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Starshine! - Shampa Chowdhury

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Starshine Lock down you say Nay if I may... Isolation is God's consolation It's not vacation It's our resurrection Emerge from the earth To understand the dearth Of love, affection and care The dark and the hideous They thought they had it all Until came a darker but brighter force to stall Arrogance, power, greed and hate Treachery, betrayal, our fate As the world cried God said, it's still not too late my mate, For the good to rise and shine I grant you my forces divine! Reach out to those suffering For they are looking for the light Born is a Dhruvatara so bright! So here we are to stay Isolation, lock down, vacation nay... With a  heart filled with love and care With hope and courage we too dare It's not too late as said God We can heal the earth Of its dearth Someone has to do it you know So here we are with a bow To hear all you want to say As we live again  another day ...

Mind Our Minds - Gyanshruti Mukherjee

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The MoHFW has listed down few of the best suggestions to combat CORONA Virus scare! Here's what you can do! Sourced from MoHFW ( https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ ) Compiled by Gyanshruti Mukherjee Image source: Google

Psychological First Aid - Shahnaz Rahman

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Gujarat Digital Academy for Mental Health in collaboration with NIMHANS and ECHO India conducted a special session on 30 th March 2020 for “Training on Psychological First Aid” for Counsellors and Psychologists, during COVID-19 pandemic. The resource person was Dr. Mukesh Patel and the session was an initiative by the Government of Gujarat. The session highlighted the difference between tragedy and disaster. A disaster is an unfortunate consequence where there is great damage or loss of life and there is a complete failure as we can see in the current scenario. Developed nations are also not being able to manage the situation. Often times we prepare ourselves to manage a disaster when it is approaching us or manage the situation after the disaster already took place. But with COVID-19 we are in the disaster and the world is witnessing something that it has never witnessed before. §   The impact of the disaster can be personal, on a family  level,  soci...