CREATIVITY AT ITS BEST

  “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about” .This quote by Margaret J Wheatley perfectly defines the importance of a community. I feel a community can only be built if there are compassionate and passionate souls who love to join forces and help others. My experience of being part of a community has been a journey so as to say. Coming to Australia for doing my postgraduate degree was one of the best decision that I have made in life. But along with great decisions does come great difficulties. Adjusting to a new country ,culture and people are never easy .I ,being an introvert found it difficult to engage with people around and would quietly sit in my room lost in books, laptop and music!. I often thought to myself “who cares if I go out and actually engage in the community that I am in? As long as I have these materialistic things I am fine!” To think that I could survive like this was just an understatement! Within 3 months, I unde...

  When I think about environment my mind is filled with beautiful lush trees, scenic beauty of mountains covered with clouds, sunlight shining through a canopy, river streaming and much more come to mind. Could you blame me? Indeed the world that we live is a beauty that beholds the eye. But with human greed this beauty has been suffering much more than it should .It high time that we look to protect the beauty without causing harm to it anymore. As a postgraduate student studying towards environmental science and studying on topics such as sustainability, eco efficiency, circular economy, cleaner production have definitely helped me in understanding the world around me and the negative effects caused by pollution and many other activities. Many of us think that being a student, we don’t have time to think about the environment .Attending lectures, doing assignments and studying all around the clock leaves us with no think to think anything else. But I believe that if you are p...

Friends may change but memories last forever.... That’s exactly how I feel! Being away from home, family and studying in a new country that I have never been before was overwhelming to the point that I thought I couldn’t do it .I was scared and alone. Being an introvert, I wasn’t the type to make friends or socialize well .I usually kept to myself drowning in my emotions and feelings. I still remember the plane ride from Dubai to Australia thinking about how I am I going to survive my two years of postgrad studies away from the closest people in my life ? Will it be possible for me to thrive?. Thankfully, I got my answers through my mates that I made at Griffith University. On my first day of uni,I was lost finding the class for my orientation until I met a girl .Dressed to tens ,she looked at me cheerfully and asked me my name. ‘Kavya”, I said my name and she smiled and said “I Think we will; be good friends” she said .That’s my first memory with Kanthi, with whom I have been friend...