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Omicron: What is Known Who Moved My

Cheese-Book Review
PRIYANKA SRINIVAS

A new fear has gripped the SHREYAS VADREWU
crowd with the spread of a
new COVID variant. Hailed as For most, the self-help genre
extremely dangerous when it seems excessively verbose and
premiered, it has been studied esoteric, with such books remaining
a little more over a period of in pristine condition in a remote
one month named Omicron, section of our household libraries.
this variant has now seeped Indeed, for all of its purported
into all the corners of the world. sagacity, we just cannot get
But one can be the safest when ourselves to read it. Enter Dr.
the most aware. Hence, it is Lockdowns may resurface due to the widespread Omicron Spencer Johnson’s 1998 bestseller
essential to learn about the titled ‘Who Moved My Cheese’.
nature of the new variant and His book has been credited with
its impact. ...only precaution saving careers, marriages, and even Who Moved My Cheese by
Spencer Johnson
lives with its timeless wisdom.
Omicron was discovered on ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ is a scour the maze for ‘New Cheese’
November 23rd, 2021, and was and prevention will succinct parable about change, when the time came for it. The little
immediately labelled a threat and how our response to it can people- Hem and Haw- however,
mutations, which are immunity help the people. be the difference between a allow complacency to set in after
because of its large number of
rewarding life and a desultory
avoidant. It was also related to one. It revolves around four discovering the enormous haul of
cheese. As the cheese inevitably
a recent increase in COVID longer be adequately matched Now that the variant has characters, two mice and two ‘little “vanishes”, the mice adjust
patients in the Gauteng province due to this variance. Scientists spread from Africa to Asia people’, who spend their days and begin to acclimatize to the
of South Africa. These two predict that the virus will be and America, many teams combing through a gargantuan change, while Hem and Haw are
elements drew the attention of more likely to infect persons of scientists are involved in maze looking for ‘Cheese’. The in disbelief over this unwelcome
international medical bodies. cheese is a metaphor for our disruption. While the latter goes
More than 30 changes have been who have immunity to earlier unearthing its secrets. From aspirations; a promotion at work, on to see the folly of his ways,
strains based only on the list
found in the variant's spike of alterations. observation alone, it is evident robust relationships, wealth, or Hem is unable to adapt to this
protein, which is the virus's that Omicron is extremely quick even fame. The maze represents change in his routine. ‘Who
key to unlocking and infecting Many things about the current in spreading, but its symptoms how we work towards achieving Moved My Cheese’ is a riveting
human cells. This is more than state of the variant are unclear, are equivalent to or milder than those things. The story begins with read that does not detract from
double the number found in such as the effect of current those of Delta and COVID. In both groups having discovered its fundamental premise. It is
Delta. Concerns have been vaccines or previously prescribed such a case of uncertainty, only a substantial amount of cheese. indubitably an essential reading
expressed that the antibodies drugs or the severity of symptoms precaution and prevention will The mice, Sniff and Scurry, are for young students aiming to adapt
from past vaccinations may no caused due to the virus. help the people stay safe. unassuming people who constantly to change in their lives.

Taxation in India The Bullseye Humanity Cannot Miss

SHREYA ANAND system was based on a system RAMAY RAJ SINGH
BHAGWATWAR where the taxes were levied
under different titles at the Heavens – if you come across
Taxes are a nightmare that manufacturing level. They someone using it, you might
everyone wants to evade. Will were also different for different find them looking up while
Rogers once said, “The difference states. This process gave rise to stating about it, up towards
between death and taxes is an increased level of corruption the skies, into the vast, vibrant
death doesn’t get worse every and tax evasion. But the new void which is space. But as
time Congress meets.” In total, system which started from hollow our neighbourhood may
there are two main institutions seem, it packs quite interesting,
that can levy taxes: the state and 2017 brought all indirect taxes nonpareil behemoths, visits of
the central government, by the under one nationwide tax when
authority of the Constitution of a consumer buys the good or which don’t usually end well
India, Article 265. service. The new system ensures for the host.
that the taxes are levied at the You see, we have been
There are various types of end of the sale. The goods and Graphical representation of the DART mission (NASA)
taxes that were supposed to service tax, GST, is limited to stupendously lucky, for the
be paid by the public, such as the 18% range as opposed to lack of a better word. The odds like tsunamis, earthquakes, spacecraft is to come in contact
the service tax, value added the previous tax systems. of a species being given enough volcanic eruptions, and whatnot. with an asteroid and is supposed
tax, excise duty etc. Our tax time to evolve and thrive on a But we’re not, by any stretch to alter its trajectory. Although
But there are exceptions. planet, in the vicinity of which lie of the imagination, ready to the target asteroid’s trajectory
Goods such as petrol, electricity, hundreds of thousands of “cosmic even put up a fight against an showed no signs of collision
and liquor are not taxable under bullets”, is astoundingly low. unwelcomed foreign aggressor, with earth, this mission will pave
GST. Some taxes are levied by Yet here we are. Humanity has i.e., asteroids. the path for further exploration
the state government and some been given a one in an infinite Double Asteroid Redirection into the concept as to if and
by the center. Taxation is a chance to go down this path. Test (DART) mission by NASA when the need arises.
subject that is dynamic and is But odds are just those, and the is the first-ever in the line of Ruminate; what do you think?
essential for the growth of the unpalatable could materialise, missions targeted towards Will we ever need to use one,
(C-GST, S-GST and I-GST are country. It is the income of the possibly without warning. With countering the asteroid threat. do we still stand a chance at
the types of GSTs in which the government for its expenses and time and effort, we’ve learned to We have made our first steps hitting the mark, or are we
tax payers have to divide the tax) the development of the country. conquer threats from the inside, towards it, though. The DART too late?