Adapting Changes - Working Women

Gigantic companies have taken steps to break their folklore for Women employees’, from preventing the latter to drop out from the workforce. By increasing the number of weeks for maternity break; making security enabled provisions to work from home; is a step towards acknowledging Women’s credibility as an employee. The said changes are being appreciated by people around but still there are literate people who think that  such incorporation will make the work place like ‘walk in the park’ for women and in the worst scenario latter has to face nastiest remarks such as “Why don’t she leave the job?” , “What’s the need to work?”It hurts, isn’t it? Indian society has adapted the custom of having a working daughter-in-law; daughter; wife but they are still struggling to come to terms of being demanding with respect to household chores as well as upbringing of children. It’s like grabbing the opportunity and making a choice but the outcome is not satisfactory. A rebellious behavior to not change the thought process of being conservative towards women. Society need to ‘move the cheese’ by adapting the changes and giving women space to grow in life accordingly.

Believe, we are a stone’s throw away in moving the cheese completely from the society as companies are in process of taking initiatives towards women development. Recently, it is Amazon who has formed the women courier delivering station in Kerala [team consists of 7 women], it’s a first kind of experiment and the feedback is positive.Read here @ http://everylifecounts.ndtv.com/in-kerala-amazon-starts-an-experiment-with-7-women-1490?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=msn-india

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Corporate World’s Initiative towards Women development

Agony of Working Women

Gigantic companies have taken steps to break their folklore for Women employees’, from preventing the latter to drop out from the workforce. By increasing the number of weeks for maternity break; making security enabled provisions to work from home; is a step towards acknowledging Women’s credibility as an employee. The said changes are being appreciated by people around but still there are literate people who think that  such incorporation will make the work place like ‘walk in the park’ for women and in the worst scenario latter has to face nastiest remarks such as “Why don’t she leave the job?” , “What’s the need to work?” Nonetheless her agony is not restricted professionally only, actual fact is that Women are always at the receiving end be it ‘Professionally’ or ‘Personally’.

It hurts, isn’t it? Indian society has adapted the custom of having a working daughter-in-law; daughter; wife. Organization’s driving the concept of treating both the genders ‘Male’, ‘Female’ at equal parity but they are still struggling to come to terms of being demanding with respect to household chores as well as upbringing of children. It’s like grabbing the opportunity and making a choice but the outcome is not satisfactory. A rebellious behavior to not change the thought process of being conservative towards women. Society need to ‘move the cheese’ by adapting the change and giving women space to grow in life accordingly. Organization’s job is to implement + drive the policies executed for development of Women. Once the policy is enforced, the organization need to plan a training for employees’ to make them understand and value the policies applied for Women employees’ betterment.

QUOTE:

Change to build new then being rebellious on old,

That’s when U moved Ur cheese.

Accept the ignorance & make place of your own,

That’s when U moved Ur cheese.

Believe we are a stone’s throw away in moving the cheese completely from the society as companies are in process of taking initiatives towards women development. Recently, it is Amazon who has formed the women courier delivering station in Kerala [team consists of 7 women], it’s a first kind of experiment and the feedback is positive.   

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Prakrat

PRAKRUT

Winter has started and so has the dryness of skin. I was looking for something which is not cosmetically designed and is developed with pure essence of nature, when I came across Prakrta’s virgin coconut oil and as  have a zest to use things which are made naturally I ordered the oil. On receiving the product I liked the packing and on using it I fell in love with ‘Prakrta’ and increased the curiosity in me to find about the birth of such an amazing product line.

‘Prakrta’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Prakrut’, meaning nature. It had been founded by two beautiful sisters Ms. Rupam Singh & Ms. Anupam Singh. Rupam left her flourishing career for the most responsible profile in the world ‘Motherhood’ where Anupam worked for 10 years as a brand manager for start-ups till both the sister joined hands to open their own brand.

Inception of Prakrta: Five years back Rupam’s five month old daughter was diagnosed with Pediatric Eczema. Baby’s cheeks used to turn dark red and would itch so much that scratch it leaving cheeks bleed. Five different dermatologists were consulted and all of them prescribed steroidal creams to control the Eczema but there was no solution provided to stop it from erupting. Being a mother, Rupam was worried about her daughter’s well-being which kept search alive and one fine day she came across a dermatologists who suggested her to stop applying the prescribed cream regularly it could be harmful for the child. And as it was difficult to find out the reason the allergy asked to stop using any soap as all of them contains harmful chemicals and advised to go ‘Grandma’s’ way for making baby’s skin healthy by using unrefined coconut oil and for bathing use neem leaves. That’s when Rupam started off on researching about the natural essentials to cure eczema. And then sourced that extra virgin coconut oil (extracted from coconut milk and not dried copra) from Kerala and Anupam helped her sourced cocoa butter and aloevera. Rupam started making home-made cocoa butter cream, and in three months result was unbelievable the allergy got controlled and baby’s skin became better. On seeing the results friends & neighbors expressed their desire to buy the cream from us and that’s when Prakrta was born.  

Prakrta team have framed few principles and believes to follow the same firmly:

1.100%natural

We want to promote only 99-100% natural skin care. When we say 100% natural then our products will not feel sophisticated like commercial products, but they will do a better job minus the chemicals (our hair conditioners are the only product that is 91% natural, because of the fact that conditioners require certain chemicals to be stable and effective)

2.Skin friendly products only

 Our products cater to sensitive skin  (minimal or no fragrance) . No artificial fragrance and minimal use of essential oils because both natural and artificial fragrance is not good for sensitive face skin ( example our Serum of youth face serum may not smell great, but it has some truly exotic oils that are great for the skin. )

3.Purity matters to us  - more than 60% of our raw material is edible grade purity

4. 100% of the oils we use are extra virgin/ virgin or cold pressed oils that have high levels of anti-oxidants and provide maximum benefit

5. Social impact - we source more than 35% of our raw material from self help groups that promote rural employment for women. We plan to increase that to more than 60%.

6. Eco friendly  - Of course our product is 100% eco friendly but more importantly more than 50% of our packaging is glass packaging to avoid the burden of plastic in the environment (although it will be much cheaper and easier for us to use plastic!!!)

7. Finally ....all products are first tried on ourselves, friends and family (NO animal testing at all :-)

 Reach Prakrta @http://www.prakrta.in/

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Mammu – What my daughter taught me in three years of our togetherness?

Ahhh…so here I am a quench mom, who is warmheartedly call out as ‘Mammu’ by her baby. Journey had not been bed of roses for us, it started off with ‘Ma’ and today has reached to ‘Mammu’. I am at peace as she has accepted me and I have a space of my own in her life. I still remember people being judgemental about her, being like her father not me, it never actually bothered me much but somewhere I knew that she might not look like me but possess the best of her parents and has her own identity as I have.

Most importantly her understanding for being respectful towards others, whoever it may be; thankful to people who are there to support her; clarity between wrong & right; need of being religious; being clean. And I am glad that she has adapted all the characteristics nicely and is in a process to transform as an independent individual more than me. I admit that all this while I had been strict when my child was trying to understand the need of things, which she was being told / asked to do.

Things which I learnt from her are:

 1)      Control your anger

       2)      First do it then  expect others to do it

       3)      To be calm in pain

       4)      Be persistent in whatever you do

       5)      Understanding the importance of both the parents in life

       6)      Being completely independent

       7)      Have no expectation

       8)      Being conscious, careful, supportive

I am glad that every day I have something to learn from her.

Thank you baby for being considerate and understanding.

Mammu!

ENGLISH VINGLISH – HI FI 

English Vinglish – hi fi J

Proficiency to speak English fluently…without any pause no stammering has always been a challenge for me. Oops there you go, I forgot to introduce myself, you all must be wondering whose this person, what is he / she is talking about. People I am Mangla from Hubli a small town in Bengal. I belong to a middle class family where the top priority is to learn ethical values and respect them throughout your life. It was not only the case with me or my family, it was same in every family who stayed in Hubli. Probably every city has its own way of lifestyle, a culture purely based on people’s belief.

I was in Hubli till my graduation, which I did in Psychology. I was enjoying the life without having any understanding of adeptness of life until one frosty night in December we all were sitting around the bonfire and eagerly waiting for a cup of Hot Chocolate made by my mom when my father popped up a question to me about my goal in life. Here is the sweet conversation that occurred between us:

Dad: Mangla, what are your plans after completing graduation?

Me:  I was spellbound by his question and remained like that for few minutes.

Dad: What happened? Did I ask a wrong question?

Me: Taking a deep breath replied, no dad.

Dad: I believe you never thought about it. Isn’t it?

Me: Yes dad, I never thought so. Till this hour I was clear in my mind that post completing graduation will settle down in life.

Dad: Oh is it. What do you mean by settle down in life? Do you mean by getting married and having family?

Me: Yeah..

Dad: Mangla, my child I want you to rethink about your concept of life. Life is not only about going to school / college than coming back home on time and one fine day get married and settle down. It’s not even about earning money and become financially sound. Life is all about learning, exploring and enjoying every bit of it. My advice to you is to do post-graduation and pursue a career of your own choice and work as per your convenience not others. Being your father will support you for your studies and believe you would be able to pull it further. This is just a suggestion you are sensible enough to take your decision. Request is just let me know in two days as have to prepare accordingly for it. After a brief discussion about life and my point of view towards life we bid good night and went to our rooms.

For me everything had become stagnant, that night I kept thinking is two days enough to make a judgment about life but there was something which was changing in me, which I could not realize that moment. And then came the day when I have to share my choice of life to all. Reluctantly I told my father that I want to pursue my career in Business Administration for which had to do MBA. My choice brought a smile on my father’s face wherein it brought concerns on my mother’s face. Her concerns were will she be able to do it? What is the need of it? Why can’t we get her married? This is the right age for girls. To which my father replied I want her to be independent even when we are gone. I want her to sharpen her brains to understand all the prospects of life.

Matritva

Most precious feeling of a woman’s life is ‘motherhood’. A responsibility which revolves as life moves on, with countless sleepless nights. Being a non-expectant relationship, mother just has a wish to see her child in the best position of life, always ready to opt for things which the former has never dreamt of doing OR had confidence that she can pull it but does it to give the child a better understanding of life. That’s a mom.

I still remember, it was October and as the days wane, was struggling with the complications that has occurred in my pregnancy and then there was she, a cute little doll was born. Her tears used to bring tears in my eyes and it still does. 

A mom’s work is ‘like clockwork’ always regular with time, have no chance of being delayed. I am an IT consultant, but have to handle two profile hand-in-hand i.e. of a consultant and of a mother. Being a working mom, I have to be out for 10-11 hours, which is when my daughter used to be with my maid, in the supervision of my mother-in-law. Since the first day, I made it a routine to make a call back home (on priority base) and find out what my daughter is doing? Instructing my maid about her food and the time table she need to follow for her. So, here is a working mom, whose job ends with sunset but her another job of ‘being a mom’ never comes to an end.

Now my daughter has started going to pre-nursery, but still there is no change in my schedule rather the to-do list has increased. While I am working, the subconscious mind calculates the things which is to be done to enhance her personality, the activities which need to be done as per school all has to be taken in consideration. So, here is a mom whose weekends are planned in advance, and it will be like this forever because now I am a mom.

I want to take her along, wherever I go and the biggest problem which I used to face was – commuting? For my daughter I decided to learn driving, and today I happily drive her around the city.

Whenever I plan to relax by lying in the bed or by taking a nap or by just being myself or by going on a holiday with the family, the plan of relaxing never actually takes place, because if I try also I’m being told that ‘a lazy mom’ you are; have no concerns for the child etc.I reminisce an incident when my daughter has fallen sick and I could not take an off due to work load. It was a difficult phase to leave my daughter and go to work, and it became more painful on receiving a bizarre comment from my senior, who said – What kind of a mother are you?  My knee-jerk reaction to it was ‘I am a strong independent mother’, if I fail to balance my work life than it would become a demotivating factor for my child.

So, people I sign off with a wish for all the mommies to be an ideal example for their kids.

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ARTKARTE

Face Behind “The Artkarte”

Mrs. Tushita Roy, who belongs to the place of “Aryans– The Pataliputra” now called “Patna”, is a qualified post graduate in sales & marketing from - PGCSM from IIM Indore & PGDM from Kirloskar Institute. She has a rich experience of 12 years in marketing the branded products in the market. However her heart was never into the mundane job and was always interested in creativity being an art lover, which she has inherited from her family.