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THE THIRD CHILD

The human mind has created boundaries around itself but there are more in the world than what than what the mind can comprehend. In ancient India lines dividing homosexuals from heterosexuals were vague and we have stories proving that the Indians had space for almost everything that could ever be imagined. But with time and due to many external  factors (only if you understand) our minds have become exclusive and have almost clogged with cultures and superstitions that we have for a very long time asked our people to hide their identity as some of them are proscriptions. But, luckily it is no more # SECTION 377 LET'S GET BACK TO HISTORY: ✓IPC 377 came into effect in the year 1861 under The Whites. •2009: Delhi HC decriminalized it. •2013: SC puts it again under the criminal              category. •2017:SC passes the verdict that sexuality             is a choice and is a right to privacy             but it is still a criminal act. √6th September 2018: SC decriminalized

ACCENT

ACCENT- A distinctive way of speaking a language. The irony is, the word itself has different pronunciations, some say it AK-cent while others say AS-cent. Don't take it lightly because this very word with inconstant diction has the power to decide whether you are a literate or an illiterate in the eyes of the society. How do you pronounce any word, is your 's' different from 'sh', are you applying the right amount of pressure on a letter of your spoken word and the list is neverending. To pronounce any word perfectly is undoubtedly a fine quality, but the question is how does one judge if any word spoken by him is perfect. For example: SCHEDULE - UK:SH-edule                                                 USA: SKE-dule and the queer thing is people debate among themselves on which is correct which definitely puts any learner in a dilemma. As for a society we belong to, speaking SKE-dule among people speaking SH-edule will certainly put you in the list of '