Autumn in West Bengal

             Autumn in West Bengal spans the period from mid August to mid October. Amongst the six seasons in this State, Autumn is the best of all. As this season is preceded by monsoon, autumn wears a festival and charming look with lush green all around. The floating clouds, clear blue sky, moonlit nights, quiet nature, soothing climate and the rivers and ponds full of water make the nature so romantic.
             Autumn is also the season of festivals. Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of Bengal falls in this season. The other festivals like Luxmi Puja (Dewali) follow thereafter. The distant sound of beating drums fills the early. People, irrespective of their social status, eagerly wait for this happy season, as they enjoy the festivals very much. Schools, Colleges and even office remain closed enabling people to take part in the festivals and enjoy themselves. Everyone is in a holiday mood. This season also being the harvesting season, farmers are happy with their land full of paddy and other grains. The vast stretch of luxuriant paddy crops undulation in autumn breeze fill the heart of the farmers, The little they earn this season makes them happy. Once this season is over, they anxiously wait for harder winter months.

Pulse Polio Immunization

             Polio is the abbreviated name of Poliomyelitis. It is an infantile malady, starting from the mother’s womb, it continues to make its victim suffer throughout his life. Its virulence is markedly manifested in children. It causes painful bone-deformities of a child that ails him till he dies. It is a scourge, a menace. The sure remedy of this disease is in the periodical oral administration of the medicine ‘Pulse Polio’ during the early years of a new born baby. This medicine creates immunization in the metabolic system of the baby killing the polio- bacteria attacking the process of forming bones and bone-marrow.
             This immunization is imperatively essential for a baby for eradicating the chances of the disease’s onslaught in future. Hence, pulse polio is a must even for a healthy new-born to stop any possibility of this disease in future. It is very easy to administer. It is to be administered orally at intervals of certain period of time to be tied by the physician. According to the UNICEF reports, this disease is on the wane — thanks to the raised against this devil.
             Success of this world-wide Immunization programme depends entirely on the conscious efforts of the public. The people must be made, through constant propaganda and continuous campaigning, aware of the dangerously lingering attack of this disease and it’s very easy remedy. The governments of the backward countries have come forward and now its total success depends on the cooperation of the public for their own good.

The Study Of History

             History is the annals of the past. And without past there cannot be any future. Thus we can say that history is not only an interesting subject but also an important one. Every citizen of a country should, as a duty, learn the history of that country and only then can we hope for a better future. Study of the cultural heritages of a people inspires feeling of patriotism and a pride to take the nation ahead at any cost of sacrifice.
             Though it is not necessary to know the history of the entire world thoroughly, but it is necessary to know at least a brief history of the world. This will help us to understand the various reasons why a particular country has done well or badly and what are its achievements or failures.
Incidents like the American Revolution, Russian Revolution, the French Revolution or the Chinese Revolution are all very important events in the world. The critical study of these events helps us to know the important changes which took place, in the world, both social and political, after these events and why and how the changes occurred.
             Previously, in different history books, usually the tales of kings and queens used to be told in great detail. Now the trend had changed for the better. With the more or less abolition of the king-queen system, these days history is more or less based on the common people on their culture, literature, social system etc. Everything combines together to make up the history of a nation and it is definitely an important study.

Recreation

             It is absolutely essential that everyone gets a chance to have a period of rest after a spell of hard work. It is very often seen that only work makes the mind dull. Even, if machines are made to run continuously, they tend to give trouble. They cannot function properly in the same fashion and the human mind needs rest to start with a dew vigour. And for this recreation is necessary.

             There is hardly any point in wasting one’s off time. There are people who just do nothing during their leisure. Such men are not very successful in life. One must see how one can best utilise this free time to get the best from life.

             Here the question of developing a hobby comes. One can develop various types of hobby. For a young boy, sports are essential to develop not only a good body but also a healthy mind. It gives the boy a chance to mix with a lot of other boys and thus he can develop various ideas by talking to them.

Another very interesting hobby is reading. It is rightly said that a hook is a man’s best friend. One can easily pass long hours by going through the classics of different literatures. It is an education by itself. You are learning during your recreation. Nothing can be better than such a recreation. Choosing the right kind of recreation is important but what is more important is having recreation.

Rural Uplift

             Gandhiji said that India lives primarily in villages. But when we talk of the country’s progress or achievement, we only think of India’s cities. The facilities that a townsman gets are beyond the dreams of an average villager— telephone, television, refrigerator, air-conditioned rooms, cars and what not. We can say that the cities are flourishing and the villages are going down day by day.
             Only very recently people have started realizing the anomaly of the situation. India needs village uplift, and planning for India’s economic progress means planning for the prosperity of rural India. Villages need, first of all, drinking water, good paths, primary and secondary education, training for agriculture and cottage industry.’ When the villagers are well off and healthy, India as a whole will prosper.
             Two important things in this respect are Village Panchayet and Rural Banking. Village panchayet gives the villagers their democratic rights. Through panchayet which the villagers themselves manage, the common people have the taste of power. They learn how to take the initiative in their own matters. Secondly, the banks in the rural areas free the poor villagers from the clutches of the money-lenders. The bank loans encourage the rural folk to be independent and to spend on fertilizer and pumpset and thus to modernize agriculture.

Television - Its Uses and Abuses

             The television is one of the wonders of modern science. With the invention of television we are on the threshold of a new era. Radio brought us voice hut television has added vision to it. It was invented by J. L. Baird, a British scientist in 1923 and the American scientist C.G. Jenkins, made great improvements on Baird’s instrument.

             The television may be called a mini-cinema. Like cinema it gives u both sights anti sounds simultaneously. It not only makes the distant objects visible but also helps to hear what sound they make. Thus brings us in close contact with the real world outside: On a T.V. set we can see the president presenting the Academy Award, Prime Minister receiving the foreign dignitaries, a batsman scoring a century amidst the applause of thousands of spectators or a cosmonaut flying in hi spacecraft.

             The utility of television is unlimited in modern life. Now we need not go out in sun and shower of witness a football match of a theatre at the risk of our life or limb. We can easily and comfortably enjoy them on a T.V. screen in our drawing room. Discussions are now held before our eyes by intellectuals and VIP’s. Thus the T.V. has brought the whole world into our drawing room.

             But T.V. has its evil effects too. It has become a status-symbol. It’s craze with the youngsters to attend regular T.V. programme. Excessive fondness for T.V. is injurious to eyesight. Young students are sometimes so much attracted to it that they waste their valuable time and neglect their studies. So we should better choose the T.V. programme and utilise the television in belier way.

The Two Foolish Cats

             One day, two cats were passing through the backyard of a large house. They found a big piece of cake lying there. They immediately took it and ran away. They were very happy to get the sweet cake for their lunch.
             They sat under a tree to enjoy the cake together. But both of them want to eat the bigger share of the cake. “I saw the cake first”, said one of the cats, “so I must get the bigger part of it.”
              “No”, protested the other cat,” I picked up the cake first and so I must get the bigger part.