the natural wonders.

    Best is to visit this place between October and January.

    4. Jawai Hills, Rajasthan

    Also known as the Leopard hills, Jawai is located in the Pali district of Rajasthan and is home to leopards and other wild animals such as chinkaras, jackals, hyenas, etc. It is also a place where you will find migratory birds aplenty. Apart from these, there is a Kalka Devi temple, where one can find the maximum leopards roaming around the caves and stairs.

    Here one gets amazing options of Safari rides to relish the inner view of the wilderness and also peek into the lives of local people who live there. A wonderful place to find solitude, Jawai is a perfect destination for tourists who wish to chill and adventure, away from the hustle-bustle of the cities.

     

    The best time to visit Jawai is between October and April to avoid humidity and enjoy chilly nights.

    5. Sar Pass, Himachal PradeshWhen speaking of winter breaks, it is the thought of hill stations that first crosses our mind. One such hill station that meets all your trekking desires is Sar Pass. Perfectly nestled in the Pir Panjal mountain range, Sar Pass is completely surrounded by high-rise mountains, waterfalls, and lush green forest.

    Although very tough, it is still one of the best routes and longest treks (5-7 days) in Himachal Pradesh that offers great campsites with views never-seen-before. You can start the trek from Kasol, also known as Mini Switzerland, and relish the nature all across the way till you reach the zenith.

    October is the best time to visit Sar Pass, but since it’s a winter trek, there is no harm in planning for the later months.

    8Aug, 2021
    Now, author Aparna Jain focuses on men who broke the mould

    Aparna Jain is not only a certified Integral Master Coach but has also authored two female-centric books – one that takes a searching look at women in the workplace and the other showcasing role models for young girls, as also their parents – and a volume on family recipes. She has now turned her attention to men who broke the mould as males are also subject to partiarchy and tropes.

    “Since the publication of ‘Like A Girl’ (in 2018), there have been a number of books about Indian women. There was a time I was thinking of doing a Volume Two of ‘Like a Girl’. But Karthika, my publisher, rightly observed that there what we needed now were some stories about incredible and inspiring men,” Jain told IANS in an interview of the just-published “Boys Will Be Boys” (Context/pp 175/ Rs 799).

    “I thought about it, and you know, men are also subject to the patriarchy. Not just tropes like ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ or ‘Boys Don’t Wear Pink’ but how men are subject from a very young age to be ‘successful’ to live their lives; to pursue a certain type of career; to be a certain type of man; toxic masculinity actually. So, it was important to showcase men who broke the mould,” Jain added.

    To this end, the book chronicles the lives of 45 Indian men who followed their heart and dared to be different – soldiers (Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, 2nd Lt. Arun Khetrapal), a sailor who circunavigated the globe (Commander Abhilash Tomy), a designer who took Indian fashion to Paris (Rahul Mishra), a doctor who revived rivers (Rajendra Singh), a barefoot artist (M.F. Husain), rocket scientists (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai), entrepreneurs (J.R.D. Tata, Azim Premji), engineers (E. Sreedharan), sportspersons (Bhaichung Bhutia, Vishwanathan Anand), journalists (P. Sainath, Josy Joseph), writers (Perumal Murugan, Vikram Seth, Anant Pai) and activists (Sunderlal Bahugana), among others.

    Speaking about the research that went into the writing of the book, Jain said this was of two types.

    “Secondary – reading people’s biographies and autobiographies. Then going to YouTube and seeing their interviews. And then primary – which was interviewing whoever I could. I would record the interviews, my colleague would help with transcriptions and then I would put together a skeletal story. It seems simple – the final product – but it was arduous. Getting interviews also was tedious,” Jain explained.

    As with “Like A Girl”, 27 artists showcase their arresting interpretations of the individuals featured in the book. This involved Jain, Art Director Ayesha Broacha and the artists working as a close-knit team.

    “Surprisingly for this book, many stories started coming in after I had commissioned the art. Oxfam thankfully agreed to come aboard as Art Patron for the book again. So based on my secondary research, I would send artists cue words or articles. Some were fairly straightforward. But the minute I interviewed someone, I would send an artist the unedited story so they would get a sense of the person in the way I wrote about them.

    “That helped. Or I would call the artists and give them a sense of which part of the person’s story I was going to focus on. For example J.R.D. Tata. The man is incredible right? He has accomplished so much. Which facet of him would I cover? So in the beginning the artist was trying to put an entire lifetime in the picture. Ayesha gave her art feedback and since we asked all artists to send us rough compositions it was fair to change it. So we had to work with the artists quite carefully.

    “When the artist read the story she made this stunning picture of J.R.D. with a Puss Moth (in which he made India’s inaugural airmail flight from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad)! It was perfect and such a long way from the initial sketches,” Jain explained.

    What’s next on the cards?“Hah. Good Question. I was working on a book in millennials which was pushed to the back burner two years ago. I have pulled it back but it may take on a different shape or form. I have done 60 interviews for that so you know – the data is rich. But I am figuring out what would work now – two years later. No fixed address yet,” Jain said.

    Her first book “The Sood Family Cookbook” of traditional ‘pahadi’ recipes was published in 2013. Her second book “Own It: Leadership Lessons From Women Who Do” (2016) was based on interviews with over 200 women professionals in senior managerial and leadership positions and leveraged on her experience as a certified Integral Master Coach, where she draws on the themes and teachings of master coaches from a variety of disciplines.

    “Own It…” was awarded a Laadli Prize and was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live Business Book Award, while “Like A Girl” was shortlisted for the Crossword Popular Prize.

    24Jul, 2021
    Every Ecommerce Business Needs a Blog

    Ecommerce Business – In the event that you are running an online store you despite everything have not included blogging in your showcasing procedures then you are surely at a gigantic misfortune. Disregarding blogging will surely imply that you are neglecting numerous chances to carry development to your business.

    Blogging is compelling, significant. Content resembles fuel for any business and there is no point of holding it back in the carport. Use it adequately and let it drive your business to a fresh out of the box new degree of development. Set up the blogging system now and offer more by carrying more clients to your online store.

    Here are the 5 top reasons why you should incorporate blogging for your e-commerce business:

    1. Boost your SEO

    Blogging improves your site’s SEO, as it were, as it improves the uniqueness in your substance and furnishes you with the chances of getting backlinks to your site. In the event that you begin to furnish normal web journals on your site with special substance, unique information and pictures, your site rankings will improve a great deal. This is the reason, in the event that you have not begun blogging yet, start now to…

    2. Bring New Customers And Strengthen Your Relationships With Your Customers

    At the point when you give your crowd a great deal of value and helpful substance, you build up a trustable picture in their eye. This can make them purchase items or administrations from your site. More than that, this will assist you with retaining your old clients by building solid associations with them. Thusly, blogging can…

    3. Get Established As An Industry Leader

    At the point when you begin to give customary quality substance to your crowd, they begin considering you to be an Industry chief. Be that as it may, so as to give the crowd quality and one of a kind substance, you should do a great deal of overviews and examines to acquire unique information and measurements. Try not to stop for a second to do that, it merits giving exertion for in light of the fact that it will…

    4. Connect People To Your Brand

    Blogging empowers individuals to interface with your image. The greater part of the individuals are searching for the data just on the web yet not for purchasing stuff. These individuals can run over your image through your blog, communicate with your image by remarking, and request your assistance. You have a chance of drawing in future clients with blogging by carrying your image to the individuals by…

    5. Creating Opportunities For Sharing

    In the event that you do the blogging insightfully, you can get your websites shared on the internet based life handles of the perusers. Give your websites the internet based life reconciliation and ask your perusers keenly to share it. At the point when it happens it will support you…

    6. Build A Network

    The more individuals read your sites, the more brand mindfulness you get, the more grounded the system you construct. Recall that your business shouldn’t be totally a B2B business. You can connect with numerous affiliates, outsourcing organizations and other specialist organizations who may enable your business to develop.

    Collect Emails

    You can request that your perusers present their messages or buy in to your bulletins. On the off chance that a peruser believes that your online journals are extremely instructive and helpful, they may buy in to it and give you their email ids. You can even send subtleties of your new items, offers and deals once you have gathered their email ids. This will push you to…

    8. Sell Products

    Something beyond gathering email ids and sending messages about your items, you can utilize the intensity of substance promoting to make the peruser purchase your items enthusiastically. The procedure is exceptionally straightforward and simple, you need to call attention to the basic issue for which your perusers are looking answers for, push on the issue and give the arrangement in type of your item. Also, think about what you may get a high sell on those items you have advertised through blogging.

    9. Build Trust Online

    You may have the stunt as of now. Give quality substance continually and center around conveying value. There are numerous advantages of that and one of the most significant of them is that it causes your image to construct trust on the web. More than that, nature of your substance and importance can take your blog to the main page of SERPs. You may likewise…

    10. Get Backlinks To Your Website

    Many individuals will peruse your web journals when it begins to rank. As I have said it before that you should do a ton of inquires about and overviews for the blog yet it will all be commendable. Presently let me clarify how it will help your web based business. At the point when the clients acquire the information on your blog which is no place accessible on the web, they may give your blog a backlink on the off chance that they utilize that data.

    Indeed, even the greatest of the bloggers offer backlinks to the sources they have assembled their data from. This will support the traffic on your site, it’s positioning on Google and other web indexes and will improve your trust factor.

    19Jul, 2021
    4 New Motivational Ideas to Help You Motivate Your Children

    Motivate Your Children –  Inspiration isn’t significant for grown-ups, yet in addition for kids. What they realize as youngsters will enormously affect the remainder of their lives.

    To train them about inspiration and objectives at an early age will give them the important devices for a glad and prosperous future.

    1. Talk with Your Children

    Notice the title isn’t Talk ‘To’ Them. When managing this subject, let them do a portion of the talking. They may astonish you as they attempt to think of ideas and thoughts completely all alone.

    Numerous youngsters don’t comprehend the significance of objective setting and having an inspirational disposition. Just plunking down with your youngsters and conversing with them about this subject will assist them with understanding why they need inspiration and objectives in their lives.

    When talking with your children, recollect that they are just children. The thoughts you utilize must be somewhat less unpredictable and somewhat more enjoyment than expected. The following tip will assist you with making objectives progressively a good time for you and your youngsters.

    2. Make it a game

    The incredible thing about objectives is that they are a game. Individuals, particularly kids, love to mess around. At the point when you discover what you need, attempt to make a game out of it.

    For instance, on the off chance that you need your youngsters to exceed expectations in school, you could set up an outline on the refrigerator. Start by having your youngster define objectives for the forthcoming report card. You may need to help them at this stage. You can ensure that their objectives are feasible and testing.

    4 New Motivational Ideas to Help You Motivate Your Children
    4 New Motivational Ideas to Help You Motivate Your Children

    Each time they bring home their evaluations, you could diagram their advancement on the refrigerator. Since their evaluation objectives are on the diagram, they will have the option to perceive how they are getting along contrasted with their expressed objectives. On the off chance that they are beneath their objective, it will assist with propelling them to work somewhat harder. On the off chance that they meet or surpass their objective, they will be energized and cheerful about their achievements.

    A few guardians think giving cash for grades is a decent framework. I figure this framework might be somewhat more helpful for both you and your youngsters.

    3. Show others how its done

    Your children gain the most from you. On the off chance that you might want to see certain qualities in your youngsters, at that point show others how its done. In the event that you might want them to be inspired and amped up for things, do likewise. On the off chance that you might want your youngsters to utilize objectives, you also should utilize objectives in your day by day life.

    At the point when they see you doing what you are instructing, your exercises will soak in. On the off chance that you state a certain something and do another, your kids will have a hard time having faith in the significance of what you instruct.

    4. Give them criticism

    When you have an objective or cutoff time grinding away, and you arrive at it, you might want input from the top, isn’t that so? Your youngsters are the same. For instance, on the off chance that you set objectives with them about keeping their rooms spotless and, at that point never reveal to them how they are getting along, the ideal result won’t keep going for exceptionally long.

    At the point when they work admirably, ensure you reveal to them that you saw and that you are glad for their achievement. It won’t just cause them to feel significant and fruitful, it will likewise engrain the exercises which you are attempting to educate. On the off chance that they have to invest more energy, acclaim them for their work however let them realize that you anticipate a greater amount of them.

    Inspiration and objectives are similarly as significant for your youngsters as they are for you. With a couple of straightforward instruments you can assist with bringing up your kids with a solid establishment in objective setting and difficult work.

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