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How to identify a ‘Convent’ educated person?

A Convent educated person means someone who has studied among a community of nuns or sisters, and who are devoted and have a religious bend towards life. Most of the convent schools are divided into two basic categories – Methodists and Catholics. Methodists are the one devout follower of Jesus Christ and they believe that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation. In contrast, Catholics are the ones who believe that men can be ordained and they firmly believe that the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ which is necessary for salvation.

Not delving further into the history of the origin of such schools, I would like to diversify towards some practices and behaviour which can provide an insight about the nature of a ‘Convent’ raised person. Most of these quirks are those which I have acquired over the years through experiences, considering the fact that I am a convent educated too. Below are some of the most notable illustrations:

  • Morning Prayer in Church. Convent schools cannot think of starting a day without a short, about 15 minutes prayer in the Church. Usually the prayer consists of a student or a teacher reading a verse or gospels, followed by singing from the hymnal and then saying the prayer and then taking a pledge. Such schools have a strong fascination for church and every celebration starts from within a church.
  • Nuns roaming on the campus. It is very normal for the students to see white-robbed nuns, with rosary beads either in their hands or wrapped around the neck, strolling on the campus. Usually they tend to be very strict, but at the same time they are the most helpful person on the earth.
  • Wearing short skirts, preferably at or above the knee level. Any convent educated person feel very comfortable wearing such western culture dress because they have spent almost one-third of their life wearing such kind of dresses. So the norm is that most convent educated students have to wear such knee length skirts as per the rules mentioned in the diary, shoes should be polished without any signs of shabbiness.
  • Extremely disciplined and punctual. Convent schools follow this idea of being present without any delay. In fact if you have any such friend and you ask them to meet at 6 PM, you will see them standing there, maybe at 5:59 PM. In fact, convent schools did not allow any student to leave the campus even during the lunch break and one more thing, it was mandatory for the students to bring their School Diary every day, otherwise they will be punished.
  • Moral Science class. It was one of the most exciting classes because usually the teachers used to say some fantastic stories and then used to illustrate the moral of the story. And another perspective is that, it was a scoring class and also a break from the monotony of all the other heavy classes.
  • School Fests. One very big attraction of convent schools is the mandatory organisation of fests and conclaves, both inter-school and intra-school. And it is fun because we get to meet the students of other schools which is a very big thing considering the nuns always used to be on us.
  • Grammar Nazi. One word of advice – Do not ever mispronounce or say a grammatically incorrect statement. Convent educated person tends to be a very big Grammar Nazi throughout one’s life.
  • Mandatory English. It’s very frightening for a student if he or she is being overheard of speaking in any language other than English, by any teacher or nun. Yes, it is mandatory for us to speak in English to survive a day in school.
  • Music. A day in a Convent School is not complete without a musical lesson, of any form. Most important thing is the Christmas Carol, which usually comprised of musical carols and singing songs from our beloved hymn books.

So these are some, but not exhaustive lists of quirks which one can easily be observed in a Convent educated person. The thing is we are not weird, but we seem to have a different take and perspective on this world.

Amen…

Source:

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/convent-school-education-322890-2016-05-11

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Dowry – A social evil

A relic of a historical traditi on no longer relevant, the insti tuti on of dowry is one of the most pervasive and damaging features of India’s modern social fabric. It is one of the main causes of violence against women and has caused scores of men to treat women like mere property that can be owned and disposed of, rather than human beings to be respected. While dowry may have initially been seen as a way to help the newly-married couple set up their home, greedy husbands and their families have used it to reduce marriage to a business arrangement where the element of money takes precedence over all other considerations. This greed has led to the horrific and painful death of thousands of women all over India, who have not been able to meet their husband’s family’s ever-increasing demands for dowry and is conti nuing to do so. In order to combat this clear social evil, in 1961 Parliament took the step of introducing legislati on to combat it by enacting the Dowry Prohibiti on Act 1961. This was the first law that made the giving of dowry, the taking of dowry and the demanding of dowry criminal off ences.
A key part of all of these newly-created off ences was the concept of ‘dowry’ and what it included. Therefore, at Section 2 of the Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, the legislature introduced the following definition of dowry:

‘Dowry’ means any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given either directly or indirectly-
(a) by one party to a marriage to the other party to the marriage; or
(b) by the parents of either party to a marriage or by any other person, to either party to the marriage or to any other person;
at or before or anytime aft er the marriage in connecti on with the marriage of said parties but does not include dower or mahr in the case of persons to whom the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) applies.

The institution of dowry prevalent in India cuts across all religions, castes, races and socio-economic groups. It is seen as a religious obligati on of the father to part with authority over his daughter and, in the course of fulfi llment of this ‘dharma’, the husband and his family are endowed with monetary and other benefi ts bestowed by the bride’s family. Usually the demand made is far beyond the capacity of the woman’s family, resulti ng in huge debts incurred in order to fulfil this religious duty. This custom is so deeply embedded in the larger framework of the society that, more oft en than not, this phenomenon is seen as a regular social practice, surpassing the enormity and threat that it poses to the delicate structure of a healthy and balanced society.


Quite often the form and nature of dowry differs, making it impossible to recognize any one disti nct method of transacti on that would consti tute the giving or taking of dowry. Therefore in additi on to the traditional payments made to the groom and his family, the amount or valuables paid to the husband or his relati ves subsequent to the marriage is also regarded as dowry, the underlying premise being that the transaction is made in connecti on with marriage.


Appallingly but not surprisingly, a major proporti on of violence against women is in relati on to and in connecti on with the failure to pay the amount demanded as dowry. As the phenomenon is not restricted to demands made solely on the occasion of marriage but long after the sacrament has been solemnized, there have been instances where torture of the bride and ‘bride burning’ have been reported years aft er the couple have cohabited together under the insti tuti on of marriage.


To combat the growing menace of dowry, the legislature enacted the Dowry Prohibition Act in 1961. Though the Act was the first major step by the legislature to deal with the ever increasing and variant forms of dowry, several legal infi rmiti es within the Act have prevented it from achieving what was intended of it, which necessitated further steps being taken to combat the problem.


As a result the legislature added Secti on 304-B to the Indian Penal Code, 1860, which made ‘dowry death’ a specific offence punishable with a minimum sentence of imprisonment for seven years and a maximum sentence of imprisonment for life. Although this provision, when read in conjuncti on with secti on 113B of the Evidence Act 1872, has enabled the convicti on of many who were not caught by the Dowry Preventi on Act, it too has failed to fully combat the menace of dowry. Perhaps in response to this failure, a recent trend of the judiciary has been to include a charge under Section 302 IPC, a murder charge, in additi on charges under Secti on 304-B IPC, as this allows courts to impose the death penalty on the perpetrators of the off ence. It remains to be seen whether this trend will conti nue but it is our sincere hope that it will not – Whilst the crime of dowry death is indeed a heinous and terrible crime, the implementati on of the death penalty for those convicted does no justi ce to either party.

According to NCRB reports on an average, every hour a woman succumbs to dowry deaths in India with the annual figure rising upwards of 7000. No matter how many PhDs a woman earns, her identity and the right to live is decided according to the kilos of gold, cash, latest vehicles and appliances she brings in dowry for her in-laws. If you are reading this article, share it widely so we can push for conversations that question this and helps us all change the system.
If the society as a whole understands more clearly the social evil only with society’s wider acceptance that dowry is deeply damaging can the menace that it presents be truly eradicated.

Difference between Public and Private Transport

It is said that the car runs smoothly but consumes a lot of energy for each passenger, and public transport is an environmentally friendly method but requires high investment and management costs. However, this view does not place urban structure as a population size and quantity. For example, overcrowding can cause explosions and disrupt traffic. This could eliminate the need for public transport. On the other hand, in the suburbs of an urban area, public transport attracts only the minimum requirements for passengers and calculates the maximum capacity per passenger than private cars. The shape of cities is therefore a key factor in determining the performance of urban vehicles.
An urban structure is involved in the provision of transport infrastructure and its level of provision. For older urban economic models, the location of the agents and the urban environment vary depending on the conditions of travel. Therefore, the formation of cities and the functioning of travel depend on others. Although the size of the population and the size of the individual are the same, the operation of public and private transport may vary due to the city structure due to their historical land use and transport development.
In this paper, we present the interaction between urban building and transportation using a simple urban transport model. We also assess the potential for support, which measures economic efficiency and the environmental, private and public impact of a sensible urban environment. In this regard, the main focus is on the reliability of the urban tourism cooperation system, and has shown the potential for many urban and travel conditions. There are several policy implications for using model results.

The downside to public transportation means that cars and motorcycles, at times, can easily change and provide an easy way to travel in the eyes of a traveler or traveler. However, green guarantees are much less attractive to anyone who wants to reduce their carbon footprint. And in all, there is a real alternative to public transportation. The biggest challenge is to change our minds.

Public Transport
It is a mode of transport in which a number of passengers share in the standard travel. Includes local buses e.g. Lahore Metro buses and trains. These trails have specific routes and times and connect major cities. They are usually run by a State Government. Its advantage is that everyone who travels by it is charged a fair and reasonable fee. But on the other hand, these buses and trains are full of passengers and there is a mixed environment inside the car making it difficult to navigate. In addition, the timing of these destinations is not limited to developing countries so people have to wait a long time to get on the bus / train.
Private Transport
It is a mode of travel where people use their own car to travel e.g. cycle, cycle of vehicles and vehicles. It has the advantage over public transport that it saves time, is free to travel and allows for a wide range of vehicle use depending on the user’s system. But it also increases environmental pollution. It is expensive as there is a shortage of fuel in many countries but its high consumption over the past few years has proven that people can afford private cars now. Car maintenance is also a challenge.

Electoral Reforms In India

Electoral reforms refer to the introduction of the best practices in ensuring better democracy, clean politics, fair elections, ideal members of legislative houses, true representation and so on.

India is the largest democracy in the world. Elections are the most integral and important part of politics in a democratic system of governance. True democracy can function only when elections to the offices of power are held in a free and fair manner.

The requirement of Electoral Reforms:

The need for electoral reforms has also been felt mainly due to removing the malicious people and malevolent activities they are involved in. There are multiple issues plaguing the electoral process in India.

Vote-buying: The rise of illegitimate expenditure on vote-buying has become a matter of great concern as it is making only the rich to be more qualified to become an MP (Member of Parliament) or an MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) over a well-qualified public-spirited person.

  • As can be seen, out of 533 candidates elected to the 17th Lok Sabha (2019-present), 475 Parliamentarians (accounting for 88%) are ‘crorepatis’. This reflects the paradoxical situation of poor India with rich Parliamentarians raising concerns about the growing role of money power in politics.

Criminalisation of Politics and Politicization of Criminals

Criminals enter into politics and ensure that money and muscle power wins them elections, so that the cases against them are not proceeded with. Political parties are also happy as long as they have winnable candidates. Political parties field criminals in elections for funds and in return provide them with political patronage and protection.

Misuse of Government Machinery

There is a general opinion that the party in power uses government machinery such as using government vehicles for canvassing, advertisements at the cost of the exchequer, disbursements out of the discretionary funds at the disposal of the ministers, and other such means to improve the chances of their candidates winning.

Non-serious Independent candidates

Serious candidates float non-serious candidates in elections to cut a good portion of the votes that would otherwise have gone to rival candidates.

Casteism

There are cases of certain caste groups lending strong support to particular political parties. Thus, political parties make offers to win over different caste groups, and caste groups also try to pressurize parties to offer tickets for their members’ elections. Voting on caste lines is prevalent in the country and this is a serious blotch on democracy and equality. This also creates rifts in the country.

Communalism 

Communal polarization poses a serious threat to the Indian political ethos of pluralism, parliamentarianism, secularism and federalism.

Money Power

In every constituency, candidates have to spend crores of rupees for campaigning, publicity, etc. Most candidates far exceed the permissible limit of expenses.

Muscle Power

In certain parts of the country, there are widespread reports of illegal and untoward incidents during polling such as the use of violence, intimidation, booth capturing, etc.

Constitutional articles related to electoral reforms:

  1. Article 324-329 deals with elections and electoral reforms.
  2. Article 324 deals with the Superintendence, direction, and control of elections to be vested in an Election Commission.
  3. Article 325 states that no person to be ineligible for inclusion in or to claim to be included in a special, electoral roll on grounds of religion, race, caste or sex.
  1. Article 326 deals with the Elections to the House of the People and to the Legislative Assemblies of States to be on the basis of adult suffrage.
  2. Article 327 provides power to the Parliament to make provision with respect to elections to Legislatures.
  1. Article 328 provides power to Legislature of a State to make provision with respect to elections to such Legislature.
  2. Article 329 provides to create a bar on the court to make any interference by courts relating to electoral matters.

What is Inequality?

Every year, before the Annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Oxfam International releases its annual inequality report. Each report looks to capture a different dimension of inequality (lik but fundamentally revolves around the various forms of inequality that have now become ubiquitous. It is in light of this that we first look at what inequality means and what its impacts are on our day to day life.

What is inequality? 
The Cambridge dictio as “the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, etc. than other people”. The it even more simply as “the state of not being equal, especially in status, rights and opportunities”. 
While the term itself is quite vast and has various interpretations, for the purpose of simplicity, the two large umbrellas under which we can classify inequality would be economic inequality and social inequality. Both these categories are deeply intertwined and inequality in one often affects the inequality in another. Over the years, through its course of study,has studied inequality as a grave social injustice and has documented the incidents and scale of this inequality at a global level. 

Economic Inequality 
Perhaps the most quantified and calculated form of inequality is the economic variant. Even here, the most predominant forms of inequality measured are those of income inequality and wealth inequality. Income inequality is the inequality in and disparity in the incomes commanded by the top percentile of the population in comparison to the bottom percentiles, while wealth inequality measures look to do the same but by calculating disparities in wealth instead of income.

Income
“Income is not just the money received through pay, but all the money received from employment (wages, salaries, bonuses etc.), investments, such as interest on savings accounts and dividends from shares of stock, savings, state benefits, pensions (state, personal, company) and rent.”



Wealth
“Wealth refers to the total amount of assets of an individual or household. This may include financial assets, such as bonds and stocks, property and private pension rights. Wealth inequality, therefore, refers to the unequal distribution of assets in a group of people”

Denied treatment, COVID-19 positive patients seen lying on doorstep of AIIMS hospital in Patna..

enied treatment, COVID-19 positive patients seen lying on doorstep of AIIMS hospital in Patna

A heart-wrenching vidoe has emerged in the midst of the rising figures of coronavirus in Bihar. The video is believed to be from AIIMS hospital, Patna. The video which doing rounds on social media is also shared by Leader of Opposition in the Bihar assembly, and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)’s young face, Tejashwi Yadav. In the video we can see two coronavirus positive patients lying on the doorstep of the hospital wearing PPE kit, one of which is a former government officer.

Legendary Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan

MUMBAI Fans across India prayed on Monday for the legendary Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and other members of his movie family who have been infected with the corona virus as one day of infection spread a new record without showing how high it is.

Bachchan, 77, and his son, Abhishek, were hospitalized in Mumbai while his daughter-in-law and ex-wife of Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and his eight-year-old grandson were also tested positive.

The highest Indian Bachchanes are infected with the virus, which spreads rapidly after the collapse of the new moon in late May to revive the shocked economy.
Special Hindu rituals are performed in temples throughout India by followers who pray for the recapture of a respected and revered character over the years.
“It sounds like not one Amitabh Bachchan has been sick, but every generation has been sick,” Vijay Patodia, a member of the All Bengal Amitabh Bachchan Fans’ Association, told Reuters at the temple east of Kolkata.
A spokesman for Nanavati Hospital, where the son and son were admitted, declined to comment, saying the family would provide updates. Bachchan is an active Twitter user and announced his illness on Saturday after being admitted to hospital.
“I hope he, @juniorbachchan and his family will recover quickly from # Covid_19 soon and be released from hospital,” said @jaikukki in the United States, accompanied by a video of Bachchan singing a popular song.
There were no updates from the family or hospital in the middle of Monday, but health officials said Sunday that the son and son were stable.
India, along with the United States and Brazil, highlights the global epidemic. It also announced the previous closure of its 1.3 billion people in March but failed to turn the curve.
COVID-19 cases shot more than 878,000 with a new record of 28,701 new infections on Monday, although parts of the country entered new closed homes.
India seems to have done better than most places in terms of the death toll in the cases, with tax rates set at 23,174, but some private observers believe the figures are unreliable as people who die with symptoms can be counted as victims unless tested.

Misogyny

The term “misogyny” is derived from the Ancient Greek word “mīsoguníā” which means hatred towards women. Misogyny has taken shape in multiple forms such as male privilege, patriarchy, gender discrimination, sexual harassment, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification. The roots of misogyny can be traced back to ancient Greek mythology. 

Misogyny over years has evolved as an ideology which has engulfed the society as a smog which diminishes their site to aurora. Great philosophers, socialist, and thinkers of golden era were subdued by roars of male dominant society which narrowed their vision and made them a supporter of patriarchal society. Aristotle who was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist was also a misogynist. He thought of women as a deformity, an incomplete male. He preached that men should always command and women should follow as they are the inferior being created by God. Misogyny at its front had male supporters, but over years, few females also supported the ideology as stated by Sociologist Michael Flood.

Over centuries, women have been suppressed, their rights were neglected as a human being, they were treated as an lower part of the society, and their roles were restricted to household chores and birthing. Prolonged oppression raised many voices and collectively led to a concept of feminism which started the longest movement in history which still continues.

Misogyny: the “law enforcement” branch of patriarchy (contrasted with sexism, the branch of patriarchy concerned with beliefs and attitudes about female people’s inferiority), which involves the sanctioning of feminine gender norm-violations.

Patriarchy: the system in which female people are structurally oppressed on the basis of their sex (whether by male people, or in a way that advantages male people).

Postmodern feminism has two components, i.e., liberal feminism and radical feminism, the former being an individualistic form of feminist theory which focuses on women’s ability to maintain their equality by uplifting themselves in the field of academics, and other domains by which they can make better decisions and attain equal political and legal rights. Radical feminism on the other hand demands drastic reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts.

The fourth-wave feminism refers to a kind of feminism that began around 2012 which targets sexual harassment, campus sexual harassment, rape culture, workplace discrimination, body shaming, sexist imagery in the media, online misogyny, assault on public transport, and other type of harassment that is associated with the use of social media. The issues which were shocking and horrid like Nirbhaya Delhi Gang Rape, Harvey Weinstein allegations, and Bill Cosby allegations gave birth to campaigns like Everyday Sexism Project, No More Page 3, and the recent and Times Up movements, equality and the empowerment of women have become household conversations around the world.

These issues had drawn significant focus and brought legal reforms in issues such as sexual harassment at workplace as many women are employed in private, government, or unorganized sectors. Sexual harassment constitutes a gross violation of human right and women’s right to equality and dignity. It is illegal to harass a person because of their gender and sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Workplace sexual harassment, like other forms of violence, is not harmless.

Intermittent Fasting

In our daily lifestyle our food practices and the tablets we consuming make our body toxified and increasing the amount of mucus in our body. these toxification

livers, kidneys and colons are the major organs which eliminates waste in our body

bad food habits, over stress, not eating at the right time and many more reason are the reasons makes people unhealthy

Intermittent fasting is one of the detoxification method which can be followed in day today life

Importance of law in society

The law is important for a society for it serves as a norm of conduct for citizens. It was also made to provide for proper guidelines and order upon the behaviour for all citizens and to sustain the equity on the three branches of the government. It keeps the society running. Without law there would be chaos and it would be survival of the fittest and everyman for himself. Not an ideal lifestyle for most part.

The law is important because it acts as a guideline as to what is accepted in society. Without it there would be conflicts between social groups and communities. It is pivotal that we follow them. The law allows for easy adoption to changes that occur in the society.

Law is a successful medium or organization, instrumental in realizing the social change in the nation or any locale precisely. In this way, we revive our conviction that law has been crucial in presenting changes in the societal structure and connections and keeps on being so.

Law is an arrangement of principles and rules which are implemented through social establishments to oversee conduct, at every possible opportunity. It shapes governmental issues, financial matters, and society from numerous points of view and fills in as a middle social person of relations between individuals. 

Laws provide a framework and rules to help resolve disputes between individuals. Laws create a system where individuals can bring their disputes before an impartial fact-finder, such as a judge or jury. There are also legal alternatives where individuals work together to find a solution, such as by using alternative dispute resolution (ADR). There are courts at every level, from local to federal, to decide who should win in a dispute.

Without laws, there would be no way to set standards. It is easy enough to see why murder and theft are crimes, but laws also provide a framework for setting many other kinds of standards. Without the Federal Code of Regulations, it would be difficult for individuals.

The law helps in protecting our freedoms. No one can cause harm or be a nuisance to the society because they will be going against the law. Everyone is encouraged to be a law-abiding citizen for peaceful co-existence in the society. Those who do practices that are not guided by the law and end up infringing other people’s rights are should be subjected to harsh penalties.

A girl should be two things: who and what

Having a girlfriend/boyfriend is not acceptable but marrying a complete stranger and having sex on very first night is acceptable???? This is our so called society mentality.

Because sex has become cheap, easy, and worst of all, meaningless. Why bother with anyone’s emotions or opinions when you don’t have to?

The traditional mindset portrays men, especially young men, as hormone-driven beasts incapable of controlling their masculine urges. Women are tasked with protecting their sexual castle from conquest by one of these beasts. They are raised and expected to say “no,” and the beasts are expected to pull all the tricks, up to manipulation, pressure, and even force, to get “in the castle.”

In the worst cases, societies will pressure, mistreat, or even oppress women in order to satisfy this mindset. If a woman is raped, it’s her fault: What did she expect from a beast? Societies lock up the women to ‘protect’ them from the beasts out there.

If a woman accuses a man of rape, before any investigation, he is immediately taken into police custody and can be harassed for days if the woman has a good lawyer. A large number of rape cases recorded in India have been found to be fake. On the other hand, if a live-in is considered as marriage and the man has forcible sex with the woman, she cannot do much given that marital rape is not illegal in India. Again, a large number of rape cases in India go unrecorded for one reason or another. Further, the legal course is riddled with obstacles and confusions when it comes to inheritance, alimony, and rights of children born from such relationships. Girls also have feelings their emotions, dreams to live their life as they wanted to.why anyone wants to rulled her life?

society should understand this that girls are not an instrument or a toy to play with it. so please change your so called mentality towards them !! Because a girl is also a human being, she also has the right to live her life on her own terms whether you accept or not but the truth is that girls are the most beautiful creatures of the god and we all have to accept what she really wants and what things make her more happy. whether being with a boy she loves and spend her whole life with him or go with the parents choice. Thats only and only her choice.

Because being in a relationship is her business not at all society’s business !

Covid-19:India adds 24,879 new cases, total cases 7,67,296.

India had a record single-day surge of 24,879 Corona cases taking the cases to 7,67,296 on Thursday, with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi, Telangana, UP and Andhra Pradesh contributing to around 75 per cent of the new cases, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The death toll climbed to 21,129 with 487 new deaths, the updated data at 8 am showed.

There have been 4,76,377 recovered cases, while there are 2,69,789 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.

“Around 62.08 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases included foreigners.

Of the 487 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 198 are from Maharashtra, 64 from Tamil Nadu, 54 from Karnataka, 48 from Delhi, 23 from West Bengal, 18 from Uttar Pradesh, 16 from Gujarat, 12 from Andhra Pradesh, 11 from Telangana, 10 from Rajasthan, seven from Madhya Pradesh, six each from Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha, three each from Bihar, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana and two from Assam.

India is seeing huge surge in cases with almost 20,000 to 25,000 new cases every day. The positive fact is that recovery rate is very good around 61 % and death rate is also nearly 4-5% .India is facing many tensions amid such pandemic ie border disputes with China, terrorist attacks from Pakistan as well as internal attacks from gangsters. But India would soon sort out things and pave way for world to recover from this crisis.

Indian Army to delete 89 apps including FB ,Tinder, pubg to stop information leak.

In a significant move on Wednesday, the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 applications from their smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Truecaller, and Instagram to plug leakage of information, news agency ANI reported quoting Indian Army sources. It also put out a list of those applications that the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete. The list includes the China-based applications that are already banned; other big names are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, PUBG, Zoom, Daily Hunt, Tinder, Truecaller, Clash of Kings, Club Factory, Tumblr, Reddit.

The move was taken in wake of rising cyber crime hacks and information leaks due to some high risk apps, India is taking many strong actions against cyber crime and suspects on China for information leaks. The army personnels are requested to ban apps like snap chat, instagram ,pubg, we chat etc which are threat to army’s privacy.

India bans Chinese apps

In a big move last week, the Home Ministry banned 59 Chinese Apps including TikTok. The government said that it had received many complaints from various sources about the misuse of these apps for stealing and transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to foreign servers.

As India banned the apps including TikTok, Chinese mouthpiece Global Times quoting sources said that the loss to the parent company – Beijing-based ByteDance could be as high as $6 billion. At the time that TikTok was taken down, it had approximately 370 million users on the Play Store, with a large majority of those coming from India

PM Modi Quits Chinese App

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1 quit the Twitter-like Weibo account in China. The account, which posted messages in Chinese, removed all photos, posts and comments from the PM’s official handle. Reports stated that China had deleted ‘official Indian statements’, including PM Modi’s speech from the Indian embassy’s official account on WeChat – China’s popular social media app.

It is very necessary that we common people should stop using Chinese apps and products to promote Atmanirbhar Bharat.

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  • WEB DESIGNING
  • CREATIVE WRITING
  • PRINT MEDIA

Address: 55 B, Mirza Ghalib St, Taltala, Kolkata, West Bengal 700016

Phone: 084205 30383

Email: info@pearlenterprises.in

Website: http://pearlenterprises.in

4. Bright Advertising Pvt Ltd.

Just like their brand name they have a bright vision and with a 40 years of experiance  they aim to provide innovative and constructive  brand marketing and public relations solutions help the clients, improve their sales and foster their growth.

SERVICES

  • Advertising
  • Digital and influencer Marketing
  • Branding
  • Audio visual media
  • Print media

Top clients

Kent

Panasonic

Patanjali

Whirpool

Samsung

Address: 156/A Lenin Sarani, Kolkata,India, Kolkata, West Bengal 700013

Phone: 033 2215 1422

Website: https://www.brightadvt.in

5. SAMPARK ADVERTISING & MEDIA PVT.

It is one of the finest Outdoor Advertising Companies in Kolkata & Eastern India, Headquartered in Esplanade, Kolkata established in 1995. If you wish to advertise your brand outdoors with full potent, you know whom to contact to.

SERVICES

  • Branding
  • Make An Impact
  • Target Mass Audience
  • Achieve Sustained Awareness

To clients

ABP group

Star tv

Sony tv

Hsbc

Birla sunlife

Address: 9A, Esplanade East, Kolkata, West Bengal 700069

Phone: 098302 76087

E-mail : sampark.advertising@gmail.com

Website: http://www.sampark-advertising.com

6.TCP advertising

With the  right tune, tone and empathy for brands TCP is serving it clients at its best since 1976. With a full-service agency it offers innovative, strategic creative solutuions to its  clients by using both traditional and digital media.

SERVICES

  • Building Brands
  • Advertisement

Top clients

BSNL

ONGC

Allahabad bank

Indian oil

Address: TCP Advertising, Madan St, Chandni Chawk, Bowbazar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700072

Phone: 033 2212 7244

Email: info@tcpindia.net

Website: http://www.tcpindia.net

7. Zero Budget Agency

Here at zero budget they study your business goals and aspirations , customer, product and brand competition  at near-zero media costs. Their objective is to connect brands with their specific audiences at near-zero production and media costs.

SERVICES

  • Advertising
  • Branding
  • Design
  • Digital
  • Strategy
  • Public relations

Top clients

Shree Venkatesh Films Pvt Ltd

Sureka Group

SVF Private Ltd

Address: 103, Tivoli Court Complex, Circular Road, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal 700019

Phone: 098309 58002

Email: talk@ZeroBudgetAgency.com

Website: http://zerobudgetagency.com

8. Pink Lemonade

It is a community of marketers, creators, artists, working on everything from brand design to print material , photography , digital marketing etc. With simplicity as a symbol of clarity right and playing with elements and leading edge designs they never fail to impress their clients.

Services

  • Content Services
  • Design
  • Videography
  • Brand positioning and strategy
  • UI/UX
  • Copywriting

Address: 3/5 Jyotish Roy Road, New Alipore, Near Hindustan Sweets,, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053

Phone: 098450 00342

Website: www.pinklemonade.in

9. Blue antz advertising Pvt. Ltd.

As a significant creative ad agency of Kolkata ,they have always believed in making a difference by their strong research base while adapting to innovative approaches for each brand ,creating striking advertisements, adapting unique branding strategies and they aim to grow bigger and better each day .  

SERVICES

  • Advertising
  • Digital marketing
  • Branding

Top clients

Philips

Rupa

Swissotel

Address –Trinyani plaza 36A/1 Purbachal kalitala Road, Ground Floor, Kolkata – 700099

Contact – +91 33 2484 5134 

Email –bluant.mail@gmail.com

10. Pressman Advertising Ltd.

India’s one of the leading independent full service advertising agencies with wide capabilities and a substantial reputation built over more than four decades. Their mission is to create competitive advantages for their clients, enhancing brand values and enriching client equity.

SERVICES

  • ADVERTISING
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
  • DIGITAL
  • FINANCIAL

Address: Pressman House, 10A, Lee Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020

Phone: 033 4031 0815

Email: Kolkata@pressmanindia.com

Website: https://www.pressmanindia.com

Let’s Share Women’s Mental Load

Mental load, also sometimes called emotional labor, is having lots of things on your mind. It’s having to remember to pick up eggs, to label your kid’s PE kit, to plan the Christmas shopping, to buy and make dinners for the week, to read the communications from school—the list goes on. Even if you ask someone else to buy eggs, it’s you then checking that the eggs were in fact bought. It’s essentially project management. And when it’s at work, that’s what we call it. Project management. Or just management. It’s a whole job. Yet when it’s at home, we call it, well, we don’t really have a word for it.  

But if someone you live with ever says to you, ‘I don’t know why you’re upset you had to tidy up the house. You should have asked for help’, guess what? You’re the one who has to ask. You’re the project manager. You’re the one carrying the mental load. 

Of course there are lots of kinds of households but at my company, Koru Kids, 97% of our users are moms. We recently did a study of our users, sending an experienced ethnographer to their homes for three weeks to observe their lives.  Our ethnographer saw how moms generally take the strain of the mental well-being of the whole family on their shoulders.

Before I get there, I apologize for assuming here a traditional two-parent family; my hat goes off to single parents, you are true heroes.)

  1. We can do more to make the invisible mental load more visible. Great that people are talking about it. Let’s do it more. Project management is a job. 
  2. For women who might one day want to have kids: get yourself a partner who is going to understand this challenge—and who’ll be willing to job-share the project management job. Even better, get a partner who will call you out on doing it all yourself.
  3. If you can, take shared parental leave. I see it all the time: the seeds of uneven mental load sown during maternity leave. When the first baby is born, both partners are clueless. But then one becomes the expert and never quite relinquishes that role. So make sure both of you know where the medical records are kept, which vaccinations have been had. Even better, could you both join the Whatsapp and Facebook groups where knowledge is shared? Those last for years.
  4. If you can’t do shared parental leave, do a handover meeting at the end of maternity leave. Part of the project manager job is shifting to someone else, and it’s time to empower that person. Literally sit down and talk about who’ll manage what. After all, in the workplace, you’d have a handover meeting, right?
  1. For moms who find themselves in this situation already: talk to your partnerabout it. List the things you physically do, and also the things you’re responsible for: menu planning, presents for family, researching holidays. Divide up the responsibilities, not just the tasks. And bear in mind: you have to accept this may result in dirty dishes, otherwise you’re still project managing. (I guarantee right now on my bench at home there are dirty dishes.)
  2. Consider being incompetent in a specific area. When we moved house, I made a point of not knowing how the dishwasher worked. I kept that up for about two years. Unfortunately it’s not that complicated and one day I accidentally learned.
  3. It’s possible to both be in the room with the kids but have only one parent consistently able to concentrate on anything substantial. To combat only ever having ‘time confetti’ (five minutes here, two minutes there, between everything else you’ve got going on), be explicit about who’s in charge of the kids at any one time. This makes sure both parents get real chunks of time. 
  4. Recognize mental load in policy-making. Government agencies, if you require ‘parents’ to do something, recognize that you’re usually asking the mum to do it. For example: in order to get a good rating from the UK school regulator Ofsted, schools have to demonstrate ‘parental engagement’. So they ask parents to upload photos to websites, or they send home the class bear which you have to write a story about doing something exciting. I had the bear four times in the year my daughter was three. This is basically homework for parents. I’d love it if schools had an Ofsted requirement to consider their impact on working parents. That would help women in the workforce 5.
  5. Design products or services with mental load in mind, especially when designing services that will be used by moms—or hopefully, parents. Appreciate that parents are probably doing several things at once. Curate options, tie things together.
  6.  Work on eliminating mental loadaltogether. Previous waves of technology, like the invention of washing and drying appliances, have reduced physical household labor. Until now, it has not been possible to reduce much of the mental load. But we are at the dawn of an unprecedented new era of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It would be great to see tech and service design to reduce the mental load in the home.

Mental load might not be the biggest issue governing women’s equality around the world. But it is a widespread issue affecting all sorts of families, rich and poor, working, middle, upper class, of all ethnicities, religions and backgrounds. We can make home life so much fairer.