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Bidisha Bhattacharya
Growth Manager , Stck.me
My Creative Journey: 2020
The year 2020 force-fed us a bitter concoction comprising of the Coronavirus pandemic, losing dear ones, and the toughest of all, Isolation. Well, for an introvert like me, walking away from the humdrum wasn't really a major task. However, the blues of losing closed ones were and my love for art helped convert the former to ending the tumultuous year with approximately fifty sketches that I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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The Silent Patient: Book Review
“The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it”- Alice MillerThe Silent Patient begins with a psychotherapist, Theo Faber, who chooses to lean on the emotional front of trying to understand Alicia Berenson, the celebrated painter accused of murdering her own husband.
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The Woman in the Window: Book Review
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about”, this phrase from the Shadow of a Doubt is what pretty much summarises the idea behind The Woman in the Window.
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Sector Series III: Impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on the Indian Agricultural Sector
India is home to 140 million farm households and approximately 120 million smallholder farmers who contribute close to 40 percent of the country’s grain production and more than 50 percent of its fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, and other crops.
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Sector Series II: Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on the Elderly sector in India
The Coronavirus pandemic has not left any age group unscathed.
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Sector Series I: Impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on Animal Husbandry and Poultry sectors in India
India is currently experiencing a cataclysmic wave of COVID-19.
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Education: the last hope
The beginning of the New Year witnessed the arrest of comedian Munawar Faruqui over insulting Hindu deities during a performance at a cafe in the city of Indore.
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Is everything in Life a subtle preparation for Death?
Going home without my sorrow,
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Book Review: The Phoenix, a tale of Hell and Hope
Imagine waking up in the trunk of a car only to find yourself amidst raging bullets, an escaping terrorist, closed windows imprisoning pain and fear and a bunch of cronies approaching their end for the sake of decimation of all the above- the Phoenix 5.
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2020-the year when the Festival of Lights failed to light up Craftsmanship
- by Bidisha Bhattacharya and TEACO's India
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In search of a Remedy-the period when Britain was drowning and India was kept waiting
I still recall the good old days, when my father post-afternoon meal would sit with his cigar lit, on the wooden rocking chair, and narrate me stories about India. A man whose family had witnessed the perils of partition and who had and still possess the vast expanse of knowledge that nobody could ever possibly match; used to sail me across the ocean by turning the ship back in time in an attempt to portray me what my nation went through and gained out of those turbulent times since the eighties.
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Harry Potter and India’s “Growth Rate” conundrum
The startling discovery based on various metrics of measuring the actual growth of the Indian economy between 2011-12 and 2016-17 clearly states the fact that India did not grow at 7% per year as the citizens were officially informed. Instead, the average annual growth crawled at a ridiculously small 4.5%, on an average, during those 5 years and now? Well, its -10.2 percent for 2020-21!
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Mayhem at the Mangroves
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a huge public health crisis across the globe. While the imminent health concerns naturally took priority, the impact of certain other dire consequences of climate change took a back seat. With the ocean devouring up land in the world’s largest mangrove forest, humans and tigers are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking space in the Indian Sundarbans, with deadly ramifications.
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Let's Talk Peer Pressure
Manav and Abhay live in the same society in Andheri. The two toddlers who just turned 5 have been moved to a regular school from a ‘full-of-play’ home. It wasn’t even a week when Manav’s mother learns from other parents that they have already enrolled their children into the so-called extra-curricular activities like swimming, tennis, and guitar classes. She hears the other mothers beaming with pride when they narrate the fact that their little 5-year-olds return late in the evening all-drained from the gazillion ‘pits’ they have been pushed into under the caramel-coat termed as “All-round Development”. She finds it more of a bane on the contrary and hence prefers not to fall prey.
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With the Tea Consumption in India falling by 30%, the crumbling down of “Chai Tapris” seem quite unstoppable
“Bhaiyya ek chai”, the usual afternoon line a tapri situated outside any office was familiar with, somehow evaporated amidst this lockdown, and with it, the Bhaiyya as well. Stepping out into the street from their respective offices in order to share that milky tea with a hint of ginger or cardamom was an Indian office ritual. Be it masala, adrak, tulsi, extra milk, green, sulaimani, sugarless for the health-conscious souls or the famous cutting chai - you name it, the Chai-wale bhaiyya had it. No matter where you work and what you do, the one thing common to 'work cultures' across Indian states is having a cup of tea with colleagues.
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With the Pujo hardly a month away, the artisans of Bengal experience the Worst Financial Crisis
Jaba Da sat down in the nearest bench of the tea stall stationed exactly opposite to his workshop sipping a cup of tea before he would give finishing touches to a Durga idol. Pal Para, popularly known as ‘Kumartuli’ (potter’s locality), has been sustaining his livelihood for the past 15 years. Yet somehow this so-called ‘peak season’ brought in with it a significant segment of THROW than THRIVE.
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With Unemployment levels soaring high, Coronavirus endangers the livelihood of Women in the Informal Sector
Kabita, a 22-year-old woman, lives in a basti next to the posh residential complexes of Kolkata’s South City. She runs a family of five- a husband, who earns his livelihood from pulling rickshaws, an old mother-in-law suffering from arthritis, a widowed sister-in-law, and two children. After losing her job as a housekeeper in the nearby office premises, she decided to take up domestic work in two houses in order to sustain her family. It was at this time that COVID-19 kicked in.
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THE UNENDING MYTH – The two areas of development the Nation is getting all wrong for decades
As the Incumbent Government approaches towards experiencing what can precisely be termed as 'Economic Slowdown', here are the two deep cracks they should look out for and ensure healing at the earliest.
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Blackbird: the Beatles song that meant so much more than just words!
The 25th of July, this year, gave us all an incredulous gasp when we had to painfully witness the terribly unsettling picture of Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African-American for nearly eight minutes while the other three officers looked on.
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