December 30, 2019
This husband is more an exception than a rule
Well, from what I see around me in Mumbai, and what is probably the case in all
the metros and modern cities in India even, is that the equation has certainly
changed with dramatic implications that break the traditional glass ceiling.My
question is, should love and marriage become all about being obsessed with
running a house, which can drain you from other creative pursuits that stimulate
the mind and ambition? More on this next time.
Even in the US, the citadel of
modernity as we Indians see it, men seem to have imprinted in their minds as a
footprint in cement that the pretty little wife is perennially in apron strings
baking the apple pie and dropping the babies to school, doing the washing, with
the permanent vacuum cleaner and mop -displaying proudly the shining clean
toilet seat and sink of the bathroom.
They study hard to get somewhere and have
much ambition to start with. In nuclear families today, where both partners
venture out to employment increasingly women have nudged the traditional mindset
of men incorporating them into some feasible partnership in the home hearth and
children responsibility. Never mind their global exposure to education,
capabilities and their abilities to fit the high echelons of the corporate world
as this young lady was.Should love and marriage become all about being obsessed
with running the house? This can drain you from other creative pursuits. He also
boils the drinking water, and personally washes their school going sons white
shirts to get them that perfect white.
Women today, especially the younger lot
have flung age old traditions to the breezes.The corollary to this however, is
that men seem to have a fixed image of the ‘wife’ as the ‘homemaker’ and
entirely responsible for ‘running’ a home and all the added responsibilities of
children, washing machine, putting food on the table and keeping out the
slippers by the armchair with the TV remote and a cup of tea in the evening.
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vacuum storage bag Men seem to have a fixed image of the ‘wife’ as the
‘homemaker’ and entirely responsible for ‘running’ home and all added
responsibilities.Certainly in Mumbai I am seeing change creep in, I know a young
man who creates a beautiful breakfast for a wife who sleeps in late in the
mornings and then she whizzes off to her office because he is self-employed and
supervises the maid and the house cleaning.The writer is a columnist, designer
and brand consultant.
Girls are go getters with intelligence, they are smart,
intelligent, and look forward to a life of more than just home and hearth. It
does seem strange to the thinking mind that this should be so. They still have
huge expectations from women in a marriage, to run a home, run the children, run
the laundry, run everything first before running their own dreams and desires.
It is astounding that even modern women are still accepting outmoded roles and
women still have to fight for equal rights and shared responsibilities, for a
partnership that defines a marriage. A modern trendy lady in hot pants answered
to a query "umm I’m actually just a housewife†half apologetically accepting the
eons old traditional mindset that women are of course to be relegated to the
role of homemakers.com.
The senior journalist well known for his traditional
attire of khadi kurta pajama, Kolhapuri chappals and bald pate, defining his
seniority surprised us with his take. Never mind that she has also come back
from a demanding day at her place of employment. She comes home and takes over
the dinner quotient, but at least it’s a fair bargain. Mail her at
nishajamvwal@gmail.†He has seen the picture as it is with his vast exposure,
relevant to the realities around. And she is the main bread winner too in some
cases, and even more accomplished perhaps. This is a partnership. For a wife to
be dumped with the entire load of the home is not really how women see marriage
today.
This husband is more an exception than a rule, but this is how it should
be done. But it is a fact that men are more often left far behind in the culture
mindset wagon.Further research shows me that this is not only an Indian
scenario. We were at a swish dinner with a senior esteemed editor on the table.
Should it just end up in a life of housekeeping?We are living in a transitional
age, where both things coexist, change is indeed happening
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December 27, 2019
The plan includes control of vehicular emissions
The report evaluated 24 indicators including air quality, water and sanitation, biodiversity and habitat, forests, climate and energy among others. We have asked state governments to come up with their action plans to curb air pollution.75 out of 100.While India stood at 177, down from 141 in 2016, its score for air quality was recorded at a mere 5. Experts have stated that there has been significant rise in the PM10 level over the years, which comes mostly from dust particles.The CPCB officials maintained that the air quality in north India shows the worst pollution level but it could be attributed to the weather conditions. Even there are no complete data of PM2. The report was published to coincide with the World Economic Forum gathering at Davos on Tuesday. Moderate annual air quality was recorded at 29 cities, while 13 cities recorded poor annual air quality.â€Worse affected cities- Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Kanpur, Delhi, Lucknow, Gaya, Noida, Pithampur, Varanasi, Faridabad, PatnaEPI report stated deaths attributed to PM 2.The NGO has evaluated the data by the Central Board of Pollution Control (CPCB) and Environment Ministry.Moderate annual air quality was recorded at 29 cities, while 13 cities recorded poor annual air quality.."While 60 per cent of the cities were recorded with PM10 levels above the standard in 2007, now 88 per cent of them are critically polluted.
The plan includes control of vehicular emissions, road and construction dust, air pollution from biomass burning, industrial pollution among othersNo city in low pollution category, say expertsWith the recent World Environment Performance Index report stating that India needs to provide urgent attention to its air quality crisis, experts have stated that number of cities with critical levels of PM10 (particulate matter) have increased over the years. We have also suggested mechanised vacuum sweeping of roads,†said D."In terms of curbing dust pollution from roads and construction work, we are formulating action plan Travel Vacuum Space Bag Manufacturers for the creation of green buffers along the traffic corridors. Saha, head of air quality lab, CPCB.While the CPCB officials stated that they have directed all the states to come up with 42-point action plan to curb air pollution, none of the states have yet come up with the plan, except Maharashtra. When the levels are going that higher, meeting the standard level is the need of the hour,†said Anumita Roychowdhary, head of air pollution programme, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi. (Photo: PTI) Mumbai: India ranked the fourth lowest out of 180 nations in terms of environment as per the Environmen-tal Performance Index (EPI), according to the latest report by Yale and Columbia universities.
The pollution levels are going very high, 80 per centof the cities that we monitored are recording levels that are officially classified as critical in terms of particulate matters. There is drastic fall in the number of cities complying with the standard limit and there no cities are in the low pollution category now,†said Anumita Roychowdhary, head of air pollution programme, CSE. The CPCB officials maintained that the air quality in north India shows the worst pollution level but it could be attributed to the weather conditions.5 for many cities. As per the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi based non-government organisation, only 2 per cent of the monitored 44 cities had PM10 levels within the standard limit in 2016.The current state of the country’s air quality reveals that only seven cities come under the satisfactory annual average air quality, as per the latest report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).5 have risen and estimated at 1,640,113, annually as per Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2017CPCB has directed all the states to come up with 42-point action plan to curb air pollution.Meanwhile, D Saha, head of air quality laboratory, CPCB, said, "Although the AQI levels have decreased in certain cities, it is difficult to estimate whether or not more cities in the country now have satisfactory air quality."Despite government action, pollution from solid fuels, coal and crop residue burning, and emissions from motor vehicles continues to degrade the air quality for millions of Indians,†read the report
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December 23, 2019
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May 7, 2019Notably, Priyanka and Nick met first time at
Met Gala 2017 where they appeared together. Sadly, her husband Nick Jonas, who
appeared with her on the carpet, also dragged by the
memesters..twitter.com/b7XJLOayU2— Prashasti (@_O_PANDEY) May 7, 2019
#PriyankaChopra #MetGala2019 #MI pic.Also Read | Met Gala 2019: Fashion
jamboreeHowever, some of them has become the topic of jokes among the masses.
The camp statement reads: It's good because it's awful. (@maria.com/eebcE0xQw4—
🚶â€â™‚ (@Lostram2) May 7, 2019 Vikram aur betaal? Who did it Better? #MetGala
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Who did it better ?RT for MalingaLike for Priyanka pic.twitter.This year’s theme
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represents admiration for love of exaggeration.
After dating for a while, the
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becomes hot topic for memesters.Netizens started trolling PeeCee for her curly
hairdo and makeup.As the theme of Met Gala 2019 was 'Camp: Notes on Fashion',
many renowned global personalities showcased their fashion on the carpet. This
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One of the biggest fashion festivals, Met Gala 2019 is here and fans are
witnessing the unique outfits on the pink carpet of an event. Right from desi
ladies Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone to global divas Lady Gaga, Jennifer
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December 16, 2019
With the ascendance of the BJP
Earlier, violence was limited to Kannur. Now the Kannur syndrome is spreading to
all parts of Kerala. Police guard the entrance to Pinarayi village following a
political killing in the area. (Photo: Asian Age) The paradox of politics in
Kerala is that all political parties swear by non-violence and democracy but, to
ensure that their writ alone runs, they resort to unspeakable violence.
May be
this is because once they set off on the path to violence it is difficult or
impossible for the political party to move away from it. It is like holding the
proverbial tiger’s tail. Once a death squad tastes blood, they are inclined to
disregard even the diktats of their leaders. The monsters of Frankenstein do no
one’s bidding.Vested interests make capital out of the situation, and the whole
atmosphere is permeated with violence. Political parties, including the CPM and
the BJP, ensure the backing of criminal elements. The all-party conferences give
lip service to democratic methods, but in the confines of their own party
offices they ask their cadres to dump homilies.
In the course of time the public
turns indifferent to politics, bringing anarchy and uncertainty.As early as
1921, when Mahatma Gandhi appealed for non-cooperation and civil disobedience,
leaders like Chettoor Shankaran Nair had warned that once the people are taught
to disobey laws, it would be difficult to bring them back as law abiding
citizens. Chettoor Shankaran Nair also wrote a book titled ‘Gandhi and Anarchy’,
warning of the addictive properties of disobedience. However, with Mahatma
Gandhi’s moral authority reigning supreme, such advice fell on deaf ears.
Throughout the freedom struggle, Gandhiji insisted on non-violence, but violence
continued unabated.The Quit India movement in 1942, when Gandhiji and Congress
lost faith in the British declarations about the concept of Rule of Law, the
Congress itself had given the call for creating a democratic constitution with
fundamental rights and directive principles. But during
Vacuum bag Indira Gandhi’s time, when
she felt her power was threatened by Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement, she
declared Emergency which in effect meant the suspension of constitutional
rights.
It is important to note that the struggle against Emergency was not led
by the highly literate people of Kerala but by the relatively illiterate people
of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.Read: Violence as political tool keeps cadre
intactThere is an innate democratic tradition among the people of India born out
of the panchayat system, but both parties on the right and the left resorted to
violence in search of power.
Though BJP on one hand and the Marxist party, on
the other, swear by secularism and tolerance, the rank and file of all parties
are in league with criminal elements. Even though some leaders may genuinely
stand for tolerance, their followers might consider it too meek. The Marxist
Communist Parties have an innate tendency to follow violence in the name of
revolutionary spirit. Today the Congress has weakened itself by promoting
dynastic supremacy.
Though Sonia Gandhi was able to control the different groups
in the Congress her idea of promoting Rahul Gandhi has destroyed the goodwill of
Congress. The Communist-Marxist parties have not been able to overcome their
internal conflicts. The degeneration of Congress has created a vacuum and no
alternative is provided by other parties. The Communists are committed to
violence in the name of revolution and the Congress has now developed an
obsession with dynastic succession. No other party has the general acceptance
and goodwill of the people necessary to prevent anarchy and lawlessness.
Consumerism has gained upper hand in society and money power has destroyed even
the last vestiges of idealism in social and political life. In the
circumstances, India has become conflict-ridden society, confusion and
uncertainty prevails in politics, and there is no leader who can show the people
a way out of the mess.
With the ascendance of the BJP, a path to dictatorship
through democracy might soon be opened. The signs are loud and clear. Recent
attempts to win power through undemocratic means and the spreading of hate among
masses for political gains, hints at a complex era in the making. Hate campaigns
and violence have been employed to build the bridge to power. You have to
remember that Nazi and Fascist leaders came to power in the first instance by
feigning allegiance to socialism and democracy.
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December 09, 2019
The cost or even the effort to deploy human therapists
With deeper researches happening in AI and its related areas, far more use cases
will emerge in the HR space. The AI enterprise space is estimated to reach an
overall 6000 million USD. (Photo: Pixabay) Every time there is a tech buzzword,
there is the inevitable rush to adopt it. Remember the ‘everything dot com’
phase in the early 2000’s and the e-commerce boom of about last decade where
every shop was turned into an online marketplace. It is little surprise that
with AI and machine learning emerging as the newest trends, every other company
has been rushing to put together AI blueprints. Almost every industry has seen a
flurry of use cases in AI adoption – and the HR space has not been lagging. The
AI enterprise space is estimated to reach an overall 6000 million USD and a
sizeable chunk of enterprise AI applications is likely to be in HR.There are a
number of applications in various stages of the HR process from chatbots used in
onboarding to applications that sort through CVs or monitor employee
performance. However, with deeper researches happening in AI and its related
areas, far more use cases will emerge in the HR space. And,
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to applications that blend cognitive thinking, deep learning and smarter
self-adaptive programs.
Here are five impact areas that the Rimjhim Ray
(co-founder, Spotle.ai) thinks will see AI being harnessed to fuller potential
in the talent-opportunity space.Potential Predictors:We hire for potential, we
have heard a lot of managers and recruiters say this. But how do you do that?
Are 30 sec CV scans enough to gauge potential? Probably not. What can help here
is benchmarking potential candidates with your highest performers and base your
decisions on pattern matches. Possibly a background in NCC and not high grades
is what distinguishes most of your top employees. If you are scanning and
rejecting CVs based on grades here you are losing out on your highest
performers. Sentiment Analytics :AI is being used more and more to gauge
sentiments and construct personality maps based on the humongous amount of
social media content we create everyday. Sentiment analytics can also be applied
to resumes, cover letters and at the risk of sounding pervasive to emails and
chat messages. Understanding sentiments and personalities help going beyond the
standard grade and experience based fitment and look at deeper aspects like
cultural fits.Goodbye CVs. Hello, Faces (AI + AR):If the last 5 years was about
multiple disciplines like AI and AR emerge as strong independent drivers, the
next 5 years will see many more cross-disciplinary applications. In an
inter-connected social world, one dimensional CVs are increasingly getting
replaced by social graph – a matrix of your digital footprints. Superimpose that
with a person’s face and a person can just walk into an interview with his best
face forward, get scanned by an intelligent camera and the interviewer will see
possibly the person’s last tweets or his Github ratings floating over him. This
we can confirm is not Sci-fi. Face recognition can also be used to understand
emotions and offer predictive counselling. Obviously like with any use of tech,
what is doable has to be balanced by what is acceptable. A lot of people may
find machines scanning your faces and getting a low-down on your background or
mood pretty intrusive.Empathetic Counsellors :Workplace stress is the single
biggest killer of productivity. With increased impacts of modern life and work
styles on mental health, psychological disorders have emerged as the costliest
condition in many economies including the US.
The cost or even the effort to
deploy human therapists for all staff may be prohibitive however advancement in
AI means you can have virtual therapists which can simulate first-level
counselling. The anonymity of talking to a digital therapist also could be
helpful for employees in a country where mental health is a taboo. AI-based
counselling can also be deployed in career counselling where a chatbot can guide
you on your competency paths.
Personalised Coaches:Combine gamification and AI
and you can build fantastic career coaches for your employees. Take the examples
of fitness apps – they have used gamification in a novel way to help people
attain their fitness goals. A virtual career coach can set adaptive goals for
your employees, build learning paths for them, dish out rewards all building
engagement while making appraisal processes less tedious.— Rimjhim Ray,
Co-founder, Spotle.ai
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December 02, 2019
The critical warning had last been used
It was the United Kingdom&
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that has claimed 35 lives. The home-made bomb shot flames through a packed train
carriage at west London’s Parsons Green Tube station during the Friday morning
rush hour but apparently failed to detonate fully. (Photo: AP) London: Police
stepped up their investigation Monday into the bombing of a packed London
Underground train during rush hour after officers made a second arrest in their
probe.The bomb went off on Friday's morning in a crowded carriage and although
the device is thought to have malfunctioned, it still wounded 30 people. Britain
downgraded on Sunday the nation's terrorism threat from its highest level
following the arrest.It was the country's fifth terror attack in six months, a
series that has claimed 35 lives.Police said earlier Sunday that a 21-year-old
man, who has not been identified, was detained late Saturday in Hounslow, on the
western rim of the capital."The Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre, which reviews
the threat level that the UK is under, have decided to lower that level from
critical to severe," interior minister Amber Rudd said in a televised
statement.A critical threat level means another attack is "expected imminently"
while a severe threat indicates an assault is highly likely.A search was
underway on Sunday in Stanwell, a few miles west of Hounslow, in connection with
the 21-year-old's arrest, police said.After taking into custody an 18-year-old
man earlier on Saturday over the "bucket bomb" attack at the Parsons Green
Underground station, police said they they were hunting for more suspects.Rudd
said the police were trying to find out how the first man arrested was
"radicalised".The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Friday's
explosion.The first arrest on Saturday took place at the Dover ferry terminal, a
main link to Europe. A "number of items" were recovered during the operation and
the man is now in custody in London, officers said.Police also raided a home in
Sunbury, a town west of London on Saturday. Local residents quoted in British
media said the owners of the house were elderly foster parents.CCTV footage
obtained by British media on Sunday appeared to show a man walking from the
property on Friday morning, carrying a bag similar to the one containing the
failed device.- Passengers flee in panic -Now that the terror threat has been
downgraded, soldiers deployed to guard key sites across the country "will return
to their original positions" during the next few days, Rudd said.
The critical
warning had last been used after the deadly suicide bombing at a pop concert in
the northwestern city of Manchester in May, for which IS also claimed
responsibility.But Rudd voiced doubt over the IS claim that it was behind
Friday's bombing."It is inevitable that so-called Islamic State or Daesh will
try to claim responsibility but we have no evidence to suggest that yet," she
told the BBC.Rudd had earlier dismissed as "pure speculation" US President
Donald Trump's claim, made Friday on Twitter, that a "loser terrorist" behind
the attack was known to Scotland Yard.The tweet had already drawn a terse rebuke
from Prime Minister Theresa May, who said: "I never think it's helpful for
anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation."In another security
scare on Sunday, a # London-bound British Airways flight was evacuated at
Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport after a false bomb alert.
The improvised device
at Parsons Green, a quiet and well-off residential district, failed to detonate
fully.But the blast inflicted flash burns on passengers, and prompted dozens of
others to flee in panic.- 'Fireball flew down carriage' -Twitter user @Rrigs
posted pictures of a white bucket smouldering on the train and described how a
"fireball flew down carriage and we just jumped out open door".The bucket, which
was inside a frozen food bag, looked like the type used by builders, and there
appeared to be wires coming from it.Louis Hather, 21, had been travelling to
work and was three carriages down from where the explosion took place."
I could
smell the burning. Like when you burn plastic," he told AFP.He was trampled on
as panicking passengers stampeded out of the station, leaving him with a bad cut
and bruised leg.The bomb's remnants were examined by forensic scientists but no
further details were released.Several victims were taken to hospital, though
health authorities said none were in a life-threatening condition.
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