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Numbers trap

“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” ― Bob Marley I just saw Nas Daily episode no 858 where he described an IDEA as “number trap”. For next one hour I tried searching about it in the internet. Then next one hour I tried thinking about it. Then eventually I made up my mind to write something about it. According to Nas whenever we give some one 5Euro it make them happy till the point they think that is not enough for them. And they now want more to become happy as they were before, and it was such a simple thing that we all knew but we don’t accept it. The number trap is kind of which consumes us. Numbers provide instant gratification and without thinking a much we think that we tend to like it more, we discuss more about the things which are used by many. If I take this IDEA from Nas and try to understand why development project fail after initial successes this could be a reason which was hid...
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Appreciative inquiry to success. . .. . .

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Source:innovationforsocialchange.org What? Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a model that seeks to engage stakeholders in self-determined change. It studies to adopt an interpretive qualitative approach (Verstehen) to explore the beliefs, values and actions that characterize stakeholders. Why? It can be excellent tool evaluate a NGOs and its impact. It mainly seek to achieve vivid account of the situation and experiences of its stakeholders. Appreciative Inquiry is an approach that focuses on identifying what is working well, analyzing why it is working well and then doing more of it. The basic tenet of AI is that an organization will grow in whichever direction that people in the organization focus their attention. If all the attention is focused on problems, then identifying problems and dealing with them is what the organization will do best. If all the attention is focused on strengths, however, then identifying strengths and building on those strengths is what the ...
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Why use Focus Group Discussion

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W hat is a focus group? It is research tool widely used by different researcher to get the glimpse of the ground realities of situation. A focus group is a small-group discussion guided by a facilitator. A  focus group discussion  (FGD) is a good way to gather together people from similar backgrounds or experiences to discuss a specific topic of interest. Main benefits are that in one go researcher get talk with so many people. If conducted properly research get to observe politics, dynamics within participants and may get to know the underlying reason behind specific problems. Figure 1: FGD Conducted by facilitator with an assistant in front of village club.   Prerequisite for FGD?   At least group of 8 people to start with and people can join later but good facilitator would stop people from joining in in the middle of the discussion as it can change the course of discussion. Always fill-up participants list. It is highly recommended that ...
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Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Why Use Interview as research tool?

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Interview method as a qualitative research tool Interview method is the most common format of data collection in qualitative research. Qualitative interview are either semi-structured, lightly structured or in-depth. Unstructured interviews are generally done in conducting long-term field work and allow respondents to express themselves in their own ways and pace, with minimal hold on respondents’ responses. Unstructured interview resembles a conversation more than an interview and is always thought to be a “controlled conversation” which is skewed towards the interests of the interviewer. Semi-structured interviews are based on semi-structured interview guide, which is a schematic presentation of questions or topics and need to be explored by the interviewer. To achieve optimum use of interview time, interview guides serve the useful purpose of exploring many respondents more systematically and comprehensively as well as to keep the interview focused on the desired line of acti...
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Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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1ST INTERACTION WITH OTHER

As a student during my studies I have heard drag king and queens who cross-dresses to amuse others. Long ago I learned about how Hijra’s who are distinct community of people who are thought to be marginalised and have different way of earning money. People call them beggars but calling them beggars would comparing them with priest as both give blessing upon getting the money and many of my known people found blessing of Hijras auspicious also there are instances where people says how curse of Hijras have brought bad omens to their family. I have never interacted with hijras except once when they asked for money and I refused and astonishingly after that no one ever approached me for money. I don’t know the reason but it makes me curious.     Moving forward to recent past when I joined an organisation which support a LGBTKH(lesbian gay bisexual transgender kothi) community I came across people who identify themselves as transgender and It confused me as I used think that af...
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Why I Love Research (And You Should, Too!)

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jesadaphorn/Shutterstock.com Why I love research because before writing this Blogpost I actually done a research about tools that I need to use to write. Research is no rocket science but it addressing your inquisitive nature. A research can be done anywhere and anyway to satisfy ones needs and people who gossip are the excellent example they are most apt for any personal research about their known people.  But the type of research that I am going to address here is more of a professional and academic one. The limit is not known to me and I don’t claim to be cent percent true but for understanding purposes there are two main goals for research. 1. Academic reasons 2. Professional reasons.  1. Academic reason are those which include writing for Master Thesis, PhD thesis and doing Post-doctoral research.  2. Professional research all other research except above fall in this category. Teachers doing research at university, doing research for pharmaceutical compa...
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Welcome Note

After many tries .. We(me and my conscious)  are trying again to write a new blog... But I still don't know what ill be writing here but .. as lord KRISHNA says "KARAM KARTE JAO FAL KA ASHA MAT KORO .."
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