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Airbnb considering crypto?! This could be HUGE Airbnb did an IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17 2020 and they have stated some very interesting and very promising things in their future technologies section and they have said that their future success will depend on their ability to adapt new technologies like tokenization, cryptocurrencies and new authentication technologies. Here is a link to their SEC filing and you can look for yourself https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1559720/000119312520294801/d81668ds1.htm Airbnb is looking at blockchain technology and crypto currencies to try and improve its service. They also say that they may or may not be successful with it but they would definitely pour resources into it. They do have some idea about the crypto market as they acquired the engineering team from a crypto company ChangeTip in 2016. If more and more big players enter this space, it will only help the crypto mass adoption in general for the existing users.

This community going forward Now that the Indian Premier League has come to an end, I think I would use this community to post things about Cricket in general and more specifically Indian Cricket. The next IPL season starts only in about 6 months time or less so we can keep this community going till then when we resume again with our coverage of the Indian Premier League! Here are the series which are coming up which are going to be very exciting. India vs Australia New Zealand vs West Indes I'm particularly excited about India playing in Australia because Indian captain Virat Kohli is only going to play the first test before he leaves home for the birth of his first child which will leave the Indian team to fill the huge void that he leaves. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Why is exposing corruption not important for people? After the recent protests in the Black Lives Matter movement and just following the whole story made me think and realize a lot of things in life. While I am very happy that the protests happened at such a large scale around the world for social justice and equality around the world and i'm happy for the people of color all around the world, it still beats me till today that people don't care at all about corruption and exposing the corrupt in the world! When someone calls themselves a Social Justice Warrior (SJW) and they do crazy and irrational things like quitting their jobs because their CEO doesn't want to publicly support BLM (which they are in no way obliged to), I don't see a movement or even any discussion about corruption. If people were even half as passionate as they are about Black Lives Matter towards eliminating monetary and financial corruption, I think the world would be a much better place. So, what can I do about this, you may ask. Start talking about corruption, tax evasion, under the table deals etc like you talk about social justice. Bring it to your every day dinner conversations. Respect the law of the land. You may feel like taxation is theft and I totally understand your viewpoint. If you feel taxation is theft in your country, get out of your country or fight the government but as long as you live in a country, you have to follow the law of the land. You should not break any rules. If you wish, you may even run for office as a libertarian and even make policy changes to eliminate taxes. But never break the law. Expose corruption. Start doing your bit to eliminate it. If someone is asking you a bribe, record it using a secret microphone in your phone. Take pictures, videos. Use technology wisely. Make a difference, be the change. When judging someone or giving them a free pass, look beyond skin color and ethnicity. Look at how they accumulated their wealth. Was it all legal? Was it all fair? If not bring that into political conversations in addition to race, ethnicity, sex etc. Finally I want to end by saying, if people were even half as passionate about corruption and eliminating it, the world would be a much better place.

Mumbai Indians win the Indian Premier League! Surprise Surprise! Mumbai have won the trophy! If you have seen my prediction in the last post you would have seen the same result as well. It was going to be a little close but Mumbai were never going to lose that final. Mumbai were truly a cut above the rest! Image courtesy: espncricinfo.com If you look at all the parameters that were analyzed, Mumbai were truly a cut above the rest! They hit sixes almost 20% more than the next best team Rajasthan Royals. Their scoring date at the death was also at a similar margin higher than Chennai Super Kings. Their powerplay numbers were also significantly more than the rest of the teams. They also used as few players as possible which would have been better had captain Rohit Sharma not been injured and they were forced a replacement. I will make a separate post on the greatest IPL captain ever, Rohit Sharma going over a lot of the statistics in detail but until then, enjoy the Mumbai win. And until next time (probably just a few months out), the coverage of the Indian Premier League has come to an end!

Today is the final of the Indian Premier League! The closely contested tournament in this year's Indian Premier League is coming to an end today with the final starting in less than an hour. This year's final is going to be contested between the most successful team Mumbai Indians which has won 4 titles so far and the first time finalists Delhi Capitals. This is going to be a very very interesting final to watch and these are the players and things to watch out for! Rohit Sharma's form - this is a little bit of a concern going into the final but I think Mumbai can use Rohit just for his brain and his cool captaincy skills even if he doesn't bat. I personally feel Rohit should bat #4 letting Ishan Kishan open with Quinton de Kock not just because of his lack of form but he's best suited to bat slightly lower down at #4. The PPP factor going for Mumbai Indians. Mumbai have got their PPP factor going incredibly well. PPP being Pollard and the Pandya brothers. They have been extremely consistent throughout the tournament and will be hoping to carry that form. Stoinis and Dhawan. These are the guys who should be able to make a difference for Delhi's batting. If they click, they will take the game away from any opposition. Ravichandran Ashwin could be a key bowler for Delhi as he seems to have contained the explosive de Kock by bowing tight lines not giving him too much room either sides of the wicket. I personally would like Mumbai to win and I think they have an advantage but let's see how this goes and who will actually come out victorious but right now what we know is that Delhi has won the toss and decided to bat first!

The second eliminator - SRH vs DC Delhi Capitals are off to a killer start in the final eliminator Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals which will basically decide who gets to battle Mumbai Indians in the final on Tuesday! As I had earlier predicated, I think Sunrisers rising streak will most likely come to and end today with this game. As I write, they need another 110 in 10 over at over 11 runs an over and with no real power hitters left for SRH, it is more and more likely that they will end up on the losing end. Some phenomenal moments of the match today. Shreyas Iyer has really pulled out a great one from his hat of captaincy tricks and promoting Marcus Stoinis could really be the stroke that takes them to the final. Marcus Stoinis has really changed the tone from the first ball by taking the game away from SRH. Drop catches by SRH could very well cost them the match! Stoinis was dropped when he was on 3 which basically could have turned the game over it's head. Shikhar Dhawan continued his incredible run of form and could very well be the Man of the Series this IPL.

3 more days to the final and title! Wow! What a few days this has been for the game of cricket and for IPL! What a roller coaster ride and what performances this year. This has to be one of the most gripping IPLs I have ever witnessed! So the points table as of today. Mumbai Indians Delhi Capitals Sunrisers Hyderabad What a game today was! Sunrisers Hyderabad with their brilliant bowling have basically knocked Royal Challengers out of the IPL! Incredible performances from the Hyderabad players. I thought Saha miss would cost them dearly but apparently not! And guess what? No one's going to say it but I will because this platform supports free speech but ever since Jonny Bairstow was dropped by SRH, they started winning. I don't think they have lost a game since then! Where do the teams stand? Mumbai Indians still standing tall, still favorites IMO. Rohit's form is a huge concern but if he turns it around, they will walk away with the title. They are the team to beat this IPL and rightfully already in the finals. Delhi Capitals had a great start to the season and started dropping towards the later half showing some signs of weakness. Still a formidable side and can beat anyone on their day but their batting is showing slight signs of concern. Shreyas Iyer has been a good captain all along! Sunrisers Hyderabad are truly rising. Rising from their record low of #7 at one point in the tournament. They are a team on the charge but they have won so many matches in the past that just by sheer probability they will close to Delhi Capitals in the next game. I say this because they are not that strong a team to really even beat the odds. Let's see how the tournament plays out. Hopefully the best team wins!

Almost at the end of the league stage of IPL We are reaching almost the end of the league stage and here is where the tournament stands at the moment. Mumbai is back at the top of the table. Looks like the Keiron Pollard charm has been working for them and looks like his unbeaten streak in the IPL hasn't been broken yet. Sad that Rohit Sharma is injured and unable to play and he hasn't been selected in the India tour of Australia/New Zealand as well. Delhi Chargers have shown small signs of weakness towards the end of the tournament and have slipped to #3. Shreyas Iyer still killing it with his captaincy. Royal Challengers Bangalore have peaked at the right time in the tournament. Only one name from the RCB team stands out. Devdutt Padikkal! What a find for RCB this year! The fourth spot is a fight between a few teams and although Punjab, Rajasthan and Kolkatta are all at 12 points, Sunrisers Hyderabad have the advantage of having 2 games left to play sitting at 10 points. If they win both with a huge margin, maybe they still stand a chance. They have shown small signs of brilliance in the last couple of games but most likely it won't be enough for the Warner led Sunrisers Hyderabad. Follow the tournament here in detail. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/_/id/8048/season/2020/indian-premier-league Also Chris Gayle, the Universe Boss just hit 1000 sixes making him the first one to do so in all of T20 cricket! Take a bow old man! https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/30223814/ipl-2020-kxip-vs-rr-chris-gayle-becomes-first-hit-1000-t20-sixes

Donald Trump calls out the air quality in India as filthy If you have followed the debate yesterday, for Indians, the biggest talking point and also the most controversial was that Donald Trump called out the air quality of India and actually went ahead to say it was filthy. https://news.yahoo.com/us-president-donald-trump-debate-081001898.html If you are my follower, you may have seen that many of my posts are about The Better India or the Incredible India pointing out the positive aspects of the country so you may be thinking that I may be outraged by this comment by the POTUS but surprisingly I am not. Why? Because I have a heart to accept the truth as is. While the language used by the President of the United States (POTUS) may not be diplomatic and politically correct, it unfortunately is the truth. While it may seem harsh on the surface, the reality is that unless someone points it out, no one is going to do anything about it. The air quality in the nation's capital is among the worst in the country. The reasons behind it are many which include farmers burning crop stubble to clear their fields, vehicular and industrial pollution and some extreme left sources claim that the Diwali fireworks which only happen a couple of days a year contribute a lot to it but any sensible person should know that the biggest problems that need to be solved are Farmers burning crops Vehicular and industrial pollution These happen every single day of the year so these need to be tackled. Extreme left libtards, please don't take this opportunity to attack Diwali fireworks which only happen a couple of days in an year and let's collectively come together to solve this problem of air pollution and make India's air less filthy again!

Indian Premier League at 3/4th stage So by now most teams have played 10 games with only Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians left to play their 10th game. Here is where it stands around the 40th match mark Chennai Super Kings is at the rock bottom of the table! CSK led by the incredible MS Dhoni has managed to stay at the bottom in what is the biggest shocker of this season! I have called it in my earlier post about CSK snubbing players like Suresh Raina and Bhajji and embracing stupid players like Ambati Rayudu and Watson which has costed them dearly. Hope they learn from it this year. Delhi Capitals who have been at the bottom of the table so many years have been consistently in the top spot this year in what seems like a remarkable turnaround. I think it is the captain Shreyas Iyer who has led this effort followed by the coach Ricky Ponting. Also to have brains in the team like Ravichandran Ashwin helps strengthen the game. Except for Sunrisers Hyderabad who are almost certainly out at this point (David Warner the cheater deserves it), everyone else's spots are up in the air and anyone else can qualify in the top 4 to make it to the playoffs. It will be really interesting to see how this year's IPL will turn out. Hopefully it will be one cracker of a final as well this year!

What's going on, Chennai Super Kings?! Chennai faced another loss today against Royal Challengers Bangalore and it seems almost evident that this is one of the most oddball years that Chennai Super Kings will ever have in the IPL! To put the record straight, I think Chennai Super Kings have managed to end up in the final 4 almost every year in the IPL except maybe one or max 2 years of all of IPL's existence. So, what happened? Here are some possible reasons why this could be happening to them now! Suresh Raina leaving because of security concerns. I think instead of N Srinivasan just bashing Suresh Raina that he could miss out on so much money this year's IPL, he could have better put money where his mouth was and improved the security situation of players in the bio bubble. Players like Raina and Bhajji are probably the X factor that's missing in this year's IPL for them. MS Dhoni's age is showing. Although i'm a HUGE MS Dhoni fan personally, I think the age and the lack of tact and in general the physical age in his game is clearly showing. More reason why he needed other senior players like Raina and Harbhajan Singh! Old and inefficient players need to go. Prime examples are old but bulky players like Shane Watson. Sure, Watson may have played the innings of his life a couple of years back or so in the IPL final winning them the title but that was a couple of years back and he was old back then. Now he's just extra baggage IMO. Hype players like Ambati Rayudu need to go. Rayudu is the perfect of a hype player. He is not an impact player like a Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli or even Shreyas Iyer or Rishabh Pant but he runs mostly on hype. CSK needs to find another impact player like Dhoni or Jadeja. All in all, love to see the competition this year in the IPL. Hope to not see CSK in the final four this year and give someone else a chance.

Indian Premier League (IPL) update after 20 games After so many years in the IPL, I feel like this is the most balanced IPL I have ever seen and witnessed! This has by far been the most competitive IPL yet. The following are the reasons for it. Chennai is not in the top 4! The mighty Chennai with MS Dhoni, the thalaiva as the leader of the side has had a 3 match losing streak this season which is unheard of. Just goes to show how much stronger the other teams have become! Mumbai is at the top of the list! Although this is not unusual because Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians are statistically the best side of the IPL historically but they are generally very slow starters. It is indeed surprising to see them being table toppers so early on. Delhi shining! I don't know if it's a very balanced team with Delhi Capitals or if it's the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer but Delhi have had an amazing season this year. They put in some really strong performances and are arguably the side to beat in this year's IPL. Oh and also Kagiso Rabada, that man is the absolute BEST! Bangalore doesn't suck this time lol. Every year people make so much fun of Royal Challengers Bangalore when they keep saying "ee saala cup nammade" meaning this year the cup is ours and they always get beaten so badly and have to hide their faces in shame and embarrassment but this year they put in some strong performances and believe it or not, this year they don't suck lol Kolkatta is not looking very intimidating. Not sure if it's because players are out of form or the lack of tact in Dinesh Karthik's captaincy but Shah Rukh Khan would probably not be a happy man and I feel sorry for the people in the KKR dressing room having to face him in these situations. Hyderabad are kind of their usual self. Not promising enough to be there but also not at the bottom of the table. You can expect surprises from them at any point if their local not so known players shine like a diamond. Rajasthan and Punjab have shown a lot of grid but somehow ended up at the bottom of the table. This is what makes this IPL so exciting. If you have seen these 2 teams play and still see they're at the bottom, you have to feel for them. All in all, very competitive IPL and amazing entertainment. Hope you're catching all the action. If you want to follow this game on the web, here is the link https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/_/id/8048/season/2020/indian-premier-league

Exposing Aamir Khan the Bollywood fraudster So, a lot of left libtards in India seem to have very high regard for this self proclaimed perfectionist called Aamir Khan who in reality is just a total anti Hindu fraudster who is driving his Hinduphobic agenda on Indians in a very smart and cunning way. I am going to dedicate a series of blog posts on this fraudster because he is the most sly of them all but here I am going to go over one aspect of the kind of frauds that he does to fool the public. He had a very famous show on TV at one point called Satyameva Jayate which translates in Hindi to mean The Truth Wins which I am going to try and achieve through these series of blog posts. The show that he does to bring social awareness is just a money making business for him and an image booster as he reportedly charges INR 3 crores (about $410,000 USD) per episode. Here is the link confirming the same from the rotten filmfare organization's website https://www.filmfare.com/news/bollywood/heres-how-much-aamir-khan-charged-for-per-episode-of-satyamev-jayate-43458.html While a lot of people argue that he may be right in not doing charity as an actor and he is right to charge money for the show, I have 2 things against that argument. 1> He only brings out the social justice issues only against Hindus and no other religion. This is an organized way to spread his hate for Hindus and spread his Hinduphobic agenda. 2> He has apparently patented the words "Satyameva Jayate" which means that anyone using that phrase anywhere including the government for any real social work has to pay him royalties to use that term. So in reality, he has fooled all the 1.3 billion people in India with his moves and he is just a patent troll who is looking to make a lot of money out of the people who are really downtrodden. Other than his Hinduphobic brainwashing agenda, I don't think he has done any real work or any real donations for people in need who have appeared on Satyameva Jayate. I would also challenge him to bring out the deep rooted issues in other religions and not just Hinduism.

Politics behind the PhonePe ad Let's talk about this stupid ad which is airing non stop during the commercial breaks during the Indian Premier League. This ad is for the digital payment service PhonePe which is supposedly a competitor to PayTM which is India's original and the first digital payments solution which provided QR codes for mom and pop shops and people selling on the streets to accept payments. It so happens that the CEO of PayTM Vijay Shekhar Sharma didn't speak anything negatively or bad mouth the Indian Prime Minister and he was doing a great thing by leading the digital payments movement in India and minding his own business while these other breaking India forces like the Bollywood Khan mafia started targeting his company. In this ad, one of the most notorious Breaking India force Aamir Khan along with it's other very prominent member Alia Bhatt, daughter of the famous Modi hater Mahesh Bhatt are trying to endorse and promote PayTMs competitor PhonePe by trying to show that this stupid app has amazing mass adoption but in reality PayTM is still the king in digital payments in India. I hope people don't fall prey to these breaking India forces like Aamir Khan and not give him too much credit because he is single handedly trying to brainwash Hindus to hate their own culture and religion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr9SnEQb2a0

An Indian now owns the British East India Company! The irony! If you are aware of the historical context of this, then you know that karma is a b#$%h and this is one way that nature runs it's own course, even if it is a matter of over a few hundred years. The East India company was responsible for looting artifacts, trading slaves and was the trojan horse that let the British enter India in the first place which they ended up ruling. In a very weird twist of fate, this British East India Company is now owned by an Indian named Sanjiv Mehta! This company had owned most of the Indian subcontinent including countries which are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of Afghanistan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXccMsTlL0 If you think the modern day Facebook, Apple, Google or Amazon are powerful then think about this. The East India Company owned these countries almost completely and ran all it's operations! The EIC was responsible for almost 50% of the world trade and had a global monopoly in the tea business of the world! The British East India Company was the most powerful company the world had ever seen. It controlled everything from the opium trade to the slave trade. Mehta opened the first EIC tea store back in the year 2010.

Western Influences on India's social fabrics and it's social sciences After India got it's independence in 1947, many prominent leaders and philosophers like Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Shri Aurobindo envisioned a completely different fabric, a Vedic social model for the Indian society. However, India ended up taking Nehru's ideology which was largely influenced by the 19th century ideas of Europe and a significant part of it was actually based on Marxism. These marxist ideas which were Nehru's brainchild are entirely a Western import, totally disconnected and have no relation to the Indian culture and tradition. They continue to be brainwashed to students by the books and learnings in the Indian Academia, civil services, foreign policy and are a major headache for the ethos of what is India today. This is a great interview between Rajiv Malhotra and Come Carpenter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYdq8yYRc0

Hyderabad's new engineering marvel opened on September 25 One of the most prosperous city in India, Hyderabad is inaugurating a hanging bridge, a first of it's kind in the Durgam Cheruvu area. It has been opened on September 25, 2020. It is truly an engineering marvel and one of it's kind. Here is a video of the inauguration where the residents of the city joined the celebration and rejoiced the occassion. https://lbry.tv/@indianhinditeluguvids:a/hyderabadlatestbridge:a It is expected to ease traffic in the city and it also expected to connect a wider part of the city and make the city more accessible and connected. The bridge was inaugurated by the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) KT Rama Rao in the presence of the Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy and Mayor Rammohan Bonthu. This would be the city of Hyderabad's first hanging bridge and it looks incredible as well!

The fraud that is Hasan Minhaj and why his show got cancelled The leftists and the democrats in the US and people with similar mindsets all around the world were cheering this "Indian" and "Muslim" boy and made him a hero overnight but the centrists and the right wing folks knew about him from day 1 and what a fraud he is, both ideologically and politically. His popular Netflix show The Patriot Act got cancelled a few months back and I have to say i'm really surprised by the lack of coverage this story got in the mainstream media and how well this was put out from the public eye. If you want to read a little more about it from a major news source and not me, you can check this out. https://www.newsweek.com/patriot-act-producer-mental-anguish-final-months-show-1526736?amp=1 The producer of the show Nur Ibrahim tweeted about this very briefly and seemed like she still didn't have courage to speak out the entire truth. You can check out the tweet here https://twitter.com/Nuri_ibrahim/status/1296589363762077699 She said that while working on the show she was "humiliated and gaslit, targeted and ignored." She also went on to say "I wish we still had Patriot Act. I also wish they truly practiced the progressive ethos they cultivated on screen. Then they would really deserve all your love," It seems like Hasan Minhaj and the cast of The Patriot Act were hypocrites according to her and basically what she means is that they say something on screen but do the totally different thing off screen. Hasan has definitely milked his brownie points from being a brown "Indian" and a "Muslim" boy but he definitely does not represent any Indian values in how he lives and how he goes about his life. I know that his opinions are mostly fraud and hypocritical but I am even till today really surprised no one even knows this story till date!

IPL Day 3 review - September 21 2020 Day 3 promises to be a great day of cricket between two very solid sides in the IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. This would be a very interesting battle because Royal Challengers Bangalore has amazing batting with Kohli, the world #1 batsman, AB Devilliers, Aaron Finch, Mooen Ali and a couple of other local players whereas Sunrisers Hyderabad has amazing bowling with Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar but they also have one of the most amazing openers in their team with David Warner and Johnny Bairstow opening the batting up front. It will be an intersting match up. I believe this will also be the first time if i'm not wrong that David Warner will be captaining any side after he faced a 1 year ban for ball tampering during the test match in South Africa. You can follow the updates here: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1216534/sunrisers-hyderabad-vs-royal-challengers-bangalore-3rd-match-indian-premier-league-2020-21

Indian Premier League - Day 2 starts today! So we had a very successful Day 1 without any hiccups. In a major win for the sporting world, there was a successful launch of a sporting event during the Covid-19 crisis. **Day 1 review:** The highly anticipated matchup between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings wasn't much of a high octane thriller but CSK ended up beating MI quite comfortably but if you have noticed the pattern, Mumbai always starts the seasons low key and quite often with some initial losses but they are one side which really takes off when it really matters so let's see how it goes for them this season! **Day 2 - what to look forward to?** Today's game day is between Delhi Capitals and Kings XI Punjab. Kings XI Punjab is led by the young KL Rahul who is only the second captain + wicket keeper + opening batsman to play the IPL. He is still unproven but with the combination of the legendary Anil Kumble, it might be a think tank to watch for. The Universe Boss Chris Gayle turns 41 and is surprising most of the world by still playing at that highest level. Gayle with the power that Glenn Maxwell brings could turn out to be the X factor that Kings XI Punjab. While on the other hand, Delhi Capitals have a fresh young captain in the name of Shreyas Iyer with a lot of young, up and coming Indian names like Prithvi Shaw and moderately experienced Rishabh Pant. The coach Ricky Ponting might also add a much needed brain behind this team. No real predictions for me today but I think Punjab might have an edge over Delhi. You can follow more updates here https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/preview/1216493/delhi-capitals-vs-kings-xi-punjab-2nd-match-ipl

Indian Premier League kicks off today! It's been a long wait for sports in the world to happen in general and also for cricket to begin and it is finally here! After much going back and forth, the venue has been shifted to Abu Dhabi from India. Here is a link to the IPL page if you want to follow the event over the course of the next 2 months or so roughly! https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/_/id/8048/season/2020/indian-premier-league Today starts with the major marquee clash between 2 titans, Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings! The major talking points about today's game: **Missing Suresh Raina for this IPL for Chennai!** CSK don't have a left hander in their top 6 and Raina will be missed from that aspect. Also his fielding will be missed a lot. **Will Boult be picked for Mumbai?** It would be very interesting to see who would be the primary fast bowler for Mumbai Indians. CSK being the mighty IPL giant that it is, have been trumped by Mumbai Indians most of the time and it almost seems like MI have found a way to crack the CSK code somehow. I feel like that is mostly because of the genius of Rohit Sharma's captaincy and his brain at work. With that consideration, I would think that Mumbai Indians would be the current favorites to start the tournament out. And as the legendary Ravi Shastri were to put it, "I hope this would be a cracker of an IPL!"

The 10,000 step formula to keep fit The secret for a physically healthy lifestyle is not that much of a secret. It is quite simply that you achieve 10,000 steps every day as you go through your day-to-day life. There are many different fitness trackers and free apps that you can install on your phone which help you keep track of how many steps you walk every day and as long as you don't over eat and as long as you make sure to get 10,000 steps a day in I think you can maintain a very very healthy lifestyle. Keep that number in mind because that will help you to maintain your health in the long run. If you can also include a high intensity workout for 15-20 mins in a day with any form of HIIT training, that would be a cherry on the cake as far as your fitness is concerned.

Who gets the Covid-19 vaccine first? Now that the countries are racing towards a vaccine for Covid-19, one very big question arises here asking who gets the vaccine first. There are many people with varying opinions on who should get it first. Should the front line health care workers get it? or the economically backward get it or someone else? So in this question on who gets in a fair and equitable manner, several countries brought together a lot of health experts and it seems like a three phase plan for vaccine distribution called the Fair Priority Model has been developed by 19 global health experts. The main aim of this model is to create a method which reduces premature deaths and other non reversible health conditions. Read more here for the Fair Priority Model and India's possible approach as well! https://www.thebetterindia.com/237573/covid-19-vaccine-india-cost-distribution-fair-priority-model-committee-decide-health-worker-plan-co-morbidities-senior-citizens-government-vid01/

How to make organic fertilizer using waste tea grounds In India, tea is drank in almost every household and it is also filled with a lot of important nutrients making it one of the best choices for an organic fertilizer. This mother and daughter couple shows how you can make your own organic fertilizer at home with waste tea grounds which is available in so much quantity in India as so many Indians consume tea every day. https://www.thebetterindia.com/235970/waste-organic-fertilizer-how-to-make-tea-leaves-grounds-fertile-soil-enhanced-growth-india-ana79/ If everyone makes their own fertilizer and grows their own plants, the world would become a much more sustainable place. Here is another link which has some very useful information on how you can compost tea leaves. http://www.carryoncomposting.com/142941471

Humans have eliminated 60% of wildlife since 1970 In what is truly a disgusting act of mankind as a whole, we have managed to eliminate about 60% of earth's total wildlife since 1970 a new report says. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/world/wwf-report-species-decline-climate-scn-intl-scli/index.html If you have ever wondered why a pandemic has hit the planet, I strongly believe that it is because of human greed and what we have done to the planet and to the animals in our planet. It's the nature which is acting back and showing the world how much harm it caused to it. It is high time humans rise up to this and act responsibly and try to make the world a better place. This maybe our last chance to do it, if not we will be doomed forever with further consequences.

Indian lady grew 90% of her own veggies during lockdown Muthu Nagappan, a home maker from Tiruchi, India grows 25 varieties of vegetables on her 500 square feet terrace. She apparently also makes her own home made fertilizers using her kitchen waste. If you are interested in making home made fertilizers, I will be writing another article on that subject which might help everyone do the same. https://www.thebetterindia.com/236034/how-to-do-rooftop-gardening-tamil-nadu-lockdown-urban-gardening-organic-food-farming-india-gop94/ “Our garden gives us 90 per cent of vegetables for the entire family. We rarely, if ever, step out to purchase vegetables. It also has a calming effect on all of us” Muthu tells **The Better India**.  Her garden also apparently attracts a lot of birds and butterflies!

Manipur's Loktak lake - Aerial shots #DidYouKnow #IncredibleIndia https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/didyouknow?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZUX3aEmQMe32YFIb8zZSswg59x3adHcEH-0NGaVo-tcYbuuQT3qIaI_RqTqKMOeONoBo7o9wBWgyJcddDtt-lbRzt7MOtR1VophWZAb_qgc6ZkR1Q4DpaaK7nw8dyHkDXDqrTEHJU1YyOoKo3L9SciZa3-6jj8Ym8sw8RMEpk_AuU5FU6gPDuenn8eY5KtAgBA&__tn__=*NK-R https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/incredibleindia?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZUX3aEmQMe32YFIb8zZSswg59x3adHcEH-0NGaVo-tcYbuuQT3qIaI_RqTqKMOeONoBo7o9wBWgyJcddDtt-lbRzt7MOtR1VophWZAb_qgc6ZkR1Q4DpaaK7nw8dyHkDXDqrTEHJU1YyOoKo3L9SciZa3-6jj8Ym8sw8RMEpk_AuU5FU6gPDuenn8eY5KtAgBA&__tn__=*NK-R A beautiful bird's eye view of Manipur's Loktak Lake. Spanning a vast 286 square kilometres, Loktak is the largest freshwater lake in India. Its surface is filled with floating islands made of decomposing reeds, weeds, and soil, called phumdis. The Keibul Lamjao National Park, the only floating national park in the world, is the largest phumdi on the lake and Loktak’s star attraction. It is the natural feeding ground of the endemic brow-antlered deer, once believed to be extinct. What would be really nice is if the lake had floating houses as well! That would complete the marvel that this is! PC: Asangle Disong www.instagram.com/asangle_disong https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fasangle_disong%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0V-m58Xyc5bbRiNvbbgxRyhaoMHEtBPUMonE2erWFpb6cfKp9-T-JduCg&h=AT0vOKeSwFTghIBdJUrSvx65bppY1ujZsDpSlzhw9B9RRpssKCXZL0JWbhNl5GhE2DGQ70yb5cNv9XPMyf6_ttfvuCu_pkiIREZF33OyK2DXNJbo9FSH0wnrRTos6Ftpam1HY1E-U2cadpsTPyCczA&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0UatL8zsz7xptoQmqGDSyBwW1IubfWRM50J5swHlb_551JrWzTmKC-x_kTXq0QOGMlc-8GLZN1pXiuNjWJQyn45wLQgt1g7dAnK1EMgxlXLlSX4NKLMqrykdJLTiyzPwK9UX9pHsme3K6t14RQL6a-_cwIZ4ezJEEIIRXeUZaCNXK2bwZpk51RovF3mI15gZC6Dx_vz03nyCW4NRGLbt7S

How Teenage Volunteers across India are helping a remote Ladakh village https://youtu.be/XlytPlJBMlc This is one of the most inspiring stories that's happening in India today. There are so many teenage volunteers who are helping teach kids in Ladakh remotely. These are accounts of several stories in a remote village in Ladakh called Turtuk on how they are getting help from the rest of India. https://youtu.be/AB8lRKM3c-4 There are so many accounts of these great teenagers who are crossing language and state barriers to just help their fellow Indian students. I firmly believe that now that the articles 370 and 35A have been abrogated Kashmir will become as prosperous as the rest of India and it will also become one of the most successful states which will surprise the rest of India.

Meet the IIT grad who saved Sikkim's forests I routinely like to share positive stories about what's happening in India because firstly, the western world always wants to focus on still showing India as a third world country when in fact it is proving time and time again that it's economy is actually growing at an amazing rate and it is lifting millions of people out of poverty every day. Secondly, there is too much in fighting going on in India and I really believe that showing the positive side of the story helps reduce the fighting a lot and bring stability to that region. So today's story if that of an IIT grad who turned to an IFS officer who helped save Sikkim's forests and dying springs! https://www.thebetterindia.com/176709/ifs-civil-servant-hero-sikkim-nrega-sandeep-tambe/ Passionate about protecting natural history, Sandeep Tambe’s proactive policy-making has also been instrumental in making Sikkim one of India’s most successful states in implementing MGNREGA.

Kashmir - the positives and how it's progressing! Kashmir is one place where if people hear about it, they always think of conflict and issues and all negative things but after the recent abrogation of articles 370 and 35A by the Indian government, there have been a lot of positives that have come out of it and people are now moving into a sense of normalcy there. I want to go over some of those here and not into the myths that libtard media brainwashes you about. I love this Youtube channel called Whack Media by Freishia and I absolutely recommend you subscribe to it and follow her videos as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1pMp33tjY There is a very interesting theory in here which says that in Kashmir there is a burial site here where Jesus was actually buried. The locals seem to be downplaying it but it is a great point to ponder. In fact it is believed to be said that Jesus travelled to Kashmir to learn from the Buddhists and the local Vedic Brahmins. Kashmir is also quickly becoming a very popular destination for winter sports. Kashmir is also looking like it's producing some of the best snowboarders in the world! Another fact is that out of 12 million inhabitants of Kashmir, 1 million are police forces from 3 different countries India, Pakistan and China making it the most militarized zone in the world! A common misconception is that there are mostly Muslims in the Kashmir state but there is so much diversity there and not many people know about it. There are about 15 ethnic groups in Jammu and Kashmir which are actually all pro India. They are Shia Dogra Brahmin Sikh Christian Kashmiri Pandits Rajput Gujjar Bakarwal Pahadi and many more. Right now Kashmir needs all the love and support it can get. Hopefully these facts get a lot more visibility.