The Inspiring Women Homai Vyarawalla : India’s first female photographer

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World Photography Day - The Inspiring Women Homai Vyarawalla India's first female photographer
World Photography Day - The Inspiring Women Homai Vyarawalla India's first female photographer
Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first female photographer. Homai Vyarawalla was born in a middle class family in Navsari, Gujarat. Vyarawala was born on 13 December 1913. His father was an actor in Parsi Urdu Theatre. He was brought up in Mumbai and did photography with his friends Manekshaw Vyarwala and J.J. Learned from School of Art. Homai Vyarawalla entered the beautiful world of photography in 1938. This was the time when the camera was nothing less than a surprise for the common people. In such a situation, it was a big deal for Homai Vyarawalla to become a photographer. Through his photography, Homai Vyarawalla always tried to depict the social and political life of a changing nation. Homai Vyarawalla also captured photographs of the flag hoisted for the first time at the Red Fort in August 1947, the departure of Lord Mountbatten from India, the last visit of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Vyarawalla’s first picture was published in the Bombay Chronicle, for which he was paid Re 1 for each of his photographs. After marriage, Homai Vyarawalla moved to Delhi with her husband. Here Homai Vyarawalla took many photographs during independence as an employee of the British Information Services. After World War II, Homai Vyarawalla started working for the Illustrated Weekly of India magazine. which lasted till 1970. Apart from this, many black and white photographs taken by Homai Vyarawalla have appeared as photo-stories in Time, Life, The Black Star and other international publications. Vyarawalla left professional photography in 1970, after the death of her husband. She  moved with her son Farooq to BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, where her son studied. But his son died in 1989 due to cancer. After the death of her son and husband, she started living alone in an apartment in Baroda, Gujarat. In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. In January 2012, Vyarawalla fractured his hip bone after falling from his bed. His neighbors took him to the hospital. Homi was suffering from lung disease for a long time due to which she was not able to breathe properly. On 15 January 2012, he breathed his last at 10.30 am.

Water Therapy can Wash away Chronic Diseases – Meeta Kaur Madhok

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Meeta Kaur Madhok - Water Therapy can Wash away Chronic Diseases
Meeta Kaur Madhok - Water Therapy can Wash away Chronic Diseases

Medical Society has proved that Water Therapy can 100% cure arthritis, epilepsy, asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, meningitis, diarrhea, urinary tract infections, GI Tract infections, migraine, diabetes, hypertension, constipation many other ailments, by itself without any medications!!

Humans lose their sensation of thirst in this busy world. This leads to dehydration. When the need for water is ignored for a long time, it develops into chronic dehydration as age progresses.

As a result body produces complicated secondary symptoms of dehydration which is often misinterpreted for unrelated diseases.

These conditions include, but are not limited to:

💧Dyspepsia 💧Rheumatoid arthritis 💧Angina 💧Migraine and headaches 💧Colitis 💧Constipation 💧Hypertension 💧Anemia 💧Obesity 💧Sinusitis 💧Pulmonary tuberculosis 💧Asthma 💧Kidney stones 💧Diabetes 💧 Irregular menstruation 💧Leukemia 💧Uterine cancer 💧Breast cancer

💦 Steps for Water Therapy 💦 💧Immediately upon waking in the morning, drink 1.50 liters of water, which is equivalent to 5-6 glasses of water.

💧Do not eat or drink anything else for 1 hour prior to and after drinking the water.

💧Do not consume any alcoholic beverages the night before.

💧At first, it may be difficult to drink 1.50 liters of water at one time; however, your body will gradually get accustomed to the protocol.

💧When starting out, you may want to make it easier by modifying the protocol slightly, as follows: Drink 4 glasses, then pause for 2 minutes, then drink the last 2 glasses.

💧Maximum benefits are observed when the steps are completely followed. Consumption of more water makes one experience better results.

💦 Start Water Therapy right away to wash of simple to chronic ailments!!!💦

Vandana Kapur – Why Financial Freedom is a MUST for Women

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Vandana Kapur, Founder of The Channel

In a society that places complete responsibility on the males to provide and females to be passive receivers of those provisions, not being dependent on male family members is a dream.

It also gives women more authority to reject specific ways of life if they are no longer in a position of dependency. It empowers them through this authority, which should be every woman’s goal at the end of the day. Ensuring women have control over their lives this way is crucial to empowerment.

Assuming that the women in question are completely satisfied with their lives, they can still fall into a whole host of situations, unwittingly. By ensuring they make safe, small investments, they create a backup plan in case things fall apart. Having said that, it is more crucial to invest when they still have money, so they invest at the right time and do not fall into hardships that are not needed.

The truth is that everyone wants to be financially independent. However, this is often seen as complicated, and people consider themselves unable to achieve it.

With a well-planned strategy, it becomes much easier to achieve this!

When you start investing with small amounts and reap returns per month from those investments, the euphoric feeling of such financial independence is beyond words. In Vandana’s words, “This gives such a relief and sense of security and lot of one’s fears are addressed. This is just the first step that I had taken to be financially independent, and I am glad that I did. I am so stress-free today.”

With more women entering the workforce, the need for a passive income among women rises. While several make active incomes, women who are investing diligently are living proof of the wonders passive income can bring. Active income may be ideal for immediate financial security, but only passive income guarantees long-term financial security and independence. Women can even pass down this income to their daughters, financially securing generations and ensuring that money is never a stressor for this.

For this kind of security, a lot of women turn to gold, stocks, mutual funds, fixed deposits etc. in hopes that those will adequately compensate any loss on a rainy day. Some also invest in real estate. While FDs and mutual funds are safe options, they have minimal growth potential. Real estate investments yield passive income at a much faster and higher rate. This has allowed many women to grow their savings and secure their futures. 

“My favourite investment is real estate investment. I started with small investments in bank FDs which gave me 6-7% returns. Once my capital money was accumulated, I invested in real estate, grew my returns to 10-14% in form of rental income and capital appreciation.” – Vandana Kapur

Financial independence among women is the need of the hour. They need to feel financially secure in the choices they make and feel like they have agency over their lives. This creates an imperative need for an initiative like Investor Ladies fuelled by an empowered woman like Vandana Kapur, who is passionate about taking the cause forward. With her knowledge propelling Investor Ladies, she can bring more women who deserve financial independence closer to this goal through effective real estate investments that yield significant results for years to come!
Founder of Investor Ladies – http://investorladies.com/
Founder of The Channel Inc –  https://thechannelinc.com/vandana-kapur/

Things to do- For Travel Industry Professionals- IN TIME OF CRISIS

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Things to do- For Travel Industry Professionals- IN TIME OF CRISIS
Things to do- For Travel Industry Professionals- IN TIME OF CRISIS

With Travel industry hitting the hardest due to Covid 19. www.toogletravel.com, the aggregator for B2B Travel Consultants has listed few things to do, during these hard times. Mr. Nishant Mehta, Chief Partnership Officer  suggests things to do, so that people can sail through this tough times and emerge stronger for coming times.

Due to Corona Virus, Travel Industry is entering a great crisis. If the entire economy is getting impacted, tourism would get hit too. COVID -19 (CORONA VIRUS) is declared as global Health Emergency making havoc on rise and economy of the world.

The travel, tourism, and hospitality industry is reeling from the outbreak and spread of coronavirus, which is prompting many people to cancel trips and stay at home or are being forced to cancel their travel plans due to travel restrictions across various countries.

Travel on the whole will be at a standstill for some time.

Due to COVID -19, the Tourism Industry is affected badly and lots of issues arising. Below are few of the issues which has effected the trade:

  1.  Cancellations & Refunds
  2. Too much follow with airlines and hoteliers for refunds.
  3. Outbound Tourism Closed
  4. Inbound Tourism Affected Badly
  5. Domestic Tourism Crippling
  6. Visas Cancelled
  7. No New Work or Customers
  8. Cash Flow Stuck
  9. Routine Day to Day expenses is adding to the stress
  10. Lots of Idle Time

We at TOOGLE, always believe in not only be the aggregator for B2B Travel Consultants but also to empower our travel consultants and members with self-development and thereby helping them to be more successful.

In the current scenario, where we have lot of idle time, we would like to give you some tips to utilize yours and your employee‘s idle time and also to motivate them to fight this crisis together, because we believe “Together we are 100 %”.

We at Toogle, would like to share some of the tips which can be used to optimize our time.

  1. ImageConsultancy-Image consultancy which aims to improve the image personally and professionally through behavior, appearance and communication, which will help you getting more confident and presentable.
  2. Public Speaking-The act with which we can accomplish purpose to inform, to persuade and to entertain with different technology such as video calling, multimedia   presentations, etc.
  3. Enhance Your Skill of PPT Presentations-A complete and a professional way to express and impress the client.
  4. Enhance your Excel Knowledge-Excel is generally better for managing data: performing complex calculations, exploring possible outcomes, and producing high quality charts.
  5. Content Creation – Create your content and flyers for future as thiswill make you future ready when the industry starts recovering.
  6. Learn to use Social Media-Learn to use platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc. to boost your business.
  7. One to One with Peers-Get in touch with peers who’s in same industry and understand their forte, share your expertise as well as get more information in theirs too
  8. Product Training: Learn more about your products and also about Inbound Tourism- Research more on inbound destinations especially new/undiscovered places. Try and make the itineraries keeping client in mind.
  9. Data Reconciliation: It helps you for extracting accurate and reliable information about the state of your company/clients/finance/pipeline possible leads.
  10. Systems and Processes:Right time update your internal and external systems and processes in place they help your company grow exponentially.
  11. Follow Leaders: Spend time reading about your leaders as it may transform you completely and get the leader out of you.
  12. Bonding Time: Spend time with your near and dear ones.
  13. Stay Positive: Travel is the most progressive expression of human curiosity, and the sector will recover and the world will bounce back soon to get the ball rolling back.

The gorgeous Kanika Kapoor will again spread the magic on Bappi Lahiri’s musical renditions

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The gorgeous Kanika Kapoor will again spread the magic on Bappi Lahiri’s musical renditions
The gorgeous Kanika Kapoor will again spread the magic on Bappi Lahiri’s musical renditions

Producer Manju Bharti revealed that it is for the first time that people will get to experience the melodious voices of the amazing of Bappi Lahiri and Kanika Kapoor coming together! After giving us the terrific superhit songs like ‘Baby Doll’ and ‘Chittiyan Kalaiyan’, singer Kanika Kapoor will again do wonders on Bappi Lahiri’s music in the film “Pyaar Mein Thoda Twist”. Recently, Bappi Lahiri has recorded a super-duper fun song which is voiced by Kanika Kapoor and himself.

Kanika has sung it in a totally new style, which people will like a lot! Producer Manju Bharti, director Partho Ghosh and Bappi Lahiri have selected Kanika Kapoor for lending her voice to this song, whose lyrics are also like Reject and Select. At the same time, actor Mukesh J Bharti is also very excited about the songs of his upcoming film “Pyaar Mein Thoda Twist” which will be full of high-spirits and delight! He revealed that his upcoming film is based on a very entertaining subject which will also give out some meaningful messages to the audience.

“Pyaar Mein Thoda Twist” is full of many twists, which will entertain the audiences immensely!

IIFW remembers Mothers with a short film “The First Lady’

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India Intimate Fashion Week which is quite synonymous in India has released an impactful short film on social awareness. Every year during International Women’s Day, IIFW brings a powerful, socially concerned topic in front of the world, through a neat short film. IIFW’s earlier short stories, The Right Cup Project & Do Not Look Here, were very well appreciated across the industry and audience. This year too, IIFW has thoughtfully created a masterpiece that would raise concerns about another Taboo in the society, again.

Mr Niraj Jawanjal, Founder and Chief Ideator of India Intimate Fashion Week, who has conceptualized and also directed this film said, “With the core focus of IIFW to “Boo the Taboo” about the existing taboo in India when it comes to talking about lingerie, a basic need in our day-to-day life. There is nothing like only youngsters need it and older ones don’t. Rather they need more care, attention and support than youngsters. This short film draws the attention to the critical issues viz. sagging, breast cancer, uterus cancer, personal hygiene related issues and mainly on the mental illnesses which start with ignorance & loneliness. etc to which elders and parents are more prone to. The was busy and life would always keep us busy out of our professional and personal commitments but if that results into parents getting ignored and feeling lonely then there is nothing worse than this. He further elaborates that; this is a genuine attempt to re-think on how we live our lives in a busy metro city and what it results into directly or indirectly. This short film was released on 7 March 2020 for all to see on all social media channels.

GAIL celebrates International Women’s Day with its innovative “What’s Your Avatar” initiative

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GAIL celebrates International Women’s day with its innovative What's Your Avatar initiative
GAIL celebrates International Women’s day with its innovative What's Your Avatar initiative

GAIL celebrates International Women’s Day with its innovative “What’s Your Avatar” initiative

6th March 2020, New Delhi: Inspired by Honourable Prime Minister’s initiative #SheInspiresUs and as a tribute to its women employees of the organization, GAIL (India) Ltd. celebrated Women’s Day with its “What’s Your Avatar” initiative within the organization.

Under this initiative, GAIL employees had an option to choose specially designed “Avatars” physically as well as on a digital platform from six different categories namely “Passionate”, “Team Player”, “Risk Taker”, “Empathetic”, “Intellectual” and “Multitasker”, and gift it to their women colleagues, as a token of appreciation for their skills, efforts and qualities.

The event saw a high turnout & digital engagement, where GAIL employees enthusiastically participated to gift “Avatar” badges to their colleagues and write their names on the billboard besides their corresponding qualities.

GAIL aims at treasuring its employees as its best resources and believes in building a diversified workforce.

Celebrate this colorful festival with Rangriti

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Celebrate this colorful festival with Rangriti
Holi is around the corner and so is the need to dress up right for the festival. Rangriti has launched its new range of collection of Holi special. The range will make you fall in love with its pop of vibrant colors and modern cut and design.
For those who prefer Fusion Indian wear and comfort dressing, you can go for Rangriti’s Fusion combination. There are many types of clothing you can wear on Holi like Salwar Kameez, Plazo, Straight suit, double layering Dress and Anarkali suit in vibrant colors of Blue, Purple, Red, White. The bold colors and warm material with classic prints are surely going to flaunt yourself and make you feel special at this festive time. So shop from Rangriti this enjoy Holi like never before Available At – All EBO’S and MBO’S Amazon, Myntra & Ajio Website – www. Rangriti.com Facebook – www.facebook.com/RangritiIndia

KAAL SHAKTI, A Kathak DRAMA BALLET, TO CELEBRATE THE ESSENCE OF WOMANHOOD

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Urvashi Dance Music Art and Cultural Society is going to present a unique creation and presentation “Kaal Shakti” on 8th March 2020 at Kamani Auditorium, from 6 pm onwards.
kaal shakti

Urvashi Dance Music Art and Cultural Society is going to present a unique creation and presentation “Kaal Shakti” on 8th March 2020 at Kamani Auditorium, from 6 pm onwards. The unique dance, drama ballet presentation will put forth the programs which symbolize the powers of Shiva in form of its incarnations of Stree Shakti as Sita, Draupadi or Ahillya, Urmila in form of mother, sister, daughter in different ages. This presentation not only shows the empowered forms of females but also the various facets of females in the society and aims to pay tribute to these strong women who embody the female strength of Shiv, within them.

The grand event, conceptualized under the leadership of Kathak exponent and social activist Dr Rekha Mehra, President of Urvashi Dance, Music, Art and Cultural Society is scheduled on the eve of World Women’s Day. The event will also honor a few eminent women who have empowered the society at large and symbolizes the creative powers of the universe. The event will start with a small workshop by Dr Anju Sharma, a Psychiatrist, Sound & Energy Master. This will be followed by a 15 minutes long performance by Sound Of Infinity, Asia’s first healing band founded by Dr Anju Sharma.

Dr. Rekha Mehra sharing a brief about the event,says “Kaal Shakti is our way for dedicating and empowering those women who have braved all the odds to make a niche for themselves. We will show an aspect of Shiva – Kaal Shakti where Shiva and Shakti complete each other. Our nature and energy derive the strength from Shakti.”

Going forward, the show will depict a scene of a Yajna where Daksha invites all the gods and kings of the world, except Lord Shiva. When Daksha’s youngest daughter Sati goes for the yajna, he repeatedly snubbed her and also insulted her husband Shiva in front of all the dignitaries. He continued shouting repugnant words against Shiva. Sati felt deep remorse for not listening to her beloved husband. Sati was unaware of her power all these while, but after the bearless humiliation of husband, she realizes her power and cursed Daksha for acting so awfully towards her husband and then Sati committed suicide by jumping into the sacrificial fire.

Dr Rekha Mehra further adds, “Today, some women feel vulnerable and live in fear. So, we will finish the program with a Tarana that will spread the message to those women that they are strong enough to live an equal life and can raise their voice against all the injustice happening around.”

For past five years, Urvashi Dance, Music, Art and Cultural society is taking initiatives for the betterment of the underprivileged citizens of our society and is organizing various programs and activities that provide a platform for the weaker sections of the society to showcase their talent, increase their opportunities and empower them to work towards a better tomorrow. Urvashi’s many dance productions are designed as educational experiences to address impactful social issues like HIV-AIDS, Global Warming, Female Feticide, Girls’ Education, War & Peace, etc. Continuing their commitment to the underprivileged, Dr Rekha Mehra and her team at Urvashi is looking forward to reaching out to a wider audience and communicating the message of peace, love and harmony through an innovative showcase of artistic expression.

ICUNR Celebrated International Women’s Day with a Panel Discussion and Awards Ceremony

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ICUNR (Indian Council for UN Relations) Celebrated International Women’s Day with a Panel Discussion and Awards Ceremony, Event organized by Leher Sethi and Neeraj Kumar Le Meridien, 8 Windsor Place, Janpath, New Delhi
L-R Social Activist Leher Sethi with Actor Chitrangda Singh with Neeraj Kumar

Ms. Leher Sethi, Secretary, ICUNR along with Neeraj Kumar hosted an afternoon to celebrate International Women’s Day at Le Meridien, New Delhi in the presence of dignitaries. The Central Theme of the ceremony was to recognize and honour Outstanding Women Achievers of 2019, followed by a The theme for the awards and Panel Discussion for Delhi this year is “Women’s Safety in India – A Crumbling Myth?”.

The panelists Dr. Shayama Chona, Nazia Erum, Media & Advocacy, Ritu Saini Acid Victim…. discussed various issues and challenges faced in India related to Women Safety. The collective mood of the rapt audience was pensive and somber while the the discussion was going on, owing to the seriousness of the situation and the grave need for things to change.

The event was commemorated in the presence of UN delegates, Embassy Heads, Select Diplomats and celebrities. International Women’s Day was celebrated by awarding women achievers from different genres for their exceptional contribution in their respective fields.

The guests were welcomed with a note by Ms. Leher Sethi, which was followed by the felicitation of the Chief Guest and the Guests of Honour. The evening witnessed some power-packed acceptance speeches along with encouraging and inspiring words.

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