Recommendation 1 from ‘Mashable’
Article Name:‘Is social media destroying real-world relationships? [Infographic]’
By: ‘Sam Laird’
The Article states that though social network sites have allowed us to organize, but it might as well be having adverse effect on our lives. The Article mentions about a survey in which 245 of the respondents said that they never enjoyed the most important moments of their lives, as they were too busy to tailor those moments in such a way that these could be put on the social networking sites. Further, it also states facebook users spend 10.5 billion minutes every day on the site. Then it has elaborated on all the facts and figures in an infographic.
Summary:
Well, it might as well be true that social networking is having adverse impacts on people’s lives. There are instances when people just have friends on these sites and when it comes to real life experiences, they have no one literally. Plus, it has also been seen that people who spend too much time surfing these sites end up having no real interactions, so less confidence.
Learn Words from the article:
Realm: Kingdom
Culled: Collected
Recommendation 2 from ‘The Times of India’
Article Name:‘Enlarge the pie’
By: ‘Editorial’
The Article states that the SC’s decision to reject the government’s proposal regarding implementing 4.5% sub-quota for backward Muslim groups. It states that it doesn’t make sense to have a sub-quota in a quota. Further, the game of having quotas is an obsolete one in order to gain votes. Article states that as benefits are given to one group, it is obvious that the pool of benefits for other groups become smaller. Instead of generating more and more quotas, time has come that government should make policies that fits everyone.
Summary:
Reservations and quotas are against democracy, well, at least these should be. Everyone should be treated equally, irrespective of caste or creed. Of course, it sounds utopian, perhaps that is the reason for the existence of reservation. What really needs to be done is to make policies which do not discriminate.
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Proposal: Suggestion
Implementation: Functioning
Incentivised: To offer incentives
Recommendation 3 from ‘The Times of India’
Article Name:‘Agent Sitaram’
By: ‘Jug Suraiya’
According to the article a GDP of a different kind is becoming worrisome to people more than the country’s GDP .i.e. Great Domestic Paucity, which means the acute shortage of domestic help. Writer states that to find a domestic help in these days is very difficult and he states that this is the reason domestic agencies are becoming a growth industry, as domestic agencies charge you a fortune of Rs 20,000 annually to look for a domestic help for you, though he explains that his experience has been really bad with such agency.
Summary:
Well, who knows this better than working men trying like super women to juggle, home, work and their social lives too. However, as the domestic agencies are becoming a good way to open a business , but as you will read the article you will know that this doesn’t come with a guarantee either.
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Replacement: Substitute
Procession: March.
