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On 30 June the TOI Ahmedabad on its front page flashed “Treat LIVE IN AS MARRIAGE”.

The news highlighted that the National Commission for Women has said that, a woman in a live-in relationship should be entitled to maintenance if she is deserted by the man. In far-reaching recommendations to the ministry of women and child development, the Commission has sought a change in the definition of “wife’’ — as described in section 125 of CrPC which deals with maintenance — and suggested that it include women involved in a live-in relationship.

Now what the commission desires seems right at a glance however it protects the wrong woman, the commission in making this recommendation is providing a legal status to an illicit act. Think about it!! (more…)

Three weeks before Christmas 1993, Wolfgang Dircks died while watching television. Neighbors in his Berlin apartment complex hardly noticed the absence of the 43-year-old. His rent continued to be paid automatically out of his bank account.

Five years later, 1998 the money ran out, and the landlord entered Dircks’ apartment to inquire. He found Dircks’s remains still in front of the tube. The TV guide on his lap was open to December 3, the presumed day of his death. Although the television set had burned out, the lights on Dircks’s Christmas tree were still twinkling away.

It’s a bizarre story, but it shouldn’t surprise us. Each year thousands of people are found accidentally days or weeks after their solitary deaths in the affluent cities and suburbs of the world. If a person can die in such isolation that his neighbors never notice, how lonely was he when alive? (more…)

I was reading in an English daily how Coca Cola had come out of the blues with it’s new CEO at the helm and how they have come out of the Dipping sales and profits with the focused approach on aggressive marketing of it’s product ! Also how it’s Coke Zero brand, primarily targeted at the youths is planned to change the dynamics of the company!

Another article said how the new generation was focused on getting it picture perfect and zero flab when it comes to their bodies and how the models across the world are thinning down to the extent, you will be excused to think that they are representing Somalia or some other drought effected country! Although there are many activists crying foul against this gross neglect of their health, but nothing so far deters them from being the best in their modeling careers! Jo diktha hai wahi biktha hai (What is seen, gets sold) goes the old saying for many marketing professionals but that stands true for the generation today. (more…)