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This pill-popping culture needs to end now!

We now take more pills than ever before. Is this doing more harm than good? Have you ever taken a tablet prescribed to you by a family member or friend when you had a migraine, stomachache or because of stress related conditions? We live in a time and age where everyone wants a quick fix for all of their problems. Dealing with the everyday pressures and responsibilities that life carries with it can really overwhelm a person.  People deal with life’s problems differently; while some take medicines, there are others who run to illegal (harmful) drugs, others to family and there are many who even give up on themselves.  However, through all of this stress, people have found an easier way to deal with their problems and life’s struggles and that is to pop a pill (over-the-counter medicines).   Anxiety, depression or other mood disorders, heartburn, sleeping problems,  bipolar or eating disorders, are some of the health conditions why people take...

#Me Too & Bollywood: Fighting sexual harassment in Bollywood

India has many different languages and with Hindi being the national language, entertainment in this dialect is also large scale. Bollywood as it is  metonymously  referred to as; forms one of the key components of entertainment in India.  Of course, to put this in perspective and understand the magnitude of how big the Indian Film industry is,  some of the other industries include:  Telegu language - Tollywood Punjabi-Punjwood Mollywood-Mlayalam film industry Ollywood-Oriya Film Industry in India Kollywood-  Tamil language Sollywood – Sindh language movie industry in India Sandalwood – Kannada language film industry in Karnataka  The prevalence of sexual assault and harassment has been existent in Bollywood and India for years and decades altogether. It has reached India after having completed one WHOLE year of being in existent in Hollywood. These allegations were repeated and went viral on social media, which prom...