INDIA’S FIRST INTERVIEW BASED MAGAZINE `30 RNI No. ODIBIL/2012/50568 RNI No. INSIDE EXCLUSIVE A PROMINENT JOURNALIST WHO QUITS HER INTERVIEW 1 JOB TO COMMUNE AMONG ADIVASIS 2 WE HAVE MOVED ON, SHOW MUST GO ON…. he Coronavirus pandemic has reset been exemplary and inspiring, as always. We our lives. And, our lifestyles too. have spared no eff ort to connect better with our Th ere are guesstimates as to when this readers even during this unforeseen crisis. Our virus will lose strength. As of now, forte has been positive journalism. To showcase T there are no defi nitive answers. But the strengths of our state machinery and fl ag one thing has emerged strikingly over the past the achievements of unsung heroes across all few months. Covid will not melt away anytime walks of life. We have resisted every temptation soon. We are talking about a vaccine. But we are to partake in the TRP game. Our ethics has unsure when the vaccine will be available for stoutly countered this “Me Too’’ syndrome mass application. It’s a mystery to be unravelled. in the media. As you can recall, every year on October 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary Normally, any vaccine to tame a deadly contagion of the revered ‘Mahatma’, we felicitate the takes two to three years aft er grueling research iconic personalities. Carrying on this endeavor, goes into its development. As human species, we present to you the same “Top 20 Most we are trying against all odds to vanquish this Inspirational Personalities of Odisha 2020”. obdurate virus. Yet, the contagion has shown Th is event has gone beyond felicitation, it has no visible signs of abating. Today, India has kindled and aroused young minds to the nation nearly six million Covid positive cases. True, our they visualize for the future. Th e feted personas recovery graph is on the upper curve. But at the continue to inspire with their stunning tales of same time, the spike in fresh cases is a worrisome success. Hats off to these phenomenal achievers! trend. Imagine the sorrow of people losing their loved ones to this virus. We could have prepared Amid this Corona fear swirling us, we have better to face it. feared losing the loyal readership and patronage of our readers. But our consistent journey on Despite the aura of gloom, we haven’t lost our the trajectory of positive journalism has kept feisty spirit. Nor are we short on confi dence. us alive and kicking. And, clicking with our We have learnt to pace ahead. And, that is how beloved readers. Hope still fl oats over the lake we ought to fashion our future. Today, as Th e of despair. Th is hope springs from within us, Interview Times observes its ninth anniversary, reminding us to move on. And, keep saying to it’s a muted celebration. However, we continue all in the ecosystem- Th e show must go on! to delight our readers by curating content that stands out from competition. Our reportage has Dibyajit Sahu Group Editor, Interview Times Publications EDITORIAL 3 4 CONTENTS INDIA’S FIRST INTERVIEW BASED MAGAZINE IT - LEADERSHIP CHIEF MENTOR : Dr. SUJEET KUMAR MP Rajya Sabha COVID MAY MENTOR : BRAD MISHRA Patron : PARTHAJEET PATNAIK NEVER Group Editor : DIBYAJIT SAHU GO AWAY Resident Editor : SAYAK KARAMKAR EVEN WITH IT - TEAM SUBHOJIT PANDA : (SUB-EDITOR) A VACCINE ARUN KUMAR MAHANA (BUREAU HEAD) PRAMOD KU LENKA (BUSINESS IN-CHARGE) RAJIV NAYAN RATHA (PRO) Page 10 IT - AUTHORS ANMOL SAHOO WHAT IS AISHWARYA SAMANTHA CHANDERVEER SINGH PRIME TIME? DIKHYAA MOHANTY MOUSAMI JENA A DEBATE OR OMPRIYA SAHOO SOMNATH SAHU HOUSE OF SHILPA DEY SUBHRA PRIYADARSHANI KAR SICKNESS TUSHANT BARANWAL YOGITA MOLHOTRA Page 52 ADVISORS DR. ACHYUTA SAMANTA TARA RANJAN PATNAIK PRIYADARSHI MISHRA MAHENDRA KUMAR GUPTA PANKAJ MOHANTY DR. 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Teaching in the mother tongue for the students that whenever possible, the their mother tongue will demolish at an early age. But India is still medium of instruction until at India’s economic prospects and obsessed with the concept of least 5th Grade but preferably till lead to a more reactionary position preferring English medium for 8th Grade and beyond will be the in the education system. mother-tongue or Local/Regional their children. Language is core In the Indian Education system, Language has been furiously to human identity, but in this promoting the English language debated in the English language modern world, the identity dispute more than the regional language media. Th ere is some section of the is getting lost as teaching a child has been seen from the decade. society which thinks that favoring in their own language has become More importance has been education in Indian regional questionable. From the colonial given on imparting education languages is the sole responsibility era, only the extension of English to school children in mother for keeping India a poor and education has to be comprehensive tongue or regional language. 6 EDUCATION TIMES Th roughout years we have seen will help in better possession on examinations, makes them less in Odisha, students from Odia of a second language. Children likely to fail a class, is more likely medium schools have performed procuring a second language later to be recognized as good students, exceptionally good in their grades. in life can use the skills they learn and enhances enrolment rates. Even from Odia medium school, while being taught in their mother But despite knowing the diff erences students also do well in English tongue as younger times. and the importance of preferring subjects. But the mind has been According to research, if the mother tongue why India is still set before our children will learn fi rst language is your regional obsessed with English medium. better in an English medium language or mother tongue and Some claim that there is a social school than in an Odia medium if more importance is given to it, perception that English is what school. In English medium schools, the better it will be in the second makes a diff erence in learning, and the regional language is given less language. Starting with the these perceptions drive people in importance, and before students mother tongue as the primary India. To which now the regional was taught the regional or local medium and introducing English languages have taken a back language till 6th or 8th Grade. later results learning process as seat and now today’s generation Aft er that, the whole subject was more convenient and a better has the least knowledge about removed wholly. Many are now result in all the languages. Students the importance of their mother concerned that the impact of preferring their mother tongue as tongue. Th e society gives more the policy recommendation on the fi rst language give themselves privilege to the English medium students can create ambiguity a yielding pathway and helps school students and terms them concerning its implementation. to allow their personality more as the future of the nation. Even Some feel that it will make it more developed. Th e ease with which the parents are ready to put up with arduous for the students to learn mother tongue permits a child’s poor learning outcomes – as long and obtain English skills and to natural capacity to push through as those outcomes are in English challenge to compete with their means it can also help students as according to the English is companions in higher education if from disadvantaged classes. But aspirational, and their children schools are prepared to teach only some researchers say that giving can be more smart and educated in their mother tongue. As the preference to the fi rst language or if they are studied in an English NEP has not made mandatory for the mother tongue can give more medium school. But the question schools to teach in their respective fear in the English language among still lies it worth enough to give less mother tongue and termed as the students. Mother tongue importance to your mother tongue “Possibly preferable.” Th e authority education helps students do better or your regional language! depicts that they have taken the decision, keeping in mind what is suitable for our country and children. But keeping away the importance of their own learning of regional language is acceptable! It is not that diffi cult to see why students taught in their mother language would defeat students taught in a second language. Starting a child’s education in their mother tongue allows teachers and students to communicate naturally and helps to create a better environment, which will lead to making a semantic development. Using the mother tongue at the primary period of education 7 DEBATE TIMES AISHWARYA SAMANTA CONSPIRED THEORY OR NAKED TRUTH? hile a section of the nation ASEEM (Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer joyously woke up to celebrate Mapping) portal’s data, a total of 69 lakh migratory Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s workers registered themselves for jobs.