#delhi lockdown

[pointonfirst]

G-20 Summit: Delhi will be closed from 8 to 10 Sep. Lets know what will open and close.

In Delhi due to the G-20 session, the entire Delhi will be deserted from 8 to 10 September. Delhi CM Kejriwal has ordered the closure of schools, offices, and local shops. The country’s capital Delhi is going to be under lockdown soon due to the G-20 Summit is going to be held in Delhi soon, due to which the entire Delhi will remain closed till 8-10 September. During this time schools colleges,…

[9vibes]

Shocking News: Actor Manobala Passes Away Suddenly | RIP Manobala

[thebharatexpress]

राजधानी में लॉकडाउन? स्वास्थ्य मंत्री बोले- बढ़ेंगे कोरोना के मामले, दिया ये निर्देश

राजधानी में लॉकडाउन ? नयी दिल्ली : Lockdown in Delhi ? दिल्ली के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री सौरभ भारद्वाज ने सोमवार को कहा कि राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में कोविड-19 के मामले आने वाले दिनों में बढ़ने की आशंका है, क्योंकि शहर घनी आबादी वाला है । साथ ही उन्होंने ‘फ्लू’ जैसे लक्षणों वाले लोगों से मास्क पहनने और सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर जाने से बचने को कहा। राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में रविवार को कोविड-19 के 699 मामले सामने आये थे…

[beyondthepunchlines]

The Chhaunk: Started The Bihari Street Food Venture From Home In Lockdown Has Become A Hit In Delhi

How This Mother & Daughter-In-Law Due Began Their Restaurant From Their Kitchen! I’m sure most of our readers are going to read this story of a mother and daughter-in-law duo for the first time. And not just any story but a success story. Regardless of whether your first time reading it or second, you are going to love this duo’s success story. Let’s get into it without further delays! Manjari…

[best24news]

कोरोना का फिर आया नया वेरिएंट, चीन में लोकडाउन, कई देशों में पहुंचा वायरस

कोरोना का फिर आया नया वेरिएंट, चीन में लोकडाउन, कई देशों में पहुंचा वायरस

Covid 19: Best24News: कोरोना सक्रमण एक बार फिर बढने लगा है। चीन में रोजाना करीब एक हजार नए मामले सामने आ रहे हैं, कुछ शहरों में फिर से लॉकडाउन कर दिया गया है। विशेषज्ञों ने चेतावनी दी है कि जिस रफ्तार से कोरोना ने वापसी की है, उसे देखते हुए एक हफ्ते के अंदर दूसरे देशो में कोरोना की नई लहर आ सकती है। नया वेरिएंट का बढा खतरा: स्वास्थ्य विभाग के अनुसार कोरोना महामारी का खतरा अभी टला नहीं है।…

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Anonymous asked: Of all the many languages you speak which is your weakest one? Do you use those languages?

It’s privilege to learn any language that isn’t your mother tongue. As Ludwig Wittgenstein correctly observed, “The limits of my language means the limits of my world”. If English is our native tongue we put ourselves at a disadvantage because we expect every other nationality to take the trouble to speak it. There seems no incentive to learn a foreign language. We become lazy not just in language but also in other ways including our cultural enrichment, our imagination, and a misplaced sense of our self-importance in the world.

Of the European languages I know, I probably think German would be my weakest. When I was in school in Switzerland you’re brought up in three languages: French, Italian, and German (even if the Swiss speak Swiss German). When I say weakest I mean I can converse fluently, but I don’t have time to read German literature in the same immersive way I would say with French literature or take any special interest in German affairs.

I would say I’m fairly fluent in French now but still prone to silly mistakes. I’ve been told that I can speak without an accent and that is heart warming to know, because that was always the goal once I moved here to France. I don’t really use French in my work as it’s a multi-national entity and so English is the default language of corporate world, but I’m speaking French pretty much the rest of the time outside of work.

I was extremely fortunate to be born into a multi-lingual family where Norwegian and English were spoken from birth. All my siblings were being versed in Latin (not Greek which came years later after doing Classics at university) by the time I was 8 or 9 years old because my father was a classicist and he felt Latin was the building blocks to mastering other languages.

All this occurring whilst we moved lived and moved around a lot in the world such as China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. When I was initially sent to one of the first of my English girls boarding schools I was horrified that most of the girls only spoke English. I thought I was the stupid one for only knowing 6. Boarding school, if nothing else, gave me a great privilege to hone in on the languages I did know and start to learn others.

My parents didn’t take the easy way out and put us children in international schools like all the other expat children. That would have been too easy given how tight knit the British expatriate community was out there. Instead we were left to sink or swim in local schools in places like Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan or Shanghai in China or in Delhi, India. It was a struggle but you soon find your feet and you stumble towards some basic level of fluency.

I’m fortunate that before Covid my corporate work took me often to the Far East and it was a great opportunity to hone what I already knew. The result is I can converse and take business meetings in Chinese and Japanese (though English gets thrown into the mix too).

I would say Chinese is more of a struggle for me these days because I’ve not been back since before the Covid lockdown in 2020. Chinese is one of those languages that can easily melt away if you don’t get the chance to converse in it on a regular basis. Japanese less so, probably because the culture had more profound impact on me than Chinese culture.

Hindi is less of an issue because I have close Indian friends and also I watch Bollywood movies as well as converse with Indian immigrants here in Paris who have local stores. Urdu I learned through the backdoor because Urdu has a spoken affinity with Hindi (if you know Hindi then you know spoken Urdu, more or less, especially in Northern India and cities like Delhi where Urdu was born in the burnt ashes of Mughal India). Reading is another matter because they each use different scripts - Sanskrit for Hindi and Arabic and Persian script for Urdu.

Strangely enough when I was doing my tour in Afghanistan years ago with the British army, I would speak Urdu with local Afghans who served as official translators or were selling goods on the base. These Afghans knew Urdu because an entire generation of Afghan boys and girls grew up in refugee camps on the Pakistani border during the different phases of the Afghan war. I have very fond memories of their friendship and hospitality, but less so of the war itself. 

With Arabic, it had lapsed woefully until I did a posting in Dubai in the past year (as catalogued in my blog) and I found myself suddenly remembering a lot and asking Arab friends. Soon I was able to hold my own amongst my colleagues and corporate clients. In these cultures it’s really hard to stay focused because so many of them speak very good English. So it’s hard to get them to stick with their own language because you want to learn from them - but they want to show off their English proficiency - and so you have to be polite but persistent to stick with Arabic.  

If you’re learning a new language then I hope you stick with it. There’s almost nothing more rewarding in your life than the disocovery a rich culture through language. The key is to find a way to make it fun rather than a trip to the dentist chair for a root canal operation.

Thanks for your question.

[shortansweet]

China is on lockdown again Singapore has 56k cases Delhi has started covid again IS THIS MY WORST NIGHTMARE COMING BACK HELLO I'M SCARED

[wojosubahjaldinahiuthti]

this cutie @mfkingbiggown 🫂 tagged me so here we go...

1. Are you named after anyone?

nah, my parents got creative while naming me. my dad's name is ravi and ma's name starts with na, ravi+na = ravina

2. When was the last time you cried?

last thursday, probably gonna cry tomorrow or day after or on the weekend because next paper is physics

3. Do you have kids?

main khud adult ho jaon uske baad dekhte hain kids

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

arre every desi person is fluent in sarcasm, it's like a second tongue

plate tod di? shabash, baaki sab bhi tod de

5. Whats the first thing you notice about a person?

if they maintain eye contact with me, for me eye contact is very important because if you aren't gonna hold my gaze then for me it means that you aren't interested in talking. apart from that, i notice how people speak, like the dialect, the accent and everything.

6. Whats your eye colour?

brown as the coffee I drown in everyday

7. Scary movies or Happy endings?

both and neither, love watching scary movies dupehar mein jisse raat ko sapne na aaye, happy endings are adorable especially when im rooting for the couple but I have a different kind of love for tragedies and sad endings 😭✋🏼

8. Any special talents?

ambidextrous, i can write with both hands, left ki utni practice nahi but yeah you can read what i write with my left. also mad eyeliner wing skills, perfected them during lockdown

9. Where were you born?

oh ji main toh delhi, india se hoon

10. What are your hobbies?

love writing poetry, reading books, going for walks, drawing, listening to music

11. Have you any pets?

mummy ne kaha ki tum ho na pet, aur nahi chahiye humein, college mein le lena agar itna hi shauk hai bas maine kuch saaf soof nahi karna

12. What sports do you play/have played?

I play badminton, used to play it everyday during lockdown subah subah but ab school and coaching hai, I play basketball in school, tennis and table tennis bhi, and i'm a brown belt in karate

13. How tall are you?

5'5 I believe

14. Favourtie subject in school?

maths bro, I hated it back in 8th grade but fell in love in 9th, thodi love hate relationship chal rahi hai abhi aaj kal

15. Dream job?

probably a fashion designer or an astro physicist, bahut hi opposite jobs hain but bahut interesting hain, if i had bio i would've become an archaeologist studying dinosaurs no doubt

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[justforbooks]

Bookshops are a precious shelter from the storms of life

I found myself with a line from Bob Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm in my head: “Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm.”

Bookshops have been in a perfect storm of online competition, business rates and parking charges for a while, but they will always survive. Even the tornado of the pandemic won’t defeat them. The customers, from the tearful first few on the day bookshops reopened after lockdown to the joyful children getting back on the rocking horses or gazing at the fish, seem to feel the same way.

“We all become stories”, as Margaret Atwood once said, and the same is true of bookshops. When we refer to our favourite bookshops, we’ll mention the cat or the nice coffee, or the spiral staircase, or the really knowledgeable children’s buyer. Book-ish, which I recently stumbled upon after getting lost in a Welsh storm, has old typewriters lined up above the bookcases, all donated by locals, a reminder of how a community can take a bookshop to its heart.

Customers have told me how bookshops inhabit their subconscious as well. Graham Greene dreamed in such detail of a London bookshop that he went to look for it twice before realising it was completely dream-forged. In bookshops, as Virginia Woolf noted, we can lose the carapace of self, we can flit around our levels of consciousness and inhabit any of our potential selves. After reading that Greta Garbo spent hours in Rizzoli Bookstore because she needed “a break from being Garbo”.

Perhaps the most important self you can rediscover in a bookshop is from your childhood. Recently, a woman in her mid-60s was buying a contemporary literary novel when a dreamy look came over her and she asked: “I don’t suppose The Silver Sword is still in print?” I’m the same age, and we both identified deeply with the refugee in Warsaw during the second world war who kept his parents’ paper knife – the “silver sword” – in a shoebox. She was surprised when I told her it is still consoling children facing the storm of adolescence. Like The Magic Faraway Tree and I Capture the Castle, it is part of the secret canon, unknown to academia, of shot-in-the-arm books.

They exist for adults, too, and sell as steadily as chai in Delhi. They are written in a sort of trance-state burst of creativity, like Brideshead Revisited and 1984, the result surprising their authors but forever feeding the reader-soul. These are the books which are sniffed before purchase and hugged or kissed afterwards.

Serendipitous browsing throws up discoveries and rediscoveries in a way that algorithms never can. Every day there’s a customer who thumps a great pile on the till and exclaims “I’ve got to get out of here before I find any more – I only came in for a card.”

But whatever the storm may throw at us in the meantime, bookshops will forever be a shelter where it’s always safe and warm.

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[invenuos]

do y'all remember when hathras happened. or cab. or farmer's protests. wrestlers. assam burning. do y'all remember blackened newses happening three years ago (delhi danga, violence at jnu, college students protests, shaheen bagh, the lynchings) and then the way they trickled to a stop being shown in mainstream media. do you remember reporters and comedians and activists and teachers being locked for having an opinion against the power, until everyone simply became so afraid that it stopped happening. do you remember when votes were compromised, just sworn-in governments toppled bcs they were opposition. remember how houses were bulldozed over bcs they were of minority, of poor people. do you remember when they put kashmir under total lockdown, beseeching all human rights of expression and dissent for what was happening. do you know about manipur. do you know of the insidious way propaganda has seeped into this country. the polarization that is goal. how the media is a farce at best. of how much we are turning a blind eye to. this country is burning. the government is behind it all. do you remember of any time this government cared to listen from its people? would you remember?

[coochiequeens]

Sounds like a good theme for a ladies night out. 

Exhausted and overwhelmed, Gretchen Miller felt the frustration of the past three years rise up within her. On a whim the 54-year-old from Sydney posted a message to her local community Facebook group. “Does anyone else feel like screaming?” she asked.

The responses poured in. “I want to scream because of climate change and economic inequality,” one woman wrote. “Because of real estate agents and landlords,” said another. “My fiancé decided he didn’t love me anymore,” read one reply. Miller said she received more than 100 messages in the first hour.

From that callout, the Shout Sisters group was formed. A month later they met for the first time at an inner city park to bellow their frustrations into the Australian night.

In recent months, women-only “scream groups” like Miller’s have cropped up all over the world. Frustration, pandemic exhaustion and the pressures of life are common reasons women say they take part. Most are drawn to the idea of unleashing their anger without inhibition. It’s a freedom participants say is hard to find in a world that can be uncomfortable with women’s rage. 

“Women want to scream,” Miller explains. “There are plenty of spaces for men to yell [but] we don’t often get to raise our voices [and] when we do we’re met with disapproval.”

‘Wild and fun’

On Wednesday evening in Sydney, women begin to emerge – one by one – through the trees, ambling along the footpath until they reach the agreed meeting point.

A few nervous exchanges set the scene. A handful of joggers brush past as a college football team slowly disbands for the night.

“After the week of hell I’ve had I need a good scream!” Maryanne Lia, 45, a self-described “screamstress” and mother of four, jokes to the dozen strangers gathered in the park. A chorus of chuckles and smiles nod back in agreement.

A countdown sets the scream in motion. “Three. Two. One!” Twelve unbridled voices pierce the quiet of the night, roar around the hills and then disappear into the passing traffic below. They scream again. Grasping their knees, some shaking their hair, in a circle and some howling at the moon.

“I feel like a little bit of magic just happened,” Miller says as the group lies back on the grass, staring at the stars. Lia agrees. “It’s the freedom to do something wild and fun … to let it all go in a mighty roar.”

One of the first groups to attract attention was in the US, in Boston, during the Covid pandemic lockdowns in 2021. Sarah Harmon, a therapist, yoga teacher and mother of two, sparked a nationwide call to action when she and a group of 20 women turned up to their local football field in Charlestown to scream into the crisp evening air.

“It felt good to be able to be out of control,” one participant said of the event. Another said: “It’s the closest I have come to finding a coven.”

In Asia, kindred rebellions are taking place. Deepika, 27, has mobilised a small but dogged taskforce of women across New Delhi who want to feel safe in a city grappling with a plague of violence against women and girls.

“There is a theme in India of keeping women silent,” she explains. “This is my small way of saying ‘no, we are here, we have something to say and you’re going to hear it’.”

Deepika says the group helps challenge the idea that women’s anger should remain hidden. “Why is anger seen as such a dangerous emotion in women?” she asks. “We have things to be angry about but if we express it we’re seen as crazy or hysterical or out of control.”

Her scream group has nearly 150 members and many gather in locations across India’s capital. “It’s therapeutic. It’s a sort of collective self-care,” Deepika says.

‘No judgment … no shame’

Dr Miriam Yates, an organisational psychologist and research fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland, says that anger and rage can be seen as undesirable or even unnatural for women.

“We expect that women are kind, caring, warm and cooperative. Anger or indeed, rage, is inconsistent with these expectations,” she explains.

Back in Sydney, Lia shares similar sentiments about what it means to be female and furious in a world that has largely placed limits on women’s anger.

“There’s an actual proper rage and women don’t get to express it. Where can you release that? Where can you scream?

“You can’t scream at your boss, you can’t scream at your children. I’ll scream in the car but where else can you do it?” Lia asks.

Earlier this year and a week into one of China’s strictest Covid lockdowns so far, a video of Shanghai residents living inside a densely packed apartment building screaming in unison from their balconies went viral online.

One woman said screaming helped ease the frustration of being locked indoors. Her neighbours joined the chorus after hearing her shrieks through their apartment walls.

Women have experienced additional stresses with work, family and social demands over the past few years, Dr Yates adds.

Screaming groups may provide “the opportunity to express that rage in a supported environment” without the negative consequences, she says.

Seizing upon a similar idea, Scottish-born Julie Scott runs Screech on the Beach from the Hague. It’s a morning ritual that starts in darkness and ends with a moment of meditation on the sand. “I walk back through the dunes and I feel lighter,” she explains.

For Scott, “there is no judgment, there is no shame” in screaming into the sea. “For a brief moment our inhibitions are forgotten, we are together and everything is possible … it’s also a hell of a lot of fun.”

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Sarathy Korwar - KALAK - new “Indo-futurist” LP with Tamar Osborn, Al MacSween, Danalogue, Magnus Mehta, and Photay (who also arranged and produced) (The Leaf Label)

The follow up to the politically charged, award-winning More Arriving is an Indo-futurist manifesto - in rhythmic step with the past and the present, it sets out to describe a route forward. KALAK celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature, which resonates with spirituality and community, while envisaging a better future from those building blocks. Recorded at Real World studios with meticulous production by New York electronic musician, DJ and producer Photay, who translates these communal rhythms and practices into a timeless and groundbreaking electronic record. There’s a spirituality and warmth at play in the polyrhythms, group vocals and melodic flourishes. The KALAK rhythm is the fulcrum upon which the 11-track project balances. After an intense lockdown induced period of reflection and meticulous note-making, Korwar boiled this down to the circular KALAK symbol which he then presented to his band before recording began. With the symbol projected on the walls in order to de-code and improvise around, Korwar had utter faith in the musicians he’d assembled and conviction in the concept. The final part of the KALAK project is realised in the cover artwork by New Delhi-based designer Sijya Gupta. Korwar and photographer friend Fabrice Bourgelle took a light sculpture of the KALAK symbol on a road trip around Southern India, through Chennai, Pondicherry and Auroville. The evocative shots appear on the cover of the various formats, with each one offering a different angle on the country, continent and culture that inspired the album.  Sarathy Korwar - drums, percussion, vocals, electronics Tamar Osborn - baritone saxophone, flute, electronics Alistair MacSween - synthesisers Danalogue - synthesisers Magnus Mehta - percussion Photay - additional synthesisers and drum programming Vocals on 2 by Kushal Gaya Vocals on 4 by Noni-Mouse Vocals and drums on B3 by Kodo Group vocals by Sarathy Korwar, Rohini Kharkar, Tushar Menon, Tamar Osborn, Alistair MacSween, Fabrice Bourgelle and Photay

[happymindandsoul]

DAY 2

Saturday 7:42 PM

7 January, 2023

New Delhi

Hello guys,

Happy New Year Everyone🎉🎊 .

Welcome back to my blog. Hope you guys are doing well.

As, I shared in my previous blog, Painting works like a magic for me whenever I am tired. It is so relaxing.

I started painting when I was a kid. I've loved painting ever since I can remember. I like to do everything related to art whether it is Sketching, Drawing, Water Color Painting, something related to craft and the most recent and currently my favourite one is Canvas Painting.

I created my first Canvas painting in the lockdown during Covid-19. Here is it's pic in case you want to have a look.

I don't fix any time limit to complete my paintings. It's like whenever I get time I continue with my painting.

I have created some more canvas paintings and I would like to share pics of my other Canvas Paintings also with you.

And, here you go :)

Hope you liked my paintings.☺️

And, If you have question in your mind that have I learnt painting from anywhere? Then, I would say no. I have not learnt how to do painting from anywhere.

But, an interesting fact is that my parents are good at drawing. They have a fine hand in painting. So, maybe it's the gene which is responsible for my skills ;)

That's it for today.

I wish you have a nice day which is full of colors.

Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be Colorful

🌹Regards🌹

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[damnedgirl]

I live in a very small town in India. Before I went to studies in Delhi I used to go to this small book shop. It was the only book shop of its kind in the whole town, others were stationary and academic book shops.

My reading habits developed from that shop. Children's magazines, comics etc.

When I left the town I had a collection of 100 or so children's magazines which was huge for an 11 year old. Whenever I went to the town I always visited the Shop. The intern and I developed something of a friendship. Every time I see him he seems a bit different from the last time and I'm sure I looked different to him every time too because we were growing together.

Over the span of a few years( when the internet started gaining popularity) the shop's customer declined, collections became less and no new edition of the magazines could be found easily. I didn't think much of it because I was getting good books from cheap prices because of decreasing demand.

But as of today I went there. The boy was a man, with a thick beard. He looked at me, recognised and gave a nod meaning hey, you. Instead of greeting him I observed that hey you where's all the books because all I saw was religious posters(of every religion prevalent here) and religious books. He smiled that didnt reach his eyes and said, "you realise after how long you came here? Then answer himself " not since the lockdown " no one reads those books now . The ones I have are those which you already have. I enquired more desperately that there should be something, anything that I would want. He politely declined.

I was feeling defeated and I said my goodbye and said I guess I won't be coming here. He smiled sadly and nodded his head in affirmative.

I am feeling so lost. Is it what people call the end of an era? I wasn't ready to close this very important chapter of my childhood today. I lost something, idk what but I lost something and I don't think I will find it again.

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