Dear students,

I am sure you are at home, and are safe.

This is one time opportunity to spend time in your youth, with family. Otherwise today you would have been busy in studying day and night for your exams. After 12th you never get months of March and April to relax like this.

Spend your energy on helping mother because now when everyone is free and relaxing she is the one who is most busy as she has to cook for all and many times of the day and clean house and clean utensils every time. She will remember the help offered by you and the sweet words you said to her, for ever.

If you have grand parents spend time with them, ask them about their memories of difficult times in their era and also learn our culture from them. When grand children listen to grand parents, they feel satisfied. The stories of their time, you may find strange and interesting because they are of out of world for current times.

You can also utilise this time to learn some skill which your parents, grand parents know.

You can definitely do some online course which is free now-a-days. You can hunt for such courses on many sites such as Coursera, Mooc, Udemy etc. This will make your CV heavy before you complete your graduation degree. And you will feel elevated due to the knowledge you gained and that you used technology for your upliftment.

You can also do lot of reading like Wings of Fire by Dr Abdul Kalam, you can read about Warren Buffet, Ratan Tata, Dhirubhai Ambani and Lal Bahadur Shastri, Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahadevi Verma, Ruskin Bond, V. S. Khandekar, Premchand, V. V. Shirwadkar, P. L. Deshpande, D. M. Mirasdar, Durga Bhagwat, You can add many names in it.

You can also use this for calligraphy, for improving handwriting, improving language skills, drawing, yogasana.

But definitely at the end of this long and compulsory vacation, you shall have feel that it was a period when you added value to your life.

You may not get such a period of relaxation in your life time or for next 35 years.

My dear students, stay at home, stay safe and take utmost care of you and family.