Delhi Metro: The New Lovers’ Paradise? - India Real Time - WSJ
Interesting article - after the parks got too many stares, now it is the turn of the Delhi Metro to be the hangout place for lovebirds...
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Parents in New India: Abused, Abandoned, Betrayed - a global dilemma?
Parents in New India: Abused, Abandoned, Betrayed - New America Media:
His mother was sitting in the outpatient waiting area at the hospital for hours - did she not have a ride? No, her son and his wife were at work, and did not want to pick her up till they got done...
Shocking? Not really? In India? Possibly...but this was in the United States...
Is our instant-gratification society making us shy away from what is inevitable for all of us? As the article linked below comments, elder abuse is rampant - and we still bury our heads in the sand..."Countless adults are victims of abuse through self-neglect, and institutional abuse often receives the most media attention; however, by far the most common abusers of the elderly are family members, especially spouses and adult children. The low reporting rate of elder abuse therefore makes unfortunate sense: Victims would often prefer to endure the abuse rather than risk the loss of independence, being removed from their family, or possibly being forced to move into a nursing home.
Americans' inattention to this issue has many causes, and high among them is fear -- the fear of seeing ourselves in the victims, of facing our own inevitable future of vulnerability and death. With its focus on youth, consumption and productivity, and living for today, our culture is complicit in this turning away. The tragic result is our inability -- or unwillingness -- to imagine ourselves in the distant future, potentially alone and unprotected. So we don't see that helping protect the elderly today helps protect us tomorrow..."
We have talked about this issue in the Tribe Desi newsletter before - and we asked for suggestions, or how South Asian Americans across the country are coping with this issue - and didn't get very many responses, except a Indian retirement community in NJ...comment below if you know of any good initiatives...
"Not everyone is pushing their old mother down the stairs. But we brush older people aside in ways we don’t even realise. A survey from the Agewell Foundation in New Delhi found that 87 percent of elders in the 70-80 age group complain of isolation. And that happens even when they are living with family, at home. They just find themselves shunted off to the back bedroom.
In 2050 400 million people will be over 80 all over the world. 48.1 million of them will be in India. That doesn’t mean India will become a sea of grey. The median age of Indians will still be only 38. But 48.1 million people can’t be shoved into the back bedroom either."
His mother was sitting in the outpatient waiting area at the hospital for hours - did she not have a ride? No, her son and his wife were at work, and did not want to pick her up till they got done...
Shocking? Not really? In India? Possibly...but this was in the United States...
Is our instant-gratification society making us shy away from what is inevitable for all of us? As the article linked below comments, elder abuse is rampant - and we still bury our heads in the sand..."Countless adults are victims of abuse through self-neglect, and institutional abuse often receives the most media attention; however, by far the most common abusers of the elderly are family members, especially spouses and adult children. The low reporting rate of elder abuse therefore makes unfortunate sense: Victims would often prefer to endure the abuse rather than risk the loss of independence, being removed from their family, or possibly being forced to move into a nursing home.
Americans' inattention to this issue has many causes, and high among them is fear -- the fear of seeing ourselves in the victims, of facing our own inevitable future of vulnerability and death. With its focus on youth, consumption and productivity, and living for today, our culture is complicit in this turning away. The tragic result is our inability -- or unwillingness -- to imagine ourselves in the distant future, potentially alone and unprotected. So we don't see that helping protect the elderly today helps protect us tomorrow..."
We have talked about this issue in the Tribe Desi newsletter before - and we asked for suggestions, or how South Asian Americans across the country are coping with this issue - and didn't get very many responses, except a Indian retirement community in NJ...comment below if you know of any good initiatives...
"Not everyone is pushing their old mother down the stairs. But we brush older people aside in ways we don’t even realise. A survey from the Agewell Foundation in New Delhi found that 87 percent of elders in the 70-80 age group complain of isolation. And that happens even when they are living with family, at home. They just find themselves shunted off to the back bedroom.
In 2050 400 million people will be over 80 all over the world. 48.1 million of them will be in India. That doesn’t mean India will become a sea of grey. The median age of Indians will still be only 38. But 48.1 million people can’t be shoved into the back bedroom either."
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Rahul N Bhardwaj – Dating and South Asians | EGO Magazine
Rahul N Bhardwaj – Dating and South Asians | EGO Magazine
It all began when my Father told me he was going to put my profile up on a matrimonial site. You know the deal, finish college, look for a wife. I humored him for a few minutes and looked at the sites he had in mind to put me on. I was floored that customers were paying for sub-par experiences, and these sites were getting away with it!. So, two things dawned upon me: 1. Like every nerd, I was going to solve my problem by building a website, and 2. I was going to build a better experience than what was out there, along with a sustainable business model that didn’t rely on directly charging people to find love. As my friend says, “love should be free.” www.TwoMangoes.com and I are on that path today.
It all began when my Father told me he was going to put my profile up on a matrimonial site. You know the deal, finish college, look for a wife. I humored him for a few minutes and looked at the sites he had in mind to put me on. I was floored that customers were paying for sub-par experiences, and these sites were getting away with it!. So, two things dawned upon me: 1. Like every nerd, I was going to solve my problem by building a website, and 2. I was going to build a better experience than what was out there, along with a sustainable business model that didn’t rely on directly charging people to find love. As my friend says, “love should be free.” www.TwoMangoes.com and I are on that path today.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Why is India in the Commonwealth? - By Juliet Lapidos
Why is India in the Commonwealth? - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine
Well, even if it is a big club, membership has its privileges - other than infrastructure improvements in the host country and hope for its recovery, there are voting benefits for people from member countries living in the UK...
Well, even if it is a big club, membership has its privileges - other than infrastructure improvements in the host country and hope for its recovery, there are voting benefits for people from member countries living in the UK...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Marissa Bronfman: A Magical Journey Through India: Eat, Pray, Love In Delhi
Marissa Bronfman: A Magical Journey Through India: Eat, Pray, Love In Delhi
More EPL. Sigh.
However, the account here of the blogger in Delhi is fairly accurate from a tourist's perspective - the pictures are real, but maybe I was expecting a bit more than the standard prose...
"I was amazed at what I had seen during my first two days in Delhi but more importantly, moved by what I had felt. I knew I was on the trip of a lifetime. That afternoon, back at Aman New Delhi, I met my batman from Aman-i-Khas - the next hotel on my itinerary - and we traveled together by train into the wilds of Rajasthan where I would ride a camel, go on tiger safari, explore the local village and play with monkeys at an ancient fort.."
More EPL. Sigh.
However, the account here of the blogger in Delhi is fairly accurate from a tourist's perspective - the pictures are real, but maybe I was expecting a bit more than the standard prose...
"I was amazed at what I had seen during my first two days in Delhi but more importantly, moved by what I had felt. I knew I was on the trip of a lifetime. That afternoon, back at Aman New Delhi, I met my batman from Aman-i-Khas - the next hotel on my itinerary - and we traveled together by train into the wilds of Rajasthan where I would ride a camel, go on tiger safari, explore the local village and play with monkeys at an ancient fort.."
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Slumdog Billionaires
Slumdog Billionaires - By Sadanand Dhume | Foreign Policy
Simply Fly
So you know about the Ambanis? What about Captain Gopi?
Simply Fly
So you know about the Ambanis? What about Captain Gopi?Fire in the Hole - Foreign Policy
Fire in the Hole - By Jason Miklian and Scott Carney | Foreign Policy
"But plenty of Indians have missed out. Economic liberalization has not even nudged the lives of the country's bottom 200 million people. India is now one of the most economically stratified societies on the planet; its judicial system remains byzantine, its political institutions corrupt, its public education and health-care infrastructure anemic. The percentage of people going hungry in India hasn't budged in 20 years, according to this year's U.N. Millennium Development Goals report. New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore now boast gleaming glass-and-steel IT centers and huge engineering projects. But India's vast hinterland remains dirt poor -- nowhere more so than the mining region of India's eastern interior, the part of the country that produces the iron for the buildings and cars, the coal that keeps the lights on in faraway metropolises, and the exotic minerals that go into everything from wind turbines to electric cars to iPads..."
"But plenty of Indians have missed out. Economic liberalization has not even nudged the lives of the country's bottom 200 million people. India is now one of the most economically stratified societies on the planet; its judicial system remains byzantine, its political institutions corrupt, its public education and health-care infrastructure anemic. The percentage of people going hungry in India hasn't budged in 20 years, according to this year's U.N. Millennium Development Goals report. New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore now boast gleaming glass-and-steel IT centers and huge engineering projects. But India's vast hinterland remains dirt poor -- nowhere more so than the mining region of India's eastern interior, the part of the country that produces the iron for the buildings and cars, the coal that keeps the lights on in faraway metropolises, and the exotic minerals that go into everything from wind turbines to electric cars to iPads..."
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