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Modern Man and Money…

Life

Modern man, the last product of evolution, may be the last visitors on earth. These assumptions make no sense in us but they have complete sense over the situation of our modern man, their selfishness and their undending desire on undeserved things and their foul deeds for money. Let us compare our life with cards…

Sharpless spades, 
Cursing clubs,
Hurting hearts,
Deadly diamonds,
Make the life lifeless...

Here sharpless spades clearly refers to the useless tools in today’s life. Nowadays humanity become idle one. All are forgetting it and losing their patience and kindness. They are in the race to earn more, enjoy more by erasing others’ thoughts and needs. Cursing clubs and hurting hearts reveals the truth that in modern world our friends(clubs) and dear ones are hurting and cursing us for their own comfort. Money makes a man mad and meaning morass. The last line ‘deadly diamonds’ has…

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A letter to my departed brother-in-law

Rest in Peace – “The Corona might have physically taken you away from each one of us but such were the noble deeds during your sojourn on this earth that, SNS, you would continue to live in the hearts and minds of all of us!”

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Dear SN,

An ever smiling SN!

It was a rainy evening in 1983 when you visited us for the first time. I was a purposeless college student then, keen on discussing politics than on studying my subject – Physics, given to watching cricket during the day and movies at night and was yet to see a computer. That evening you talked to me intensely about mainframe systems! I was flabbergasted, not by your domain knowledge of supercomputers that I obviously did not understand a thing about, but by your earnestness to make a reckless teenager grasp the basic nuance of an emerging science. My sister, who was a silent spectator to this one-sided conversation, obviously fell for the bright young man and soon we were brothers-in-law!

And your expertise in computers was only matched with your farsightedness for the sector and you were soon in the limelight, hobnobbing with the…

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Will there be another lockdown in India?

You see, lockdown may protect them from the virus but if people don’t have money, they don’t have jobs to support their livelihood then they may not die from the pandemic but from starvation. So governments must address the needs of the most affected class if another lockdown is to be imposed.

Beyond The Lines

In a country like India imposing another countrywide lockdown is highly unlikely but states may impose statewide limitations depending on the total number of infected people in that state. For ex – Delhi has been put under lockdown for a week i.e. from 19th April, 2021 to 26th April, 2021.

“Lockdown is a term coined for the developed countries!”

Strict lockdowns in countries where a significant share of the population is poor are likely to have more severe consequences on welfare than in richer countries.

Source – foreginpolicy

Are lockdowns a sustainable model for the developing countries?

No, they are not. Here I would like to point out the example of India. Last year a lockdown was imposed by the government of India in March. It surely provided motivating results as far as curbing the transmission was concerned but millions lost their jobs overnight.

Few days in most of the…

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New Special Report from AAN: “Kafka in Cuba, a Follow-Up Report: Afghans Still in Detention Limbo as Biden Decides What to do with Guantanamo” – Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Biden has said his goal is to close the camp, but how to deal with this toxic inheritance? A new report by AAN’s Kate Clark aims to provide context to the new administration as it weighs up what to do with Guantanamo by injecting a dose of reality into discussions. Source: New Special Report from AAN: “Kafka in Cuba, a Follow-Up Report: Afghans Still in Detention Limbo as Biden Decides What to do with Guantanamo” – Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Apologies not Required

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Photo credited to Sergio Souza/Pexels.com

You can advise people but you can’t make them change the course they have chosen. Oxygen is all around us and we breathe it in effortlessly, in the same way the people we love will find their rhythm in life. Exhort your energy on the one person that means the most to you and that’s unapologetically you.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

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Jamaican leaders, citizens must “act firmly” on violence against women – enough talk

This is one deeply disconcerting case, since it involves a public servant. However, the global case against the epidemic of gender-based violence – a pandemic – is never closed. I hope our political leaders realize that this is much bigger than the evasive, elusive Member of Parliament and his political future (which frankly I could not care less about). There are also legal and constitutional issues. But I hope that the matter will not be just wished away. For a long time now (and in particular, in this early part of 2021) the issue of violence against women has been as topical and high profile as the COVID pandemic itself – especially after at least two highly publicized femicides (and several others, this year) have deepened the malaise. There are many examples from our not too distant past, also.

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Case closed.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force put out a statement on Friday (April 16th) that it cannot continue investigations into a violent episode that took place in a parking lot ten days earlier, because the two people involved (a man and a woman) are not willing to press complaints. Also, the JCF said, the quality of the video was poor – although all relevant parties seem to have identified the alleged perpetrator (seen in a video beating Ms. Tannisha Singh with a stool) as businessman and “embattled” Member of Parliament, George Wright. Mr. Wright has not been charged.

Mr. Wright has not been particularly cooperative at any stage, but eventually met with the Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party Horace Chang at party headquarters. Their disciplinary committee is now looking into it, and meanwhile Mr. Wright is on leave (I believe, sort of). Other party members (including several women elected…

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