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July 15 - December 26, 2021
There were a grand total of fifty-five licensed television sets when Nehru died in 1964, about a hundred thousand when Indira Gandhi declared emergency in 1975, a little over two million when the Asian Games came to Delhi in 1982, thirty-four million families owned a TV set when Manmohan Singh opened up the economy in 1991
TV sets in India
This generation does not value money as an asset, but rather as an enabler. Accordingly, the attitude to money is not of conservation but of optimal utilization to achieve desires.
sooner. The old theories of learning and intelligence probably need an overhaul in this new year when a two-year-old can play with a smartphone before she knows how to write with a pencil.
The definition of a ‘suitable girl’ has changed and the Centre for Social Research, Delhi reports in India Today, 6 April 2015: 1960s meant pretty, virgin, accomplished; 1970s meant convent-educated, homely, smart, fair; 1980s meant tall, fair, slim and qualified; 1990s meant high earning, beautiful; 2000s meant compatible, working girl7.
70 per cent of all American females work outside the home. The comparative figure for India would be around 17 per cent.
Women dominate higher education and in campuses across US and Canada, the ratio is 60:40 female12.
Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Corporation in 1931. They bought the right to make Dada in India and they modified the name by adding ‘L’ from Lever Brothers to it, and thus in 1937, was born ‘Dalda’.
Adani Wilmar is the largest seller of cooking oils now, with their brand Fortune.
all refined oils have zero cholesterol.
The father of the White Revolution, Dr Verghese Kurien arrived in Anand in Gujarat in 1949 as a government employee to manage a dairy, but ended up helping farmers repair their machinery to revolutionize the Indian dairy sector
A city planner once wrote about the US suburban phenomenon, that when a commute exceeds one hour either way, the commuter starts looking at other options. Maybe change of home, change of job or change of transport system.
the primary reason a woman takes up employment, even in the USA, is to fund the education of her children
