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Jagdalpur: Yashwant of Sargiguda, a small village in Bastar, is a contrast and an ideal to the youth who rush to the metro cities for the longing of a high paying job and a luxurious life in multinational companies after higher education. However opposite to this Yashwant studied to be the first wood craft designing engineer from Chhattisgarh and left his multi-million rupee package job and dazzling life in Bengaluru to help the youth of his village.

With the passage of time, when his art flourished, he established a small-scale industry of wood crafts at home. Today, more than a hundred tribal artisans are employed here.

Sargiguda village in Bastar block, about 20 km from the district headquarters, is recognized today in Asia as well as parts of Europe because of this one guy who was determined. The result of the hard work and dedication of 28-year-old Yashwant Kashyap is that the demand for wood craft of his disciples is in many countries like Germany, France, UK etc. His father Ramnath is also a renowned woodworker of Chhattisgarh.

Yashwant is now teaching the nuances of bellmetal and iron craft along with wood. Two years ago, he started a small-scale cottage industry at home as a wooden crafts center, which over time is taking the form of a medium industry. Due to this, employment for youth is also increasing. The special thing is that Yashwant imparts this training at no charge. Shriram, Lakhuram, Manbodh and Rainu, who were among Yashwant's disciples, said that Bastar has craftsmen, but not those who teach the specifics of the craft.

Yashwant provides the nuances of the craft, design as well as markets. These young craftsmen said that due to Yashwant, today the demand for their craft is up to seven seas.

Happiness is bigger than money

Yashwant did his early education at the village school. After completing Higher Secondary studies from Bastar, got admission in ITI here. After this he was selected for the Indian Institute of Craft and Design Center Jaipur Rajasthan. There he earned a degree and moved to Bengaluru. Many well-known companies working in the field of designing offered him a job on a package of lakhs of rupees, but he chose to return back to his soil.  

Yashwant says that he could have earned a lot of money by staying there, but he would have never got the happiness and satisfaction of seeing the youth of the village are getting today when they stand on their feet. He said that the art works made in the training center are sold with GI tags to those companies associated with craft exports in Bangalore, who export crafts in the country as well as all over the world.

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New Delhi : A school girl in Kazakhstan has died after her charging smartphone exploded on her pillow as she slept.

Alua Asetkyzy Abzalbek, 14, went to bed listening to music at her village home in Bastobe, Kazakhstan. The next morning, she was found dead after the phone’s battery is said to have exploded close to her head, according to media reports.

The police said that her device had been plugged in to a power socket at the time. She is believed to have suffered severe head injuries as a result of the blast, and died on the spot.

Forensic experts said that the mobile exploded in the early hours of the morning after overheating as it charged and this was the cause of her death, said reports.

New Delhi: How to murder a dosa! Shouts twitter after a guy has posted video of someone preparing a chocolate dosa.

“Things like this will make you lose faith in humanity!” this is what the Twitter user wrote as a caption to video.

The video is now viral and has fuelled varied reactions and agitations.  IT might not be pleasant for you too. Shared on September 30, the video shows someone preparing dosa using butter and chocolate syrup along with some other ingredients - cashews, almond, dry grapes, and cherries.

Take a look:

Things like this will make you lose faith in humanity! pic.twitter.com/LO5hWwtyVG

— Darshan Pathak (@darshanpathak) 30 सितंबर 2019

A few days ago someone had shared a a similar video showing a woman preparing Milk and rose petal Maggie. That video too irked many.

While some jokingly suggested other flavours of dosa, a few simply wrote “disgusting.” There were also those, who were angry with this particular version and accused that the clip shows “how to murder” dosa.

“Khoya aur Milkmaid bhi daal deta,” commented a Twitter user. “This is not food, this is stupidity. Feel free to argue,” tweeted another. “Report this video and delete this from internet!! Also, anyone knows how to erase memory from brain?” wrote another. “Who’s going to put stop to such atrocities?” tweeted another one.

The cyber fraud networks are now not even scared to take civil servants in their trap. The recent case is of Chhattisgarh, where Kawardha Collector Awanish Sharan's fake facebook id is created. Someone from this account is asking for money from multiple people. IAS Awanish Sharan himself has made this information public on Facebook and twitter applealing people to be cautious and inform the police about the case.

Sharan has already informed cyber police about this issue. He uses social media regularly and was shocked to discover that a fake id by his name and picture is seeking money from his facebook friends, taking caution he has already reported the case to police and has asked public to beware from the fake profile.