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From Whatsapp Univeristy: At Nahoums, New Market, Kolkata on Christmas Eve.This possibly is the only place in the world where the Hindus stand in the queue to buy Christmas cakes from a Jewish bakery made by Muslim chefs to celebrate a Christian festival.

ANI does this story as a Story of Jewish Entrepreneurship https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/christmas-2023-thousands-queue-up-at-121-year-old-iconic-jewish-bakery-shop-in-kolkata20231225231919/

: https://www.etvbharat.com/bengali/west-bengal/state/kolkata/cause-of-war-owner-of-nahoums-in-kolkata-is-in-israel-long-lines-of-customers-before-christmas/wb20231219170709856856050  (In Bengali )  Nahoum and Sons in Hogg Market: Kolkata's Nahoums and Sons bakery owner Isaac is caught in the war. Long lines of buyers in the shop before Christmas. He is inquiring about birthday cake business from the employees over the phone.

For many Kolkatans, a visit to Nahoum and Sons — the Jewish confectionery in the heart of New Market — on the brink of Christmas is an annual tradition. In the week before Christmas, the shop sees a stream of people, often coming from far away, queueing up outside its doors for hours for their festive fare. The queue often stretches all the way to the flower shops at the tail-end of the market.

https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/christmas-2023-thousands-queue-up-at-121-year-old-iconic-jewish-bakery-shop-in-kolkata20231225231919/

Strange to hear the privileged complain about feeling miserable and persecuted while the silence of those grappling with poverty and unemployment goes unnoticed.

https://thewire.in/society/the-choreographed-misery-of-the-powerful This recent unity of misery and insult among India’s privileged and powerful coupled with a media split between two hostile groups to speak for each side is a new phenomena in a surreal time. And it is overtaking most of the available media space leaving little to no informed and informative discussion on the economy and climate change issues.

Several major Bills became laws passed by the House, while 143 opposition MPs stood expelled. They were charged with indulging in unparliamentary acts because they were demanding that the Union Home Minister give a statement on the serious security lapses that resulted in an attack by mavericks inside the parliament. While the entire media ran with this story, a gut wrenching story about the mass burial of 87 Kukis killed in Manipur – with the youngest victim being a month-old baby – was relegated to the inside pages or just ignored. 

The evolution of our corporate landscape (and that includes the media also) and work being redefined is a story hardly ever highlighted. Not loyalty but flexibility is the flavour of the season. Recruitment agency (CIEL HR) reports 55% of organizations surveyed across sectors are now engaging gig workers and companies have said that they are going to hire more gig workers who are flexible, scale their workforce as required in an atmosphere where project demands are changing swiftly and workloads keep fluctuating. As a result, fresh formal job creation has dipped to a seven-month low in October according to Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data while gig freelancers’ earnings have grown by 294% according to gig platform Pick My Work. 

by Mrinal Pande

24/12/2023

UN की रिपोर्ट से हड़कंप ! मोदी को आखरी वार्निंग, UN Report on Human Rights in India  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttX_PuK-FzE
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In Opening Session Speech, UN Human Rights Chief Raises Manipur and Nuh Violence https://thewire.in/rights/india-communal-violence-manipur-nuh-unhrc-speech

Speaking on the situation in India, Volker Türk said that his office “frequently receives information that marginalised minority communities are subjected to violence and discrimination”. 

“Muslims are often the target of such attacks, most recently in Haryana and Gurugram, in northern India”.

Last month, riots spread across Haryana after violence erupted during a procession taken out by Vishwa Hindu Parishad. At least seven deaths were reported and there were 200 reported injuries in the clashes which lasted over a week.

Türk then brought up the northeastern state which has seen no end to its ethnic violence for the last four months. “In Manipur, other communities have also been facing violence and insecurity since May.” As per reports, more than 200 people have died and over 70,000 people have been displaced.