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Ample lessons from ants

August 15, 20221292 Views0

Ants follow an infallibly systematic life and jointly work hard to live in perfection. They maintain their colony safe and use their incredible talent to make their abode wonderful. Though an ant has a lifespan of fewer than four years, it follows the tradition of a million years without any change ever. A species non-extinct for over a million years speaks for their invulnerability to vagaries of climate and calamity thanks to their organic planning and execution. They have dominated the land to the extent they wanted and consolidated their position that humans cannot challenge. A big lesson from an insect is not an insult to humans, but a requisite. We call the ant in many ways, mongi, cheeiti, urumb, etc. This insect, the largest group in the arthropod phylum, has i...

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Can we have a fearless life without any virus?

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August 3, 20221285 Views0

Today, after an exhausting life with the so-called Covid-19 (Coronavirus), the world is out of the blue, maybe for fear of another virus. The World Health Organisation (WHO) seems to bat for it. Yet there is no fear on the pitch because people had the worst of the virus to fear. What some high echelons expected was never in place completely. The WHO seems unconcerned about the consequences of human-created “heating” or climate changes. But it does not want to co-relate these reasons. It is keen to divert the public attention to the rising ‘heat’ and engage the world in the talks of “global warming”. The global health body finds it illogical that the increase of a few degrees Celsius temperature variations is causing global warming. It simply manifests that a certain degree of tem...

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Meeting pandemic miseries

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July 8, 20211859 Views0

The government has to design a comprehensive social protection plan for covering those who lost all their financial resources after the death of the only bread earner. The Central government wanted employers to protect the interest of workers, specifically nursing mothers during the ongoing pandemic time under Section 5(5) of the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017. It has sent an advisory to all the States and Union Territories to encourage work-from-home. It can be construed as the government’s preparation for facing the much feared third wave of the pandemic. The work protection measures also include encouraging employers to retain nursing mothers’ employment. Nevertheless, the concern of many workers who have already lost their jobs can hardly be addressed unless closed compani...

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Starker talent crunch Young minds, poor brains

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July 8, 20211744 Views0

The pool of India's young talents below 40 years constituting over two-thirds of the working-age population gives the country a major advantage in the 21st century. Though apparently, we can boast about our young population, their employability in line with their “qualification” and overwhelming expectation sends out a worrying signal. The heavy turnout of youngsters from workplaces and unavailability of the right talent for meeting emerging business challenges are serious issues of human resources development. Be it micro or mega-size business, every one faces the challenge of right talent obtainability and its retain-ability. There are reasons to believe that the challenge has become more acute after the lockdown that has made many youngsters lazier. On one side when there is a m...

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A S MADHAVAN

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July 8, 20212301 Views0

After being a successful executive and entrepreneur A S Madhavan is now overwhelmingly engaged in various social initiatives that would ensure a helping hand to underprivileged Adivasis with shelters, derelicts with cares for a better future and victims of calamities withrehabilitation. Many helping hands and generous minds put together can stave off the agonies of many impoverished souls, he believes and works for it. Hard work is the principle that A S Madhavan used to grapple with since his school days. He reflected this in his autobiography, Retrospection through various anecdotes of his early days in his native place and by recalling his toilingearly days in the British firm, Gordon Woodroffe. He dwelt on his awful office tasks in the autobiography and marked it unrecognised. The ...