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Download a Rious Bookmarks Can Never Be Beaten Is for Latest Gadgets and Gizmos TMONDHAY, APRILE 12, 2021 GL BAL TIMwww.thEeglobaltimS es.in INSIDE The uncharted heritage K-pop vs parents, P5 Acknowledging The Sensorial Aspect Of Our Heritage And How! Stuti Kalra , GT Network Finally, on February 4, 2021, French sen - an unchanged DNA since ages, making Every child, instead of the name, is iden - ators passed a law protecting the ‘Sensory them more nutritious as compared to mod - tified with a unique tune called jingrwai or most of us, the word ‘heritage’ heritage’ of the French countryside. The ern seeds. But why should they be part of iawebi in the Khasi language. In fact, the means nothing more than historical law recognises sounds, smells and many our heritage, you may ask? Mainly be - entire village communicates by whistling ruins and monuments, traditional typical rural ways of life as ‘integral ele - cause farmers growing them worship the or using such tunes. While UNESCO is music and dance forms. For some, the ments of a place’, and gives them legal seeds following local customs and tradi - yet to accord this a heritage status, it goes History this week, P7 F meaning of heritage could also extend to protection. So, the quacking ducks, oink - tions. Many of them have associated folk - without saying that losing this valuable geographical marvels like majestic moun - ing pigs, croaking frogs, singing canaries, lore, which is passed on from one treasure will be akin to losing a whole cul - tains and glorious rivers. But what about bells of a church, whirring tractors, and generation to another during sowing and ture and tribe. Another story is that of the the activities or interactions that create an even the rustling of leaves, have the harvesting time. Moreover, many of such Mattur village in Shimoga district of Kar - aura around this heritage? Can they too be recognition of being the sensory heritage seeds carry medicinal values known only nataka where inhabitants speak only in Do you think that the Suez considered a part of heritage? On the oc - of country life in France. Sensory heritage to the natives of this land, automatically Sanskrit in an endeavour to save this al - Canal fiasco points to the casion of World Heritage Day, celebrated can, hence, be understood as one that in - making it part of ‘intangible’ heritage. most dying language which was once the fragility of global trade and on April 18 across the globe, we bring you cludes smell, sound, taste, touch and feel pride of ancient India. the need to thus strengthen aspects of heritage which are sensory in that a place has, usually of the country When heritage the supply chain? nature and equally endangered. side or a village. can be found in language… Perhaps, we can take a cue from French Any language, which exists either through lawmakers and increase the ambit of her - a) Yes When heritage When heritage an oral or written tradition, is the identity itage as we know now. Else, despite being b) No can be found in crowing… can be found in grains… of not just an individual but an entire re - a land of some of the most diverse tradi - c) Can’t say Can a rooster become responsible for Even the grains we eat should be consid - gion. Kongthong, the Whistling Village of tions and customs, we stand to lose more bringing into existence the concept of ered ‘heritage worthy’. This thought led India located in Meghalaya, is home to than just a rooster’s wake-up call. G T To vote, log on to ‘sensory heritage’? Apparently yes! In eco-activist Dr Vandana Shiva to wage one such intangible heritage. Mothers call www.theglobaltimes.in 2019, two visitors to the Ile d’Oléron in one of the most well-known environmen - out for their kids using musical tunes. France complained to the local authorities tal wars with the MNC giant Monsanto against Maurice, the rooster crowing early over genetically modified seeds. Dr Shiva POLL RESULT for GT issue April 5, 2021 in the morning. After an year of discus - has meticulously collected original seeds sion, in September 2020, the court passed of many crops and helped farmers in the With the sudden surge of the verdict that Maurice should crow and remotest areas of India to grow them. COVID-19 cases in the added that its call is part of country life. These seeds are so ancient that they have country, do you think another lockdown is in Imaging: Pankaj Mallik, GT Network order? Can’t say 50% Yes 40% No % 30% 2 % % 20% 0 4 8 3 10% 2 0% Results as on April 10, 2021 Coming Next Earth Day Special Living in a tech world Rajiv Singh As He Reflects On The Importance Of Technology Nikita Mutreja “My father encouraged me to study AUUP, ASET, B.Tech (Alumna) computer engineering!” A friend of my father knew that com - he future is digital tech - puter engineering will be a big thing nology,” says Rajiv in the future and told my father about Singh, Group Cloud it. He then encouraged me to pursue “CoE THead, Sopra Steria India. With the field, even though at that time, an experience spanning over two people still preferred to do things decades in IT industry, he is an ex - manually than on a computer. Along pert in building robust re - the way, I, too, realised that IT really lationships with the will change the way we live and customers, compre - work. Today, every company, no hending their strate - matter how big or small, is depend - GT reporter in conversation with Rajiv Singh gic business needs, ent on technology for their work. presenting inno - Without it, they really cannot survive “Big Data Analytics and Cloud “One must always focus on vative business in the market. Computing are not the same!” holistic growth!” proposals to - People often confuse the two for the We can all pursue different courses wards ac - “Technology has changed the way same, but in fact, they are different and get a degree, but that piece of complishing we gain knowledge!” things. Data Analytics is about ex - paper will not matter until and unless the strate - In today’s time, what we learn and tracting information from complex we actually learn how to implement gic objec - how we learn has been drastically af - data sets, whereas Cloud Computing the things that we have managed to tives via fected by technology. In the past, refers to managing and processing learn in the meantime. We must al - the use of printing press changed the game for data on an internet server rather than ways strive to keep a focus on hav - the digital good, and in the present, we have a local one. Both fields are a little bit ing a strong and unshakable value world. As Google and virtual classes. Every - similar but they have their differ - system and integrity. If we do not GT reporter thing we want to know and learn ences. For Data Analytics, you can possess values, we have absolutely catches up with him at awaits us just a single touch away. delve into fields like a data engineer nothing, and the learnings go in vain Confluence 2019 held Education has been made easily ac - or a data scientist, where having sta - without a doubt. We must treat at Amity University, cessible to almost every individual tistical skills are important. On the everyone with love and respect, and Uttar Pradesh, he free of cost or for a very low price. It other hand, Cloud Computing is a try to make this world a better place. speaks more about the is a true reflection of how we have whole genre on its own and you can Look around and ask yourself how phenomenon that is progressed and are using technology use it as a platform, a software, or you can make the world a better Rajiv Singh, Group Cloud CoE Head, Sopra Steria India changing the world. for our betterment. even an enabler. place for all. G T I n t e January 1, 1983, is considered to be the r n THE GLOBAL TIMES | MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2021 e official birthday of the idea of the t f a internet as ARPANET adopted TCP/IP c t 2 s World Mirror News and Views and assembled a ‘network of networks’. India This Week Samiksha Dubey , AIS Noida, XII J Massive forest fires in Uttarakhand hile we sit on our couch just breathing, News : With over 1,000 incidents of forest fire re - a lot of things happen around us, and ported in the last six months, 45 have been reported sometimes in our very own country. We in one day alone in the state. Over 12,000 forest per - Wbring you the ones worth mentioning.. sonnel have been deployed for fire-fighting opera - tions. It is believed that over 1.70 lakh villages dwell in close proximity to forests, and will negatively im - pact the livelihood of people who depend on fuel - wood, bamboo, fodder, amongst other necessities. Views : Climate change has led to a significant rise in global temperature and has causal branches in all parts of the environment. Therefore, the increasing intensity, duration, frequency and higher flamma - New scheme to empower women bility of forest fires are only inevitable conse - quences. Such incidents signify that the earth is News : Dy CM of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, has an - World’s largest railway bridge in J&K lighting fires to show us what damage we have nounced ‘Saheli Samanvay Kendra’ scheme in his done and that we need to act now.
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