Before the World acknowledged, established, and celebrated ‘Earth Day’ in 1970 to raise awareness and protect the Earth’s natural resources, the Maha Bishuba Sankranti or Pana Sankranti, which marks the beginning of the Odia New Year, has been educating, advocating, and practising the ethos of protecting the Earth.
It can well be stated that the India-Pakistan relationship holds considerable significance in South Asia, although the two neighbours have a checkered history of disturbed bilateral relations.
In recent times, war and violence have emerged on an unprecedented scale and engulfed societies across the globe. Its various manifestations in the forms of terrorism, war, ethnic conflict, crime, and domestic violence have considerably affected human society. The younger generation, particularly the children, are the worst sufferers of such mindless bloodletting. The armed conflicts in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq have left thousands killed, maimed, orphaned, displaced from homes, separated from their families, and deprived of their basic right of education.