Increasing trend in E- SPORT

 

 

Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of sport competition using video games.Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.

Yes now time has come where gaming is also considered skilfull. Any interested and passionate gamer has plenty of data and proof to show to their parents that gaming is not useless and time wasting and currently in India professional gamers earn a huge amount of money , even more than IIM passout. This is because E-SPORT is getting recognition and also the popularity of E-SPORT has increased.

HISTORY

The earliest known video game competition took place on 19 October 1972 at Stanford University for the game Spacewar. Stanford students were invited to an "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand prize was a year's subscription for Rolling Stone, with Bruce Baumgart winning the five-man-free-for-all tournament and Tovar and Robert E. Maas winning the team competition.

The fighting game Street Fighter II (1991) popularized the concept of direct, tournament-level competition between two players. Previously, video games most often relied on high scores to determine the best player, but this changed with Street Fighter II, where players would instead challenge each other directly, "face-to-face," to determine the best player, paving the way for the competitive multiplayer and deathmatch modes found in modern action games. The popularity of fighting games such as Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom in the 1990s led to the foundation of the international Evolution Championship Series (EVO) esports tournament in 1996.

In the 1990s, many games benefited from increasing internet connectivity, especially PC games. Tournaments established in the late 1990s include the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), QuakeCon, and the Professional Gamers League. PC games played at the CPL included the Counter-Strike series, Quake series, and Warcraft.

The popularity and emergence of online streaming services have helped the growth of esports in this period, and are the most common method of watching tournaments. Video game live streaming is an activity where people record themselves playing games to a live audience online. The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as Twitch and later, YouTube, Facebook and other services. By 2014, Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO's online service.

In 2015, the first Esports Arena was launched in Santa Ana, California, as the United States' first dedicated esports facility.

The most recent iteration of the event, The International 9, is now underway. Teams all over the world are fighting for a slice of an over $33 million prize pool. annual world championship in Dota 2 . This was in 2019 and the total winning prize of wimbledon was $44.9 million.

E- SPORT IN INDIA

If you examine the global data on gaming, you’ll see that the biggest consumer in the gaming industry is China with $34.4 million in revenues. Consequently, Tencent, the largest gaming company on the planet that has a market share of 32.86% and has stakes in majorly popular games such as League of Legends, Fortnite, and Clash Royale is also based in China. Now, it may not come as a surprise knowing how China has evolved into the global powerhouse it is today, but more than that, we are also seeing other Asian countries catching up to this trend; and India, in particular, has been receiving a lot of attention for its dramatic increase in mobile gaming and its significant growth in the local eSports scene.

The past decade has been a pivotal time for competitive gaming as it began capturing the attention of the global market in recent years, but no country has been making remarkable progress as fascinating and as appealing as the Indian gaming scene. From $253.6 million in game revenues in 2014, it gradually picked up speed to an astounding $1.1 billion in 2019 and is predicted by Statista to double its pace by this year with a projection of $2.4 billion. Is that too ambitious? We don’t think so. As a matter of fact, leading company in games and eSports analytics, Newzoo, reported that India has now secured the second spot next to China in the top list of countries with most smartphone users thereby accounting for 345,916,000 users with 25.3% smartphone penetration rate. For India, this means a bigger market brimming with so much untapped potential.

For the past few years, the Indian eSports landscape has been in tremendous growth especially just last year which is its strongest feat so far, when it reached a 180% combined growth across all prize pools for local eSports leagues.

Currently PUBG is the hot favourite in India in E- SPORT and you can trace the reason by looking following table.

1. India	more than 45 crores users
2. The United States	more than 35 crores users
3. China	more than 32 crores users
4. Russia	more than 30 Crores users
5. Germany	more than 22 crores users
6. South Korea	more than 20 crores users
7. The United Kingdom	more than 12 crores users

PMWL(PUBG MOBILE WORLD LEAGUE 2020) East boasts a massive prize pool of $425,000.

Earnings of Indian streamers

If we just talk about tournaments winning than highest price earned by SOUL team in PUBG tournament of $ 60000

But this doesn’t reflect overall earnings of Indian streamers this is just tournament winning. Just take example of Virat Kohli his fixed BCCI package is of 7 crores annually but we all know his total yearly earnings is much more than that.

Naman Mathur, aka Mortal, is one of the most popular PUBG Mobile streamers not only in India but also in the entire world.

Mortal is the In-Game Leader (IGL) of the SouL team that twice represented India in the PMCO Global Finals. Mortal started his YouTube career in September 2016 by uploading Mini Militia gameplay videos, and later on shifted to PUBG Mobile owing to its increasing popularity. Now, he has around 5.57 Million.

 According to Social Blade, Mortal received around 37 Million views on his YouTube channel in the last 30 days. His estimated monthly earnings are about $9.4K - $150.8K, and his estimated yearly earnings are $113.1K - $1.8M.Apart from this, It is not the only source of his income as there are sponsors, super chats, etc. that pay him for promotions, shout outs, and more. SouL Mortal has become the first Indian to be nominated for the Esports Awards.

 You can also checkout income of DYNAMO , SCOUT , SOUL REGALTOS , CARRY MINATI , etc.

FUTURE

By 2021, Newzoo predicts that the annual growth rate of e-sport viewership will be approximately 14%. They also predict that the number of casual viewers will grow to 307 million. And that there will be 250 million eSports enthusiasts, making the total audience 557 million.

In 2018, the average year-on-year increase in total revenue was at an impressive 38.2%. The eSports industry made a total of $906 million in revenue. Out of this, $694 million came from brand investments – both direct and indirect. That’s a 48% increase in brand investment from the previous year. Newzoo predicts that by 2021, eSports will generate more than $1.6 billion in total revenue with $1.3 billion coming from brand investments.

The Olympic Games are also seen as a potential method to legitimize esports. A summit held by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October 2017 acknowledged the growing popularity of esports, concluding that "Competitive 'esports' could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports" but would require any games used for the Olympics fitting "with the rules and regulations of the Olympic movement".The sporting world is changing! Esports is becoming so large that even the International Olympic committee (IOC) is beginning to host events.

CONCLUSION

There is no doubt that E-SPORT has a bright future. Especially in India E-SPORT got hype due to the JIO data revolution and PUBG and Indian team has also started  performing better in World leagues. If anybody thinks that e-sport is not a real sport or it is easy, then just try to play one PUBG game and compare your gameplay with professional or watch world leagues. 

Because  playing this type of game required a plan , strategy , team work , reflexes , etc. many teams and players have their analyst and in future you will see that these players will have their coaches , PS , etc. it would be as big as any sport.

We should be happy tha now gaming is also considered as a skill and talent. Because , the pie is growing rather than sliced. So these will create more opportunity for the country and youth.

If you see the story of most popular gaming streamers of India especially  of DYNAMO (Aditya Sawant with highest subscribed gaming channel of India). He started streaming from 2010 and till  2016 he has less than 200 subscribers but he didn’t gave up currently he has more than

 8 million subscribers. His journey was very difficult as he was from a middle class family.  I am attaching a link to a small video where he describes his journey. I insist you watch it. You will find it interesting and inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9WiFoHDNLw

Determination has no limits: Arunima Sinha and Károly Takács

ARUNIMA SINHA: the girl who defeated the mountain.

World's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid and Mount Vinson.

As a national level volleyball player, Arunima from Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, was an unstoppable soul.

In 2011 , she was travelling in a train from Lucknow to Delhi. Some robbers came to her for the gold chain she was wearing but she tried to fight with them and nobody in that compound tried to intervene and the robbers threw her out of the train. Unfortunately another train was coming from the adjacent track and first she banged with that train and then she fell on the track. Both trains passed. After a while she tried to lift herself up and saw that her leg had cut off. She lifted her thigh and saw it was hanging with jeans, blood flowing profusely and bones of other leg were all broken and had come out. All night she kept shouting in pain on the tracks and crying for help. Nobody came to rescue her.all night because of shouting so much she could no longer see. When the train used to pass the track would vibrate and small rats were chewing on her injured leg. Every second she was thinking how I could save myself. The whole night passed, in the morning some villagers took her  to a hospital.

Now the doctor , pharmacist and everyone were discussing that they don’t have anesthesia or blood and how they could start her treatment. Though she couldn’t see but could hear all this. She said, “Sir, my whole leg is crushed , and for so long I was on the tracks and I endured my pain, but for my good you will cut off my leg.” And after that they gave their blood and amputated her leg without any anesthesia.

This all things spread in the media and the sports minister shifted her to AIIMS Delhi. When she got well after 25 days she came out and read all the twisted stories in the newspaper, “Arunima Sinha didn’t have a train ticket , and jumped from the train.” And “ She was rejected by her family” and even , “Arunima Sinha attempted sucide.at that point she decided its ok today is your day say how much you want to but a day will come when I will prove myself.this when she decided to do mountaineering.

She contacted Bachendri Pal in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012. Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest. Nothing could falter her from her dream. On her first deed while in transit to the summit, she was so cheerful to have achieved the base camp that she lost balance and tumbled to the ground, injuring herself in the process.

On the day she endeavoured to summit Mount Everest, she and her Sherpa were the first to leave the camp. When they were very close to the summit, her Sherpa gave her some terrible news. Their oxygen levels were quickly exhausting, and they needed to return the following day for another attempt. Sinha was adamant on completing the summit that very day. With the help of the Sherpa, after two hours, they were at the pinnacle of Mount Everest, and of her success at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013. Those 7 minutes atop the summit were the best moments of her life. She just wanted to shout out to the world that she had done it.

Arunima Sinha has been included as one of the ‘People of the Year’ by Limca Book of Records in 2016. She is now dedicated towards social welfare and she wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently-abled persons. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. In her website arunimasinha.com, she is noted as saying, “I have achieved my goal but now I want to help physically challenged people to achieve their goal so that they can also become self-dependent and nobody looks at them with pity.”

Károly Takács-the man who gave his best shot

Károly Takács  was the first shooter to win two Olympics gold medals in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. 

 

This story is from 1938 of a person named Karoly in Hungarian army. He was the best pistol shooter of the country. By 1936, he was a world-class pistol shooter, but he was denied a place in the Hungarian shooting team for the 1936 Summer Olympics on the grounds that he was a sergeant, and only commissioned officers were allowed to compete. This prohibition was lifted in Hungary after the Berlin Games.  He has won all the national championships in the country. All was sure that he would get gold in the Olympic which was scheduled in 1940. He was practicing for many years . He has only one goal he wants to make his hand as the best shooting hand of the world and he almost achieved it, just two year are remaining. During army training in 1938, his right hand was badly injured when a faulty grenade exploded and that hand was gone.

 

All his dreams and focus was destroyed by this incident. Now he had two options :

1) Give up and cry for his  whole life and hide somewhere.

2) Or what he has thought , what was his goal should stick to that and achieve it.

 

He focused on what he has , not on what he didn’t. He had a left hand. A hand from which he can’t even write. For 1 month he went through treatment of his injured hand. After 1 month he started training with his left hand. After 1 year of training that is in 1939 he came back, National championship was going on in Hungary and many pistol shooters were there. They all went to Karoly To congratulate him they said that this is called sportsman’s spirit , after going through everything you are here to support us by cheering us. No one was aware that he was training for 1 year with his left hand and he answered “I AM NOT HERE TO SUPPORT YOU; I AM HERE TO COMPETE WITH YOU BE READY.” Competition started, everyone was competing with their best hand but Károly was competing with his only hand. Who won? The man with the only hand, he won. He didn’t stop here, his goal was clear: he wanted to make his hand world’s best pistol shooting hand. He focused on the 1940's Olympics but unfortunately the 1940's Olympic canceled due to world war. Then he shifted his focus on 1944’s Olympics but that also got canceled due to world war.

 

He again started focusing on the 1948 Olympics. In 1938 he was 28 year old and now he was 38 year old in 1948. Now he has to compete with younger players. He went there,  the world's best shooters were competing with their best hand but Károly was competing with his only hand. Who won? The man with the only hand, he won. He didn’t stop here he again went to 1952 Olympics and again won the

  Gold  medal and made history.

 

LEARNING

 These two stories always motivates me , this both gives an great example of focus , determination and never give up attitude.

If you go to any loser he will have a list of excuses I failed due to this and that. But if you go to the winner he will have a thousand reasons that he can’t do but he will find one reason to do that thing and will achieve it.

 

So NEVER GIVE UP and NEVER LOSE HOPE.

 

Do share your opinion in comments.

Fair & Lovely: Colourism in India

Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the fairest of them all? The one with the palest skin, of course. Or that's the idea behind India's multibillion-dollar skin lightening industry, with a host of 'fairness' products appearing to offer dark-skinned Indians a lighter, fairer, better version of themselves.

First of all let’s see the chronological order.

Article-14 Of Constitution Of India

The state not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. Protection prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, Caste, sex, or place of birth

And thus, Article 14 is introduced into the Constitution of India, 1950.

Fair & Lovely is a skin-lightening cosmetic product of Hindustan Unilever introduced to the market in India in 1975.

This how fair & lovely advertise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGepwMtV7R8

above add tiltle is 'fair & lovely FUTURE TUBE'. In short says that if you are not white than you can' be successful.

 The market size of the industry is pegged at around 50 billion rupees (US$661 million), and this segment dominates the country’s skincare market.

Fair & Lovely, manufactured by Hindustan Unilever, enjoys a market share of 40%. Launched in 1975, it became an instant success as lighter skin in India is often considered synonymous with beauty, and the matrimonial ads section in various newspapers are replete with entries seeking “fair-skinned” brides. This is despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of people in the country have a brown or dark skin tone.

Interestingly, this obsession with fair skin was not confined to women. In 2005, Emami launched Fair And Handsome as market studies had revealed that a sizeable percentage of users of women’s fairness creams were men. A host of other brands also entered this newly formed segment.

 

There are many matrimonial sites in India which differentiate the skin colour into fair, dusky and dark. For instance, Shaadi.com, a leading Indian matrimonial website, cites fair skin as the key factor(Currently they removed this type of filters ). The desire for whiter skin goes beyond the middle classes, but those who cannot afford branded, expensive products use a host of traditional remedies such as lemon juice, rose water, honey, egg yolk, cream or cumin. During the time of marriage, boy's parents prefer the girl who has white-toned skin; else the girl is rejected most of the time. Rejections sometimes create a lot of stress and depression for the girl's family especially the girl.

Additionally, there are lots of advertisements prevailing in the country since many years, which give preference to the fair skin only. Many Indian film stars have appeared in advertisements for whitening creams including Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor , Preity Zinta, Yami Gautam, etc. For years, skin-lightening creams and other products have shown people mostly women with dark skin as having problems when it comes to finding jobs, getting married and generally being accepted by society. The makers of these ads include behemoths like Hindustan Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and P&G.

George Floyd : Black life matters and fairness creams

Throughout the years she was growing up in southern India, Christy Jennifer, a producer with a media house in the city of Chennai, was traumatized by episodes of prejudice. As she walked through school corridors, classmates pointed at her darker skin and teased her, she said. Even friends and family members told her never to wear black. She said she was constantly advised on which skin lightening cream to use as if the remedy to this deep-seated social bias lay in a plastic bottle.

“Every day, my dignity and self-esteem were reduced to the colour of my skin,” she said. “I felt a worthless piece of flesh.”
Colourism, the bias against people of darker skin tones, has vexed India for a long time. It is partly a product of colonial prejudices, and it has been exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood, the nation’s film industry, which has long promoted lighter-skinned heroes.

 

 But America’s intense discussion of race, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, seems to be having some effect. After the death of George Floyd riots started in USA and it impacted whole world. Now all companies involved in lightning cream product realize they are doing wrong.

 

This all started when Johnson & Johnson exit from fairness cream market. J&J said it will stop selling the Clean & Clear Fairness line of products, sold in India as well. Earlier this month. the company stopped its Neutrogena Fine Fairness line, sold in Asia and in the Middle East.

Though it has stopped selling the Neutrogena fairness creams, Clean & Clear Fairness products will be sold until the existing stock is exhuasted. In India, it is now available on ecommerce platforms and retail stores.

“Conversations over the past few weeks highlighted that some product names or claims on our dark spot reducer products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone,” J&J had said. “This was never our intention - healthy skin is beautiful skin,” the company said.Shadi.com removed their skin tone filter which makes you fair when you uplod the photo.

 Then came HUL who removed the word FAIR from FAIR & LOVELY and instead of that they added glow.

 Nina Davuluri -As Miss America 2014, she was the "first contestant of Indian descent to win the Miss America Competition". She spoke from her personal experience – after being crowded Miss America , articles were published that asked “if Miss America was too dark to ever be Miss India.”

After black lives matter incident she send an open letter to HUL to stop selling fairness cream and many petition were signed and due to which HUL got lots of pressure and removed the name Fair.

My opinion

If we see history we are all are originally from Africa. Africa was not connected to the world at that time and was a tropical region (hot region). Then started discovery of island and continents. Vasco da gama discovered India and Christopher Columbus found America and European exploration of Sub-Saharan Africa begins with the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, pioneered by Portugal under Henry the Navigator.

When he found Africa than colonization started. European spread propaganda ‘Whitman’s burden’and this was not an propaganda it should be called SLAVE TRADE. They said  “We are white and according to colour we are superior and it is our burden and duty to take black people towards goodness and truth”

 This was in 15^th century. Currently we are in 21^st century and due to one incident after so many years suddenly everybody started realizing  this.

 Let’s talk about India. Fair & Lovely started in 1975 and after 45 years they realized that we are doing wrong let changed name. They did this to avoid court case and being sued and they have just change the name from fair to glow which ultimately refers towards fairness indirectly and does the same thing.

 HUL is not the only to be blamed we India are equally culprits towards this. HUL was abel to do this because we used it we don’t accept what we are. They stayed in the market because we purchased it in order to be fair.

 I feel that our generation has energy and are also fearless but for temporary basis and on social media only. Just see almost every one of us has commented on the person on the basis of colour and many will continue to do so.  We stood against rape and sexually abuse when Nirbhaya case and boys looker room came into limelight. But ask yourself how long we hold on that? I am not telling that everyone do so but there are only few who stand against this.

 Guys truly speaking if we want to change this society than only one person can do that is ‘YOU’ if each and everyone speakout when something wrong is happening than only society will change . stop thinking ‘ Mere akele se kya hoga?’ just remember that akela(one) ultimately becomes 130 crore. So stand against the  wrong thing and be fearless.

Guys do comments your opinion.

Following Passion or Dream: what is reality?

“A strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything.”

  “indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired.”

Above mentioned sentence are meaning of passion and dream according to the dictionary. Which part makes these two words common? Answer is ‘STRONGLY DESIRED’. Meaning of passion or dream might be differing from person to person but this word ‘STRONGLY DESIRED’ will remain common. Passion is something you dream or desired and you make your effort to chase them, passion is what you like to do, passion may be job or getting something or making change in society or even chasing a girl (yes now most of the boys have many passion and same implies to girls – no gender discrimination), passion may be temporary or permanent, there may be more than one passion. In short passion can be anything that you strongly desire.

But always questions arise ‘Are we following our passion?

Are we doing stuff what we desired or what we like?

Are we happy of what currently we are doing?

There would be lots of question arises when we talk about passion. Let’s see what study and research says.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWING THEIR PASSION?

84 percent of young people not pursuing their passions according to Pitman Train-ing and Census wide’s research.

With 84% of 16-24 year olds revealing that they don’t know how to turn the interests they’re passionate about into a career, and 49% of these respondents considering that their lack of qualifications halts them exploring aspiration career opportunities, the next generation of employees are at risk of career dissatisfaction after entering the job market, according to Pitman Train-ing and Censuswide’s research.

Young people are also against more ‘traditional’ jobs such as admin or accounts, that could be a door opener to their dream career. Nearly 3 in 5 (58%) young Brits (aged 16-24) are in agreement with the stereotype that working in admin or accounts is ‘boring’ and ‘old fashioned’. Retail is considered an easy way of entering employment, with almost 4 in 5 (79%) of young Brits (aged 16-24) agreeing on this.

The top interests respondents aged 16-24 are passionate about include music, fashion, and technology, yet they believed that they wouldn’t be able to pursue a career in these sectors.

84% of 16-24 year olds with interests they’re passionate about did not feel able to pursue a career in these interests, broken down as follows:-

• Music: Nearly half (49%) of 16-24 year olds identified music, with Yorkshire being the most musical region across all ages
• Fashion: Over a third (35%) of 16-24 year olds identified fashion with Cardiff being the most Fashion focused city across all ages
• Tech: A quarter (25%) of 16-24 year olds and over a quarter (27%) of 25-24 year olds had a passion for tech, with the North East being the most passionate about Tech (27%) across all ages
• Drama: A quarter (25%) of 16-24 year olds identified Drama, with Cardiff being the most passionate rating above average at 30% across all ages
• Sport: A fifth (21%) of 16-24 year olds identified Sport
• Celebrities: 14% of 16-24 year olds identified working with celebrities

Stanford researchers: ‘Follow your passion’ advice could make you less successful

According to an upcoming paper in Psychological Science written by three Stanford researchers, that advice may actually make people less successful, since it unrealistically implies an easy path to success and narrows your focus too much. 

Stanford psychologists Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton, with the help of former Stanford postdoctoral fellow Paul O’Keefe, conducted a series of laboratory studies that examined the belief systems that lead people to succeed or fail.

The researchers recruited participants from two categories: those who were passionate about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and those who were passionate about humanities and the arts.

Over five experiments, the researchers observed a total of 470 participants as they read articles and watched videos on subjects that interested them and on subjects that did not interest them. Participants who were deeply interested in only one topic were less likely to finish and understand the materials.

The researchers concluded that popular mantras like “follow your passion” make people think that pursuing a passion will be easy. Believers are then more likely to give up when they face challenges or roadblocks.

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and star on ABC’s hit reality television show, “Shark Tank,” takes this line of thinking one step further.

“One of the great lies of life is ‘follow your passions,’” said Cuban as part of the Amazon Insights for Entrepreneurs series. “Everybody tells you, ‘Follow your passion, and follow your passion.”

 

He argues that people should focus on their strengths rather than their passions, because we are not always good at the things that interest us the most and because perfecting strength can become a passion. 

“I used to be passionate to be a baseball player. Then I realized I had a 70-mile-per-hour fastball,” jokes Cuban. Competitive major league pitchers throw fastballs in the range of 90-plus miles per hour.

“When you look at where you put in your time, where you put in your effort that tends to be the things that you are good at. And if you put in enough time, you tend to get really good at it,” he says. “If you put in enough time, and you get really good, I will give you a little secret: Nobody quits anything they are good at because it is fun to be good. It is fun to be one of the best.”

MY RESEARCH

I also tried to find something related to this topic through a small research. It was done through online questionnaire and questions like

 ‘Are you following your passion or dream?’

‘If you have ever change your passion than how many time?’

‘Are you Happy or satisfied about what you are currently doing?’ ,

And few more questions were asked and I got  around 100 responses which is less and this research was bias as 90% of the responses was age group between 18 to 26  year.

76% of people said they didn’t follow their passion and from that 75% were happy about what currently they are doing

24% people said they are following their passion from that nearly 85% were happy about what they were doing

One thing common between this two groups were 80 % of the people changed their passion more than once.

CONCLUSION

As we see above study we couldn’t arise at one definite conclusion. Every person will have different opinion about this topic. Let’s see some real life example

1) Sharukh Khan:

Sharukh khan’s passion was to study and he was very clever but in order to survive and to earn money he did serials and then movies and rest is history.

2) Yuvraj Singh :

Initially Yuvraj didn’t like cricket he wants to be a skater or actor or tennis player but no to cricket. But his father was determined to make him cricketer. When first time his father took Yuvi to Navjot Singh Sidhu for training after seeing some shots played by Yuvraj he told ‘ Le java apke bacche ko aur isko ladkiyo vaala khel khelao e cricket nahi khel paayega’ and from that point his father never look back and rest is history.

 

3) My story:

I will keep it short, initially I want to be a cricketer as most of Indian kid dreamt of but I couldn’t stick to that and then I want to be an 100 meter sprinter and for that I also worked hard and won 2-3 tournaments but I couldn’t grab the opportunity due to education even after getting offer to compete at state level. And if I talk about present I had come long way and I am Happy about currently were I am.

So guys above 3 story might cover most of things what you might have gone through i.e. Need to survive thing , parents pressure , Education pressure , etc. but still remember passion is never a one they might be many and when you get more experienced and older you discover that. So never lose hope and do whatever you feel.

Guys you can share your opinion or story of yourself in comments as this topic has different opinion.

And I also want to share some selected comments made by people about this topic in my questionnaire:

• Wants keep changing with time and age, our passion drives our wants in life.
• It's never too late to change your passion and start all over again. Just do what you Love.
• All time passion does not fulfill every wish as for that you have to choose one more path as secured one in future.
• Passion is equivalent to chasing or achieving the dreams!
• Just fuel up your passion
• We must act out passion before we can feel it. Passion should be your energy

Guys don’t forget to share your opinion

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India- China face off : What you should know ?

History:

Sino-Indian War - 1962

 A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war, but other issues also played a role. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.

Chinese military action grew increasingly aggressive after India rejected proposed Chinese diplomatic settlements throughout 1960–1962, with China re-commencing previously-banned "forward patrols" in Ladakh from 30 April 1962. China finally abandoned all attempts of peaceful resolution on 20 October 1962, invading disputed territory along the 3,225 kilometre- (2,000-mile-) long Himalayan border in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line. Chinese troops advanced over Indian forces in both theatres, capturing Rezang La in Chushul in the western theatre, as well as Tawang in the eastern theatre. The war ended when China declared a ceasefire on 20 November 1962, and simultaneously announced its withdrawal to its claimed "Line of Actual Control".

Sino-Indian War - 1987

Since the late 1960s, India had developed an elaborate plan to defend the Himalayan frontier with China. This involved the provision of screening defences at the Line of Actual Control, or LAC, and the building of strong defence nodes at key points along the frontier. By the early 1980s, while the forces to man the defences were ready, the nodes were not, and the greatest weakness was in the fact that the servicing road network had not been built. The decision was taken to resume the defence infrastructure construction.

 After the 1980 review, it was decided by the military strategists that it was important to defend Tawang in a future conflict. The army made it clear that the only viable line of defence for Tawang would be along the Hathung La ridge. In 1983, an Intelligence Bureau team went to the pasturage of Sumdorong Chu which is north-east of the confluence of the Namka Chu and Nyamjiang Chu. The defence forces stayed through the summer and returned in winter. This procedure was followed for two years. In 1986, Indian forces found that the Chinese had preceded them and set up semi-permanent structures there. .

At the end of 1986, India granted statehood to Arunachal Pradesh.In early 1987 Beijing's tone became similar to that of 1962, and with the Indian Army refusing to stand down, Western diplomats predicted war.Both India and China realised the danger of inadvertent conflict and after initial posturing the decision was made to de-escalate their deployments. The Sumdorong Chu fallout was that India and China decided to restart their dialogue on a new and more urgent basis. Finally in 1993, the two countries signed an agreement to ensure peace along the LAC.

 Dhoklam standoff -2017

Doklam is an area disputed between China and Bhutan located near their tri-junction with India. Unlike China and Bhutan, India does not claim Doklam but supports Bhutan's claim.

 On 16 June 2017 Chinese troops with construction vehicles and road-building equipment began extending an existing road southward in Doklam, a territory which is claimed by both China as well as India's ally Bhutan. On 18 June 2017, as part of Operation Juniper, about 270 Indian troops armed with weapons and two bulldozers crossed the Sikkim border into Doklam to stop the Chinese troops from constructing the road. On 28 August, both India and China announced that they had withdrawn all their troops from the face-off site in Doklam.

Present :

Galwan valley clash : 2020

Here larger Geo- political game is involve. First we should know why this stand off is going on ?

Answer is THE DARBUK -SHYOK-DAULAT-BEG-OLDIE (DBO) Road.

It is an all-weather road in eastern Ladakh in India, close to the Line of Actual Control with China. It connects Ladakh's capital city Leh, via the villages of Darbuk and Shyok at southern Shyok Valley, with the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) post near the China border. An 255 KM long road at an altitude of 14,000 feet. If you see in above map than this road connects Shyok with DAULAT BEG OLDIE(DBO) ,were an very important airbase of India is located which is also used by Indian army . This is only 9 km away from Akshai chin Actual Line Of Control . Being at the base of Karakoram pass this place has immense strategic implication , which is why Indian army is at DBO since late 1950.  As there was no proper use of air force during 1962 war an airbase was created but unfortunately from 1962 to 2000 military didn't gave much importance to this airbase . But anyhow India maintain the airstrip at DBO which is one of the highest airstrip at an altitude of 5065 meters (16,614 feet ). Work was undertaken to make airfield oprational again and was marked on 31st may when an Indian Air Force AN-32 landed.

2008 was an start for china to become one of the superpower and was incising army strength and strategy so in order to defend this India created an Airbase at DBO.

Why china is opposing construction this road at regular basis ?

Because this road gives proper access to Siachin Glacier which was reacquired by India through operation Magedhoot from Pakistan in 1984. Since this road is near Actual Line Of Control we have started to create extension connecting various  vallies . One of the extension created by India currently is to GALWAN VALLEY. China opposed this construction because they said India will get access to galwan valley and India doesn't reacted to this and continued to constructing road .  After construction of this road in future it will get difficult for china to bully India from  Actual Line Of Control. This is the main reason of India China stand off at Galwan vally.

Currently there was physical clash between India and 20 Indian soldier were martyred and 43 Chinese soldier were also killed.

What will be the future impact?

China said , "India should strictly control the front line troops and immediately cease all proactive actions to ensure that such incident do not recur." In short they said India soldiers has initiated the attack .

 India said that Indian soldier had come their for talk but they were attack by Chinese soldier and this was pre-meditated and planned action , this was said by Foreign minister of India S Jaishankar and he also said , "This will have serious impact on the bilateral  relationship". This is big statement made by India.

As a result from all part of India there is strong opposition against China .

-Indian intelligence agencies have asked the government to block or advise people to stop use of 52 mobile applications linked to China.

-The Telecom Ministry has ordered BSNL, MTNL and other private companies to ban all Chinese deals and equipment.

My Opinion

As we have seen that in past also there were wars and stand off between India an China and people of India have opposed china many time but it impact was temporary but currently this is first time when government has involve on boycotting China . China's most of the revenue comes from India and China can't afford to make war against India and currently situation of Corona pandemic many developed country is against China. So China has to take step in favor of India.

But main question arise will Indian public will boycott Chinese product or this is just an temporary wave ?   

Guys what are your opinion on this ? do comment