From doing odd jobs to riding bikes, this mom did it all to educate her child

'I have been riding a bike since I was 15-16. So, I was intrigued and curious to know what it exactly was that made it 'unsuitable' for women,' Pinky told Express Parenting. 'The staff at the app office encouraged me to join. I agreed; my profile was ready in an hour but I could not muster the courage to start,' she recalled. It was on the day of Saraswati Puja, on February 10 that things took a turn. 'There wasn't a single paisa in the house. My daughter was craving some good food but I had no means. Suddenly, I remembered about the bike app and thought of taking a couple of rides, driving customers, so that I could get something for her with the money. I borrowed money from my neighbour for petrol and completed five trips that day,' she said. How a mother, who grew up in an abusive household, is teaching her son about gender equality 'It was my dream to send my daughter to an English medium school' Pinky is currently the sole earner in her family-of-three. Initially, she worked with some NGOs. She joined Uber Eats last year and is now working for the app along with Rapido. Her husband, who had been employed as a driver, is physically unfit to work now. Despite financial constraints, Pinky made sure her nine-year-old daughter, now in class 4, was not deprived of proper education. 'My parents never really stressed on my education. Studies never really mattered, let alone pursuing a career. As a young girl, I had decided that when I get married, I will have a single child and will make sure he or she gets proper education. And I think my dream came true when I put my daughter in a good English medium school. Yes, the expenses are beyond our means but I don't want to step back. This has been my only dream,' said the mother. From 'wooden doll' to disability activist: Meet Nipun Malhotra and his inspiring mom The road to fulfilling the dream, however, has been not easy for Pinky or her daughter. Couple of years ago, Pinky left her husband's house to stay with her mother. 'That did not turn out well because I have always been very independent as a person. So, I left my maternal home too. I had no money when I left. In a few days, I set up a small panwadi. My daughter would sit with me at the shop after school since there was nowhere I could send her,' she recalled. An employee from the school finally got her a job as a cook at a teacher's house. The teacher recommended her to a couple of her colleagues too. Meanwhile, her daughter's academics began to suffer. She was then in her first standard. 'At that time, I could only think of ways for us to survive and so, I could not focus on my daughter's studies. The teacher whose house I worked at suggested giving tuitions to my daughter. She has been studying there since then, free of cost. In all these years, I have never skipped work at this teacher's house. She helped me in my worst situation and I will always remained indebted to her,' Pinky expressed. 'A woman wearing a helmet makes people uncomfortable' Financial problems aside, Pinky also has to fight sexism on a daily basis. 'Where I come from, a woman wearing a helmet and riding a bike or simply being independent is still unheard of and censured. As a woman, you are expected to get married, have children and take care of your husband. Any woman who deviates from this role is a threat and makes people uncomfortable. I have been told to marry my daughter off as early as possible. But how do I make them understand that my daughter is an integral part of me and not some burden? And that's why I don't take her to my village, only to protect her from this mindset,' the mother said. 'I tell my daughter she is no less than a boy' In her parenting style, Pinky is making sure her daughter grows up to be a woman not bowed down by society and is able to make choices in life. She tells her daughter that she can live her life on her own terms. 'I tell my daughter that no matter what people say, she is no less than a boy. One day, she will grow up to be successful and will make her mother proud,' she said. Pinky now lives with her husband and daughter. 'A separated, single mother is still a taboo. So, my husband and I are living together now. My daughter understands our situation. But she knows I am there for her all the time,' Pinky signed off. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://doodleordie.com/profile/resfonkoys

Now, disabled-friendly seats at PVR Cinemas in Chennai

The reservation policy came into force about six months ago and the number of reserved seats are decided depending on the size of the hall, the spokesperson said. SPI Cinemas has already reserved seats in the front near the exit for PwD. "We welcome this reservation and it will be incredibly helpful," said TNM Deepak, a disability rights activist and a faculty at Loyola College. He however added that what would be more inclusive, is to reserve a set of seats for PwD, senior citizens and pregnant women. "This would not only increase the number of reserved seats, but also reduce the stigma of accessing those seats," he said. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://www.vox.com/users/sikendergunm

India staring at longest heatwave in 3 decades

With a heatwave spell stretching 32 days, 2019 has already seen the second-longest spell of scorching temperature ever recorded. If the mercury doesn't dramatically drop in the next two days, 2019 will become the year with the longest heatwave spell in recorded history — with three weeks to go in June. In 1988, there were 33 such days, and in 2016, there were 32 such days. A heatwave is defined as when the maximum temperature is at least 40 degree C (plains) and 30 degree C (hills), according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In scorching sun, UP villages without a drop to drink The searing heat is already leaving people withered. Four elderly passengers on board the Kerala Express died apparently of suffocation and heat at Jhansi, where the mercury has hovered around the 45 degree mark since the beginning of the month. The four people, three of whom died on Monday evening, were part of a 67-member group returning to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu after visiting Agra and were travelling in non-AC sleeper coaches. 'A team of doctors examined them on board the train at Jhansi; three of them had passed away by then and one passenger was rushed to hospital [who died on Tuesday],' said railway spokesperson Manoj Kumar Singh. He said the cause of death appeared to be heat but the exact cause would be known after a post-mortem examination. The blazing heatwave is in line with predictions made by a number of scientific studies based on IMD data that show that the intensity of heatwaves is rising. DS Pai, a scientist at IMD, Pune, said their study of long-term heatwave data of 35 metrological sub-divisions showed a threefold increase in heatwaves every year since 1991. 'Our observation indicates that the increase was steeper in the last two decades,' he said. An Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune study added that another impact of long spells of heat was an increase in the number of hot days and nights. An analysis of daily maximum and minimum temperatures of 121 IMD stations distributed across India between 1970 and 2015 showed the frequency of hot days and nights showed a big jump whereas that of cold days and nights dropped sharply. 'With climate change, the frequency and intensity of heat waves in India will increase,' S Krishnan, a senior scientist at IITM, said. In its heatwave bulletins, IMD has pointed out that this year's hot spell has been amplified by the absence of pre-monsoon showers, the presence of hot and dry winds from western dry zones. However, the heatwave spell is likely to cool down this weekend, the IMD heat forecast on Tuesday said. In major cities across northern India, the demand for power and water surged even as many sources of water - such as rivers and reservoirs - ran dry. The peak power demand in Delhi broke all records of this season on Monday and touched a high of 6,686 MW, reported the discoms. In the hinterlands, where there are often no secondary sources of water such as tanks and pipes, the situation is worse. In Sonbhadra district on the eastern tip of Uttar Pradesh, for example, the scorching sun has forced many villagers to dig pits in the riverbed and wait for groundwater to ooze out. As the temperatures rise, the pits will go dry and villagers will have to trek kilometres for a pot of water. Hand pumps often don't work in these regions because in many pockets, the water level has dipped below 300 feet. The sweltering heat has driven tens of thousands of people into hill stations that are ill-equipped to handle a rush of such magnitude. Uttarakhand's Nainital has seen an average of 15,000 to 20,000 tourists arrive daily in a city with a capacity of just 8,000 rooms. Mussoorie, which has 2,000 rooms, has seen 190,030 tourists flood the town since May. As many as 15,000 vehicles have entered Manali and Shimla on weekends this month, translating to roughly 60,000 people — about a third of the population of these towns. The tourist influx is repeatedly choking all approach roads to the small Himalayan hill stations and causing massive traffic snarls in the mountains. Moreover, the hills have received no respite from the blistering sun — Monday's maximum temperature for Mussoorie was six degrees above normal at 30.5 degrees Celsius while Dharamsala recording a maximum of 33.8 degrees Celsius. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://www.playbuzz.com/item/010d14e4-a230-4e60-a6aa-7b439be4fc2f

The body electric

Still, the role of this work, and much of Khakhar's oeuvre, centring around human body, in all its miracles and failings — especially that of the gay Indian man — cannot be overlooked. Body as icon As an artist, Khakhar was inclined towards storytelling and the stories that he was most committed to narrating — apart from the autobiographical — sprung from the world around him. Among his early significant works were the 'Tradesmen' series, including works such as De-Luxe Tailor (1972) and Janata Watch Repairing (1972). There wasn't anything glamorous in these works but Khakhar's commitment was towards telling the stories of anyone, no matter how low they were on the social and economic scale. In the process, he turned the bodies of these ordinary men, earning their daily bread, into icons. As identity Khakhar had worked out that he was gay fairly early, but it wasn't until he travelled to the UK in 1979 that he became aware of the gay rights movement. It emboldened him to embrace his identity and, finally, come out of the closet in a work of such spectacular force that, to this day, few other artworks from the subcontinent can match it in raw emotional power. You Can't Please All (1981) was a work of immense courage, depicting Khakhar's own nude figure, leaning out over a balcony while below him, Aesop's fable about how you can never please everyone, unfolds in the figures of an old man, his son and their donkey. As vulnerability Khakhar never shied away from depicting human frailties, especially his own, in his paintings. With white hair and loose sagging skin, even the artist's depiction of his own aging body, was unsparing till the end. In Yayati (1987), which shows two male nude figures — one young and one old — he worked out his own anxieties about aging and loss of vitality, while Man with Cataract (1979) is a self-portrait in which arrows in the eyes depict the years of trouble that Khakhar endured due to cataract in both eyes. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://langleygymnastics.ca/ActivityFeed/tabid/60/userId/900609/Default.aspx

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Apple's US iPhones can all be made outside of China if needed

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer now makes most of the smartphones in the Chinese mainland. China is a crucial cog in Apple's business, the origin of most of its iPhones and iPads as well as its largest international market. But President Donald Trump has threatened Beijing with new tariffs on about $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, an act that would escalate tensions dramatically while levying a punitive tax on Apple's most profitable product. Hon Hai, known also as Foxconn, is the American giant's most important manufacturing partner. It will fully support Apple if it needs to adjust its production as the US-Chinese trade spat gets grimmer and more unpredictable, board nominee and semiconductor division chief Young Liu told an investor briefing in Taipei on Tuesday. 'Twenty-five per cent of our production capacity is outside of China and we can help Apple respond to its needs in the US market,' said Liu, adding that investments are now being made in India for Apple. 'We have enough capacity to meet Apple's demand.' Apple has not given Hon Hai instructions to move production out of China, but it is capable of moving lines elsewhere according to customers' needs, Liu added. The company will respond swiftly and rely on localized manufacturing in response to the trade war, just as it foresaw the need to build a base in the US state of Wisconsin two years ago, he said. It's unclear if India will ever become a major production base for Apple's marquee device. Foxconn is now running quality tests for the iPhone XR series there and plans to begin mass production at a facility in the suburbs of Chennai. Older models are already assembled at a Wistron plant in Bangalore. Apple's shift from gadgets to services tests investor patience Foxconn has also agreed to build a 13,000-worker facility in Wisconsin in exchange for more than $4.5 billion in government incentives. But that project has since come under criticism for low-paying jobs, sudden dismissals and ever-changing goals. On Tuesday, executives reaffirmed that employment goal, saying construction remained on schedule and that it will hire as many as 2,000 Americans by the end of 2020. It will also start making networking and server products for the US market by the end of next year, on top of LCDs starting next year, Liu said. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/294818/Default.aspx

Akashdeep Singh slams hat-trick as India rout Uzbekistan 10-0 in FIH Series Finals

The last Pool A match turned out to be a mismatch as the Indians controlled the proceedings from start to finish. The action was all in the Uzbekistan half as India attacked in numbers from the word go and secured as many as five penalty corners in the first four minutes, the last of which was converted by Varun to hand lead to the home team. Next was Akashdeep's turn to register his name in the scoresheet as he scored from a rebound from another short corner in the 11th minute. Four minutes later, Rohidas converted a penalty corner to make the scoreline 3-0 in India's favour. It continued to rain goals in the second quarter as India scored four more to go into the breather with a handsome 7-0 lead. Varun scored his second in the 22nd minute from a field effort before Akashdeep found the Uzbek net with a reverse hit two minutes later. Young Nilkanta was not to be left behind as he scored from a rebound in the next minute from India's next short corner. Mandeep completed the first half rout, pushing in from close range after being fed by Ramandeep Singh. India dominated after the change of ends but could score just once in the third quarter when Gursahibjit guided the ball into the net in the 45th minute after receiving a through pass from Sumit. Thereafter, Aksshdeep completed his hat-trick before Mandeep scored another at the stroke of the final hooter to round off the drubbing. It was a no contest at all as Uzbekistan failed to threaten India's goal even once in the entire 60 minutes. India's domination can be gauged from the fact that they earned as many as 12 penalty corners as against the rivals' none. The Indians had 23 shots on goal while the Uzbeks had none. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://wanelo.co/adilsheekse

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Flood of stink in parched city

The road is inundated by drainage and sewage water. Ranchi Municipal Corporation is aware of this problem but the municipal authority never showed interest for permanent solution of the problem. I informed RMC officials and they once visited the locality and returned without giving any solution. Ranchi's civic guardians apparently have always been immune to such criticism," Jha said.Sources in the civic body said the RMC employee and his family members own the 10-cottah vacant plot which is used as the discharge area of the drainage, and they have blocked the discharge."In the last two months, we received around two dozen complaints from local residents who said that some unknown person choked the drainage. Every time we cleaned it, the next day the drainage was found choked again," said an RMC employee who pleaded anonymity. Residents are being forced to stay indoors due to the overflowing drain."We are living in a hell with foul smells, insects and reptiles all around," said Shiv Kant Mishra (75), a pediatrician whose house is situated next to the vacant plot. "I can't even go out of my house as my premises are flooded. The drain water has polluted my well. Parents face problem to visit my home," added Mishra, who on average treats 40 children at his home clinic.Raman Kumar, assistant to gynaecologist Sunita Jha who runs her private nursing home in the colony, said patients are not coming these days and they take medical advice over phone."The road is narrow and full of potholes and flooded so it is risky for pregnant women to visit the nursing home. This is one of the busiest roads of the colony, but unfortunately the RMC doesn't care for basic civic amenities," said Kumar.Residents fear the worst is yet to come; schools are due to open next week after summer vacations. Vidyapatinagar Col-ony has a population over 10,000. Gandhinagar has four schools including DAV, and health centres such as CCL Hospital.Most of the children of the locality study at these schools."My two daughters study at DAV school. I am worried how they will go to school," said homemaker Sabita Mishra. "They will have to travel an additional kilometre. For the past 10 days me along with my children and husband have been living with my parents at Boreya." Around three years ago, the civic body had sanctioned Rs 36 lakh to extend the drainage pipe to Gandhinagar. However, work was stopped midway. The RMC reasoned that it would be an unnecessary expenditure since the mega drainage and sewerage project for Ranchi under the JNNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission) has already been kicked off including at ward number 2."Do we suffer till our locality is covered under JNNURM? This project is already running late," said resident and shopkeeper Bapi Chatterjee."My business has suffered. We are always neglected by RMC."Contacted, Ranchi deputy mayor Sanjeev Vijayvargiya said: "I personally called the land owner, who is an RMC employee, to allow his land as outfall but he gave cold response. Last year we decided to extend and connect the drainage with that of Gandhinagar. But the authorities of Central Coalfields Limited denied permission. We are trying to find an alternative."Homemaker Anita Jha said the locality would hold meeting within a couple of days "to decide whether to pay tax to the RMC". She added: "We the housewives have been facing problems. During the Assembly election we will surely teach the government a lesson." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://wiznotes.com/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/202716/Default.aspx