Strategic Planner for Startup’s, Founder-Manoshi Creative thinking house at Naukuchiatal , Author, ex banker

India is one of the youngest countries in the world with an average age of 28.2 years ( as per India Population (2024) – Worldometer (worldometers.info)

There lies a world of endless possibility before us if we could provide opportunity for our unemployed youth and provide meaningful education to our children.

It is appalling to see India topping in Child wasted rate at 18.7% ( as per Global Hunger Index)

Child wasted index is attributed to many factors. The two main being Child Nutrition and Hygiene.

In his book “Breaking the mould,” Raghuram Rajan speaks about poor nutrition leading to poor mental capabilities of our children.

What is the point in being one of the youngest countries in the world when our children will end up being WASTED.

Hygiene and Sanitation is another appalling feature contributing to Child Wasted Rate.

Unhygienic conditions are not wasting only children, it is filching the earning opportunity for people in the tourism Industry.

One of the top mentions in foreign tourist surveys for India is the Filth and Garbage present in India.

This lack of hygiene, Sanitation and safety is depriving the people in tourism Industry to make a decent living.

We have the mighty Himalayas, the Green and pure environs of South India, the high cold desert of Ladakh, the stupendous architecture of ancient palaces, the diversity, the tenacity….

How are we going to position this before the Filth, garbage and Drainage system in our country?

The obvious question that comes to mind- What is the salary of Nagar Nigam employee (a sanitation worker) in India?

The average salary of a Nagar Nigam worker ranges from Rs 10000-12000/ per month  ( Many say it’s around Rs 7000/- in actuality)

Is it possible to survive and be motivated to clean mountains of garbage in this salary?

The Government is least bothered to incentivise and lay strict guidelines for Garbage and Sewage management.

Then how is it possible to have one of the cleanest village of Asia MAWLYNLONG in Meghalaya India?

The reason is simple. People maintain the environment and the government ensures it remains clean.

IT IS A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILTY OF PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT.

We made toilets but what is the point in using dirty toilets?

We Need Ngo’s And Initiatives To Educate The People Of India About Sanitation And Cleaniless. Keeping Home And Environment Clean

We Need Dedicated Government And Nagar Nigam Workers To Clean The Garbage And Sewage

We Need Entrepreneurial Ventures To Turn This Dirty Garbage Into Energy

TURN OUR WASTE INTO AN OPPORTUNITY.

Hope we play a role in eradicating the history of “Garbage and Drainage” in India.

Hope this government link doesn’t remain only a link but stands testimony to its claims!

Waste Management | The Official Website of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India (moef.gov.in)

http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2012/01/as-gender-abuse-grew-economics-gave-god-the-solution/

This little short story dawned in my mind when I was reading one of the travel books on ancient India. The exact lines stated were ‘cattle and women were the movable properties that men could carry as they moved from one land to the other.’ I felt a surge of temper and my head could sense the tightening of veins. We women feel so deprived and disrespected even now, then what would these cattle equivalent women must have felt? Unfortunately, even education fails to change many mindsets for women. Then what is the solution… Economics, and believe me, God has discovered the solution!

Here’s the narrative

Once upon a time, millions of years ago, when God was creating the Earth, he was very clear that the existence of both man and woman was imperative for sustenance of the world. He made his replicas in form of man – Intelligent, strong, driven. He knew that he could not imagine his life without his wife – Devi, persona of beauty, compassion and mental and emotional strength and thus created Woman .

The civilization grew, but in some pockets on the Earth, as in India, conceit ruled the mind of men and physical power overruled the brain power. Man worshiped God’s wife Devi in temples but downgraded her facsimiles on Earth. Arrogance and pride wrought Man’s mind and he created systems and rituals to domesticate the women, as he tamed his cattle. Dowry was introduced, a system skewed absolutely to the pleasures of the Man. He got the woman and even the money to keep the women.

When Devi saw this nonsense on the Earth, she blamed God, after all men were his replicas. God was traumatized, his most beautiful creation, women, were in an awful condition. He rattled his mind for a solution and thought his heart was filled with compassion from the day his daughter was born, so he gave Man daughters to instill compassion and fatherly love in him. But Man was corrupted by then, he killed the daughter as the child was born, before even enjoying the pleasure of being a father.

Devi was furious and so was God. He tried justifying “I made women only physically delicate, but mentally and emotionally strong. Why can they not fight for their respect like you?” Our Gods had no answer! Some enlightened Men and Women did take up his cause and fought against the in justice, but in vain.

Both Devi and God traveled for centuries to find a solution! Education did improve the situation somewhat, but each century presented a new challenge for bringing the respect for women. The ladies who aged, aged with bitterness and penalized the younger lot with ritualistic conservatism that they once faced. God and Devi had not anticipated this world. Then one day as they were crossing a building where a professor was teaching Economics, God was tempted to eavesdrop.

The Professor was narrating “When demand is more and supply is less, the price rises”. Devi was new to the terminology Price and innocently questioned God “What is Price?” God replied with the Divine Halo “The value of anything. I think I made a mistake. But I have a solution .I will not give the world daughters. I gave Man daughters and he killed them. Now let them pray and pine but I am not going to give them. Let centuries to come witness the decline till there would be no woman.”

And in years to come, the girl child would be a priced possession!

In the recent Census, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000 males the ratio has declined from 927 females against 1,000 males in 2001 to 914, which was described as a “matter of grave concern” by Census Commissioner of India, C Chandramauli.

Unfortunately, where compassion failed, simple Economics might work! Give it some thought!
Read more at http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2012/01/as-gender-abuse-grew-economics-gave-god-the-solution/#ejkYYCY7rOF5CqOO.99

I completed my Masters in International Business (MBA) from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune and after a successful stint of over six years in the banking and financial sector,working in companies like GE Consumer Finance and Citibank, persuaded my passion for travel and now run the company Pundareek, specialising in experiential tourism.

Puppet on the Fast Track is my first fiction book as an book author. While I had been writing articles for various magazines, my journey as an author began from here

The way forward would be an attempt to write a fantasy book
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Travel is a passion and now also a vocation. ………surely I am on an incessant journey.

Please feel free to write to me on ilika.ranjan@gmail.com

I recently read an article published by a reputed author stating children have stopped reading books and therefore the market for children fiction in India is diminishing.

I just wanted to laugh at the statement. The sad story is the publishing houses in India are doing nothing to attract our young impressionable readers. Why are they not thinking of enticing the young readers with a hip and happening positioning?

Unfortunately the old age image of young authors and readers is that of someone like a bookworm, less fun and more study. The young children fiction market is dying for a new positioning. Something like The brain power’, ‘Mr Creative’, ‘Mr Out of box thinker’. There are hardly any contests run by any publishing houses in India trying to bring out the writing talent. Why creative debates can’t be held in schools like the war or words, or height of imagination.

Today if you search online for best short story ideas for children, there is hardly any information. These days, the Internet is easily accessible by children. We need to catch their eyeball by making the existing web pages of best children books more contemporary and engaging and definitely more interesting and appealing. There is hardly any excitement for pushing the young readers to read and flaunt their knowledge. Launch a short story contest online and link the keyword with an existing children fiction book. The criterion should be to first read the book and then take part in a writing contest. Encourage parents to enroll their children and then let’s wait to see how many children short story idea pop out from these young talents.

We are doing nothing to impress the impressionable.

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The News headlines reads :

Nobel Peace Prize : The $1.5 million award was split three ways among Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, women’s rights activist Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen

Africa’s first democratically elected female President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to autocratic regime have won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women’s rights in the spread of global peace.

Gbowee has long campaigned for the rights of women and against rape. In 2003, she led hundreds of female protesters through Monrovia to demand swift disarmament of fighters who preyed on women throughout Liberia during 14 years of near-constant civil war.

MY VIEWS : DELHI THE RAPE CAPITAL OF INDIA.

There is hardly a day when the newspaper does not feature a Rape case against women in Delhi, NCR regions and now other parts of India. Where the Chief Minister is herself a lady, Madam Shiela dikshit and where there is a huge hope with youth leader Rahul Gandhi.There are women as mentioned above who have championed the cause against Rape and have won a Noble prize and here are we women in Delhi and NCR, who keep commenting in the editorials, blogs, trying to reach out to someone who would ensure we are safe in Delhi. NO use, no- one listens ! All one needs to do is lock up oneself in our houses or walk with a pepper spray or dare to take a rally out for rape against woman and mentally continue hoping that we would not be molested in the rally.

Staying in Gurgaon I have begun to regret being a woman, a feeling that never before transpired in my mind when I worked in Hyderabad and Bombay. But Delhi NCR region is different. All I can say is everyday I thank God for coming back home , safe and sound.

We need women leaders like Sirleaf and Gbowee, because unfortunately though we have women President , Mam Patil and woman chief minister, Ms Dikshit…..NO ONE IS LISTENING……………………….

29th Dec 2012

I don’t know her name but media calls her Nirbhaya, Daughter of India…..Alas! She died today. This young girl has silently aroused a sleeping nation.

I cannot express my feelings…. I am angry, grieved, traumatized ….
Don’t know what to tell God. Should I pray for her departed soul or Thank God that he has kept me safe from the evil perverts of our country and has given me a longer life.

For Nirbhaya’s demise I blame such criminals, the laws of our country , the government AND MYSELF

Even after Nirbhaya’s traumatic debacle, rapes still continue in our Nation. Despite the angry protest the perverts have the audacity to do it again to another girl. What is the message – you protest and we criminals will do it more. SHAME ON THE POLICE AND SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT for letting this continue even now.

As a woman I have been tolerating eveteasing, demeaning remarks, dirty glances and even sometimes chase back home. ( I work in Gurgaon). I hope I could have marched and protested much before today. Could I have saved so many innocent daughters of India?