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Bengaluru: Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. Yet, for most people, it still feels like guesswork. Marks, trends, peer pressure, “safe options,” or what seems popular trends at the moment these are the forces shaping decisions. Traditional career guidance systems haven’t really solved this problem. In many ways, they’ve only repackaged it. It’s time to rethink how we approach career decisions. The Problem with Current Career Guidance Systems Most career guidance today follows one of these patterns 1. One Size Fits All Advice Students are often pushed toward a narrow set of “acceptable” careers engineering, medicine, government jobs, or trending fields like data science regardless of individual differences. 2. Over-Reliance on Marks and Aptitude Tests Scoring well in a subject is treated as a signal for career fit. But being good at something doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll enjoy it or want to build a life around it. 3. Surface Level Personalit...

Kannadigas living in the neighbouring states continue to live a pathetic life despite repeated assurances from the concerned. Likewise, the successive state governments have continued to offer a deaf ear to their legitimate demands ever since the formation of states on a linguistic basis in 1956. This year is being celebrated as the Golden Jubilee year of renaming the state from Mysuru to Karnataka. But the problems, woes and demands look like never-ending perennial wounds for a lifetime and generations together. Adverse plight all over: The perplexed situation is by and large common to all those people with Kannada as their mother tongue living in Jath, Akkalkot, South Solapur of Maharashtra, Manjeshwara and Kasargod in Kerala, Mahabubnagar in Telangana and Rayadurga in Andhra Pradesh, Hosur, Krishnagiri, Talawadi, Niligiri, in Tamil Nadu and almost all towns and villages of Goa. These people have been living in these regions for generations and contributing in their own way to the d...