Women Empowerment in India!

The subject of empowerment of women has becoming a burning issue all over the world including India since last few decades. Many agencies of United Nations in their reports have emphasized that gender issue is to be given utmost priority. It is held that women now cannot be asked to wait for any more for equality.

Inequalities between men and women and discrimination against women have also been age-old issues all over the world. Thus, women’s quest for equality with man is a universal phenomenon. What exists for men is demanded by women?

They have demanded equality with men in matters of education, employment, inheritance, marriage, politics and recently in the field of religion also to serve as cleric (in Hinduism and Islam). Women want to have for themselves the same strategies of change which menfolk have had over the centuries such as equal pay for equal work. Their quest for equality has given birth to the formation of many women’s associations and launching of movements.

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The position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 20th century. We find that it has been very low in 18th and 19th centuries in India and elsewhere when they were treated like ‘objects’ that can be bought and sold. For a long time women in India remained within the four walls of their household. Their dependence on menfolk was total.

A long struggle going back over a century has brought women the property rights, voting rights, an equality in civil rights before the law in matters of marriage and employment (in India women had not to struggle for voting rights as we find in other countries).

In addition to the above rights, in India, the customs of purdha (veil system), female infanticide, child marriage, sati system (self-immolation by the women with their husbands), dowry system and the state of permanent widowhood were either totally removed or checked to an appreciable extent after independence through legislative measures.

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Two Acts have also been enacted to emancipate women in India. These are: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and the Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act, 2006. The Domestic Violence Act recognizes that abuse be physical as well as mental.

Anything that makes a woman feel inferior and takes away her self-respect is abuse. Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act can be beneficial in preventing the abuse of insti­tution of marriage and hindering social justice especially in relation to women.

It would help the innumerable women in the country who get abandoned by their husbands and have no means of proving their marital status. It would also help check child marriages, bigamy and polygamy, enable women to seek maintenance and custody of their children and widows can claim inheritance rights. The Act is applicable on all women irrespective of caste, creed or religion. It would truly empower Indian women to exercise their rights.

To what extent legislative measures have been able to raise the status of women in India? Are women now feel empowered in the sense that they are being equally treated by men in all spheres of life and are able to express one’s true feminine urges and energies? These are the important questions to be investigated with regard to women’s empowerment in India.

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“Experience more”

Knowledge is power! There is ample of knowledge one can learn and even then it wouldn’t be enough. The more knowledge you have the more you realise that how much you don’t. Knowledge is that deep ocean where one goes and never get the end result as it’s beyond our imagination! The deeper you go the more you get introduced to the new things and such is in case of knowledge. Knowledge can be learned anywhere, anytime, and by anyone. The sanity of people is checked through their knowledge and wisdom. People should know how to acquire knowledge and how genuinely they can use it to earn good sum of money. Knowledge can be categorised into two forms- The bookish knowledge and the practical or the general knowledge. Both are important at their part of time. A person gets success in either ways, Even through bookish knowledge or from practical knowledge! Both tends to serve success at peak. Speaking about both then both seemed to earn a good living and allows one to grow wealthy.

Let’s talk about which serves when and how longer one can rely on them in respective fields!!

●Comparison of Bookish knowledge and Practical knowledge.

From the primary sections of our school we are taught to learn from the books. And there starts our journey of getting habituated to mugging up. Our education system checks our memory and not how well we gained knowledge, the obvious reasons for exams. Children’s are slowly turning into bookworms and that is not at all their fault, that is how they have been taught to and so is the reasons why people easily tops these exams but fails the actual exam of something really important than that called life. Yes I know that there is no possible way of inventing a rocket science out of nowhere without having the theoretical knowledge or say the bookish knowledge. One has actually experimented and gave it as a theory, a fact, a norm!! Bookish knowledge helps us add more knowledge. It’s an additional thing as a primary part of our life. But bookish knowledge cannot help us experience the world. Practical knowledge is what let the person face the world. You can read as many books as you want but it is also you who have to apply it in the first place. Bookish knowledge will not teach you primary matters of life. We have to get experience to know how an ATM works likewise purchasing something in market has to do with your knowledge and not with the bookish knowledge. No books will serve you with these knowledge. It is you who has to use your common sense, and the presence of mind. A new born will first learn through his/her experience and noy through books. The basic step to face the world starts with that of experiencing things. Even the books we read are the experiences of someone which we are reading as theory. So altogether we can conclude that bookish knowledge will let you know about the world without actually experiencing things but the practical knowledge will let you survive the world and abundance everything!

KRISHNA, THE DEITY!

His mother was a darling sister of a cruel brother,

The one who was brutal, and, never thought of others.

This was the day of her wedding, the day she experienced ecstasy,

The happiness lasted just for a little, it was the time for the biggest prophecy.

His parents were thrown inside the prison, just for the cruel deed of killing the little ones,

The massacre, the infamy, the biggest sin, that happened once.

This was the day of his eighth incarnation; the entire earth was filled with joy and thrill,

The divine power was here now; the pot of wrongdoing was now filled.

His boyhood was full of mischievous pranks,

 Still was adored in the river banks.

This was the time of saying goodbye, to those lovely peeps,

To make imperfect things perfect which were in heaps.

His life long journey never ended at a single place,

But, situated a city that enemies could never trace.

This was the time for the biggest battle, 

Which ruined the life of many innocent people.

He gave the lesson of Bhagavad Gita to his dearest one,

His love for him was so pure that was more than his son.

The sorrowful mother cursed the divine power,

Now, he has to face the moment of ending his vigour.

Be never died in heart of his devotees,

His acts were still alive holding the worthy.

Quantum Computer

Efforts are being made by several companies that are leading their way to develop quantum computing.IBM has developed a 53-bit qubit quantum computer. In October 2019 google officially declared that it has achieved quantum supremacy. There are several companies like Accenture, Microsoft, Atos Quantum and more which are leading their way to develop a feasible quantum computer and make them commercially available.

What is a Quantum computer and how it works?

Quantum physics describes how the atom work and the behaviour of the fundamental particles like electron and photons. Quantum computers operate on Quantum mechanics by controlling the behaviour of fundamental particles. It works on Quantum mechanics phenomena, such as Superposition and uncertainty principle and entanglement to perform the task. A simple computer works on bits (0 or 1) a simple computer can have an only one state at a time but a Quantum computer works on quantum bits(qubit) which can be a superposition of state. It can work parallel on different state at one time.

Over the century physicists have discovered that quantum particles behave weirdly. This led to the branch of physics known as a Quantum mechanics.

Quantum computer with the aid of qubits works on stimulating the behaviour of quantum particles existing in nature which makes Quantum computer way faster than Supercomputers.

Just like a spinning coin when it is in a spinning state we can’t determine whether it turns to head or tail i.e it is in both the states simultaneously. Similarly, qubits are in the same state i.e they can measure a number of possibilities at a time which makes Quantum computer way faster.

Entanglement is the other phenomenon which qubits are capable of doing. It is a physical relationship between qubits they seem to be known what happens to another even they are physically separated. If you measure one qubit (i.e., collapse its superposition to a single state, it will have the same impact on the others in the system.

That seems to be crazy right. Even no one can really understand how it works. Quantum computers have the potential to work on designing new medicines, developing new catalyst however it requires million of qubits whereas even a most sophisticated computer in the world today is made using 72 qubits claimed by google. Since qubits require temperature nearer to absolute zero which is the major roadblock in developing of quantum computers.

What things Quantum computer are capable of doing ?

Quantum computers are really fast and efficient. This computer will far more powerful even than the supercomputers. Quantum computers have the potential to solve the problem of global significance.

Quantum computers have a significance in designing medicines to fight disease because it works using the same quantum properties as the molecule is trying to stimulate. Reason being developing drugs is a challenging problem today because it’s really difficult to calculate all the quantum properties of all the atoms in the molecules even for supercomputers. So it can lead to treatments like Coronavirus which is affecting billions of lives.

Quantum computer with huge computational power is ideal to solve problems such as cybersecurity, Financial modelling, creating encryption methods and development in AI.

Quantum computer has recently set the record for finding prime number factors.

Companies are leading their way to developing and it still requires a lot of work.

There are some obstacles that seem impossible to overcome and we can’t predict anything right now. Let us see what gone happen in future.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comment below and have a wonderful day.

The city of lights

Welcome everyone today, we are going to know about the City of light. Do you have any guess about which city I am going to tell you about, well some of you have guessed right? The city of light is nor other than Paris.

It is the capital and most famous city in France. Paris is referred to as the City of light because, at the Age of Enlightenment, Paris was the one is first to use gas street lighting on a large scale on its masterpieces and streets. Paris is the most visited place in the world of course who doesn’t want to go to Paris. I love traveling, but I had never visited out of India if I would get to chance to visit Paris I would like to go to see the Eiffel Tower because this is the wish that I want to fulfill. I know some of you who are reading this article had visited Paris and some have not, so don’t get upset if you have not visited Paris one day will come you will surely visit Paris. So, I hope your wish come true.

You all have heard there is a bridge where the couples go and lock in the bridge, and throw the key into the water, well I feel that is the most romantic places in Paris. Recently the love locks have been removed from the bridge for some safety reasons.

So there are fun and romantic things we can do in Paris:-

1. If you are going to Paris use should taste their French food Because, in this city, you can have the delightful recipes to eat.

  • Wine at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

2. You must taste their wine while you visit in Paris, as they have excellent wines in the city.

3. You can do their camp as in camping you can see the whole gorgeous city. While camping, people can climb to Eiffel Tower, visit the Louvre from there you can see the whole city from those places. I can say that when you will visit those places you will have the most enjoyable and lively.

So these are the fun things you can experience in Paris.

There are some mind-blowing facts about Paris you must know.

First, In Paris, you can see only one stop sign. Yes it is real in Paris there were no other stop signs, and this stop sign is located at the exit of the building company drive.

Second, In Paris, it is difficult to find a Taxi and if you get a taxi, you have to pay nearly 200,000 Euros. Yes, you indeed have that much money with you to hire a Taxi.

Third, there is a Statue of Liberty in Paris. You must be thinking that the Statue of Liberty is in New York how it can be in Paris? But there is indeed a Statue of Liberty.

  • A bell on the tower of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris

Fourth, The bell which is of the Notre Dame Cathedral is about the weight over 13 tons. It means it is the weight of three big elephants. So these are the facts about Paris.

I hope you enjoyed this article, let me know have you attended Paris or not and what do you think about Paris.

Thank you for reading my article and have a nice day.

luxury food industry amasses heavy losses due to the virus

Global demand for luxury foods such as wagyu beef, bluefin tuna and caviar has plummeted into decline in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with thousands of restaurants shuttered.

The luxury food industry may be among the hardest affected because it depends heavily on restaurants and top hotels for ordering deluxe goods from caviar to champagne, because tight shutdown efforts to curb the epidemic ravage global economic activity. While some gourmet food manufacturers are specifically targeting customers to remain alive, some have been compelled to slash production since some goods have lost nearly half their value since the beginning of the year.

Jean-Marie Barillere, co-chairman of champagne producers’ lobby CIVC in France, said he hoped people would celebrate the easing of lockdown with a bottle of champagne, but expected a difficult end to the year. “This is really a period that looks like a war time,” he said.

Bookings data compiled by OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation service, showed this year a decline of nearly 80 percent year-on-year in seated restaurants in the United States, UK , Germany, Canada , Australia, Ireland and Mexico. Restaurants is among the world’s hardest-hit industries

“People will not want to taste a Chateau Petrus wine, a lobster or caviar under a bell jar,” said Michel Berthommier, managing director of Caviar Perlita in southwestern France. “If you force people to eat in these conditions they will prefer going to fast foods.”

Premium foods was “one of the worst hit sectors worldwide”, said Ole Houe, director of advisory services at agriculture brokerage IKON Commodities in Sydney. He said he did not expect a prompt recovery given many countries were in recession. Falling demand has already taken a toll on the prices of luxury items.

In Tokyo, the price of top-quality wagyu beef cuts fell around 30% from a year ago, bluefin tuna – deemed the best in Japan – fell more than 40% during that period, while Shizuoka’s popular ‘Earl’s melons’ prices dropped 30%. Russia’s largest breeding sturgeon business-Russian Caviar Shop-meanwhile gave Beluga hybrid caviar a 30 per cent discount.

“Spring and summer are always low seasons for the caviar market, but if we compare this period with previous years, the sales in Russia are down 50%,” said the firm’s owner Alexander Novikov.

In France, caviar prices languished near historic lows, champagne sales tumbled, while foie gras producers have had to cut output to prop up prices. Cifog, a foie gras producers’ group, said restaurants account for 40% of total foie gras sales. “Mid-March it felt like the sky had fallen on us,” said Florian Boucherie, who produces 2 tonnes of foie gras per year in France.

To plug the yawning gap left by eateries, many high-end food producers are attempting to reach consumers directly via e-commerce platforms. Others are steering more produce onto supermarket shelves. “We are accelerating our supply of products into some of the world’s largest supermarkets, gourmet butchers and direct to consumers online,” said Hugh Killen, chief executive of Australia’s largest listed beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company.

In Japan, top sushi chefs pay 400,000 yen ($3,737.97) for 10kg of the best cuts of tuna compared to the 25,000 yen paid by supermarkets for 10kg of lower value cuts, said Yukitaka Yamaguchi, owner of Yamayuki tuna brokerage at Toyosu Market in Tokyo. He said “the best part of (the) tuna” was usually sold first to high-end sushi restaurants but when these closed the “harakami had nowhere to go.” They eventually started offering high-quality tuna to fish retailers and supermarkets. For now, Yamaguchi has had to park plans to retire as he has accumulated debt during the pandemic. “I had planned to retire when I turn 60, but that’s no longer possible,” he said.

Source:https://in.reuters.com/article/health-corononavirus-food-premium/luxury-food-industry-turns-sour-amid-global-coronavirus-lockdowns-idINKBN23J0SR

Spike in household savings expected due to covid-19

Due to forced slowdown in COVID-related consumption household savings are expected to spike in Q1’20-21. This will come in handy to finance the economy’s recovery, an RBI research paper said as it is the Indian economy’s most reliable and self-reliant source of capital.

In this time of layoffs and the economy is absolute turmoil, this research comes as a beacon of hope.In India, as compared t other countries saving has been considered very important, especially by middle-class families.Due to our mindset and traditional values saving has always been preferred over spending . In fact consumerism came very late to India in comparison with other countries that achieved independence from colonial powers around the same time that we did.A lot can be attributed to the fact that the standard of living in our country had been stagnant for a very long period of time.

Only in the last decade or two, the standard of living of masses have some how increased, this can be mainly attributed to increase in the country’s overall literacy rate, for both men as well as women and also rapid infrastructural development that we have witnessed since the turn of the century.One of the many policies of this government that played a major role in this would be the 1990 Economic Policies, this particular policy has drastically changed the prevalent economic structure of the country.One of the important implementations of the policy was the opening up of the country’s economy and integrating ourselves with the world economy.This created a healthy competition in the economy which motivated Indian firms to increase the quality of their product to be at par international standards

A spike in households’ net financial assets is likely due to a sharp drop in lockdown-induced consumption in the first quarter of 2020–21. According to the paper written by Anupam Prakash, Anand Prakash Ekka, Kunal Priyadarshi, Chaitali Bhowmick and Ishu Thakur of the RBI Department of Economic and Policy Research, several studies show that households tend to save more during a slowdown and income uncertainty.

After the nationwide lock-down to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, economists forecast an ever worse contraction of the Indian economy during FY’21. The paper also warns that lags in the pickup of economic activity may cause households’ financial surplus in subsequent quarters to taper off. With construction activity at a standstill, households are likely to move from physical assets such as residential property to financial assets such as deposits, currency, and mutual funds, and are more useful in financing businesses and the growth of the economy. At Rs 15.6 lakh crore, India’s net financial savings rose to 7.7 per cent in FY’20 as of March 2020 from 7.2 per cent in FY’19.

For the Indian economy, the report notes, the household sector is the most sustainable and self-reliant source of finance. In the light of the policy initiative gathering critical mass to lift the Indian economy from the vice-like grip of a recession and, more recently, the life-threatening COVID-19 pandemic, it said, its position is likely to become crucial.

The Indian households hold financial assets or financial savings in currency, bank deposits, debt securities, mutual funds, insurance , pension funds and small savings. Currency and bank deposits accounted for 66 per cent of overall financial assets, led by pension companies and mutual funds contributing 30.2 per cent respectively. Such in-turns are strong sources of company financing.

Source:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/covid-related-consumption-crunch-may-spike-q1-household-savings/articleshow/76322161.cms

Life Unplugged

For a second, let your imagination run along these lines. It is a beautiful morning, the sun is slowly rising. You are there on your balcony, peacefully sitting and the only sound you can hear is the chirping of birds. In your hand is your favorite drink, and in your mind is calmness. Amidst all this, you take a long deep breath and feel connected to your soul.

Your life keeps going on and you do things which you think are important for you. You never once stop to just take a breath and look around to see where you have actually reached; what is going on in your own life. So to counteract this, there is this unworldly concept that you just sometimes take a break from your life; you unplug from your own life.

More often than not, you forget to take a break. And even if you do take it, you usually only give it to your physical being but forget that your mental being is equally important.

Take a break every now and then to reevaluate your life and your surroundings. It is just as important to stop as it is to continue to accomplish things because, without a balanced head, you would not be able to accomplish them anyway. Take a break from places, from routines, from people, and even from yourself. Unplug from the chaos of life.

Plug back into life in its purest form and not through a lens. Plug back to your values and the things you desire. Connect to those who truly matter. Connect to peace, joy, and Zen. Embrace your inner self once in a while.

  1. Start your day with yourself

There will come a time when you have to attend to your duties and obligations. The world will start pulling at you and the day will become just a domino effect of endless pulls. Before that happens, spare a few moments for yourself.  You deserve it. Nobody else is more important than you. Take five minutes to breathe, contemplate, and feel grateful for your life.

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  1. Mind your diet

The world is a chaotic place where every being has to fend for himself. Start by minding and mending your food habits. Introduce a new super item into your diet. The only condition is that it should be healthy. Drink a green smoothie if you like that. Find healthier alternatives for your favorite foods. Try eating cakes and sweets that are gluten-free. Cleanse your diet.

  1. Empower yourself with an inspiring book

Your subconscious mind creates reality. Feed your mind with the world you want to create for yourself. Start your day by reading a portion of a book that embeds positive thoughts in your mind.

  1. Explore your neighborhood

It is not necessary for you to travel to exotic places to feel relaxed. You could just go outside your home and take a walk around your neighborhood. Connect yourself with nature. Try a new restaurant. Join a class that you wanted to for a long time.

  1. Prioritize your time and feelings

Learn to balance your time within your boundaries. Manage the time you spend on social media. Own up your actions and let people know how you want to be treated. Focus less on what you want to do and achieve and more on how you want to feel while achieving that.

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Phenomenon of Dreams: why do we dream???

Since the earliest of recorded histories, people have theorized about the function and meaning of dreams. Answers came largely from the spirit world until Aristotle and Plato developed the drive related hypothesis that was later expanded on by the European psychoanalysts of the 19th and 20th centuries. This hypothesis defines dreaming as a way to act out unconscious desires in a safe or “unreal” setting, presumably because to do so in reality would be unacceptable or even detrimental. But even in the 21st century we still are not sure why we dream. The only way to study dreams is to ask the dreamer. However, one thing we know for sure is that dreaming is something that the vast majority of humans do every night of their lives.

Those desires of ours which are hidden and present in our subconscious mind, and when we sleep they come to forefront as dreams. Sigmund Frued, the father of psychology, gave the psychodynamic theory of psychoanalysis. He used a theory known as dream interpretation in which a person has to write his/her dreams as soon as he/she wakes up. Every dream we watch is having a meaning. There are various websites which shows the correct meaning of the dreams we watch. Sometimes, the meaning is so different that we remain shocked. It is also said that what we think mostly, we watch things related to it in our dreams.

By contrast, Freud regarded dreams as a royal road to the unconscious; dream interpretation has thus been an important psychoanalytic technique. His theory of dreams mainly refers to two key points: (a) what are the materials of a dream? and (b) how do these materials work together? The answers to these questions are closely related to an understanding of dream interpretation.

Sometimes it is seen that people use the phrases ‘fulfilling our dreams’ and ‘fulfilling our aims’ in the same context. But these two terms are very much different from each other. Aim is something in which we intend to do something or achieve something. It’s a kind of goal we intend to achieve. Dream is something which we see or experience in the form of pictures or events, stored in our unconscious mind, while we are asleep.

One of the most common dream we all must have seen is that ‘we suddenly fall in our dreams’ and we wake up. This is the dream we watch when we are anxious about something, or tensed about something. In spite of our attempts to demystify the phenomenon of dreaming, human beings simply have not yet come close to answering the question “Why do we dream?” According to Jim Pagel, MD, Director of the Sleep Disorders Center of Southern Colorado, “If dreaming has an actual function, it really supports why we spend a third of our lives sleeping.” 

Men and women dream differently:-

Researchers have found some differences between men and women when it comes to the content of their dreams. In several studies, men reported dreaming about weapons significantly more often than women did, while women dreamed about references to clothing more often than men. Another study showed that men’s dreams tend to have more aggressive content and physical activity, while women’s dreams contain more rejection and exclusion, as well as more conversation than physical activity. Women tend to have slightly longer dreams that feature more characters. When it comes to the characters that typically appear in dreams, men dream about other men twice as often as they do about women, while women tend to dream about both sexes equally.

Hence, dreams are something which we all see and it is with the help of dreams that we can track various psychological disorders also. Dreams also wide opens the doors of unconscious to us…. .

Refrences:-

The Dream Dictionary :- dreamdictionary.com

BEAUTY BEGINS FROM YOUR WASHROOM

It doesn’t require any money to be neat, clean and dignified that is why today I came up with a simple and a classy style of wash console that will perfectly fits your style. A small bathroom not only looks sassy but also don’t take much space like the other normal sinks which usually cover ups lots of space due to fitting. This “oval shaped sink” comes with an iron faucet supported by rectangular long legs that holds an oval glass shelf. It will provide you an elegant addition for contemporary decor. It provides to you a neat and clean look and saves some additional space. This thing only depends on your bathroom and your existing aesthetic that what you want to achieve. This sink will provide you a built in bar for towels. Beautifully made faucets and taps and sink legs make the whole becomes very impressive. This kind of small wash consoles are a bit industrial but modern design which will perfectly suits your master bedroom. A basket under the sink s ace is also provides to keep your nearby area clean and neat. This kind of classy washroom consoles which are not seen today which are movable that is it can be move from one room to another according to your choice. It is better than the wall mounted basin because when there is any defect in the sink the water starts touching the wall and it gets damaged whereas in oval sink it can be keep away from the wall. It is the type of basin which does not only gives you a classy finish but also but adds up some style, beauty and elegance. It perfectly adds up with the grey wall and it will make for a nice, modern addition to any interior. Then the other thing comes to the mind is the bathroom lighting which makes a lot of difference. From bathing to morning makeup it make things easier and enjoyable. The other thing that strikes next is the floor because if the floor is not providing the grip then there can be cause of danger. Therefore the “floor is made of wood” because wood is the material which usually absorbs water and make it a good surface for grip and due to the high quality of wood this floor is going to remain for a very long time and also is going to give a futuristic look to your house. This sink can be part of either your bathroom or your lobby that will attract anyone going across it because this sink doesn’t show too much of its fitting and will be a magic for people, which makes it a eye catcher product.