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While strolling through the market on a leisurely afternoon, I came across a beautiful silk dress, colourful with fine embroidery. So I quite obviously got attracted immediately and checked the price. As I read on £95, (sale price!!!!). It made me think a little. What makes it worth?? As the salesperson proudly explained, it has such fine needle work. That was right, it was beautifully embroidered. As I knew, many companies are sourcing the products from India and recognized the familiar patterns. It makes me think about by Grandmother, my retired and even working Aunts, my Doctor mom and even me (just a little of course). Don’t we all know this beautiful work? Haven’t I grown up seeing them engrossed with variety of needles, lots of threads, various frames to be applied on variety of fabrics? If I got embroidered a similar work on even silk and got it tailored as a dress, it wouldn’t cost me more than Rs 2000(£30 approx.) Indian handicraft industry contributes around 1.5% of to

“In Indian society, family ties are strong and packing off parents to old age homes is still taboo. But it’s also true that for seniors, even the bathroom isn’t theirs to use when the younger ones are getting ready for work,” says Tina Ambani. Apart from Tina Ambani's association with Reliance Industries, the most striking fact about her to me is that she is the chairman of The Harmony for Silver’s Foundation, which is her superb initiative towards empowerment of aged, providing them employment, recreation etc. http://lifestyle.indiainfo.com/article/0810010604_tina/215368.html . There are other organisations too like HELP AGE INDIA who work in this regard but with the growing population there is a lot more needed. So here it is all about the aged population who need employment, security and attention. When we talk about work experience being the most important, who can beat our grandparents on that! Unfortunately, even in modern India, these valuable assets are just dependen

Since years women liberalization has been ignited by social/political diplomacy. The more women empowerment issue is raised it is assumed to reflect a genuine concern towards people. But, can women empowerment be only limited to reservations? The help which is for deprived ones acts often as a tool for the privileged ones too. What about the modern women who enjoy social right, education and employment as equally as men. And if this continues to happen where will the men go, who too are deprived all the time. What about the millions of young boys, even minors who earn meagre wages, are deprived of education and are sent for manual labour even by their families. The boys who by birth are burdened with huge expectations to support families where the main concern is to get the daughters married to better families which simultaneously relieves the parents of their duty. The men who cannot think to take a chance and live for themselves because they have to start earning at earliest and c