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Child Sexual Abuse is prevalent in today’s society more than before and they say 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are victims of CSA (Child Sexual Abuse). What does CSA mean? When children are forced to take part in sexual activities for sexual stimulation by older people, we can call it Child Sexual Abuse. This need not be physical, it can happen online too and children being too young wouldn’t even know that they are being abused. There are two typed of sexual abuse: one that includes contact where the child is made to participate in sexual activities, penetration, or making them remove their clothes and touch someone else’s genitals and masturbate. The other one is non-contact abuse where children are made to do things over the internet like showing pornography, distributing filthy pictures showing sexual acts, and listening to sexual acts.

It’s not always so easy to detect children who are abused because the perpetrator will be someone the family knows and trusts and they usually will have the power to tell the child that it’s normal and they enjoyed it. The effects of CSA can be traumatic and most of them display a wide range of emotions and they might even find it difficult to trust anyone, have proper relationships with other adults when they grow up, and also in their sexual functioning. Feelings of worthlessness, low self-esteem, and a distorted view of sex is usually seen in these abused children as they are growing up.

Warning signs are always there for the parents to notice that their child is not the usual self.  Many of them will have phobias; shrink away from physical contact, bed-wetting, thumb sucking, new names for body parts, depression, anxiety, and many more. It is important to act immediately instead of waiting for proof.

There are many ways to prevent CSA: Listen to children properly and don’t force them to go with anyone they don’t want to. Encourage your children to talk and be an active listener so that you know what is happening in their lives when they are not with you. It’s also very important to teach children to say NO and keep an eye on their online life. Be observant on anyone who is showering your child with a lot of gifts. Parents should also speak about safety openly at home with their children. Babysitters and caregivers should be screened properly. Schools and communities also should provide programs to keep the children safe and be persistent in their prevention methods so that children are not sexually exploited.

Sung W. Han

The numerals, now in everyday use, are called Arabic numerals, because it was from the Arabs that these numerals spread to Europe. Actually they are Indian in origin and should rightly be called Indian numerals.

The concept of zero and the digital system (including decimals) are India’s contribution to the science of numerals. The Arabs adopted the Indian system. The European got it from the Arabs (see landmarks of science).

Among the authors, who were instrumental in transmitting Indian mathematical knowledge from Arab sources to Europe, the most famous was Leonardo of Pisa (AD 1202). Other important authors were John Seville (1135), Adelard of Bath (1142), Robert of Chester (1142), Villedien (1240) and Sacrabosa (1242).

 

Student: CHITRA.K.LAL

I walk the hills, and the barren lands,

With a passion in my eyes, a gun in my hands.

 

Roads to freedom, the journey long and short,

The incessant firing, the sound of the impending calm.

 

Cold winds blow and they hit me hard,

Violent and fierce, but I can’t scream, not even an ‘ah’.

 

In my aim to protect my country,

I wonder what would happen if we go wrong.

 

Banish the thought from my head,

With a promise to my motherland, I move on.

 

The gun shots and the wounded friend,

I see them all with my two eyes, I am human I want to say out loud.

 

I tell myself to be of stone, be invincible to it all,

A small prayer to God to let me see the end of the day.

 

It all goes unanswered when I am shot in the head,

One last bullet I fire, take the one last step.

 

To kill the enemy, that was the perfect aim,

Free my country from the bondages of Satan’s game.

 

Heavens above call to me, for I have done my duty, they say

Protect the people I love down here, don’t let my sacrifice be in vain.

Student: Shruti Chopra

Aren’t we expecting too much from our women?

All right, this is not cool at all. A survey by Nielsen revealed that Indian women are the most stressed out in the world — 87% of Indian women suffer from stress. This statistic alone caused me to stress out. Even in workaholic America, only 53 per cent women feel stressed.

What are we doing to our women?

I may be biased, but Indian women are the most beautiful in the world. As mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, wives and girlfriends, we love them. Can you imagine life without these ladies? It would be a universe full of messy, agressive and egomaniac males running the world, trying to outdo each other for no particular reason. There would be body odour, socks on the floor and nothing in the fridge to eat. The entertainment industry would die. Who wants to watch movies without an actress? Kids would be neglected and turn into drug addicts or psychopaths by age ten. Soon, all male world leaders would lose their tempers at the slightest provocations and bomb the guts out of each other’s countries. In short, without women and their sanity, the world would perish.

Yet, look at how we Indians, a nation of spiritual people, treat them. At an extreme, we abort girls before they are born, neglect their upbringing, torture them, molest them, sell them, rape them and kill them to protect our honour. Of course these criminal acts are performed by a tiny minority.

We judge our women, expect too much from them, do not give them space and suffocate their individuality. Imagine, if you did this to men, would not they be stressed out? At the end, I would say, ‘We should love women, respect them and never underestimate them’.

 

Student: Harsh Negi