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This article is written by inspiration from the movie “Yashoda” starring Samantha, until watching it, I hardly would have thought the link between fetus  and cosmeceuticals. Aftermath of the movie, curiosity peeped in, to know the truth value of facts shown on the screen. So, here is my perception about the film (Yashoda) concerning utilization  of fetus  in beauty creams. What has been shown in the movie? An institute called Eva, braced by the Central Minister and his associates which targets poor women for making them as surrogates (by fulfilling their monetary needs) to celebrities and huge barons of the society. When those women successfully complete their first trimester, they are handed over to the reticent institute, through the assistance of local hospitals wherein they are sumptuously taken care with all the facilities, but those women are getting widely disconnected from the outside world. Once, they reach their third trimester, they are induced with false p...

 This article's content is too cliche about the cringe behaviour of people whom we come across every single day in our routine. It's cliche since, "how much content is too much content to suffice the cringing attitude of few in society".  So here comes my experience.                                                                        Picture Courtesy-Pinterest      I use to travel for my work every day at least for one and a half an hour. One fabulous day, when I was travelling happily enjoying the morning breeze on my face, I got a question from a stranger (co-passenger) about where I'm working & what am I working as... to this extent, I'm fine to give answers. Then she started asking how much are you getting paid, is it your permanent job or temporary? Why don't you try for go...

WHAT IS COLLEGIUM SYSTEM? The principal idea of this system is association of individuals of same rank. This system has been adopted by Indian judiciary around the year 1993 for the process of appointing and transferring the Supreme Court and High Court judges. COLLEGIUM CONSISTS OF - Image Courtesy: slidesharecdn.com At present in India, the SC (Supreme Court) collegium consists of four senior most judges of the SC,  Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice NV Ramana, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar led by CJI (Chief Justice of India) Justice SA Bobde.  And the High Court collegium consists of four senior most judges of the court who would be led by the Chief Justice of the respective High Court, whereas the HC collegium could recommend the names of judges for appointment and transfer but the approval is made by the CJI and SC collegium. Additionally, for appointments to the high courts, the SC collegium must consult such other senior judges servin...

As a citizen of India, I have been following the governmental issues and economy since 2016, particularly after the demonetisation. The financial arrangement and the projects reported without fail have been condemned by economic analysts and academicians for their unclearness For instance the disinvestment targets. Numerous economic analysts have scrutinized the extremist Structural change of GST for its broken law and execution. This made me extremely inquisitive to think about The advancement of the Indian economy and the Implementation of the significant changes it had gone through.  While I was looking at the daily I saw information on a book authored by Sri Montek Singh Ahluwalia named The Backstage: The story behind India's high development years. The book is a finished aide that portrays the tale of the advancement of the Indian economy from A shut economy to an open market-based economy. After the Indian Independence, Prime Minister Shri Jawaharlal Nehru has underscored th...

 

MANUAL SCAVENGING Manual Scavenging is the unsafe manual handling of raw faeces of humans.   The International Labour Organization describes three forms of manual scavenging in India:   Removing human excrement from public streets and dry latrines (meaning simple pit latrines without a water seal, but not dry toilets in general) Septic tanks cleaning   Gutters and sewers cleaning This practice is prevalent in other countries in the names of night men, night soil collectors, gong farmers, dunny men and so on. But most of those countries have found alternatives and preventive measures to this excruciating job. HOW IT BECAME SINNER’S JOB IN INDIA? There are evidences for the existence of manual scavenging in ancient India where slaves are used to do this work. As the time and civilization grows, this practice has also grown up with the society and became as caste based occupation still remains inerasable from the country. Cleaning the faeces of co- humans makes this job vuln...

Free markets are beneficial but only when agriculture/farming is a large scale business and agri as an occupation doesn't affect the livelihoods of landless agri labourers. After all, they are also part of the economy and their livelihood should be saved until India is industrialized to bear the labour force. The infrastructure for so-called farm gate procurement must be ensured with good logistics, storage and accessibility to the market. Photo by  Nandhu Kumar  on  Unsplash If a farmer with less than 2 hectares of land (80% of the farmers have less than 2 hectares of land according to Agricultural senses 2015–16) needs to sell his produce in his farm gate who will visit there for purchase? Can he expect a large exporter or a food processing company procuring it through agri executives bargaining in their fields? Only a middle man will procure it and sells it to a large procurer. Already farmers are selling their produce to whomever they wish. Only traders need to sell i...