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Friday, August 24, 2012

Fathers in India are still pitted against rigid ancient laws

A hundred years after Father’s Day was commemorated, fathers in India are still pitted against rigid ancient laws and struggling for equal right over their children...

“It is almost impossible for Indian fathers to get custody of their children,” said Satya Kumar, Founder of 498a.org. “The Hindu Marriage Act is of 1955. The laws are very ancient. When the laws were written, only 1% of the women worked while now about 25% work. Kids in the custody of working mothers are no better taken care of than kids living with fathers. The mindset of people needs to change. There should not be women’s right and men’s right but the government should implement common family rights,” suggests Kumar.

“Father’s day, Mother’s day or any other such day is just another opportunity to show your love for each other. At times, the occasion can present a chance to patch-up things, to clear the muck and start things afresh,” says Dr. Sanjay Chugh, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist. Perhaps that’s why one of the demands being made by AIMWA is that ‘when a person or couple approaches court for divorce, counselling of the parents by professional counsellors should be given first priority.’

This Father’s Day, let’s hope that it doesn’t take another hundred years for fathers to get their due.


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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Losing power in transit

T&D losses and power theft have to be addressed in a flagrantly strict manner – arrest the power stealers and publicise their conviction

In April first week, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit promised that there would be “no power cuts in the capital this summer.” This promise held well for one week in some localities. In other states, the less said about power the better.

As per a recent report, the Planning Commission has revealed that the combined losses of public sector discoms, which were to the tune of Rs.40,000 crores in 2009-10, could swell up to a shocking Rs.68,000 crores in the current financial year. It has been widely seen that the reason for such huge losses is because of faulty T&D (transmission and distribution) systems. The fact is that more than one-third of electricity supplied gets lost in T&D and a similar substantial part is stolen. Presently, the T&D losses can go up to 40-50% in many states; compared with China where the figure is less than 3%. India’s T&D losses are the highest in the world as per a report by WRI.


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Monday, July 30, 2012

How may I kick the bucket?

Execution methods are becoming more humane over time, but can the same be said for the criminals?

Rulers, and the governments after them, have used various methods to punish the condemned – crucifixion, poisoning, burying/burning alive, beheading, throwing them to hungry predators or in front of firing squads and so on. Methods have become more civilized over the years. Yet, there are instances of laws in certain countries that advocate public stoning to death (as practised in Iran), using chemical weapons to annihilate several hundreds (as Saddam Hussein did to Kurds in 1988), or starving the accused to death (principal means of handing out death sentences in North Korea)!

These methods are ghastly indeed, but they are thankfully aberrations! The most common roster of executions reads beheading, hanging, gas chamber, electrocution, lethal injection and shooting in recent history. Saudi Arabia has a dubious distinction of being one of the very few countries that still practise beheading. Between 2007 and 2010, as many as 345 people have been beheaded in that country. Hanging is prevalent in most countries. India, where as per Amnesty International, 33 people were sentenced to death in 2001, 23 in 2002, 77 in 2005, 40 in 2006 and 100 in 2007; belongs to this category. Shooting squads are deployed by a number of countries with 58 cases in 2010 – 18 executions in Libya, 5 in North Korea, 4 in Equatorial Guinea, 1 in US and Bahrain et al. Gas chambers and electric chairs are mostly practiced in US. As per the Death Penalty Information Centre, 157 electrocutions and 11 gas chamber executions were reported since 1976. Lethal injection has been pioneered by US (as the most ‘peaceful’ method of execution) with 1090 deaths since 1976; this method has now been adopted by China, Thailand & Vietnam.


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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Of fashion fables and foibles

Ramp walks, arrogant super-models, conniving modelling agency heads, wardrobe malfunctions, and delusional ex-models on the street – expectedly, it’s all there in Madhur Bhandarkar’sPriyanka Chopra take on the fashion industry, Fashion. It is a hard-hitting look alright, but being a first of its kind perspective as far as Bollywood is concerned, it does get away with a few inconsistencies.

In trying to bridge the chasm between perception and reality about the glam world of modelling through the story of the rise and fall of model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra), the film does stand out, thanks to its well crafted fashion show sequences, intense performances and a nice dose of self-deprecating gags.Priyanka Chopra deserves special mention for easing into the metamorphosing role from an aspirant to supermodel who then goes on to lose her modelling mojo. The other two models, Shonali (Kangana Ranaut in a pretty charged performance) and Janet (Mugdha Godse strides confidently into a role that belies her newbie status) hold their own as well. Even the support roles – Ashwin Mushran as the very gay Rohit Khanna (suspiciously familiar toKangana Ranaut Stanley Tucci’s character from The Devil Wears Prada) and Kitu Gidwani as Anisha Roy – are well executed, though some are a bit caricaturish.

Bhandarkar packs every news-bite possible about the fashion industry into the script, which slightly loses focus in the latter half. Bhadarkar offers a gossip-column-tinted view of the fashion world but as is his wont he commendably manages to touch a chord and also agitate the viewer’s mind. In short, the invite to this ‘Fashion’ show goes, come for Madhur Bhandarkar, stay for Priyanka Chopra!....Continue
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Further support of women’s rights is a must to ensure better stability of family life

As women gain collective rights, and especially as men accept their changed roles, many disruptive effects of familyBetty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique change are ameliorated. In US, divorce rates for well-educated women are now much lower than for less-educated women, and women with good jobs or who have completed college are more likely than more traditional women to be married at age 35. Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce. In families where the wife is employed longer, men tend to do more and better child-care, with measurable payoffs in child outcomes.

Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives. But change has far less negative consequences when women have access to economic rights than when they don’t. In the Nordic countries, out-of-wedlock births are much higher than in US, but children of single mothers are much less likely to experience poverty, and spend more time on average with both biological parents, because cohabitation there is more stable than in many American marriages....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Google’s search yields Hyderabad

Google, the search engine behemoth has zeroed down on techno city Hyderabad, for its new facility. It has signed a MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government for the same. The state government is allotting 20 acres of land at Kokapet in Rajendranagar mandal to Google for setting up the facility. The upcoming facility will house various functions like engineering, online sales and service, information systems and other support functions. Though calculations suggest that around 4,000 persons would be working in the new facility, there are chances of the number increasing as per the upcoming business needs. Google follows Microsoft and Infosys in opening a facility in the city.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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