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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months

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Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’

Naomi Alderman burst onto the scene in 2016 with The Power, an explosive and brilliant feminist apocalyptic parable. Now, seven years later, she's back with a chunky, propulsive second novel about a very different sort of apocalypse: The Future:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Future/Naomi-Alderman/9781668025680

The Power was a thriller about a mysterious force that gives women the power to administer violent electric shocks – even lethal ones – from the palms of their hands. As this power races around the world, the status quo is abruptly shattered. Abusers get nasty surprises. The Saudi government topples. Parents of teenaged boys demand sex-segregated classes to protect their sons from vicious girls:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/10/naomi-aldermans-the-power-in-which-fierce-power-of-women-is-awoken/

In The Future, we get a very different kind of apocalypse: the imagined apocalypse of the prepper. At the core of prepperism is a fantasy: that the world will experience a cataclysm that requires the special skills and supplies of the prepper themselves. Water chemists who turn prepper fantasize about attacks on the water-supply – not because there's any special reason to expect one, but because if terrorists attack the water supply, then water chemists become civilization-rescuing heroes:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/22/preppers-are-larpers/#preppers-unprepared

(And of course, if the world ends in such a way that marauding bandits rove the wasteland, eating their former neighbors, then macho, AR-15-obsessed musketfuckers get to reinvent themselves as warlords who defend the sheeple from "bad guys.")

This is what makes billionaire prepper fantasies just so weird – for most of us, it's hard to imagine how the skills of a billionaire are the one thing we'll need to see us through a crisis. But for billionaires themselves, the necessity of billionaires in rebooting civilization is so self-evident as to be unquestionable.

What's more, billionaires are convinced – more than any of us – that the world is about to end. As Douglas @Rushkoff puts it, these guys want to earn enough money to outrun the consequences of how they're making all that money. This is #TheMindset, the idea that your own position has jeopardized civilization itself, but that also, you must survive the cataclysm, because only you can survive it.

Rushkoff chronicles the real-world fantasies of luxury bunkers patrolled by mercenaries locked into explosive discipline collars in his book Survival of the Richest:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn

But billionaires don't just suck at running civilization, they also suck at making up stories about its collapse. One thing that's striking about Rushkoff's ethnography of rich people preparing to outlive the end of the human race is how banal their eschatological fantasies are.

It's not that there aren't any exciting stories to tell about billionaire survival fantasies. The granddaddy of these is, of course, Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 "#MasqueOfTheRedDeath":

https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death

I published an updated version with the same title in 2019 in my novella collection #Radicalized:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/masque-of-the-red-death/#masque

In The Future, we get a cracking, multi-point-of-view adventure novel about billionaires prepping for the end of the world. Three billionaires, the lords of thinly veiled analogs to Facebook, Google and Amazon, each getting ready in their own way. Stumbling into their midst comes Lai Zhen, a prepper influencer vlogger with millions of followers.

When Zhen becomes romantically entangled with Martha Einkorn, the top aide and chief-of-prepping for one of these billionaires, she finds herself in possession of an AI chatbot that is devoted to protecting a very small number of people from incipient danger. This chatbot determines that Zhen is being stalked by an assassin at a mall in Singapore, and guides her to safety.

The chatbot is a closely held secret among the tech billionaire cabal. It is designed to monitor world events and predict when The Event is imminent, be it disease, war, or other cataclysmic disaster. With the chatbot's predictive powers and its superhuman guidance, the billionaires, their families, and their closest confidantes will be able to slip away before the shit hits the fan, fly by different private jets to one or another luxury bunker, and wait out the apocalypse. Once the fires raging without have died down to embers, the chatbot's billionaire charges will emerge to assume their places as wise and all-powerful leaders of the next human civilization.

As you might imagine, not everyone who finds out about this plan – including various members of the billionaires' families who are fully aware of these rich, powerful people's fallibility – is enthusiastic about it. As we build toward a looming crisis, we cycle between these family members, Zhen and her hacker buddies, and members of an online prepper community where Einkorn is a kind of provocateuse and eminence grise.

Alderman skillfully maneuvers all these power players and blocs into position before detonating the crisis that sets off the book's second act, where we get into some damned fine Masque of the Red Death territory, but clad in Tony Stark mecha survival suits and against a backdrop of total disaster.

I won't give away any spoilers here, except to say that there are lots of twists (that won't surprise readers of The Power, which had its own excellent surprises). But without delving too deeply into the fake-outs, crosses, and turns that Alderman lays, I will say that this is a fantastic and incredibly satisfying comeuppance novel that gets very deep into the ideology of wishing the world would end, and dreaming that when it does, you will finally matter.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/#the-event

#pluralistic #naomi alderman #the future #books #science fiction #apocalypse #billionaires #abolish billionaires #big tech #maneki neko #preppers #gift guide

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moneeb0930 · 7 months

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beardedmrbean · 5 months

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Hard times have arrived at The Washington Post.

In a memo circulated among the paper's staff and obtained by Semafor media reporter Max Tani, company CEO Patty Stonesifer warned that although 120 employees have already accepted buyout packages, a further 120 must agree to do so, or they will be forced to "implement involuntary layoffs."

"As promised, I will continue to provide updates on the voluntary separation package and where we stand in the process," Stonesifer wrote. "As of today, 120 employees have accepted the package."

"We now have just under two weeks before the December 11 deadline for non-union employees and two and a half weeks before the December 15 deadline for Guild-covered employees," she continued.

In a memo to staff, Washington Post CEO Patty Stonesifer says 120 employees have accepted buyout packages. If the paper doesn't find another 120 people who will accept buyouts in the next two weeks, it will implement layoffs. pic.twitter.com/ztdZwVz5WD — Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 28, 2023

Stonesifer went on to explain that although it was a "challenging time" for the company, the decision had been taken to "restore The Post's financial health."

“We have made the decision, if we fall short of this goal, to implement involuntary layoffs in those areas where we have already identified that positions do not need to be replaced, where work can be reassigned more efficiently or where we can otherwise achieve cost savings," she wrote.

“These layoffs would offer significantly less generous benefits than the voluntary package and will be consistent with prior layoff packages at The Post,” she continued.

The decision to lay off hundreds of workers was first announced last month and led to a furious reaction from the Washington News Guild.

In a statement, the Guild pointed out how the company was owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who they identified as "one of the richest people in the world."

"We are infuriated about this decision and concerned for our dedicated, brilliant colleagues," the Guild wrote at the time. "Today’s announcement comes after at least 38 people were laid off over the last year.

"Hard-working Post employees are going to lose their jobs because of a litany of poor business decisions at the top of our company," it continued.

"We cannot comprehend how The Post, owned by one of the richest people in the world, has decided to foist the consequences of its incoherent business plan and irresponsibly rapid expansion onto the hardworking people who make this company run."

We cannot comprehend how The Post, owned by one of the richest people in the world, has decided to foist the consequences of its incoherent business plan and irresponsibly rapid expansion onto the hardworking people who make this company run. — Washington Post Guild (@PostGuild) October 10, 2023

Media reports have provided a range of explanations for the company's poor financial health. An article by The New York Times in July cited sources within the company as saying that the Post is expected to lose around $100 million in 2023.

Reasons for this included a decline in ad revenue, as well as a fall in digital subscribers, which have reportedly fallen from 3 million in 2020 to 2.5 million as of this year.

Meanwhile, declining newspaper circulation continues to affect vast swathes of the legacy media industry.

According to recent data from Pew Research, in 2022 the "estimated total U.S. daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) was 20.9 million for both weekday and Sunday, down 8 percent and 10 percent respectively from 2021."

#nunyas news #i wonder how much of this is a direct result of them #fortifying the 2020 election #all these media companies and what not #colluded to influence the election #after they made trump their bread and butter #be interesting if they start to go easy on him for the next year

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bloggingforu · 2 years

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Top 5 world’s richest man Of 2022-Facts about Billionaires

The list of the world’s richest persons can vary from year to year, depending on their latest net worth and financial performance.

here is the latest list of top 5 world’s richest man according to real time Forbes list of April 2022 and few interesting facts regarding every of them.

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#1 Elon Musk

Age — 50

CEO — Tesla

Source of Wealth — Tesla, SpaceX, Self Made

Net worth — $246.0 billion

Residence — Austin, Texas

Marital Status — Relationship

Children — 6

Citizenship — United States

Education — Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania

Elon Musk was born in June 28, 1971 Pretoria, South Africa. Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father.

Elon Musk is an engineer, technology entrepreneur, industrial designer and philanthropist. Elon Musk holds the citizenship of three countries- South Africa (1971–present), Canada (1989–present) and the United States (2002-present).

Elon Musk has taken a lot of risk in his life, due to which he comes in the list of Top 5 World’s Richest Man.

He was first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion.

On 1 February , 2021 Forbes announced that Musk had a net worth of over $200 billion, and was the world’s richest man. after Tesla stock surged. In November 2021, Musk became the first person with a net worth over $300 billion. read more

#2 Bernard Arnault & family

Age — 72

Source of Wealth — LVMH

Net worth -$158.2 billion

Residence — Paris, France

Citizenship — France

Marital Status — Married

Children — 5

Education — Bachelor of Arts/Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris

Education = Bachelor of Arts/Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris Bernard Arnault was born in 5 march ,1949, in Roubaix, France.

Bernard Arnault is the Chairman and CEO of LVMH is the third richest person in the world.

His net worth is $145B billion ensuring from his business across an empire of more than 70 brands as well as Louis Vuitton and Sephora. He comes in Top 5 world’s richest man.

French businessman richest man Bernard Arnault earned the $100 billion in last year of December.

At the end of 2017, the only declared major stockholder in LVMH was Arnault Family Group, the holding company of Bernard Arnault.

An engineer by training, Arnault first showed his business acumen whereas operating for his father’s construction firm, Ferret-Savinel, taking charge of the company in 1971.

He converted Ferret-Savinel to a real estate company named Ferinel Inc. in 1979

Bernard Arnault control amounted to 46.84% of LVMH’s stock and 63.13% of its voting rights. read more

#3 Jeff Bezos

Age — 58

Source of Wealth — Amazon, Self Made

Net worth -$150.1 billion

Residence — Seattle, Washington

Citizenship — United States

Marital Status — In Relationship

Children — 4

Education — Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University

Amazon Ownership Stake: 10% ($153 billion) and He comes in Top 5 world’s richest man.

Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 1964, 12 January. Jeff Bezos is an American business man, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut.

he is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, where he previously served as the president and CEO.

He stepped down as CEO of Amazon and transitioned and to become executive chairman in July 2021.

Amazon thrived during the pandemic; revenues in 2020 grew 38% to $386 billion as people stayed home and made online purchases.

He was included first time on Forbes World’s Billionaires list in 1999 with a registered net worth of $10.1 billion

It is presently the world’s largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and therefore the world’s largest supplier of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.

On January 9, 2019, Bezos and MacKenzie declared on Twitter their intent to divorce after a “long period” of separation.

On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, with Bezos keeping 75% of the couple’s Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting the remaining 25% ($35.6 billion) in Amazon stock continue reading

#5 Gautam Adani & family

Age —59

Source of Wealth — infrastructure, commodities, Self Made

Net worth -$126.4 billion

Residence — Ahmedabad, India

Citizenship — Indian

Marital Status — Married

Children — 2

#buisness #richest man #elon musk #billioners #gautam adani

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kspp · 15 days

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Rich nations and poor governments

Waking up to a headline that read that India is currently one of the most unequal countries in the world, along with Russia and China, didn’t come as a shock. It has become a routine phenomenon to come across articles telling stories of mass poverty engulfing the country, especially post the COVID health emergency which significantly depleted household wealth and savings of people.

The ‘World Inequality Report 2022’ states that the top 1% in India own 33% of average household wealth; the top 10% own 65% and the bottom 50% own only 6% of the pie.

This is not the first of such headlines which indicate that the poor are becoming poorer. UNDP’s Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, ranks India at 66 out of 109 nations, much lower than other middle-income nations like Brazil (33), South Africa (42), Mexico (43), and China (32). The report states that by using the conventional monetary poverty line of $1.90 per day, 22.5% of India’s population are poor and 19.3% of the population are close to the multidimensional poverty line, and so are very prone to any shocks.

Did this just make you think that India is now a poor country? The answer is no. Our private wealth has increased from 290% in 1980 to 560% in 2020.

The World Inequality Report states in this context, that while “Nations have become richer, Governments have become poorer.” The share of the public wealth, defined as the sum of all financial and non-financial assets, held by the government net of debt, has now dropped from above 50% in the 1970s to close to zero or is even negative for most rich countries.

In India, the government doesn’t seem to have money for paying ex-gratia to the families of COVID victims who were sole breadwinners for their families. The Center’s flagship rural employment guarantee program, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) was allocated 34% less funds for 2021-22. This is despite the pandemic propelling a mass reverse migration and massive unemployment in the countryside. All of the fiscal packages doled out during the pandemic were designed to give support to manufacturing and exports, the benefits of which were expected to slowly trickle down to the common man. No temporary monetary help was given to the unemployed or to the ones who had to return to their villages after having lost their jobs.

While most emerging economies have a government debt of around 40%-50% of their GDP, in India, government debt is almost 75% of the GDP. Elevated taxes on fuel prices pinching the pockets of people and reduced budgetary allocations to health and education have only helped in aggravating socio-economic differences, while our sovereign debt is skyrocketing.

Although the government is reeling under the burden of debt and plagued by a fiscal deficit, India still remains the 5th richest country in the world with a $2.27 trillion economy and with the world’s 3rd highest number of billionaires at 140. The private sector owns most of the wealth and capital in India. The liberalization and deregulation from 1991 which opened up the economy to LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization) freed the private sector and led to the creation of more private wealth. But now, we see trends of monopolization of wealth and capital which has been substantiated time and again by various reports.

The World Inequality Report states that in rich countries, public wealth typically amounted to 15-30% of total wealth in the early 1980s but these values have dropped to near 0% in most rich countries, and to around -10 to -20% in the US and the UK. Zero or negative public wealth values mean that private actors control the whole of the economy through their own assets. The higher the debt of the government the greater is the power of debtors over it. Needless to say that the public debt in India is 75% of the GDP.

In August, the government announced a scheme to monetize assets to realize 6 trillion INR by 2024-25 due to revenue shortfall. The sale of the debt-ridden Air India was one of the first assets to be monetized. The fact that it was sold for crumbs indicates how desperate the government was to sell it off. The National Monetisation Pipeline was started to support the National Infrastructure Pipeline, which means we now need to sell public assets to fund infrastructure projects in the country.

However, there is some confusion since the Finance Minister has announced that the assets would still be owned by the government and they have to be handed back after some time. Nobody knows how to practically operationalize something like this, and also who should bear the cost of depreciation of assets built with taxpayer money.

As India marches ahead to realize its dreams of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025, and realizing its ambitious climate goals announced at the COP26, our rich nation has to step up and support its poor government not just in building infrastructure but also in delivering social and economic justice to the poor. The middle class have always been the backbone of our economy; let us not follow the footsteps of the Central and Latin American Banana Republics or some of our South Asian neighbors where the co-existence of poverty and oligarchy lead to crimes, law & order problems, and social upheavals.

Reference links –

WORLD INEQUALITY REPORT 2022>

The 2021 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

Press Information Bureau

#kautilyaschoolofpublicpolicy #policymakers #publicpolicy

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sanjaylodh · 2 months

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Country Foreign Continent

By the way, friends, the country in whose chair I am carrying out our civilization story is

that is my country india

How many countries, continents and nations are there in the whole world?

There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.

What are the 7 continents and their countries list?

The Seven Continents | Overview & Facts - Video & Lesson ...

The number of countries in each continent fluctuate based on different timely political reasons, but Africa has 54 counties, Antarctica has 0 counties, Asia has 47 countries, Australia has 14 counties, Europe has 43 counties, North America has 23 counties, and South America has 12 countries.

Which country is No 1 in world?

For the second year in a row, Switzerland is the best country in the world, according to the U.S News and World report.13 Sept 2023

Are there 252 countries in the world?

The United Nations, for example, recognizes 251 countries and territories. 1 The United States, however, officially recognizes fewer than 200 nations. 2 Ultimately, the best answer is that there are 196 countries in the world.26 Feb 2020

What is the smallest country in 2023?

Smallest Countries in the World 2023 - Wisevoter

The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, with only 0.44 square kilometers. Monaco is the second smallest country, with 2.03 square kilometers.

Which country has only 33 people?

The Smallest Country In The World That Has Only 32 People ...

One such country is republic of Molossia, which is located in Dayton, Nevada and has only 33 people living there. This tiny country is considered as one of the smallest sovereign states in the world with only 0.2 square kilometers of land area.11 Jun 2022

What is no 2 country?

Canada. Canada takes up about two-fifths of the North American continent, making it the second-largest country in the world after.

What is the top 10 richest country?

The top 10 richest countries in the world by GDP per capita are as follows:

Singapore.

Qatar.

Macao SAR.

United Arab Emirates.

Switzerland.

Norway.

United States.

San Marino.

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Country: How many states are there in India?

28 states

There are 28 states and 8 union territories in the country. Union territories are administered through an administrator appointed by the President.

Which is the 29th state of India?

Telangana

The correct answer is Telangana. In 2014, Telangana became the 29th state of India. Telangana was formed by reorganizing the state of Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana.

How many districts are there in West Bengal?

23 districts

West Bengal is now divided into 23 districts.

How many municipal areas and panchayat areas are there in Howrah district?

How many panchayats are there in Howrah district?

Howrah district - Wikipedia

The district has 30 police stations (Howrah Police Commissionerate has 16 general police stations including 1 women's PS, 1 cyber crime PS and Howrah Rural PD has 10 general police stations including 1 women's PS, 1 cyber crime PS), 157 gram panchayats and There are 50 censuses. Towns.

How many municipalities are there in Howrah?

Howrah Municipal Corporation - Wikipedia

In July 2015, Howrah Municipal Corporation and Bally Municipality were merged. The 35 wards of Bally Municipality were reduced to 16 under Howrah Municipal Corporation. In November 2021, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly passed a bill to separate Bally Municipality from Howrah Municipal Corporation.

This colorful season of our world covering so many areas, districts, states, countries, foreign continents,

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वैसे दोस्तों मैं जिस देश की कुर्सी में बैठकर हमारी यह सिविलाइजेशन स्टोरी को अंजाम दे रहा हूँ

वो है मेरा देश इंडिया

यह पूरी दुनिया में कितने देश महादेश और राष्ट्रसंघ वर्तमान है

आज विश्व में 195 देश हैं। इस कुल में 193 देश शामिल हैं जो संयुक्त राष्ट्र के सदस्य राज्य हैं और 2 देश जो गैर-सदस्य पर्यवेक्षक राज्य हैं: होली सी और फिलिस्तीन राज्य।

7 महाद्वीप और उनके देशों की सूची क्या है?

सात महाद्वीप | अवलोकन एवं तथ्य - वीडियो एवं पाठ...

प्रत्येक महाद्वीप में देशों की संख्या अलग-अलग सामयिक राजनीतिक कारणों के आधार पर घटती-बढ़ती रहती है, लेकिन अफ्रीका में 54 काउंटी, अंटार्कटिका में 0 काउंटी, एशिया में 47 देश, ऑस्ट्रेलिया में 14 काउंटी, यूरोप में 43 काउंटी, उत्तरी अमेरिका में 23 काउंटी और दक्षिण अमेरिका में 23 काउंटी हैं। 12 देश हैं.

दुनिया में नंबर 1 देश कौन सा है?

यू.एस. न्यूज एंड वर्ल्ड रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, स्विट्जरलैंड लगातार दूसरे वर्ष दुनिया का सबसे अच्छा देश है। 13 सितंबर 2023

क्या विश्व में 252 देश हैं?

उदाहरण के लिए, संयुक्त राष्ट्र 251 देशों और क्षेत्रों को मान्यता देता है। हालाँकि, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका आधिकारिक तौर पर 200 से कम देशों को मान्यता देता है। अंततः, सबसे अच्छा उत्तर यह है कि दुनिया में 196 देश हैं। 26 फरवरी 2020

2023 में सबसे छोटा देश कौन सा है?

विश्व के सबसे छोटे देश 2023 - समझदार मतदाता

दुनिया का सबसे छोटा देश वेटिकन सिटी है, जिसका क्षेत्रफल केवल 0.44 वर्ग किलोमीटर है। मोनाको 2.03 वर्ग किलोमीटर के साथ दूसरा सबसे छोटा देश है।

किस देश में केवल 33 लोग रहते हैं?

दुनिया का सबसे छोटा देश जहां सिर्फ 32 लोग रहते हैं...

ऐसा ही एक देश है मोलोसिया गणराज्य, जो डेटन, नेवादा में स्थित है और वहां केवल 33 लोग रहते हैं। केवल 0.2 वर्ग किलोमीटर भूमि क्षेत्र वाले इस छोटे से देश को दुनिया के सबसे छोटे संप्रभु राज्यों में से एक माना जाता है।11 जून 2022

नंबर 2 देश क्या है?

कनाडा. कनाडा उत्तरी अमेरिकी महाद्वीप का लगभग दो-पाँचवाँ भाग घेरता है, जिससे यह दुनिया का दूसरा सबसे बड़ा देश बन जाता है।

शीर्ष 10 सबसे अमीर देश कौन सा है?

प्रति व्यक्ति सकल घरेलू उत्पाद के हिसाब से दुनिया के शीर्ष 10 सबसे अमीर देश इस प्रकार हैं:

सिंगापुर.

कतर.

मकाओ एसएआर.

संयुक्त अरब अमीरात।

स्विट्जरलैंड.

नॉर्वे.

संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका।

सैन मारिनो।

अधिक आइटम...•2 जनवरी 2024

देश भारत में कितने राज्य वर्तमान है

28 राज्य

देश में 28 राज्य और 8 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश हैं। केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों का प्रशासन राष्ट्रपति द्वारा नियुक्त प्रशासक के माध्यम से किया जाता है।

भारत का 29वाँ राज्य कौन सा है?

तेलंगाना

सही उत्तर तेलंगाना है। 2014 में तेलंगाना भारत का 29वां राज्य बना। आंध्र प्रदेश राज्य का पुनर्गठन करके तेलंगाना का गठन किया गया। हैदराबाद तेलंगाना की राजधानी है।

पश्चिम बंगाल में कितने जिले वर्तमान है

23 जिले

पश्चिम बंगाल अब 23 जिलों में विभाजित है।

हावड़ा जिले में कितने म्युनिसिपल एरिया और पंचायत एरिया है

हावड़ा जिले में कितनी पंचायतें हैं?

हावड़ा जिला - विकिपीडिया

जिले में 30 पुलिस स्टेशन हैं (हावड़ा पुलिस आयुक्तालय में 1 महिला पीएस, 1 साइबर अपराध पीएस सहित 16 सामान्य पुलिस स्टेशन हैं और हावड़ा ग्रामीण पीडी में 1 महिला पीएस, 1 साइबर अपराध पीएस सहित 10 सामान्य पुलिस स्टेशन हैं), 157 ग्राम पंचायतें और 50 जनगणना हैं। कस्बे.

हावड़ा में कितनी नगर पालिकाएँ हैं?

हावड़ा नगर निगम - विकिपीडिया

जुलाई 2015 में, हावड़ा नगर निगम और बल्ली नगर पालिका का विलय कर दिया गया। हावड़ा नगर निगम के अंतर्गत बाली नगर पालिका के 35 वार्डों को घटाकर 16 कर दिया गया। नवंबर 2021 में, पश्चिम बंगाल विधान सभा ने बल्ली नगर पालिका को हावड़ा नगर निगम से अलग करने के लिए एक विधेयक पारित किया।

इतने एरिया जिले राज्य देश विदेश महादेश लेकर हमारी दुनिया की यह रंगिन मौसम

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i think this is the start of something bigger. i had the silliest idea. i'm going to plan my whole life around a prank as an, albeit dumb, way to see a future for myself. This is the start of that prank.

Also, sort of a way to write down my life. Hell yeah we survived 10/18/2023! 1:56AM EST. Make today worth remembering, me.

i went to class, called my dad, and had myself a bit of a meltdown actually punched my head a bit, ah meltdowns... doing calc homework. i really like the, "I walked so they can run." mindset, but people seem to have this, "So I am owed This From You" attitude added onto it which really rubs me the wrong way.

It's nice that tumblr remembers to write down the dates so I don't have to, but for easier data transferring purposes, I'll be putting the date in the post.

I'm not a writer. I'm just a thought translator. I really wonder what thought is. I'm gonna google that real quick. Omfg i'm right. We're just a bunch of fat sacks that talk with electricity better trying to figure out how to talk with other electricity better. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but I think the next stage of evolution is via technology. Only the richest will survive. I wonder how we're going to push the Earth away from the sun as it expands. I'm predicting either humanity, or an entity other than humanity is able to comprehend this. I hope that it is, anyway, and not eaten.

Anyway, this is the start of my, "What it's like to live in 2020's" Journal, and you're getting close to the end of the story.

The only thing that'd top Covid19, Biden, Trump, and Obama, is nuclear world war. I hope for hope's sake that it will never come to that, however things do need to get worse before they can get better. Covid becoming endemic is certainly worse than before, but I believe it can get worse and that is why I'm gonna stop giving a shit about time well spent cuz it could all end tomorrow.

I'm also going to believe that it can get better though. I'm planning that with my partners. I'm making promises I have to keep. It has to get better eventually. It might not be for me today, but hopefully it got a little better for someone else in the world. I don't care that it never gets better for some people. I'm hoping I'm not one of 'em. If I am, this joke will be even more fucking funny omfg I can't wait. If I'm not, I'm gonna make sure others are one of the lucky ones as a way to show thanks. I never really looked towards the future before. Maybe the reason why we're fighting so hard is because we end up winning in the end? Maybe tomorrow will be a little better and evolve into a big change.

Maybe we solve the climate crises.

Maybe we solve the billionaire problem(public execution maybe? I joke, but you can't deny it's a problem that has to be solved within another 20 years).

Maybe we solve health problems(give people aids/make things accessible, not eugenics pls for the love of fuck don't take this the wrong way).

Maybe we'll be around to see it.

That's worth something, I think.

#backwards.#1

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The gap between the rich and the poor has made American capital a half master

The United States is not only the world's largest economy, but also the Western country with the most serious wealth gap. For a long time, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. In recent years, the United States adopted large-scale fiscal and financial stimulus measures, not only did not fundamentally help the poor to rescue, but also helped billionaires take the opportunity to expand their wealth, and the gap between the rich and the poor is more wide.

The gap between rich and poor in the United States has worsened: 3 million rich people are worth more than 290 million people combined. The social system is "skewed" in favour of the rich

Since the 1970s, the degree of income inequality and wealth disparity in the United States has been deepening, and there has been a serious phenomenon of "the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer" and "the middle class is being squeezed", which is still continuing today. The top 10 percent of the nation's total wealth rose to 66 percent, with the top 1 percent gaining the most; That is, the total wealth of 3 million people in the top 1 percent is more than the total wealth of 291 million people in the 90 percent of the country's upper, middle and lower middle classes.

The incomes of "working people" continue to shrink

The middle class is shrinking. In the two decades between the end of World War II and 1970, "Middle America" emerged. Since then, although the U.S. economy has continued to grow, the middle class has not only failed to expand, but has declined significantly. The share of American adults living in middle-income households fell from 61 percent in 1971 to 51 percent in 2019. The proportion of high-income households increased from 14 percent to 20 percent, and the proportion of low-income households from 25 percent to 29 percent, while the size of middle-income households continued to shrink.

The wealth gap is closely related to race. The average black, Hispanic or Latino household in the United States has about half the income of a white household and owns only 15 to 20 percent of the net wealth of a white household. Fed data show that the gap has widened significantly over the past few decades. Since 1989, the median wealth of white families has tripled, while the wealth of black, Hispanic and Latino families has barely increased. According to the 2019 Federal Reserve survey, the median white household in the United States has a net worth 10 times that of the median black household, and the combined wealth of the 400 richest American billionaires exceeds the combined wealth of 10 million black American households.

The "land of dreams and opportunities" is being questioned

Social unrest has intensified. There have been a series of demonstrations in the United States in recent years because of the widening gap between rich and poor. From the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in 2011 to the "Black Lives Matter" march against police violence in the United States in 2020, some demonstrations even turned violent. The mass demonstrations reflect the struggle of the lower class people in the United States against racial discrimination, class solidification and wealth disparity. During the epidemic, the US government implemented several rounds of economic stimulus policies and issued a large number of subsidies, which alleviated social contradictions in the short term, but accumulated a longer-term debt crisis and inflation pressure that was more difficult to deal with.

The human rights situation is worrying. The gap between the rich and the poor has led to the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States. One is the decline in life expectancy. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, between 2019 and 2021, the average life expectancy in the United States dropped by 2.7 years, with men losing 3.1 years and women losing 2.3 years. Second, higher education resources are disproportionately skewed to the rich, low-income people lose equal access to education, and public dissatisfaction with higher education is rising. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 82 percent of 18 - to 24-year-olds from high-income families are enrolled in higher education, compared with 45 percent from low-income families. Third, the living conditions of the homeless are poor. Increasing inequality, especially extreme poverty, is a major cause of homelessness. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than 580,000 people in the United States will be homeless in 2020, including 226,000 who live on the streets, in cars or abandoned buildings.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Despite economic headwinds that affected Nigeria’s economy, three Nigerians have appeared in the list of richest black people on earth. They are Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Mike Adenuga. Aliko Dangote, President of the pan-African Conglomerate, the Dangote Group, tops the list. Here is a list of 17 richest black people on earth 1. Aliko Dangote ($10.8 billion) Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, founded and chairs Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer. He owns 85% of publicly-traded Dangote Cement through a holding company. Dangote Cement has the capacity to produce 48.6 million metric tons annually and has operations in 10 countries across Africa. After many years in development, Dangote’s fertilizer plant in Nigeria began operations in March 2022. Dangote Refinery has been under construction since 2016 and is expected to be one of the world’s largest oil refineries once complete. 2. Robert F. Smith ($8 billion) Robert F. Smith founded private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in 2000. It focuses exclusively on investing in software companies. With $96 billion in assets, Vista is one of the best-performing private equity firms, posting annualized returns of 31% since inception. In October 2020, Smith entered into an agreement with the DOJ and IRS, agreeing to pay $139 million for his role in a tax evasion scheme. As a college student, Smith secured an internship at Bell Labs after calling the company every week for five months. An engineer by training, he worked at Kraft Foods and Goodyear Tire before getting his MBA at Columbia University. During a commencement speech, Smith vowed to wipe out the student debt of the entire 2019 graduating class of Morehouse College. 3. David Steward ($7.6 billion) David Steward is the founder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology. In the early days, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck and once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot. Today he is majority owner of the $14.5 billion (sales) company, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government. He grew up in the segregated South with seven siblings; his father worked as a mechanic, janitor and trash collector. Steward donated $1.3 million to the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2018 to create the David and Thelma Steward Institute for Jazz Studies. 4. Abdulsamad Rabiu ($5.6 billion) Abdulsamad Rabiu is the founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate active in cement production, sugar refining and real estate. In early January 2020, Rabiu merged his privately-owned Obu Cement company with listed firm Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria, which he controlled. The combined firm, called BUA Cement Plc, trades on the Nigerian stock exchange; Rabiu owns 98.2% of it. Rabiu, the son of a businessman, inherited land from his father. He set up his own business in 1988 importing iron, steel and chemicals. 5. Mike Adenuga ($3.6 billion) Adenuga, Nigeria’s second richest man, built his fortune in telecom and oil production. His mobile phone network, Globacom, is the third largest operator in Nigeria, with 55 million subscribers. His oil exploration outfit, Conoil Producing, operates 6 oil blocks in the Niger Delta. Adenuga got an MBA at Pace University in New York, supporting himself as a student by working as a taxi driver. He made his first million at age 26 selling lace and distributing soft drinks. 6. Jay-Z ($2.5 billion) Since becoming hip-hop’s first billionaire in 2019, Jay-Z has more than doubled his fortune thanks to his lucrative liquor businesses. In 2021, giant LVMH purchased a 50% stake in his champagne empire Armand de Brignac, otherwise known as Ace of Spades.

Jay-Z sold a majority of his stake in his cognac brand D’Usse to Bacardi in February 2023. His other assets range from a fine art collection including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, his music catalog and shares in companies like Block and Uber. In 2021 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame; He won an Emmy in 2022 for Outstanding Variety Special for his production of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. 7. Oprah Winfrey ($2.5 billion) Oprah Winfrey has transitioned her hit talk show, which ran for 25 years, into a media and business empire. Reinvested, the profits from her show, plus profits from films like The Color Purple, Beloved and Selma (which her Harpo Productions coproduced) add up to an estimated more than $2 billion. In 2011, Winfrey launched cable channel OWN. She sold most of her stake in the network to owner Warner Bros. Discovery in 2020 in exchange for shares in the company. Winfrey bought a 10% stake in Weight Watchers in 2015, though she owns less now. Her sprawling real estate portfolio includes homes in California, Nashville and over a dozen properties in Hawaii. 8. PATRICE MOTSEPE ($2.3 billion) Patrice Motsepe, the founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, became a billionaire in 2008 – the first black African on the Forbes list. In 2016, he launched a private equity firm, African Rainbow Capital, focused on investing in Africa. Motsepe also has a stake in Sanlam, a listed financial services firm, and is the president and owner of the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club. In March 2021, Motsepe was elected president of the Confederation of African Football, the sport’s governing body on the continent. In 1994, he became the first black partner at law firm Bowman Gilfillan in Johannesburg, and then started a mining services contracting business. In 1997, he bought low-producing gold mine shafts and later turned them profitable. 9. Michael Jordan ($2 billion) Regarded by most as the NBA’s greatest all-time player, Michael Jordan won six titles with the Chicago Bulls. His salary during his career totaled $90 million, but he has earned $1.8 billion (pre-tax) from such corporate partners as Nike, Hanes and Gatorade. MJ joined sports-betting firm DraftKings as a special advisor to the board and an investor in September 2020. He also became a NASCAR team co-owner in late 2020. Jordan, who owns the Charlotte Hornets, agreed to sell a minority stake in a 2019 deal that valued the NBA team at $1.5 billion. 10. STRIVE MASIYIWA, ($1.8 billion) Strive Masiyiwa overcame protracted government opposition to launch mobile phone network Econet Wireless Zimbabwe in his country of birth in 1998. He owns just over 50% of the publicly-traded Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, which is one part of his larger Econet Group. Masiyiwa also owns just over half of private company Liquid Telecom, which provides fiber optic and satellite services to telecom firms across Africa. His other assets include stakes in mobile phone networks in Burundi and Lesotho, and investments in fintech and power distribution firms in Africa. He and his wife Tsitsi founded the Higherlife Foundation, which supports orphaned and poor children in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho. 11. Alexander Karp ($1.8 billion) Alex Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, which received early backing from CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel. The company does contract work for government agencies like the Department of Defense, the FBI and the Danish National Police. Palantir went public on the New York Stock Exchange in an unusual direct listing process in September 2020. Karp met Palantir cofounder and billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel while at Stanford Law School. Karp managed money before starting Palantir in 2004, and occasionally teaches meditation classes at the company. 12. Rihanna ($1.4 billion ) Rihanna, Barbados’ most famous export, is a billionaire thanks to the success of cosmetics line Fenty Beauty.

The cosmetics company, which she co-owns with French luxury retailer LVMH, doubled its revenue in 2022. She also has a 30% stake in the Savage x Fenty lingerie line, which raised money at a $1 billion valuation in February 2021. The pop star headlined the Super Bowl LVII halftime show for the first time in 2023, during which she revealed she is pregnant with her second child. Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky already have one son, born in May 2022. She released her first new music in five years in 2022 for the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Her song “Lift Me Up” was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. 13. Michael Lee-Chin ($1.4 billion each) Michael Lee-Chin made a fortune investing in financial companies like National Commercial Bank Jamaica and AIC Limited. The native of Jamaica acquired AIC in 1987, when it had less than $1 million in assets under management. Under Lee-Chin, the Canada-based wealth management and mutual fund business managed more than $10 billion in assets by 2002. But the firm was hit hard by the 2008 recession, and Lee-Chin sold AIC to Canadian financial services group Manulife in 2009 for an undisclosed price. He managed to hold onto a valuable 60% stake in National Commercial Bank Jamaica, which now makes up much of his wealth. 14. MOHAMMED IBRAHIM ($1.2 billion) Mohammed “Mo” Ibrahim founded Celtel International in 1998, one of the first mobile phone companies serving Africa and the Middle East. He sold Celtel to Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company for $3.4 billion in 2005 and pocketed $1.4 billion. Since then, he’s focused on fighting corrupt leadership in Africa through the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, directed by his daughter, Hadeel. Ibrahim also chairs the board of Satya Capital, a private equity fund that invests in African businesses, education and healthcare. 15. Tiger Woods ($1.1 billion) Woods has earned roughly $1.8 billion during his pro golf career, including a PGA Tour-record $121 million in prize money. In 2022, Forbes certified him as a billionaire, making him only the second active athlete ever with that distinction, after LeBron James. Woods reached that rarified air despite reportedly turning down a “mind-blowingly enormous” offer from the upstart LIV Golf tour, a deal that LIV CEO Greg Norman told the Washington Post would have been in the “high nine digits.” Woods has parlayed his golfing paychecks into investments that include two homes on Jupiter Island, a golf-course design business and high-end mini-golf chain Popstroke. Woods and fellow golf star Rory McIlroy announced in 2022 that they had founded TMRW Sports, a tech-focused venture with plans to launch a new golf league called TGL. The superstar is also a partner with Justin Timberlake and British billionaire Joe Lewis in Nexxus, a luxury real-estate venture. 16. LeBron James ($1 billion) James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $1 billion in June 2022. Born to a 16-year-old single mother, he lived with an assortment of family members, friends and neighbors, plus his youth football coach, before being drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. James has reportedly earned more than $430 million in pretax salary from stints with the Cavaliers, the Miami Heat and his current team, the Los Angeles Lakers. He has raked in upwards of $900 million (pretax) off the court, according to Forbes estimates from business ventures and endorsement deals with the likes of PepsiCo, Walmart and Nike. Key to his billionaire status: James has been more than a pitchman, taking equity in brands he works with, including Beats by Dre and the fast-growing Blaze Pizza chain. His LeBron James Family Foundation opened its first elementary school in 2018 and has pledged to spend more than $40 million to send kids to college. 17. Tyler Perry ($1 billion) A director, actor, producer and writer,

Tyler Perry is best known for his “Madea” franchise, which has grossed more than $660 million. Perry started out in live theater in the 1990s and became extremely popular before transitioning to film and television in the 2000s. Perry’s wealth comes both from his cut as a producer and from a library dating back to the early 1990s: he owns 100% of the content he’s created. In 2019, he opened Tyler Perry Studios, a 330-acre property in Atlanta with 12 sound stages and custom sets that include a to-scale White House. #billionaire #Nigerians #wealth #Worldsrichestblackpeople

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Who Is The Richest Singer In The World Right Now?

People often are found discussing, who is the best singer in the world, but only a few of them wonder, well, who is the richest singer in the world. Today we will be listing the top 10 richest singers as of 2020 depending on their net worth. We are all aware that being a popular and successful singer can be a very good thing for you financially. Moreover, some of the most successful singers are…

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Quiet sides of wealthy Nigerians

Mike Adenuga

According to the Forbes list of African billionaires for 2020, Mike Adenuga, the founder of Globacom and the Chairman of Conoil Producing, is the third richest person in Africa. The astute businessman built his fortune in telecommunications and oil exploration.Adenuga’s name not only resonates among his peers but is also mentioned by musicians who can’t seem to get enough of using him as a reference when praying for financial breakthrough. However, with all the buzz around him, the 67-year-old not only lives a quiet life, he is not also seen in social circles. Some years ago, when one of his children got married, it was reported that the oil major instructed guests not to take any photos at the classy but private wedding. Adenuga guards his privacy so jealously that according to reports, only select members of his staff have access to him.

Fola Adeola

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc is arguably one of the most popular new generation banks in Nigeria. Its tentacles are also spread outside the ‘giant of Africa’ as it has branches in 10 other African countries.However, not much is known about one of the brains behind the financial institution― Fola Adeola. Apart from the fact that the serial entrepreneur is scarcely seen at society parties, his wife, Hajara, and their six children also live very low-key lifestyles. His wife’s modest is further proof that the couple does not want to live in the full glare of the public.Adeola was 34 when she and the co-founder of the bank, the late Tayo Aderinokun, applied for a banking licence in 1988, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Adedeji Adeleke

A lot of people only got to hear about the reserved businessman, Adedeji Adeleke, through his superstar son, David, popularly known as Davido.Born on March 6, 1957, the senior Adeleke is the founder and president of Adeleke University. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Holdings Limited. Although two of Adedeji’s brothers have held top political positions in the past, he has still managed to keep a low profile.His son’s popularity has undoubtedly put the spotlight on him over the years as Davido regularly sings and talks about his father’s wealth. Unlike others of his ilk, Adeleke is one billionaire who is not often seen amidst the crème de la crème but Davido, the self-proclaimed ‘omo baba olowo (child of a rich man)’, is certainly doing that for him.

Leo ‘Stan’ Ekeh

Leonard Ekeh can be described as one of the most successful technopreneurs to have come out of Africa. He has carved a niche for himself in the information technology sector and is still working hard to make more impact. Many years ago, the smart entrepreneur rightly predicted that ICT would occupy an important position in the world’s economy and he decided to toe that path. It won’t be out of place to say that Ekeh’s foresight has helped him to quickly adapt to changes in the world market and conveniently utilise new technologies to his advantage.He founded Zinox Technologies Limited in 2001 and the company.

Pascal Dozie

Even as an octogenarian, business magnate, Pascal Dozie, is numbered among the richest men in Imo State and Nigeria as a whole. With a net worth estimated by Forbes to be at $1bn, there is no gainsaying the fact that he has had a successful career.Dozie began his career as an economist at the National Economic Development Office in the United Kingdom. He was also a part-time lecturer at the North Western Polytechnic, London. Between 1970 and 1971, he served as a consulting economist at the African States Consulting Organisation in Uganda. In 1971, after quitting his job in Uganda, he relocated to Nigeria at the request of his mother. Armed with his experience in econometrics and industrial engineering, the enterprising businessman launched his first company, African Development Consulting Group, which later gave birth to Diamond Bank.Dozie was the Chairman of MTN Nigeria for 18 years before he, alongside five other non-Executive Directors, left their positions in 2019. The savvy entrepreneur has five sons and he is gradually handing over the reins of the business he painstakingly built to his eldest son, Uzoma, who was the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank before the financial institution’s merger with Access Bank.The wealthy entrepreneur keeps a low-key profile and seemingly shies away from anything that is not about business.

Ibukun Awosika

She is the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria; founder of the Chair Centre Group; and co-founder and past chairperson of the Women in Business, Management and Public Service. With that, it is evident that Awosika is not a small fry by any standards. The brilliant businesswoman also chairs a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards including Gems Africa, House of Tara International, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Digital Jewel Limited, Convention on Business Integrity and the Afterschool Graduate Development Centre― a facility she promoted to help address youth employability and enterprise issues in Nigeria. She used to be the Chairman of FBN Life Assurance Limited, FBN Capital Limited and Kakawa Discount House Limited. She also served on the board of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority.

Abdulsamad Rabiu

Kano-born business tycoon, Abdulsamad Rabiu, made his fortune as the owner of BUA Cement Plc and that has earned him an enviable spot on the list of billionaires in Africa. He is also the chairman of the Bank of Industry. On July 7, 2020, Forbes estimated Rabiu’s wealth to be $3.2bn, placing him at the 716th position in the global billionaire’s club.

Jim Ovia

Jim Ovia can be described as a very private person, though he is the founder of a public limited company, Zenith Bank Plc, which happens to be one of the most profitable financial institutions in the country.A 58-year-old native of Agbor in Delta State, Ovia keeps his family off the social media radar and shields his private life jealously. He started his banking career in 1973 as a clerk at Union Bank. He worked for three years as a bank clerk before moving to the United States of America, where he obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees. Called ‘The godfather of Nigerian banking’ in banking circles, Ovia transformed Zenith from a small commercial bank into a formidable financial conglomerate, that boasts of over 500 branches and business offices in all states of Nigeria, as well as subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and China.

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Top 5 Women Philanthropists of India

Giving to charities has a long history in India. While there are wonderful examples of institution-building support, especially in the early years of independent India, traditional Indian philanthropy has mainly focused on supporting and enabling the delivery of essential services and creating livelihood opportunities, particularly in the areas of health care and education for the needy and in remote areas.

In response to the unpredictable challenges imposed by the pandemic, civil society organisations joined forces with governments to ensure the last-mile delivery of a number of government services and goods. This attempt was widely appreciated by both top government officials and society at large.

From Rs 2,318 crore in FY18 to Rs 5,666 crore in FY22, overall donations have increased by a factor of two. This shows that people in India have given more to charity in the last four years from FY18 to FY22 and it has been only progressive since then. The world is celebrating women’s history month in March 2023. With India having a long history in giving to charity, let’s look at the top women philanthropists in India in 2022.

1. Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani has worked as a journalist, author, and social activist. Rohini Nilekani, the chairwoman of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and the wife of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, has been engaged in active citizenship for over 30 years. Most of her donations were made in the fields of ecology, sanitation, and education, but her good works have covered a variety of topics. Rohini has secured assistance for initiatives over India through Arghyam, a nonprofit she set up in 2001 for sustainable water and sanitation.

2. Leena Gandhi Tewari

Leena Gandhi Tewari of the pharmaceutical enterprise USV, one of the wealthiest women in India, rose to the rank of second-most giving Indian lady after contributing an amount of 21 crores. Last year, the USV chairperson gave 23 crores to a charity. She created the Dr Susheela Gandhi Centre for Social Development to aid the destitute women of Vakola, Maharashtra. The centre supports multiple education and learning of the town’s women and girls. Girls are led through student learning, dance classes, and computer classes at the facility.

3. Anu Aga & Family

The former chairwoman of Thermax Ltd., Anu Aga was ranked as the seventh richest Indian woman. She is the third most generous woman in India, having given approximately 20 crore rupees to charity foundations. Anu, the current chairperson of Teach For India, is renowned for committing a lot of time to the causes she endorses. Along with the Akanksha Foundation, the Thermax Social Initiative Foundation (TSIF) manages nine primary government schools in Pune and Mumbai. Anu also provides money to causes like Teach For India and Give India that foster education. In acknowledgement of her work in the social sector, she received Padma Shri in 2010.

4. Manju Gupta

Manju D. Gupta is the chairwoman of the large pharma company Lupin Pharma. Her children Vineta and Nilesh are presently in charge of the $ 2 billion business. In 2022, she gave a contribution of 16 crores more toward the advancement and growth of the nation’s rural areas. In 2020, she was classified as India’s fifth-richest lady.

5. Renu Munjal

Renu Munjal is the Managing Director of Hero FinCorp and serves as a director on the Board of Easy Bill. Renu has participated in several CSR initiatives, including setting up and operating a K–12 school and a centre in skills courses. She is also fully engaged in initiatives related to women’s empowerment. In FY22, Renu Munjal and her family contributed Rs 10 crore for disaster relief.

The Bottom Line…

Philanthropy is a way that can help society get rid of all the challenges like poverty, impoverishment, unemployment, lack of education and others. While these women are on top of the philanthropy list, you can start small and one step at a time. Filaantro is a crowdfunding platform that raises funds for every genuine cause that one believes in. We fundraise for a cause, the cause that is close to your heart and has all your hard work, just like these women to be at the top of the philanthropy list. Visit filaantro.org to know more about crowdsourcing.

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Lecture - Critical Thinking 2

In our lecture were looking at the current social changes and the impact they have fashion and textiles. Throughout the presentation we are identifying the historical links between technology, world events and social changes that have influenced fashion and textiles.

There are six key causes of fashion and textiles Sustainability, consumerism, innovation, division of wealth, social media, and politics and power.

Cause and effect – this are the relationship between events or things where one is the result other or the others.

We were asked who thought the most powerful people in the world and I thought people like Trump and Putin were quite powerful but in a negative way but then you also have people like Joe Biden being the current president of America. We then found out that the top 10 most powerful in world from 2020 were Xi Jingping (China’s president), Vladmir Putin (Russia’s president), Angela Merkel, Pope Francis, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Narendra Modi, and Mark Zuckerburg, and looked at the list of most powerful women during 2022 from Forbes&McGrath.

We then looked at what some of these people have actually done and what they have actually done, like looking at Xi Jingping to help broaden his power he amended constitution as well as scrapping term limits Moving on to Putin who set up constitutional challenges which then allowed him to remain in power in Russia beyond 2024 and Kamila Harris being the first black person and first South Asian-American to become US vice president.

Hyper normalisation – this is a term created by an historian Alexei Yurchak reflecting on deep corruption in Russia during the eighties.

Moving on to division of wealth, ‘richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the would put together over the past two years, Oxfam 2023. Whilst billionaire’s fortunes are increasing there are billions of workers that live in countries where inflation is outpacing wages.

Global inequality = poverty and social conflict

Looking at the global wealth pyramid of the distribution in 2021 you can see that the percentage of people that earned less than $10.000. We then talked about MENA (Middle East North Africa) is the most unequal region in the world as well as Europe has the lowest inequality levels and how wealth inequalities have increased at the very top of distribution as the rise in private wealth has been unequal within countries and around the world. When looking at consumerism and division of wealth the 1990s hush puppies’ revival was a tipping point as during 1994, they were selling around 30,000 shoes a year and by the end of 1995 430,000 shoes were sold. During the late 1994 – 95 hipsters in downtown Manhattan adopt shoes making the cool in bar and clubs and in 96 hush puppies won a prize for the best accessory for the Council of Fashion Designers.

Tipping point – that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Abacus, 2010.

“Why even the pandemic couldn’t kill fast,” as online clothing sales recover in wake of Covid-19, our unsustainable habit is proving hard to quit, Bootle 2020. As we weren’t allowed to be out shopping as much as we wanted during covid people most of their time doing online shopping and apps like TikTok were really popular and people were and still are promoting different brands meaning people were most likely to buy something that is being promoted and is going viral. Online clothing sales in August 2020 were up 97% vs 2016 consumer’s mindset is returning to unsustainable habits. Looking at Boohoo their profit went up by 50% during the pandemic, shrugging off their scandal.

Moving onto innovation and the use of technology and the development of robots as we have augmented reality and digital rendering used for fashion shows during the pandemic and Khaite merging AR, film and traditional mediums and sending presentation boxes to editors and buyers which would include lookbooks and fabric samples with QR codes revealing fashion like films and AR 3D renderings. Next was the use of social media and how it uses persuasive technology to manipulate the product and people and as well as praying on our addiction. The way we are manipulated through use of social media, is that all social media actions are recorded building a model of each of us, enabling the technology to predict our behaviour and the fact that machine learning algorithms are constantly improving engaging more interactions are constantly improving engaging more interactions and mobiles being digital pacifiers if uncomfortable, lonely, or afraid. After going through the six different points that would make up our brand, we got into our groups to then think out how they could potentially affect our brand.

Focusing on these six point within our brand, when trying to stay sustainable we want to be able to rework and upcycle street wear by using deadstock fabrics and clothes and doing this means that we will be able to help reduce where these old clothes and fabrics are going. A good example of this is Ronald Van Der Kemps SS23 Couture collection inspiring our brand to become more effective with the use deadstock and leftover materials.

The idea that 85% of consumer’s think about sustainability will help our brand to grow as we will be able to target people who want some personalisation and individualism within their clothes. Within power and politics, in the modern era, powerful environmental activist Zoe Helene states the issues of the impacts of global warming. As the fashion industry is one of the biggest industries that effects global warming being able to create a brand where sustainability is a big focus helps give us a strong and powerful influence as well as helping us grow with our consumers for the right reasons. We would also like to work alongside with The UN Alliance for sustainable fashion organisation. Looking at the division of wealth, we want our brand to be affordable by using deadstock fabrics, but this also means that there will be a limited number of garments produced but then using deadstock fabrics is usually cheaper to buy rather than ordering fabrics that are made to order. The use of social media could affect us negatively massively as there would most likely be a false image of perfection influenced by brands and influencers. This could also cause our brand to have a small following for people to feel inclusive and where they can express themselves without being pressured to aspire to a false persona of perfection. Lastly, we currently don’t have any plans to include technology within our brand but it’s we could plan for the future.

We then were left to talk within our brands after sharing our ideas with the rest of the class. The trend that we finally chose for our brand is prepare- wear and the main focus of that trend is to have adjustable features within closes, quite literally the idea that we aren’t meant to fit into our clothes, our clothes are meant to fit us. Doing this gives our customers the freedom to adjust their clothes to however they want it to fit on them. We want to the colour palette to be dark and have that grunge feel to it and looked into a charity called the Wonder Foundation that could also help with promotion.

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erin-thomas · 1 year

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Lecture: Critical thinking 2

In the lecture today we began to investigate the current social factors and the impact that these will have on the future of fashion and textiles and in turn our brads that we are creating. In the lecture we were looking at some key causes those being sustainability, consumerism, innovation, division of wealth, social media and power and politics.

We started by looking at power and politics, and who the most powerful people in the world are. We looked at the list of top 10 most powerful people in the world from watch mojo in 2020, some of the name being Vladimir Putin (Russias president (2)), Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon (6)), Bill Gates (Microsoft founder (7)), etc... we then looked at a list of the most powerful women in 2022 from Forbes & Mcgrath with number one being Ursula van Der Leyen other names bing Kamala Harris. this list was curated based of four main metrics: money, media, impact and spheres of influence. We talked about the influences that some of these people have with people such as Vladimir Putin and Chinas president Xi Jinping changing the constitution allowing them both to stay in power beyond 2024. fake news is another big issue, with people like Donald Trump being names the king of it. Adam Curtis who is a documentary filmmaker said "Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal." In the film 'The Social Dilemma' it said that fake news travels 6 times faster than real news, this is a very scary thought as eventually we won't know what real and what's not and we won't be told about the real issues that are happening in the world instead we will be fed all this fake news maybe to distract from the real issues that we should be talking about. Another example would be the fact that in 2022 teachers were told that they would get a 15.9% pay rise when in reality the average pay rise for teacher in 2022 was 6%.

We then went on to talk about division of wealth. A quote from Oxfam in 2023 claimed that the richest 1% bag nearly twice as much as the rest of the world put together in the past 2 years. Division of welsh liked another key factor that we were looking at consumerism, the example we were shown were Hush Puppies in the early 1990's they were selling around 30,000 shoes a year , then during the mid 1990's the hipsters in down town Manhattan started to wear them making then cool in bars and clubs, by the end of 1990's they were selling 430,000 shoes a year. By understanding division of wealth will allow us to understand who our customers are going to be, this could then in turn lead to us being able to find that tipping pint for our brand. We then looked at the rise of fast fashion. During the pandemic online sales were up 97%. Consumerism links in with sustainability, with people taking what is called a Scandinavian approach to living where they live with 'just enough' and not too much. When talking about sustainability more and more people are thinking about it when they shop. I found an article talking about the Covid-19 pandemic and peoples lives and buying habits in terms of sustainability by Mckinsey

As you can see more and more people are thinking about the environment when they are shopping. Not only are people thinking about the environment when they are shopping but they are also expecting business to care as well, this is important for us as when we are designing our brand as we need to make sure that sustainability and the environmental impact of our brand is one of the most important things.

We then talked about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) which are now more important than ever, these are goals that are set out by world leaders they are set out in order to create better world. These goals have been set out in order for us, business, the governments and the general public to make a better future.

Then we went on to talk about innovation and about the future of robotic technology, and the impact that this will have on the fashion and textile industry. We talked about AI (artificial intelligence) and the impact that its having on the fashion industry. they are now doing jobs that would have traditionally been done by humans such as forecasting, stocking systems and talking to customers. we then spoke about the fashion shows that was held in 2022 the first fully digital meta verse fashion week, however there were lots of negatives it was said by people that attend that it was very glitchy and the technology that they used the show wasn't compatible with the technology that we as humans have at home. The final point that we spoke abut was social media, in the world that we live in now most people are on some form of social media, however this may not be a good thing. the world that we live in now we have more and more children and young adults suffering with mental health problems. Again in the film 'the social dilemma' they talk about how social media is a drug as it prays on out addiction and uses psychology to control us as the user. Because of the impact that social media is having there are some brands that have chosen to take themselves off social media such as lush or luxury brand Bottega Veneta. Both these and other brands have taken themselves off social media. A big question for us when we are creating out brand is do we need a social media platform? if we so how are we going to use it safely ie having out cloth photographed on real people and real bodies, or is it that offline the new luxury and by not having a social media does that make us stand out and work as a use (unique selling point) in the world that we live in today? However as a small start up brand we will need to think of ways in which can get out brand name out there.

The final part of the lectures us getting into out groups and being to discuss these topics in relation to our business. A big thing for us is sustainability and making sure that out brand is sustainable not only in terms of the materials that we use which we hope to use some dead stock but also making sure that everyone that is part of our business is paid a fair wage and gets fair holidays and things like that. In terms of consumerism we need make sure that we have a full consumer profile and we know who are customers are going to be, this links to division of wealth as we develop our brand we need to make sure we know how we are going to price our pieces and then who is going to by them, knowing how much disposable income people have will help us to target our products to the right people.

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