Saloni Panda, 21, is making her name on Instagram by her incredible cooking and plating skills. She started her page on Instagram @saloni_panda in the year 2017 and currently has a big fan base. 

Her page is known for her unique simplicity. She makes even the simplest food look great with her plating skills. She is also called the ‘plating queen’ by many of her followers. Saloni wants to travel all over the globe and try different delicacies in the purest form. She wishes to host her own food and travel show on TV someday. She is also planning to start her YouTube channel soon which has created a lot of excitement among her followers. ‘I am still planning out my content and getting things into place, I will surely start it soon’ she says. 

Something that made her big in this field is her commitment to her work. She believes that if you work hard and stay dedicated to your work, you can achieve anything you want.

Saloni is a working professional, yet she manages to make time for her page and for her passion. She believes that there should be a balance in everything in life. Her weekends are dedicated to her page where she cooks, covers events and plans out her content. “Do not quit your full-time job until you feel you have made that mark on your social media and start earning enough to sustain yourself and your family?” she says. Saloni believes that great to be passionate but it’s even more important to be pragmatic and plan out your future. You may choose to quit your full-time job once you feel you’ve reached that level. 

“Do not quit your full-time job until you feel you have made that mark on your social media and start earning enough to sustain yourself and your family?” says Saloni Panda.

She lost her father this year, yet she stayed strong and is an inspiration to many. 

The tough times in her life have just made her stronger. She believes that time is the best healer and bad days do not always last. 

“I want to give my mother and my brother all the happiness in the world and I will work hard each day to make that happen” 

Her key to being successful is to stay dedicated, work hard and be patient always.

Instagram is full of influencers who create Incredible content every day. But how many times have you come across a doctor who loves memes, looks like a dream and aims to spread positivity wherever he goes? Meet celebrity doctor Jarett Schanzer, an anesthesiologist who is winning hearts one Instagram post at a time. 

Dr Jarrett was born in New York City and grew up in Holmdel, New Jersey. He was always a happy child but an unfortunate incident at the age of nine changed his life forever. He was a victim of a plane accident; but luckily, he survived. “Ever since the day I walked away from a plane crash, I have learned to understand and appreciate the value of life; and aspire to help others live a long, healthy life,” Dr. Jarrett says.  

Schanzer knew since a young age that he wanted to become a doctor. “I always enjoyed the challenge. I wanted to learn the art of medicine, and share this knowledge to educate students and patients, and take care of those in need; I wanted to be able to perform small procedures while also being privileged to see incredible surgeries,” he said.   

Dr Jarrett worked exceptionally hard and got his Doctorate degree in Osteopathic Medicine, as well as a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition, and a Bachelors in Exercise Physiology. He is also certified to practice aesthetic medicine botox/filler injections. Not only is he a renowned doctor, but Schanzer is also an aspiring public speaker and a social media influencer many look up to.

”Success and happiness are not easy to achieve. It has taken a tremendous amount of work to get where I am today; and in my eyes, I still have a long way to go. If you truly want to be happy and successful, you have to be willing to make sacrifices, run on empty at times, and “triage” or prioritize your life tasks accordingly; while also making time for family/friends, yourself and your mental health, the gym, and of course sleep! The social media star that he is, Dr Jarrett has thousands of followers who look forward to his posts. A scroll through his feed full of gorgeous portraits, hilarious memes, and positive messages is enough to brighten up a dull day. Through his social media, Dr Jarrett inspires people to lead a healthy, free, and happy life full of fun, learning, and laughter.

It’s a known fact that doctors save lives, but along with doing that, Dr Jarrett is also teaching people how to live. 

At a time when the Supreme Court has sought the response of the Centre on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking entry of Muslim women in all mosques of the country, journalist and author Ziya Us Salam argues Quran does not discriminate against women and at 59 places, Quran asks men and women to establish prayers.

Last Friday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices S A Bobde and S A Nazeer issued a notice to the Union Law and Justice Ministry and Minority Affairs Ministry on the plea seeking entry of women in mosques.

The petition sought issuance of direction to government authorities and Muslim bodies like Wakf Board to allow women into mosques on grounds that denial amounted to a violation of various fundamental rights. The petition has also mentioned that in mosques where women are allowed, there are separate entrances and enclosures for worship for the two genders. It said that there should not be any gender discrimination at all and that all Muslim women should be allowed to pray in all mosques, cutting across denominations.

In his new book “Women in Masjid: A Quest For Justice”, literary and social commentator Ziya Us Salam points out that The Prophet instructed men not to stop women from going to mosques. Quran says prayer can be offered in private but it can only be established and perfected in a group, he says.

Basing arguments from the Quran and Hadiths, the book says women have been exempted, nor prohibited from going to the mosques. The Prophet encouraged them to say the Friday and Eid prayers in a large congregation. Women are denied the right to enter mosques across the Indian subcontinent.

It says that Muslim women had things pretty good in medieval times. Politically, they were taken into confidence by the emperors who consulted them at every stage. The stories of Noor Jahan, who wielded great control over the Mughal king Jahangir, are also well known. It is fair to believe that women offered prayers in the mosques if one look at the architecture  of the Sultanate and the mughal period closely. “Not just mosques, women went to Sufi khanqahs and dargahs too, and are said to have participated with great zest in singing Sufiana kalam….it all began to change with the decline of the Mughals and the coming of the British. As conservatism was the order of the day, women began to be excluded from both mosques and cemeteries. They were not allowed to enter the mosques for spiritual elevation,” it says.

The author points out that in medieval as also modern times, women were never denied the right to go on hajj where, like men and women from other countries, they established prayers in both Makkah and Medina, where they went to the last resting place of the wives of the Prophet as also his companions. Yet, when they came back home, a different kind of Islam ruled their lives. Call it the impact of the local culture, but this Indianised form of Islam meant women could build mosques or take part in financing them, but could not offer regular prayers inside them.

Today, women cannot go for prayers to the mosques that their fellow women built hundreds of years ago. The most conspicuous case being of the famous Fatehpuri Masjid in Old Delhi, where the local residents cannot recall any occasion when women gathered to offer prayers in a group or the Taj-ul-Masajid in Bhopal. It is the largest mosque in India but is not been able to spare a room or hall for women. The biases are more pronounced today than at any time in the Islamic history in India, the book says in the chapter “India in the Past: Medieval Mosques Built by Women.”

So what is the way forward? The book offers suggestions as well. It says that it is time for each mosque to declare that it is un-Islamic to prevent women from comign to the mosques. They should appoint women to the committees of the mosques. As of now, hardly any mosque committee has women members. It is men who decide the matters for both men and women. Also, in cases where mosques have logistic problems in making a separate entry and exit gate for women, women should be encouraged to have their own jamaat.

Ultimately, women’s prayer space has to be restored, just as the Prophet had visualised it: behind men in the last row, in a position from where they can see the imam and not an obscure corner from where they can neither see the imam, nor hear the recitation clearly. It is time for women to reclaim their sacred space, the book suggests.

Mr Salam points out that in Delhi, at the headquarters of Jammat-e-Islami Hind, there is a separate section for women. Every Friday, women can be seen going for prayers there. The problem, he says, is with the local maulanas who understand little of Quran. Most Indian Muslims does not understand Quran in Arabic and do not read the translation. He says things are different in Kerala where more Muslims know Arabic. A good number of mosques make provision for women in Kerala, he says.

One of the oldest yet the significant rule of business is ‘Higher the risk, higher the profit.’ If you don’t take risks, you won’t get opportunities to succeed in life until luck is in your favor. Despite facing a lot of odds, Philip Mansour made a name for himself as a successful entrepreneur. He dropped out of high school in 10th grade and later got his General Education Development (GED) which is considered equal to an advanced diploma course. He is from Los Angeles, California and during his teenage, he was fascinated with technology and marketing.

When he was 17, he started with his own business on eBay. After a lot of research and analysis, he launched his own wholesale company when he was 19. He sold wholesale digital electronics to small tech shops in the world. During this time, he not only got to learn about profit and loss but also realized how important it is to be self-employed and step out of his comfort zone. In 2009, he decided to try his hand in the software space as he sold several niche software products and services. The 31-year old businessman earned everyone’s trust with his quality work and he filled his bank balance which had his monthly profit up to 6 figures. Besides this, the year 2013 saw Philp being a consultant to a lot of companies who wanted to build their brand value and have a strong base of their clients. He helped many companies grow significantly where he got a whopping amount as his consultation fees.

Taking risks is what helped Philip grow in this business world. In April 2018, he launched an SMS platform named Kontexo.com for small businesses. Unfortunately, he sold the business in September 2019. Apart from this, he also worked closely in the cosmetic business. He started a cosmetic brand in November 2018 which was a joint venture. The magnetic eyeliner and eyelash company named Glamnetic.com started to sell its products by the end of July this year. However, he parted ways with the cosmetic brand in August this year to start his own cosmetic line. Revealing not much about his forthcoming venture, Philip has surely hinted that he will be back with a bang this time with a variety of products of new products and services for everyone.

Faraz Malik a 21-year-old final year engineering student from Bareilly has achieved many feats with his digital marketing strategies. Before entering into the world of digital marketing, he has attempted several other business ideas, like he started creating technology videos on YouTube, blogging on technology, selling out mobile phones, but he failed in all of these. 

Everything for him was not going well as he suffered from problem in his eye for two years and was operated for the same. At the academic front also, his professors at his college Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering and Technology always told him to focus on studies after he got failed in few subjects. But the determination of doing something big always kept him pumped up to take risks and explore the opportunities coming his way. Even after failing in several attempts, he never gave up and stayed on the path of making his vision a reality.

Then in the second quarter of 2018, he started his digital marketing agency named ‘Reflecting Society’ along with his friend Muzzammil. Initially, he was not getting that much traction, but with time his hard work paid off. Currently, he has many clients who work in several industries like, Finance, Photography, Business, Fitness, Film, etc. He has handled Instagram pages of @george.kob, @weatherford5, @iamrichardji, @tomcraig & many more. He ran campaigns for several organizations also.

Now, as he says “The digital marketing has provided me with the opportunity to make my dreams come true, and my vision a reality!” and wants to help people all over India. Indeed he’s an inspiration for many who think that education is the only way to make the dreams come true, as even after so many difficulties and failures he never gave up on his dreams.

Common products that used for this procedure include the Juvederm and Restylane brands. Depending on the product, these dermal filler injections can boost lip volume, enhance lip shape, and smooth vertical lines. The results can last from four months to one year, with an average of about six months.

When it comes to good lip fillers Dr Monica Jacob is here to establish itself as the gold standard of modern lip fillers.  They are one of the safest lip fillers. It has FDA-approval and the active ingredient is hyaluronic acid, a natural body substance. Juvederm adds volume to the lips, creating that much-desired pout.

Experts Advice: Things That You Should keep in mind 

WHAT ARE LIP FILLERS MADE OF?

Dr. says based filler which is injected into the lip, to increase volume and size. Collagen works purely by plumping the lip whilst the hyaluronic acid fillers work by not only plumping the lip directly but also trapping water within lips for a natural, plump pout.

HOW MUCH FILLER DO YOU NEED?

“One of the biggest things people often don’t realize with lip augmentation is that achieving the look you won’t necessarily happen overnight. If you have very thin lips and want to achieve a very full but natural look, this can take a few sessions and therefore be more expensive. The key is building layers in stages .she personally, do this with     the microdroplet linear injection technique which allows to build a whole new lip for the patient in terms of size and shape over time.”

DOES ITS HURT?

“Depending on who carries out the procedure, the pain can vary. 

Personally, we choose to use a dental block so my patients don’t feel a thing. But many people rely on a numbing  gel, which still causes can uncomforting.”

DO THEY FEEL DIFFERENT OR NATURAL LIPS?

“When done properly, lip fillers shouldn’t feel any different from natural lips”

Less is more and the natural hydrated plump look is in . Common mistake that people do is to add too much volume which gives those duck lips or unnatural look. Best lip augmentation is when the lips good natural, hydrated, creaseless and proportionate. When lips are esthetically done they are the most attractive part of the face and enhances the beauty of an individual.

Nowadays both men and women are opting for lip fillers .  They also help to lighten the colour of lips . With age, the lips also age with loss of volume, down turning angles of the mouth, loss of philtrum columns and loss of youthful look of the entire face . Younger individuals have gone for augmentation and older clients go for this procedure as a part of anti-ageing.

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Dr Monica strikes another award at the Economic Times Business Leaders 2019 Awards held on 23rd October. She won the award for the Best Skincare clinic, Best Cosmetologist, Best Obesity Clinic and Best Anti-aging Physician. She was awarded by Kabir Bedi prominent and popular actor.

Dr Monica Jacob is one of the top celebrity cosmetologists in India. Well, not just a cosmetologist but an Aesthetic Physician, Nutrition Expert and a fit mom. Her expertise lies in anti-aging procedures like Botox, Fillers, Thread lift, PRP Hair Treatment, Platinum Stem Cell Therapy, HIFU Fractionated high-intensity ultrasound, Mesotherapy, weight management with HCG Diet, Radiofrequency, advance LED Facials and Peels and various advance lasers for rejuvenation, acne, tattoo removal,  hair reduction, face and body contouring. 

Recently she has also launched her supplements namely, Age Defy, Crystalite Tomato, Alight and Hair Kit. These supplements consist of unique blend of vitamins and anti-oxidants which help in improving the quality of skin, hair and body. For the same she has won an award in August 2019 by Times Health and Wellness as Best Aesthetic and Antiaging Physician and for her range of antioxidants by the name MJ Skin Health. 

She has won numerous awards for her excellent work in her field. Bodyz Wellness has been mentioned among the Top 50 Best Wellness Companies in the global listing from World Health and World Congress, Achievers Awards as the Best Cosmologist in 2013.

She was also awarded as the Best Cosmetologist by the Indian Leadership Conclave

The journey of success continues to grow for Dr Monica. Her mantra for success is hard work, gratitude, commitment and consistency.

Half of India’s adolescents (10 to 19 years) – almost 63 million girls and 81 million boys – are not healthy. They are either short, thin, overweight or obese. Almost all adolescents in India have unhealthy or poor diets. This is the main cause for all forms of malnutrition.

These are the findings of a report on adolescents released by NITI Aayog and UNICEF India. Over 80 percent of adolescents also suffer from ‘hidden hunger’ which means deficiency of one or more micronutrients such as iron, folate, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12 and vitamin D, according to the report ‘Adolescents, Diets and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World’, based on the recently released Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS).

The CNNS data set provides new insights into all types of macronutrient and micronutrient malnutrition, dietary habits, life skill behaviours, access to services (school, health and nutrition) and physical activity throughout adolescence (10-19 years) for both girls and boys. This is the first thematic analysis of the wealth of CNNS data that provides important insights on the lives of India’s adolescents.

According to the report, fruits and eggs are consumed daily by less than 10 per cent of boys and girls while over 25 percent of adolescents reported no consumption of green leafy vegetables even once a week. Milk products are consumed by 50 percent of adolescents daily.

Growing incomes and increased spending on food has translated to greater consumption of fried foods, junk foods, sweets and aerated drinks. Today, 10 to 19-year-olds in every Indian state face an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Adolescent girls especially suffer multiple nutritional deprivations. The report finds more girls suffer from shortness than boys. Anaemia affects 40 percent of adolescent girls, compared to 18 per cent of boys, and worsens as they get older.

The report suggests focusing on adolescent girls, before they become mothers, is critical to break India’s intergenerational cycle of malnutrition. One of the goals of POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) is to reduce anaemia among adolescent girls by 3 per cent per year. Ensuring that school and community-based interventions reach all is essential to achieve this goal.

CNNS gives important programme insights on strengthening school-based services. Schools are a cross-sectoral platform to address good nutrition – diets, services and behaviours. This is especially important for the early adolescent age-range (10-14 years), as 85 per cent of this age-group is enrolled in school. 

The findings reveal that nearly 25 percent of girls and boys do not receive any of the four school-based services (mid-day meal, biannual health check-ups, biannual deworming and weekly iron folic acid supplementation). Addressing this gap will be critical to addressing early adolescent nutrition issues.

The report also recognizes the how important it is that meals and snacks at home be nutritious. Campaigns on healthy food choices should be centred around the promotion of a variety of items in appropriate proportions at home.

Risks for non-communicable diseases are established in childhood and adolescence. For example, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and hypertension among adolescents is increasing. The second decade of life (10 to 19 years), is therefore critical to intervene in early adolescence to prevent such diseases.

All girls and boys are unable to meet the 60 minutes per day recommended outdoor sports and exercise time. On an average, girls in late adolescence spend only 10 minutes per day on such activities. Boys do relatively better, with exercise time of 40 to 50 minutes per day.

The report recommends that adolescents themselves be supported as mobilizers and co-implementers at schools and other platforms they access, to spread the right nutrition messages to aid India’s Jan Andolan to end malnutrition.

With the POSHAN Abhiyaan now in its second year, the timing is right to strengthen nutrition interventions for “would be mothers and fathers” to prevent the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition, the report says.

A new study has warned that all may not be well with tiger reserves in the country. It has found that even while they were good at protecting animals, their vegetation condition was far from being satisfactory. The study, which used open-source satellite data, has reported a drastic decline in vegetation, with extensive drying of forests inside tiger reserves, thus raising question marks on their long-term viability. 

Governments declare reserved forests as national parks or wildlife sanctuaries with focus on one or the other top animal species such as tiger or lion or elephant on the assumption that protecting the flagship species would indirectly help protect the ecosystem as a whole. They invest heavily in resources and financial support to manage protected areas. Tiger reserves particularly get extra attention. 

Usually, the effectiveness of managing the protected areas is assessed based on the successful protection of the focus species. In the new study, the researchers decided to tread a different path and sought to ascertain their effectiveness in preserving their vegetation. They selected 25 tiger reserves from across the country and compared the status of vegetation before and after they were declared as protected areas. 

The researchers used Landsat 5 TM satellite time series data between 1984–2012 and analyzed on the Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform to calculate vegetation indices. Forest vegetation health is usually measured using vegetation indices such as enhanced vegetation index and normalized difference infrared index. 

The researchers found that the vegetation had declined by more than 50% in 13 tiger reserves and by 25 percent to 50 percent in 8 reserves since they were declared as protected areas. 

Speaking to India Science Wire, Dr.Krithi Karanth of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, a member of the research team, said “we evaluate how protected areas are performing by typically focusing on the numbers of the animals living there. We need to widen the scope for how we measure effectiveness. The finding of our study strongly argues that there is a need to change the way in which the protected areas of the country are managed”.

Asked whether the findings did not contradict the Indian State of Forest Report 2017, which had reported an increase in forest cover in very dense forest followed by open forest, the researchers said the finding of this study was not directly comparable with that report because there was a difference between forest cover and forest condition. Forest cover is about how much forest was there and it was measured in terms of the area that was forested. It is more like a measure of “quantity” or “amount” of forest. Forest vegetation condition, in contrast, is about the health or condition of forest vegetation. Change in vegetation condition can be due to many reasons, including planting or selective harvest, and changes in vegetation composition due to altered ecological process in response to global change, they said. 

Lead author, Pradeep S. Koulgi, said the findings can be considered as an eye-opener as it reveals a blind-spot in a generic protected area management approach. “Conservation and management of our protected areas can benefit from continuous scientific and independent evaluations of multiple essential biodiversity and habitat factors,” he said. 

The findings of the study have been published in the Scientific Reports journal. The research team included Nicholas Clinton of Google Inc besides Pradeep S. Koulgi, and Krithi K. Karanth. (India Science Wire)