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 Source/Author: Bruce Sallan |  Posted on: June 29th, 2010 A recent Pew Research Center study called “Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage (Jan. 19, 2010 by Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn) revealed that women are making much more money, over the recent past, than at any other time in our history. The study had the following opening: “The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth. These unequal gains have been accompanied by gender role reversals in both the spousal characteristics and the economic benefits of marriage.”
It makes total sense given the changing values and trends in our society and the increasing number of women attending college, now outnumbering men significantly. But, the social impact of these changes might be troubling. As part of the generation that is both responsible for and feeling these transformations the most, I have mixed feelings about this brave new world.
Further conclusions from this report were that “A larger share of men in 2007, compared with their 1970 counterparts, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own…A larger share of women are married to men with less education and income.” What does all this mean for our children who are growing up in this changing environment? I’m not sure and I can only make some generalities from my own perspective.
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Source/Author: Shruti Rajagopalan | Posted on: June 17th, 2010
Government meddling has deprived victims of the deadly Bhopal gas leak of fair compensation.
On Tuesday, a district court in Bhopal, India, found seven former Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) officials guilty of “causing death by negligence” for a gas leak at a pesticide factory in that city over 25 years ago. The officials were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 100,000 rupees ($2,130) each for failing to prevent the tragedy. The victims of the gas leak, activists in Bhopal and the Indian media in general, have rightfully labeled the court’s verdict as too little too late. Often referred to as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the incident should instead be dubbed the Bhopal Gas Tragedies; the first caused by UCIL and the second by the Indian government.
The Bhopal disaster was the worst industrial accident ever to hit India. Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, tens of thousands of pounds of methyl isocyanate, a highly toxic gas used in chemical manufacturing, were released into the air over the area. Estimates of the death toll vary widely—from just under 4,000 to around 15,000—but it’s undisputed that thousands of people died in the hours after they inhaled the gas, and thousands more from health problems they developed later as a result of their exposure.
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Source/Author: PTI | Posted on: June 3rd, 2010
Singapore: India has the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia and red-tape is much worse than in China, says a survey.
In the ranking of 12 countries, India has been named as having the most inefficient bureaucracy followed by Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the survey of expatriate business executives conducted by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC).
Quoting the consultancy, news agency AFP has reported that bureaucratic red-tape is a serious problem in India and China but “the differences in the political systems of these two countries have made inertia much worse in India than in China”.
The ranking is based on a scale from one to 10 and a score of 10 indicates the worst possible scenario.
India scored 9.41, followed by Indonesia (8.59), the Philippines (8.37), Vietnam (8.13) and China (7.93).
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Source/Author: ANI | Posted on: May 25th, 2010
Top social demographer Bernard Salt’s assertion that husbands, wives, partners and children may come and go but friends are forever, is probably true.
MELBOURNE: Friendship is more important than sex to the present generation, according to a top social demographer.
Bernard Salt explains, a change in attitude towards marriage and family over the past 10 to 15 years has resulted in people becoming more dependent on friendship.
Also, he claims it is the same reason why shows on friendships, such as Sex and the City, Friends and Seinfield are big hits.
“There is an increasing role now to be played by friends. The feeling is that husbands may come and go, partners may come and go, children may come and go, but your friends will always be there,” the Courier Mail quoted Salt, as saying.
He added: “This is the reason why Sex and the City has been such a success.” Salt further charts the pattern of social relations in present times.
He explained: “Friends fill the gap between the end of secondary school and the start of a marriage . . . . that’s where the life-form of friendship blossoms best, from ages 18 to 28.”
He added: “In that decade, your friends are the be-all and end-all. But now the gap between the end of secondary school and the commitment to a partner has expanded, so the territory of friendship has expanded.
“We are now hanging around friends for 10 years before wandering off and getting married.” ANI
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Source/Author: Myself | Posted on: May 13th, 2010
Today’s rising crime rates across the world is nothing new for us anymore. Remember when was the last time you did not see or hear news of someone getting killed? People get killed all the time, across the globe, and people kill people by various means. To enumerate a few means people kill other people voluntarily, with some focus on Indian scenario (I’d omit the unintentional or accidental killings for the time being):
- Stab, shoot, strangle, etc. one or more strangers on the streets
- Bomb blasts by terrorists at a busy location killing many people
- Killing one’s own family member(s) like siblings/parents due to momentous fit of anger
- Pre-planned killing of someone known due to long-term rivalry
- Killing one’s own spouse due to various reasons, like adultery, property disputes, etc.
- Killing one’s offspring before or immediately after birth
- Killing one’s own offspring(s) to “save” one’s honor, because the offspring got married without permission (aka. honor-Killing)
- Killing a close relative/spouse slowly by mental torture or slow poisoning
And there could be many more. Ofcourse, whatever is the means, killing another human being is undoubtedly a crime against humanity and the society. And just like any other crime, this crime is very well covered under the laws as well. Speaking of the Indian laws, the Indian Penal code, 1860, has a chapter XVI entirely for offences affecting the human body, which certainly includes killing the human body.
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