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Paperless institution: Fantasy or Emerging Reality.

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Sam’s pen Environment issues not only affect humans but became a concern for every other species and nation these days. Environmental concerns have equitably become both local and global issues. In order to protect the environment and the world, we are changing our lifestyles and altering certain practices. While environmental issues such as global warming, climate change, waste disposal, water pollution, etc have become both local and global concerns, one of the newer initiatives for improving the quality of the environment is to reduce the consumption of paper. As is common knowledge, trees and other organic materials are the source of paper. We must understand the history and origin of paper if we are to go paperless. The earliest type of paper ever used in human civilization is known to be Papyrus. It was made of something resembling heavy paper. Papyrus was developed by the ancient Egyptians from the Cyperus papyrus plant around 4000 BC. The other name of it is Nile grass. It...
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When animals know no boundaries

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                                    Sam's pen.    We all love travelling. Most of us are thrilled with the idea of exploring distant and unknown places. During the beginning of modern era, many famous navigators went out from their homes to explore the new lands. Among them Columbus, Vasco Da Gama, Captain Cook, and many others became legends. They travelled to discover about new lands; to acquire new knowledge. Do you know many animals are similarly fond of travelling long distances like us? But their travel is not related to enjoying aesthetic scenery of new habitats or to experience new habits. Their travelling is for their biological needs, to survive in this planet. Generally animals go for travelling to avoid unfavourable weathers, in search of food, for breeding, or to give protection to their next generation. Such type of travelling by animals is called animal migration. Man...
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Green thought

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  Green thought Changing modern lifestyle is the only option to restore the balance in Nature. We cannot go back to the past. We cannot just click the undo button. So what can we do now? How can we restore the balance in nature? It is not possible for us to rewind back to the ancient times. And we cannot think about the nature without human too. The only way is to use our resource to mend our damages. We cannot change our modern lifestyle. But we can use it in planned way and use science and technology to restore the nature and to rectify our mistakes. Modern lifestyle doesn’t mean clearing out forests for constructing cities and roads; it doesn’t mean raising dams in an unplanned way; it doesn’t mean clearing out forest areas to grow monoculture plantation. Modern lifestyle means fulfilling our debt without harming our Nature. We can fulfil the debt by planting 10 trees, if one is cut down; planning our dams wisely; grow indigenous diverse plantation.   We all know the ...
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 "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; one man in his time plays many parts." The dialogue  is from the famous drama "As you like it" by the timeless genius William Shakespeare. The drama was first enacted in the year 1613 at the famous stage of the Globe theatre in London.
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The Television Antenna

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  The Television Antenna             Last year I was in Ahmedabad for some official work. The city has a warm charm to it. My Friend, Raju was living there that time, and I planned to meet him. Raju was an Electrical Engineer and graduated from a reputed Engineering College. I got his phone number from Kuttu, who is now in teaching profession in a University. Receiving my call in Ahmedabad, he was delighted and invited me for a get-together.                After enjoying the ride in the calm waters of Kankariya lake I proceeded for the venue, as given by Raju, to join the party.   When we met at 7.15 p.m. the sun was still smiling. It was quite unlike our native place.             I was very happy to see Raju after so many years. Even though he was bald now with thick glasses and a stylish goatee,...
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