🔵 Happily never after: bachelor blues in Bihar as practice of pakadwa vivah persists - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/happily-never-after-bachelor-blues-in-bihar-as-practice-of-pakadwa-vivah-persists/article67628824.ece
Unaffordable Dowry
A combination of factors has resulted in pakadwa vivah. Bihar’s per capita income for 2021-22 was ₹54,383, against the national average of ₹1,50,007, according to the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report. It is hard for many to afford the dowry demanded. Bihar has the lowest literacy rate in India with 61.8% compared to the national literacy rate of 74.04%.
A large number of such cases go unreported for fear of violence and societal pressure. Districts like Begusarai, Lakhisarai, Munger, Khagaria, and Nawada in the State are considered hotbeds of pakadwa vivah.
Several Bollywood movies like national film award (2007) winner Antardwand, comedies Jabaria Jodi, Atrangi Re, many television series like Sab ki Jodi Wohi Banata Bhagyavidhataa, and dramas like Ghar ek Sapna, Do Qadam Door are based on groom kidnapping and marriage.
#Marriage #Social_Evil
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/happily-never-after-bachelor-blues-in-bihar-as-practice-of-pakadwa-vivah-persists/article67628824.ece
Unaffordable Dowry
A combination of factors has resulted in pakadwa vivah. Bihar’s per capita income for 2021-22 was ₹54,383, against the national average of ₹1,50,007, according to the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report. It is hard for many to afford the dowry demanded. Bihar has the lowest literacy rate in India with 61.8% compared to the national literacy rate of 74.04%.
A large number of such cases go unreported for fear of violence and societal pressure. Districts like Begusarai, Lakhisarai, Munger, Khagaria, and Nawada in the State are considered hotbeds of pakadwa vivah.
Several Bollywood movies like national film award (2007) winner Antardwand, comedies Jabaria Jodi, Atrangi Re, many television series like Sab ki Jodi Wohi Banata Bhagyavidhataa, and dramas like Ghar ek Sapna, Do Qadam Door are based on groom kidnapping and marriage.
#Marriage #Social_Evil
The Hindu
Happily never after: bachelor blues in Bihar as practice of pakadwa vivah persists
Pakadwa vivah is a decades-old social evil in Bihar, with a combination of factors resulting in it. Records show an increase in such cases, with many going unreported due to fear of violence and societal pressure.
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DEC!PHER CIVILS
🔵 Happily never after: bachelor blues in Bihar as practice of pakadwa vivah persists - The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/happily-never-after-bachelor-blues-in-bihar-as-practice-of-pakadwa-vivah-persists/article67628824.ece Unaffordable…
Pakdua Vivah #Statistics
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Central government re-introduces criminal law bills after making changes
https://www.barandbench.com/news/central-government-re-introduces-criminal-law-bills
https://www.barandbench.com/news/central-government-re-introduces-criminal-law-bills
Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news
Criminal law amendment bills re-introduced by Central government after minor changes
The Central government has re-introduced three bills to amend India's criminal laws, namely the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Sur
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🔆 Silent Warrior 🔆
Run
My Child
A voice says
Do not give up
Do not grow weary
Of the hurdles ahead
Persevere
Endure patiently
Walk, if need be, but, stop not
Free yourself
From the negative thoughts
Dwell not, on the maligning tongues
Armour yourself
With the weapons of
Truth, peace And love
Answer not
To every force
That reviles, persecutes you
Silence
Shall be your
Shield and buckler
Therefore
I say unto you
Courage, dear heart
~Myrtle 💛
#MEANDERINGS
@MeanderingMaven
Run
My Child
A voice says
Do not give up
Do not grow weary
Of the hurdles ahead
Persevere
Endure patiently
Walk, if need be, but, stop not
Free yourself
From the negative thoughts
Dwell not, on the maligning tongues
Armour yourself
With the weapons of
Truth, peace And love
Answer not
To every force
That reviles, persecutes you
Silence
Shall be your
Shield and buckler
Therefore
I say unto you
Courage, dear heart
~Myrtle 💛
#MEANDERINGS
@MeanderingMaven
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🔵 Menstruation not handicap, no need for ‘paid leave’ policy: Minister Smriti Irani
Read more at: https://dbrief.news/d/gaW4P
Read more at: https://dbrief.news/d/gaW4P
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Forwarded from Kalki
Here are some points I'd like to present:
1. In modern D.O.L, each employee is assigned specialized tasks. If there's a gender-based difference in leave allocation, those with fewer leaves may bear additional work unrelated to their specialization or those with more leaves themselves may face increased workload. For instance, they might be asked to coordinate work on leave days through zoom meetings or may face higher targets on other working days. Menstrual leave can sometimes add to the workload and frustrating instead of providing relief (experience of my sister)
2. In India, where 90% of workers are in the informal sector, maternity leave provisions are often not fully enforced. In places like Bhiwadi and Dharuhera, where I worked on the DFCC project, I witnessed instances of pregnant women working on-site even in the post-COVID months. The lack of support from authorities exacerbates the situation. While advocating for menstrual leave for the top 10% formal employees is crucial, the primary focus should be on the complete implementation of labor codes, especially maternity provisions.
3. We, as a gender-neutral community, should assess how we support our mothers and sisters during their menstrual cycles. Many households expect mothers to manage all chores, even on those days. The education system should sensitize students about menstrual cycles, cramps, mood swings, and related mental health issues. Providing leave is important, but it's equally crucial to educate and sensitize individuals about appropriate behavior during such times.
Apologies if my words have caused any offense. I'm open to rectifying or modifying anything if my perspective is inappropriate.
1. In modern D.O.L, each employee is assigned specialized tasks. If there's a gender-based difference in leave allocation, those with fewer leaves may bear additional work unrelated to their specialization or those with more leaves themselves may face increased workload. For instance, they might be asked to coordinate work on leave days through zoom meetings or may face higher targets on other working days. Menstrual leave can sometimes add to the workload and frustrating instead of providing relief (experience of my sister)
2. In India, where 90% of workers are in the informal sector, maternity leave provisions are often not fully enforced. In places like Bhiwadi and Dharuhera, where I worked on the DFCC project, I witnessed instances of pregnant women working on-site even in the post-COVID months. The lack of support from authorities exacerbates the situation. While advocating for menstrual leave for the top 10% formal employees is crucial, the primary focus should be on the complete implementation of labor codes, especially maternity provisions.
3. We, as a gender-neutral community, should assess how we support our mothers and sisters during their menstrual cycles. Many households expect mothers to manage all chores, even on those days. The education system should sensitize students about menstrual cycles, cramps, mood swings, and related mental health issues. Providing leave is important, but it's equally crucial to educate and sensitize individuals about appropriate behavior during such times.
Apologies if my words have caused any offense. I'm open to rectifying or modifying anything if my perspective is inappropriate.
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🔆 Manifest Voice 🔆
Do you ever feel that you need to compromise often
Do you agree because you are afraid others won't like your views
Most of the stress that we experience
Is because we could not raise our voices when we had to
It may happen to us on a regular basis
It may be taking place implicitly, without us realizing it
At home, in our workplace, with friends
We are afraid to tell people what we actually feel
We suppress our thoughts, emotions
It doesn't make much of a difference then
But with time, all of this may accumulate
And one day explode in unimaginable forms
Do not crumble under pressure
Break free from the bonds that intimidate you
Stand up for yourself today, assert yourself
Change what you must, let go, if need be
Learn to express yourself, ruminate, scribble
Organize your thinking in written form
Gradually you will be able to articulate
You will not hesitate when you take part in a discussion
As they say, practice makes a man perfect
What better way to prepare for speech than to write it out first
Write daily, write today, anything abstract
Do not fear what others may think, take the first step
Is it worth all the trouble, you may ask
Yes it is, your mind will be richly nourished, you will be empowered
~M 💛
#MEANDERINGS
@MeanderingMaven
Do you ever feel that you need to compromise often
Do you agree because you are afraid others won't like your views
Most of the stress that we experience
Is because we could not raise our voices when we had to
It may happen to us on a regular basis
It may be taking place implicitly, without us realizing it
At home, in our workplace, with friends
We are afraid to tell people what we actually feel
We suppress our thoughts, emotions
It doesn't make much of a difference then
But with time, all of this may accumulate
And one day explode in unimaginable forms
Do not crumble under pressure
Break free from the bonds that intimidate you
Stand up for yourself today, assert yourself
Change what you must, let go, if need be
Learn to express yourself, ruminate, scribble
Organize your thinking in written form
Gradually you will be able to articulate
You will not hesitate when you take part in a discussion
As they say, practice makes a man perfect
What better way to prepare for speech than to write it out first
Write daily, write today, anything abstract
Do not fear what others may think, take the first step
Is it worth all the trouble, you may ask
Yes it is, your mind will be richly nourished, you will be empowered
~M 💛
#MEANDERINGS
@MeanderingMaven
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🔵 Inquiring the Un-touch-able : Touch Unable versus Not-Touchable | Economic and Political Weekly
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/inquiring-untouchable
#Untouchability
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/inquiring-untouchable
#Untouchability
Economic and Political Weekly
Inquiring the Un-touch-able : Touch Unable versus Not-Touchable
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🔵 Dowry is still a dream-killer in Kerala - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/dowry-is-still-a-dream-killer/article67637838.ece
❌ Trigger Warning: the following article contains references to suicide. Please avoid reading if you feel distressed by the subject.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/dowry-is-still-a-dream-killer/article67637838.ece
❌ Trigger Warning: the following article contains references to suicide. Please avoid reading if you feel distressed by the subject.
The Hindu
Dowry is still a dream-killer in Kerala
Till October this year, Kerala has reported seven dowry deaths (incidents charged under 304B which deals with dowry deaths), according to the SCRB
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🔵 Minor domestic worker held captive in Gurugram | The seamy side of India’s millennium city - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/minor-domestic-worker-held-captive-in-gurugram-the-seamy-side-of-indias-millennium-city/article67637814.ece
Working at a household for about a decade, Salma says she was not paid “enough” and often made to put in extra hours of work without any additional payment. It was difficult for her to find another job in the same township if she quit. “Madam will give me a bad name, spreading rumours about me among other residents on WhatsApp groups. Madam log sab WhatsApp per jude hue hai. Agar koi kaam chhodta hai to fir usko koi aur nahi leta (All employers are connected through WhatsApp groups. If someone quits a job, no one hires her),” she says.
#Domestic_Labour
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/minor-domestic-worker-held-captive-in-gurugram-the-seamy-side-of-indias-millennium-city/article67637814.ece
Working at a household for about a decade, Salma says she was not paid “enough” and often made to put in extra hours of work without any additional payment. It was difficult for her to find another job in the same township if she quit. “Madam will give me a bad name, spreading rumours about me among other residents on WhatsApp groups. Madam log sab WhatsApp per jude hue hai. Agar koi kaam chhodta hai to fir usko koi aur nahi leta (All employers are connected through WhatsApp groups. If someone quits a job, no one hires her),” she says.
#Domestic_Labour
The Hindu
Minor domestic worker held captive in Gurugram | The seamy side of India’s millennium city
Yet another minor working as a domestic help has been brutalised in Gurugram. It is not just underage employment and torture, but also a daily struggle of inadequate pay and unmet basic human needs that people who provide informal but essential services go…
🔵 New cyber threats catch India’s IT capital, Bengaluru, unawares - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/cyber-threats-throw-an-it-city-into-chaos/article67636818.ece
Changing nature of cyber threats
“A person sitting somewhere, hiding behind the anonymity that VPNs provide, took just a few minutes to send the IT capital of India, a city of nearly 14 million and a growth engine of the country, into a tizzy. It is pretty low-tech. This is the best illustration of how asymmetric cyber threats are,” said a senior police official with considerable experience in fighting cybercrime.
If a hoax bomb threat can send an entire city into a tailspin, imagine what can happen if a city’s power grid is hacked and shut down as a result. That’s precisely what happened in Mumbai on October 13, 2020. A cyber attack on the city’s power grid brought the country’s financial capital to a halt for nearly half a day. The famed local trains stopped, and the stock exchange shut down, even as hospitals struggled to keep ventilators running. The attack was reportedly traced to state actors in China, reported The New York Times in February 2021, a claim acknowledged by Ministers in the government of Maharashtra. India and China relations were tense in October 2020 over the Galwan Valley clash.
Several key cyber attacks were reported on critical information infrastructure in India in recent years: on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in 2019, on Goa’s flood monitoring system in 2020, ransomware attacks on nationally important institutions like New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Bengaluru-based National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in 2022. The Karnataka State Data Centre, the information nerve centre of the Government of Karnataka, fell prey to the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017.
#Cyber_Crime #Technology #Challenges
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/cyber-threats-throw-an-it-city-into-chaos/article67636818.ece
Changing nature of cyber threats
“A person sitting somewhere, hiding behind the anonymity that VPNs provide, took just a few minutes to send the IT capital of India, a city of nearly 14 million and a growth engine of the country, into a tizzy. It is pretty low-tech. This is the best illustration of how asymmetric cyber threats are,” said a senior police official with considerable experience in fighting cybercrime.
If a hoax bomb threat can send an entire city into a tailspin, imagine what can happen if a city’s power grid is hacked and shut down as a result. That’s precisely what happened in Mumbai on October 13, 2020. A cyber attack on the city’s power grid brought the country’s financial capital to a halt for nearly half a day. The famed local trains stopped, and the stock exchange shut down, even as hospitals struggled to keep ventilators running. The attack was reportedly traced to state actors in China, reported The New York Times in February 2021, a claim acknowledged by Ministers in the government of Maharashtra. India and China relations were tense in October 2020 over the Galwan Valley clash.
Several key cyber attacks were reported on critical information infrastructure in India in recent years: on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in 2019, on Goa’s flood monitoring system in 2020, ransomware attacks on nationally important institutions like New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Bengaluru-based National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in 2022. The Karnataka State Data Centre, the information nerve centre of the Government of Karnataka, fell prey to the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017.
#Cyber_Crime #Technology #Challenges
The Hindu
New cyber threats catch India’s IT capital, Bengaluru, unawares
Hoax bomb threat email sent to Bengaluru schools in Dec. 1, 2022, sent panic through the city; police suspect new form of cyber terrorism; schools beef up security, call for State-level cyber security architecture.
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🔵 ‘Authenticity’ in a post-authentic world - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/authenticity-in-a-post-authentic-world/article67639042.ece
‘Infocalypse’ is imminent
According to AI scientist Nina Schick,
For instance, in October, the fake news of Amartya Sen’s passing swept the media, originating with a post on social media.
Have we slipped down the rabbit hole of AI and social media and into the era of post-authenticity? “Trust,” however, is the biggest casualty in effect. In his 2021 book of the same name, journalist Michael Grothaus described how society is transforming into a place where we would “Trust No One”.
Today, anyone may cast a doubt on anything by just publicly doubting its authenticity, regardless of how real it is. It helps the bad actors; in 2018, American law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron popularised the phrase “liar’s dividend”. The greatest risk to mankind is that we might soon cease to take anything at face value.
Because of AI’s presumed ability to create seemingly convincing text and data, researchers and journal editors are becoming increasingly concerned about integrity. Allegations of falsified or wrong data on various topics important to the common people, such as GDP, employment, inflation, and COVID-19-related statistics, frequently rock different societies. With the AI boom, the falsification of data and text could evolve into a new realm in this post-authentic age.
#AI #Technology #Misuse #Social_Media
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/authenticity-in-a-post-authentic-world/article67639042.ece
‘Infocalypse’ is imminent
According to AI scientist Nina Schick,
“Infocalypse”, the biggest information and communications crisis in world history, is imminent. Further, the boundary between mainstream and social media is getting blurred.
For instance, in October, the fake news of Amartya Sen’s passing swept the media, originating with a post on social media.
Have we slipped down the rabbit hole of AI and social media and into the era of post-authenticity? “Trust,” however, is the biggest casualty in effect. In his 2021 book of the same name, journalist Michael Grothaus described how society is transforming into a place where we would “Trust No One”.
Today, anyone may cast a doubt on anything by just publicly doubting its authenticity, regardless of how real it is. It helps the bad actors; in 2018, American law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron popularised the phrase “liar’s dividend”. The greatest risk to mankind is that we might soon cease to take anything at face value.
Because of AI’s presumed ability to create seemingly convincing text and data, researchers and journal editors are becoming increasingly concerned about integrity. Allegations of falsified or wrong data on various topics important to the common people, such as GDP, employment, inflation, and COVID-19-related statistics, frequently rock different societies. With the AI boom, the falsification of data and text could evolve into a new realm in this post-authentic age.
#AI #Technology #Misuse #Social_Media
The Hindu
‘Authenticity’ in a post-authentic world
With the AI boom, the falsification of data and text could evolve into a new realm in this post-authentic age
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🔵 50% of India’s children don’t have access to quality education after primary school: development economist Amir Ullah Khan - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/education/50-of-indias-children-dont-have-access-to-quality-education-after-primary-school-development-economist-amir-ullah-khan/article67641574.ece
#Education #Underprivileged
✅RELEVANCE: Paper - 2, Section - C : Disparities in education
https://www.thehindu.com/education/50-of-indias-children-dont-have-access-to-quality-education-after-primary-school-development-economist-amir-ullah-khan/article67641574.ece
Socio-economic conditions of the underprivileged are such that several members of a family live in a single room without proper access to utilities; this makes getting an education a challenge for them.
#Education #Underprivileged
✅RELEVANCE: Paper - 2, Section - C : Disparities in education
The Hindu
50% of India’s children don’t have access to quality education after primary school: development economist Amir Ullah Khan
Development economist Amir Ullah Khan speaks at HIE online test launch to discuss India's biggest challenge: access to education for the underprivileged.
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Rishi Sunak Considers Social Media Ban For Under-16s In UK: Report
Read more at: https://dbrief.news/d/F0upe
What is your opinion on social media ban for under-16s?
Read more at: https://dbrief.news/d/F0upe
What is your opinion on social media ban for under-16s?
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🔵 Assam to introduce bill to ban polygamy in February 2024- The New Indian Express
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/dec/16/assam-to-introduce-bill-to-ban-polygamy-in-february-2024-2642116.html
#Marriage
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/dec/16/assam-to-introduce-bill-to-ban-polygamy-in-february-2024-2642116.html
#Marriage
The New Indian Express
Assam to introduce bill to ban polygamy in February 2024
The Chief Minister had previously declared that the measure would include certain provisions aimed at putting an end to love jihad within the state.
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