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VACANCY OF a research associate in  LINGUISTICS DEPT ,CENTRAL UTY,KERALA

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Adversity ,the springboard for success

A must read editorial for  crickerature enthusiasts *******************************
An E-magazine @ZERO BUDGET  brought out by the Postgraduate and Research Department of English, Fatima Mata National College, Kollam (details below)************************************************************************************Top of the heapIndia’s series win in Australia came in difficult circumstances, and will be the stuff of folklore

On a magical Tuesday, India’s cricketing history gained a luminous chapter even as the shadows lengthened at Brisbane’s Gabba. When Rishabh Pant’s winning four aptly concluded a tense pursuit of 328 on a nerve-wracking fifth day of the fourth Test, Ajinkya Rahane’s men seized the series at 2-1 to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. As far as role-reversals go, this was stunning in its execution and jaw-dropping in its impact. It was a verdict that seemed improbable after India’s 36, its lowest ever Test score, during the debilitating loss in the first game at Adelaide. But India progressed despite losing personnel to injuries or personal reasons. Skipper Virat Kohli took paternity leave while other regulars had to be benched following a spate of injuries. Yet, Rahane’s men persevered, right from the established Cheteshwar Pujara and R. Ashwin to the latest rookies in the squad — Shubman Gill and Washington Sundar. At various points, the experienced professional and the fresh debutant joined forces and nourished miraculous dreams. The turn-around at Melbourne was followed by the stone-walling at Sydney. Finally, in a long tour that commenced on November 12, last year, a second-wind was found in the climax. India did not have any of its frontline bowlers at Brisbane but Mohammed Siraj astutely helmed the attack and Tim Paine’s men were defeated by three wickets.

Winning a Test series against Australia in its backyard is considered as cricket’s highest benchmark for excellence. This yardstick has lasted for two decades ever since the previous dominant outfit, the West Indies, suffered a decline. Seen in that context, what India has achieved over the course of two tours — in 2018-19 and the just concluded 2020-21 face-off — is nothing short of stupendous. Twice, India has defeated Australia by identical margins (2-1). However, the latest act will rank right up in an all-time list of great Test series ever since the sport’s longest format commenced at Melbourne in 1877. When India last toured Australia, the host was blighted by the ball-tampering scandal and Steve Smith and David Warner were rightly put to pasture. Cut to the present, the visitor was up against a full-strength home unit. These are fraught times due to the pandemic and resultant bio-bubble angst, and even stepping out for a coffee is deemed an offence. To make it worse, India was never at its optimum potential and with every passing day, its list of the walking-wounded grew. There were even wry jokes about how coach Ravi Shastri may be forced to turn out considering his diminishing resources. But India thrived and just like it did at Eden Gardens in 2001, adversity became its springboard for success aganst an old adversary-.

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HeadLines 20.01.2021, #512, Wednesday

1. Kerala gets additional 3.3 lakh Covid vaccine doses; 8,548 get jab on Tuesday.

2.Lakshadweep reports first COVID case, contact traced to arrival from Kochi.

3.Covid vaccines are safe, only 0.18% adverse events so far: Government.

4.Lottery seller from Tamil Nadu wins Rs 12 crore in Kerala's Christmas-New Year lottery.

5.No more food subsidy at Parliament canteen: LS Speaker.

6.UK sees 1,610 Covid deaths in record single-day toll

7.Qatar calls on Gulf nations to engage in diplomacy with Iran.

8.Farmers’ protest | SC panel to meet State govts, farm unions from Jan. 21.

9.India wins Brisbane Test, retains Border-Gavaskar trophy.

Headlines Vocab

1. call on 

demand that someone do something.

"he called on the government to hold a vote"

 synonyms:appeal to,ask,request

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Drew strength from mom’s words: Siraj

Youngster has eased into his role of leader of the pack

S. Dipak Ragav

It has been a roller-coaster ride for pacer Mohammed Siraj, who has gone from making his debut in the second Test to leading the attack in the fourth Test.

On the fourth day, after a maiden five-wicket haul, the youngster said he was ready to take on the responsibility of shouldering the pace attack.

Siraj, who was seen helping other pacers on the ground, said, “I don't consider myself a senior bowler, but having played a lot of domestic and India-A games helped. I missed Jassi bhai (Jasprit Bumrah). So I had to take more responsibility, build pressure and not try too many things.”

It was an emotional moment for Siraj, who lost his father before the series began. His being in Australia at the time meant he could not fly home for the funeral due to COVID-19 protocols.

“I wish he was there to see this day. It is because of his blessings that I got a five-wicket haul. It was a tough situation but I got strength after talking to mom, and my focus was to realise dad’s dream,” said the 26-year-old.

The pacer from Hyderabad added that the cracks on the wicket are something the Indian batsmen would have to watch out for on the final day. “When they bowl, obviously there will be some confusion, it will play on the minds of the batsmen that there are cracks on the pitch. But our batsmen are prepared for this,” he said.

Keeping it simple

Steve Smith, likewise, reckoned the bowlers would have to keep it simple and not overdo things as Australia presses for victory.

“I think the more you go searching on these kinds of tracks, then you probably don’t get the reward. So it is just about hitting good areas consistently and letting the natural variation of the wicket take its course,” said Smith.

“I think the game is in a nice place for us. The wicket started to play a few tricks today. We saw a few balls shoot up, a couple kept low and a couple went off cracks, which always plays on the batter’s mind. So it is about hitting good areas and being patient,

credits to The Hindu

Triumphing over adversitySiraj fulfilled his late father’s wish of making India proud

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Kongad MLA K. V. Vijayadas passes away

1. 4 MLAs who attended Assembly session test positive for COVID-19.

2. Oommen Chandy to head Congress strategy panel for Kerala polls.

3. Kerala records lowest school dropout rate in India: Education Minister Raveendranath.

4. CAG report tabled in Kerala Assembly amid strong objection of finance minister Isaac.

5. VK Sasikala to be released from jail on January 27.

6. Uttar Pradesh: Video goes viral of accident victim treated under mobile, torchlight.

7. U.K. has said it cannot extradite Vijay Mallya, Centre informs Supreme Court.

8. MEA reacts to reports of Chinese construction in Arunachal Pradesh.

9. Indian, French Rafale fighters to take part in joint combat exercise this week.

10. Alexei Navalny: Poisoned Putin critic Navalny jailed in Russia

11. Vaccination rates highlight stark differences between Israelis and Palestinians -- amid row over responsibility.

Headlines Vocab

1. extradite

/ˈekstrədaɪt/

കുറ്റവാളിയെ കുറ്റകൃaത്യം നടന്ന രാജ്യത്തിനു കൈമാറുക

 to officially send back somebody who has been accused or found guilty of a crime to the country where the crime was committed

"The Indian government attempted to extradite the suspects from the USA."

2. stark

/stɑːk/

 കഠിനമായ

​ unpleasant; real, and impossible to avoid

 SYNONYM bleak 

"The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp."

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Rethinking the Future: The teacher as a facilitator.

 SUNDAY TIPS : by Dr.Chandran Lesson 103                        FILM REVIEW FEST(details below)

“I never teach my pupil, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they learn”.

                  Albert Einstein.

Rethinking the Future:  The teacher as a facilitator.

Rethinking the future in the teaching learning context, what comes to our mind is the role of a teacher that needs a paradigmatic shift form the conventional teacher-centric to learner centric in the present scenario.  The teacher is no more a teacher but just a facilitator aiding the students in the learning process.  As we all know a plethora of information gets generated every day.  Our students need not even essentially sit inside the classroom, but for the formality that demands their physical presence.  In such environment we could just feel how all that we teach they could easily grasp through a small click of the mouse across the table. Unless the teacher is ready for the sea change that is happening everywhere around us globally, we would be lost in the wilderness.

            From time to time we have been discussing in detail the competencies of students and yet we haven’t  gone a long way in making the teachers competent.  The multiple intelligence of Howard Gardner becomes inevitable here.  The highest order of linguistic intelligence along with others would naturally reflect our inherent and acquired intelligence.  Our competence level as a teacher needs an upgradation and updating in terms of knowledge on par with all the scholarly activities apart from just the academic work.  In order to establish learner’s autonomy the defined set of objectives should be implemented right from the first day of the classroom teaching.  

In short the objective of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher

- CHANDRAN MASTER

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അദ്ധ്യാപകർക്കായി ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഭാഷ ലളിതമാക്കാൻ ബാംഗ്ലൂർ റീജിയണൽ ഇൻസ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ടുമായി സഹകരിച്ചു നടത്തുന്ന ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് കോഴ്സുകൾക്കായുള്ള പരിശീലനം തലശ്ശേരി സേക്രഡ് ഹാർട്ട് ഹയർ സെക്കന്ററി സ്കൂളിൽ തുടങ്ങി. പ്രൈമറി ഹൈസ്‌കൂൾ ഹയർ സെക്കണ്ടറി വിഭാഗത്തിൽ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അദ്ധ്യാപകർക്ക് ഡിപ്ലോമ ഇൻ കമ്മ്യൂണിക്കേഷൻ ,പോസ്റ്റ് ഗ്രാജുവേറ്റ് ഡിപ്ലോമ ഇൻ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ലാംഗ്വേജ് ടീച്ചിങ് എന്നീ കോഴ്സുകൾക്ക് ചേരാവുന്നതാണ്.  അതോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ എല്ലാ ഞായറാഴ്ച കളിലും തലശ്ശേരി സേക്രഡ് ഹാർട്ട് ഹയർ സെക്കന്ററി സ്കൂളിൽ വെച്ച് ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഭാഷാ പരിശീലനവും നടക്കുന്നു.  കോഴ്‌സിന് പങ്കെടുക്കാൻ താത്പര്യമുള്ളവർ ഞായറാഴ്ചകളിൽ 10 മണിക്ക് സ്ക്കൂളിൽ വന്നോ 9446675440,9400644542 എന്നീ നമ്പറുകളിൽ വിളിച്ചോ രജിസ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണ്.

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ഇപ്പോള്‍ മുതല്‍ സിനിമകള്‍ താഴെയുള്ള ലിങ്കുകളില്‍ കാണാം.

ബൈസിക്കിള്‍ തീവ്സ്   https://ffsikeralam.online/films/bicycle-thieves/

(മലയാളം സബ്ടൈറ്റില്‍ ഉണ്ട്. കാണുന്നില്ലെങ്കില്‍ പ്ലേയറിന്റെ താഴെയുള്ള CC എന്ന ബട്ടണില്‍ അമര്‍ത്തുക)

കൈപ്പാട്  https://ffsikeralam.online/films/kaippadu/

കേള്‍ക്കുന്നുണ്ടോ   https://ffsikeralam.online/films/kelkkunnundo/

സിനിമകളെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള വിശകലനങ്ങള്‍ തുടര്‍ന്നുള്ള ദിവസങ്ങളില്‍ ഈ സൈറ്റില്‍ ഉണ്ടാകും.

കേരളത്തിലെ എല്ലാ ഹയര്‍ സെക്കന്ററി സ്കൂളിലും ഇതെത്തിച്ചേരാന്‍ വ്യാപകമായി ഷെയര്‍ ചെയ്യുമല്ലോ.

ജനുവരി 30 വരെ ഈ ലിങ്കുകളില്‍ സിനിമകള്‍ ഉണ്ടാകും.

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  NEWS READ BY STUDENTS (ANJALI,OUR READER)

1. V-Day: Thousands get first jabs as India rolls out world's largest inoculation programme against COVID-19.

2. Doctor who received first vaccine shot in Kozhikode urges every one to step forward without anxiety.

3. KSRTC accounts manager transferred after MD’s corruption allegation.

4. 400 farmers from Kerala join protest against farm laws in Rajasthan-Haryana border.

5. Three days before Balakot, Arnab told ex- BARC chief ‘something big will happen’.

6.Ex-CEO of BARC Partho Dasgupta, arrested in TRP scam, hospitalised.

7.Uganda's Museveni declared winner of presidential poll, rival alleges fraud.

8.As Trump's presidency nears end, US on edge amid fears of more violence.

9.Nepali team first to top K2, world’s 2nd tallest peak, in winter.

Headlines Vocab

1. inoculation /ɪˌnɒkjuˈleɪʃn/

​an act of protecting a person or an animal from catching a particular disease by injecting them with a mild form of the disease

"The disease can now be prevented by inoculation ."

Inoculation and vaccination are two closely related terms. Sometimes they are used interchangeably. Inoculation has a broader meaning compared to vaccination. However, depending on the situation inoculation could mean vaccination. In such cases both are considered as artificial induction of immunity.

2. shot a small amount of a drug that is put into your body using a syringe

 SYNONYM injection 

"a shot of morphine"

3. BARC 

Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) is a joint industry body founded by stakeholder bodies that represent Broadcasters, Advertisers, and Advertising and Media Agencies. BARC provides a suite of products designed for Broadcasters, Advertisers and Agencies. It also owns and manages a TV audience measurement system.

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Weekly news Analysis by Arun Lakshman click here

Headlines Vocab by Lalji Daniel

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ഫെഡറേഷന്‍ ഓഫ് ഫിലിം സൊസൈറ്റീസ് ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ കേരളം സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഹയര്‍ സെക്കന്ററി വിഭാഗം കുട്ടികള്‍ക്കായുള്ള അക്കാദമിക് ഫിലിം ഫെസ്റ്റ് ആരംഭിച്ചു. 

ഇപ്പോള്‍ മുതല്‍ സിനിമകള്‍ താഴെയുള്ള ലിങ്കുകളില്‍ കാണാം.

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ബൈസിക്കിള്‍ തീവ്സ്   https://ffsikeralam.online/films/bicycle-thieves/

(മലയാളം സബ്ടൈറ്റില്‍ ഉണ്ട്. കാണുന്നില്ലെങ്കില്‍ പ്ലേയറിന്റെ താഴെയുള്ള CC എന്ന ബട്ടണില്‍ അമര്‍ത്തുക)

കൈപ്പാട്  https://ffsikeralam.online/films/kaippadu/

കേള്‍ക്കുന്നുണ്ടോ   https://ffsikeralam.online/films/kelkkunnundo/

സിനിമകളെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള വിശകലനങ്ങള്‍ തുടര്‍ന്നുള്ള ദിവസങ്ങളില്‍ ഈ സൈറ്റില്‍ ഉണ്ടാകും.

കേരളത്തിലെ എല്ലാ ഹയര്‍ സെക്കന്ററി സ്കൂളിലും ഇതെത്തിച്ചേരാന്‍ വ്യാപകമായി ഷെയര്‍ ചെയ്യുമല്ലോ.

ജനുവരി 30 വരെ ഈ ലിങ്കുകളില്‍ സിനിമകള്‍ ഉണ്ടാകും.

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HeadLines 14.01.2021#508,Thursday from SPEP

 NEWS AUDIO FROM ANJALI                                                           FROM  CKR 

                                                                   DETAILS BELOW 

Syed Mushtaq Ali T20: Md Azharuddeen smashes 37-ball 100 as Kerala humble Mumbai in epic run-chase

1. Centre allows Kerala to borrow additional Rs 2,373 crore post ' ease of doing biz' reforms.

2. No more holiday on Saturdays; Govt offices reverting to old system.

3. Assembly polls: Election Commission mulls possibility of increasing polling stations in Kerala.

4. Arrested journalist Siddique Kappan's family to stage dharna in front of Secretariat.

5. 95 per cent of Covishield doses delivered across country.

6. Publication of notice under Special Marriage Act optional; mandatory notice invades privacy: Allahabad HC .

7. BJP MP Pragya Thakur refers to Nathuram Godse as a ‘patriot’, yet again.

8. Telegram crosses 500-million subscriber mark led by user additions in Asia amid WhatsApp's privacy policy update.

9. Sorry Siraj and Indian team, racism not acceptable: David Warner.

10.Dozens killed in Israeli air raids in Syria: War monitor.

11. Intel Ousts Chief Executive Bob Swan.

12. US House convenes to impeach Trump for his role in Capitol assault.

Headlines Vocab

1. post /pəʊst/afterശേഷം

2 .'ease of doing biz' 

'The ease of doing business 'is an important indicator of the investment-friendly business climate in the country.

3. revert/rɪˈvɜːt/പൂര്‍വസ്ഥിതിയെ പ്രാപിക്കുക

​to return to a former state; to start doing something again that you used to do in the past

"Try not to revert your old eating habits."

4. mull /mʌl/പരിഗണിക്കുക

​to spend time thinking carefully about a plan or proposal

 SYNONYM consider 

"I need some time to mull it over before making a decision."

5. Intel 

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley.

6. oust  /aʊst/പുറത്താക്കുക

​to force somebody out of a job or position of power, especially in order to take their place

 " The rebels finally managed to oust the government from power."

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LET US CONGRATULATE S MUNTHAS WHO SPEAKS ON UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME...

Mumthas S. from Kerala is both eloquent and expressive in her speech at the National Youth Parliament Festival.-Prime minster

HeadLines 13.01.2021#507, Wednesday

 HeadLines 13.01.2021#507, Wednesday

1. Covid : Nearly 4.34 lakh Covishield vaccines to reach Kerala on Wed.

-No option to select between vaccines.

2.Chennithala to lead Kerala Yatra from Feb 1.

3.Kudumbashree to enter banking sector; targets small finance banking licence.

4. SC suspends implementation of three farm laws.

5. High alert maintained at LAC: Army Chief Naravane.

6. Jaishankar slams Pakistan, takes a dig at China in anti-terror action plan.

7.Tesla comes to India, sets up office in Bengaluru.

8. Uganda bans social media ahead of presidential election.

9. Crashed Indonesian plane's 'black box' recovered.

Headlines Vocab

1. take a dig

To make a mocking, sarcastic, or insulting remark, gibe, or criticism at someone's or something's expense. 

"I'm really not trying to take a dig at you. I'm just trying to give you some constructive feedback."

Extracted from following news portals :-

Manorama Matrubhoomi TNIE BBC Reuters the Hindu The Guardian

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Use of Technology in English Language Teaching and learning.

 Use of Technology in English Language Teaching and learning.

- Dr.CHANDRAN, ELTTF(www.riemates .org )

( റീമേററ്സിന്റെ ഈ വർഷത്തെ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഭാഷാ കോഴ്സുകൾ തുടങ്ങുന്നു.......DETAILS GIVEN BELOW)

With the spread and development of English around the world, it is used as a second language in a country like India and for some people the first language.  It enjoys a high prestige in the country.  At present the role and status of English in India is higher than ever as evidenced by its position as a key subject of medium of instruction, curriculum.  As the number of English learners is increasing, different teaching methods have been implemented to test the effectiveness of the teaching process.  Use of authentic materials in the form of films, radio, TV has been there for a long time.

Technology is one of the most significant drivers of the social and linguistic change. English learner in  India, implements different teaching methods  to test the effectiveness of the teaching process.  One method involves multimedia in ElT in order to create English contexts.  It is proved that multimedia technology plays a positive role in promoting activities and initiatives of student and teaching effect in English class. Multimedia technology helps to cultivate students’ interest in study and it promotes students communication capacity. The PPT course ware activate students thinking the visual and vivid courseware help them to transform English learning into capacity building.

Technology helps to widen students’ knowledge to gain an insightful understanding on western culture.   The teaching effect will definitely be improved by his.  The utilization of multimedia sound lab materializes the individualized and co- operative teaching.  It also helps to improve interaction between teachers and students.  Multimedia teaching creates a context for language teaching.  This method makes the class lively and interesting as swell as optimizing the organization of the class. It also helps to provide flexibility to course content.  In future the multimedia English teaching will be further developed.   In short we can conclude that the technology based learning will go a long way in making the contents transacted in the classrooms easily.

Happy Learning.

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HeadLines 10.01.2021#504, Sunday- CLICK HERE FOR AN AUDIO BY our newsreader

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1. Kerala reports 5,528 fresh Covid-19 cases, 5,424 recoveries; test positivity rate at 9.03 percent.

- KM Shaji MLA suffers heart attack; tests COVID-19 positive.

-First phase of vaccination to start on Jan. 16.

-Death of Bhopal volunteer not due to vaccine, says Bharat BioTech.

2. CM Pinarayi opens Vyttila , Kundannoor flyovers to the public.

3. VS to step down as chief of Admin Reforms body.

4. Theaters in Kerala won’t reopen soon, declares FEUOK .

5. Complaint of woman sexually abusing son was fake, alleges family of accused.

6. Complaint filed against man for waving India flag in US Capitol protest.

7. Madhya Pradesh anti-conversion ordinance notified, comes into effect.

8. Maharashtra: Major fire at Bhandara district hospital, several babies die.

9. Indonesian plane with 62 aboard missing; fishermen spot possible debris .

10. Deadly snowstorms cause chaos across Spain.

11. Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account.

12. Kim Jong-un calls US 'biggest enemy' and says nuclear submarine plans 'complete'.

Headlines Vocab

1. FEUOK Film Exhibitors United Organisation of Kerala

2. debris/ˈdebriː/ഡെബ്രീ അവശിഷ്‌ടങ്ങള്‍

​ pieces of wood, metal, building materials, etc. that are left after something has been destroyed

"Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash."

3. submarine /ˌsʌbməˈriːn/സബ്‌മെറീൻഅന്തര്‍വാഹിനി

​a ship that can travel underwater

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Headlines Vocab by Lalji Daniel;Consolidated and organised by Nishad Abdulkareem

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women to stay indoors for their safety

 Night and day

To expect women to stay indoors for their safety is to deny them their freedoms, rights

Unnao. Hathras. And now Badaun. The dirge continues as news of another horrific alleged rape and murder emerged from Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. A 50-year-old anganwadi worker, who visited a temple, was found brutally battered outside her home at a village in Badaun district. After she succumbed to the injuries, a depressingly similar pattern came to light: the police had dithered with both the post mortem and in registering an FIR. The culprits, a priest and his two associates, were arrested by Thursday night, with the State government saying that stern action would be taken. What came as a shocker, however, was the reaction of a senior member of the National Commission for Women who visited the family. Chandramukhi Devi was quoted as saying, “I tell women again and again that they should never go out at odd hours under anyone’s influence… I think if she had not gone out in the evening or was accompanied by any child of the family perhaps this incident could have been avoided.” Such remarks worsen the situation for women who have to battle against skewed societal gender conditioning. When insensitive utterances emanate from a national commission actually meant to uphold women’s rights, it reeks of a primitive mindset wherein lawlessness is overlooked and responsibility pinned, perversely, on the woman for ensuring her own well-being.

All the hard work put in by women in all spheres including science and technology comes undone by such crude statements. The equal rights movement means nothing if women are stopped from going out whenever they want to or need to, day or night. But it is also imperative that with society steeped in gender prejudices, the government, police and family must step up to provide a safe environment. In 2019, the NCRB data show 88 rape cases were recorded every day in India with U.P. reporting the second-highest number at 3,065 cases. But records never tell the whole story for many rapes are not reported due to social stigma. Although after the Nirbhaya incident in 2012, the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act laid down the rules for stringent punishment, crimes against women continue, pointing at other issues that should be addressed from patriarchal mindsets to poor policing. For gender parity, more women must join the workforce, but thereby hangs another sorry tale. According to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data, women accounted for 10.7% of the workforce in 2019-20 and many lost jobs due to the pandemic. By November 2020, the CMIE reported that men recovered most of their lost jobs but not women. It is a matter of shame that even in 2021, women are asked to stay indoors at night instead of reaching for the moon.

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-EDITORIAL BY THE HINDU 09012021

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fratricide/ˈfratrɪsʌɪd/ the killing of one own brother or sister / of a member in the same forcethat one belongs to

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The expectations people have from you-story

 Superb story writen by Chetan Bhagat in his FB Post

The expectations people have from you.

One night, just before the shopkeeper was about to close the shop, a dog came into the shop.

There was a bag in its mouth. The bag had a list of items to be bought and money. The shopkeeper took the money and kept the items in the bag.

Immediately, The dog picked up the bag of items and left. The shopkeeper was surprised and went behind the dog to see who the owner was.

The dog waited at the bus stop. After sometime, a bus came and the dog got into the bus. As soon as the conductor came, it moved forward to show his neck belt which had money and the address as well. The conductor took the money and put the ticket in his neck belt again.

When it reached the destination, the dog went to the front and wagged his tail indicating that he wanted to get down. The moment the bus stopped, it got down. The shopkeeper was still following it.

The dog knocked on the door of a house with its legs. Its owner came from inside and beat it with a stick.

The shocked shopkeeper asked him "why are you beating the dog?", to which the owner replied, "he disturbed my sleep. It could have taken the keys with it."

This is the truth of life. There is no end to the expectations people have from you. The moment you go wrong, they start pointing at our mistakes. All the good done in the past is forgotten. Any small mistake committed then gets magnified. This is the nature of this material world.!!!  

Recognising the value of housework

 A nod to recognising the value of housework

By Kalpana Karunakaran 

This is an agenda all political parties, and not just the Makkal Needhi Maiam, could incorporate in their manifestos......

In the context of the forthcoming State Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), led by veteran actor Kamal Haasan, has made an eye-catching election promise that is evidently targeted at a large constituency of voters — women who are full-time homemakers. The party has promised to recognise housework as a salaried profession by paying homemakers ‘hitherto unrecognized and unmonetized’ for their work at home.A recent political entrant in the electoral fray, the MNM’s promise to directly pay women a monthly amount may be viewed as a strategy to grab attention in an over-crowded, highly competitive electoral landscape. Nonetheless, the promise bears close examination as it flags off an important issue and one that has had an interesting, if chequered significance in the history of women’s movements.

Origins of the demand

The demand for ‘wages for housework’ arose in the context of struggle and consciousness-raising associated with the Second Wave of the women’s movement in North America and Europe. Alongside other demands for social and political equality, women’s rights campaigners made visible and also politicised women’s everyday experience of housework and child care in the ‘private’ realm of the household. In doing this, they challenged the assumption that a ‘natural’ affinity for housework was rooted in the essential nature of women who were performing a ‘labour of love’. For leading women’s rights activists of the 1960s and 1970s, it was important to bust the myth that women’s work at home was a personal service with no links to capitalist production. In a concrete sense, this meant linking the exploitation of the worker in the factory to women’s work at home.

As Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James wrote in their seminal piece in 1972 (https://bit.ly/2X6cU3B), the woman working at home produced ‘the living human being — the labourer himself.’ From the nine-month period of gestation in the womb, women’s daily chores of cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing clothes, preparing lunch boxes and so on produced the labour power that was daily consumed in the shop-floor or the assembly line and had to be reproduced afresh every day. By providing free services in the home,women made possible the survival of working-class households at subsistence-level wages, with obvious benefits for industry and capital.

Despite the links between the ‘housewife’ and the factory worker, the unwaged status of the former accounted for crucial differences between them. As feminist scholar and writer Silvia Federici wrote (in 1975), in “Wages against housework”, it was possible for wage-earners to bargain around the terms of their paid work and the quantity of the wage. ‘But exploited as you might be, you are not that work’, she pointed out (https://bit.ly/38UShNm). Housework, on the other hand, had come to define the very nature of a woman. This disallowed women from seeing it as ‘real work’ or as a social contract. And,therefore, the women who sought to negotiate housework with their partners were seen as ‘nagging b******’ and not as workers in struggle’. For the advocates of ‘wages for housework’, the wage that the state ought to pay women would make them autonomous of the men on whom they were dependent. More fundamentally, the very demand for a wage was a repudiation of housework as an expression of women’s nature. It was a revolt against the assigned social role of women. Therein lay

 the radical nature of the demand for wages, not in the money itself.

An unresolved issue

There was disagreement among the women ideologues of the Second Wave on what payment of a wage would actually mean for women. The sociologist, Ann Oakley, who studied the history of housework in her path-breaking books published in the 1970s, was among those who believed that ‘wages for housework’ would only imprison women further within the household, increase their social isolation and dissuade men from sharing housework.

Others too argued that the goal of the women’s movement must be, to not ask for wages, but to free women from the daily drudgery of routine domestic chores and enable them to participate fully in all spheres of social life, including paid employment outside the household. The debate around monetary remuneration for housework remained unresolved within the women’s movement, even as the tools to measure the value that women’s unpaid work adds to national economies have grown more sophisticated.

However, the underlying issue, which is the disproportionate share of women’s responsibility for the work that sustains human life and reproduces labour power, remains as pressing as ever. A report published by the International Labour Organization in 2018 (https://bit.ly/2Xbiim1) shows that, globally, women perform 76.2% of total hours of unpaid care work, more than three times as much as men. In Asia and the Pacific, this figure rises to 80%.

Defining this constituency

To return to the MNM’s election promise, would the payment of a wage by the state to homemakers redress the situation? This raises the tricky question of how this constituency is to be defined. Is it to be only women who are full-time homemakers? Many women earning a wage outside the home also perform the bulk of household work. On what ground are they to be excluded? What about women workers who earn an income from home by stitching clothes, selling cooked meals or are engaged in petty trade? They often self-identify as ‘housewives’ given the meagre and variable wages they earn and periods of seasonal unemployment.

These are issues that cannot be easily resolved. It would be better to strengthen the demand for a universal basic income for income-poor households and make sure that the cash transfer to the family reaches women directly, whether or not they combine household work with paid work.

Struggle for legislation

However, the demand that the state recognise housework is significant and its radical core must not be missed, as the historical experience of the women’s movement shows us. In this context, it is worth mentioning that an important campaign on the question of household labour has been taking place in India. This is the ongoing struggle for national legislation for domestic workers. These are predominantly women who perform ‘women’s work’ but in other people’s homes. They are, therefore, uniquely positioned to make this work visible and demand that its conditions be regulated, minimum wages guaranteed, and the workers’ status and rights protected.

The question of how to measure and account for the value of housework has been seriously addressed by women domestic workers and their trade unions in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere. Their demands include an hourly minimum wage, a weekly day-off, an annual bonus and the protection of their bodily autonomy in the workspace.

This is an agenda that all parties, and not just the MNM, could incorporate in their election manifestos, should they take seriously the mandate of ‘recognizing and monetizing’ housework. If domestic workers emerge as a strong force that succeeds in asserting the dignity of housework and making it a visible and valued form of labour, this can only be a good thing for all women performing housework in the long run.

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*Kalpana Karunakaran teaches in the Department of Humanities,IIT MADRAS

-CREDITS TO "THE HINDU" 05 01 2021

Dear students, The poem ANY WOMAN by KATHERINE TYNAN also conveys the value of housework , though in a different angle. Do you agree ? Write your opinion in at least 120 words and send it to plus2english@gmail.com on or before 08 01 2021. The best five essays will be rewarded by this blogger.

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A step back in gender equality-By Sunny Jose 

Paying women for domestic and care work is a recognition of their efforts but may not reduce and redistribute their burden

Is the electoral promise of paying women for carrying out domestic work and care work a progressive public policy? The proposal, put forth by Kamal Haasan’s political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam, has generated curiosity and reopened the old but unsettled academic debate. On the face of it, the proposal might appear progressive. However, closer scrutiny suggests otherwise.

Disproportionate burden of work

Women bear a disproportionately high burden of unpaid domestic work and care work in India. It would be instructive here to examine how Tamil Nadu, where the electoral promise is being made, fares vis-à-vis India. The all-India Time Use Survey (2019) says that 82% of females (six years and above) as against 24% of males from Tamil Nadu participate in unpaid domestic work. The huge disparity persists even if we look at the age group of 15-59 years: 90% of females and 24% of males participate in domestic work. A similar disparity prevails at the all-India level as well: 81% of females (six years and above) and 26% of males participate in unpaid domestic work. There is an equally huge disparity in the average time spent by participating males and females. While females (six years and above) in Tamil Nadu spend, on average, 261 minutes a day in unpaid domestic work, males spend only 91 minutes. The corresponding figures for females and males in India are 299 minutes and 97 minutes, respectively. The data suggest that females bear more than 83% of the burden of domestic and care work both in Tamil Nadu and India.

Can the proposed policy address the huge burden that women are forced to endure daily? Posed differently, what should a progressive policy proposal aim at: paying women a wage for domestic and care work or addressing the huge gender disparity? The insights offered by the feminist economist Diane Elson (2017) are pertinent. The gist of her argument is this: public policy should aim at closing the huge gender gap in unpaid domestic and care work through ‘recognition, reduction and redistribution’ (Triple-R).

The party’s proposal only satisfies the first component of Triple-R, that is ‘recognition’. Paying a wage is a formal recognition of the fact that unpaid domestic and care work are no less important than paid market work, as the latter is parasitic on the former. Since it is women who predominantly carry out unpaid domestic and care activities, often at the expense of their employment prospects and health, the monetary reward is a recognition of their contribution to the well-being of the household and the opportunities forgone by women. The proposal appears progressive, for this reason and to that measure.

Failing two aspects

If the broader aim of a progressive public policy is to close the gender gap in unpaid domestic and care work, how does the proposal measure up? Specifically, will paying women a wage for domestic and care work reduce their disproportionately huge daily burden? The proposal not only fails miserably in this aspect, but also has the potential to increase women’s burden. This is because paying monetary benefits carries with it the possible danger of formally endorsing the social norm that domestic and care work are ‘women’s work’, for which they are being paid. The purportedly progressive proposal thus has the risk of furthering the gender disparity in unpaid work within homes.

What’s more, it also fails in the other crucial aspect of ‘redistribution’ of the burden of unpaid work. In fact, it might give space for men to claim that women are bound to do these unpaid activities as they are being compensated for the time spent or income foregone, and that women can at best expect men only to help but not participate daily in carrying out these activities.

The fact that only 24% of men from Tamil Nadu participate in and spend less time than women on unpaid domestic work calls for a policy proposal that increases men’s participation and the time they spend in unpaid work at home. Instead of incentivising men to participate more in household work and reducing women’s burden by redistributing the responsibility, the current proposal might do the opposite.

Incentivising men, monetarily or otherwise, to participate more and spend longer hours in carrying out unpaid domestic work is one thing, but paying women a wage for shouldering the primary responsibility is another. At best, the latter might help meet what the academic Caroline Moser referred to as ‘practical’ gender needs. But it cannot possibly address the ‘strategic’ gender needs of reducing and redistributing women’s burden. The electoral promise, therefore, lacks the transformative potential of achieving gender equality in sharing unpaid work.

Sunny Jose is RBI Chair Professor at the Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad. Views are personal

CREDITS TO THE HINDU 11/01/2021

Focus areas 12 Exams March 2021

 

English -(clik each word for notes)

 3Ls of Empowerment,

Match box,

Any woman,

Horegallu,

The hour of truth,

A three wheeled revoution ,

Rice

HeadLines 04.01.2021#498, Monday

1. 4,600 COVID cases reported in Kerala on Sunday; 4,668 recoveries.

2. Kerala to conduct COVID density study to prevent a new virus outbreak.

3.Poet, lyricist Anil Panachooran passes away.

4. Colleges set to reopen today

5. India's approval of COVAXIN criticised over lack of data.

6. 7 of wedding party killed, several injured as bus falls off road on top of house in Kasaragod.

7. 23 dead after roof of crematorium collapses in Ghaziabad.

8. PM Modi cannot see the pain and struggle of farmers: Sonia Gandhi.

9. Union minister Sadananda Gowda collapses due to low blood sugar.

10.Tehran steps up nuclear plans as tensions rise on anniversary of Suleimani’s killing.

11. Real Madrid beats Celta Vigo 2-0 to go top in Spain

Headlines Vocab

1. collapse 

/kəˈlæps/

(of building)

​   to fall down or fall in suddenly, often after breaking apart

 SYNONYM give way 

"The roof collapsed under the weight of snow."

(of sick person)

​  to fall down (and usually become unconscious), especially because you are very ill.

"She collapsed and was rushed to hospital."

 Qasem Suleimani 

He was an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and, from 1998 until his death in 2020, commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.

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AUDIO NEWS BY ANAJALI

1. 5,328 COVID cases reported in Kerala on Sat; 4,985 recoveries.

2. After Covishield, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin also gets expert panel nod.

3.India becomes first country to culture U.K. variant strain.

4. Free vaccination for 3 crore frontline workers in first phase: Health Minister.

5. Congress need not project a CM candidate in Kerala, says Tariq Anwar’s report to Sonia.

6. Neyyattinkara incident: Deceased couple’s sons reject Boby Chemmanur’s offer.

7. PM Modi to inaugurate Kochi-Mangaluru GAIL pipeline on January 5.

8. Bitcoin rallies above $30,000 for first time.

9.Niger village attacks 'kill at least 56 people'.

10.Thousands break virus restrictions at French rave.

headlines Vocab

1. culture 

ˈkʌltʃə(r)/

 grow a group of cells or bacteria for medical or scientific study

2. frontline 

/ˈfrʌntlaɪn/

​in the most important or dangerous position; doing essential work that puts you at risk

3. GAIL 

Gail (India) Limited (GAIL) (formerly known as Gas Authority of India Ltd.) is an Indian public sector natural gas processing and distribution company headquartered in New Delhi, India.

4. Bitcoin 

It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. 

5. rave

/reɪv/

 നൃത്തോത്സവം

 a large party, held outside or in an empty building, at which people dance to fast electronic music and often take illegal drugs

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