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Gleeden: The Lockdown Dairies

The Survey Reports

A lot of love stories have blossomed in the days of the lockdown and the newly made couples are desperately waiting to meet their love affairs. From the outset it’s hard to judge when the Cornonavirus crisis is going to leave India but one thing is for sure, love is unhindered from the outside surrounding and is blooming like never before.

Gleeden, an extramarital dating app conducted a survey after the beginning of Unlock 1.0 in India and found out that about 75% of its users are willing to meet their love interests if provided an opportunity.  The survey was rolled out among 1000 of its newly joined users and was conducted across Metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune.

The findings from the survey are pretty exciting and it also addresses the untouched side of the reasons behind Infidelity. Here is a glimpse of the same.

  1. The ‘heart’ is always dicey

Can you cheat on your spouse and still love him at the same time? Well, the answer to this question is as tricky as the question itself and Gleeden users are no exception. About 45.6% of them think that their shared intimacy won’t affect their current relationship while 47% of them believe that they cannot share the same level of emotions with two different people. A minute 7.4% are indecisive about their stand on shared intimacy with their spouses.

  1. Reasons why I did it!

Infidelity is considered as a taboo worldwide and there are a lot of factors leading up to the same. Lack of intimacy and compatibility in a relationship are just the kick starters to the ultimate fate. Interestingly, it has been found out that 37% of people commit Infidelity because they want to try out something new or spice up their existing relationship. About 36% of people commit Infidelity because they are in love with someone else other than their spouses while for the remaining 27% the decision of committing Infidelity was taken when they realised that their current partner is not the right match for them both emotionally and physically.

  1. ‘Parties’ are the place to make it happen

It has been found out that people usually try to make new connections while attending a social gathering or a club party; it can range from an office function to a Reunion. About 23% of people admitted that they look out for new relationships or flings in a party gathering while 22% of people would do this stunt on a vacation or while travelling. For 19% of them the best time is when their spouse is not at home or is out for a business trip. Also, about 12% of them are willing to find new connections within their office premises while the remaining 24% of total users are willing to try out multiple measures to find out their love interest.

  1. Keep it casual!

It seems that casual relationships are the need of the hour for Gleeden users as 38% of them would like to get into a new relationship without making serious future commitments. About 23% of the users still believe in the old school love and are looking for future life partners.

Interestingly, about 39% of Gleeden users are only interested in one time affairs and are not looking out for anything serious.

Saregama announces Quarter Results

Saregama, India’s oldest music label and the youngest movie studio, announced its financial results for the 1st Quarter of the financial year 20-21. In a quarter which was locked down due to Covid-19, the Company was able to increase its PBT 110 times on y-o-y basis. With a consolidated turnover of Rs. 765 Mn and PBT of Rs 220 Mn, the Company was able to achieve 29% PBT margin in this Quarter. The PAT for the Quarter was 158 Mn

The primary profit driver was the increased consumption of Saregama IP: Music, Films, TV Serials on digital media by people staying at home. There is more content getting consumed by more number of people in the post-Covid-19 era than the pre-Covid-19 one.

These results have come despite Caravan sales slowing down in light of retail network being shut and no new shoots of our TV serials during this Quarter.

Highlights for the Quarter as follows:

  1. New Licensing deals with Facebook and Spotify
  2. Two Yoodlee films released on Netflix: Chaman Bahaar and Axone. Both trended on Netflix Top 10 list
  3. License (remake, dubbing) deals for 2 Tamil TV serials in Telugu language
  4. Carvaan sale re-started around mid-June and 15k units were sold during the Quarter. There was a steep increase in the consumption of Podcasts on Carvaan 2.0 during this period.

While Saregama is concerned about the impact Covid-19 may have on the broader economy, the Company is confident of further strengthening its position as the partner of choice for platform businesses as well as consumers in the days to come.

TIMELESS AND TAILOR-MADE

FROM JAIPUR WATCH COMPANY

  • The pocket watch: This simulated antique steampunk accessory can be used in multiple ways, wear it around your neck, place it in your pocket or keep it on your work desk—whatever suits your fancy! Made of stainless steel body, the watch boasts of a skeleton dial that is visible through the front and back with scratch resistant sapphire crystals. It has a hand wind mechanical movement that creates an impressive 50-hour power reserve. It is gold plated with intricate engravings.
  • The ring watch: Who could have ever thought that one can wear a watch as a ring. It is the world’s tiniest watch and can be donned on any finger. Made with gold (white/yellow) and set in diamonds and mother pearl, this 24 mm watch is truly inimitable and is sure to raise quite a few eyebrows!
  • The 3D watch: India’s first 3D printed watch in stainless steel. Renowned for its creativity, Jaipur Watch Company  introduced this unique concept in watch making in India. The 3D printed numbers on the rustic dial give a highly polished look and feel. Powered by a premium Japanese Miyota mechanical movement 9015, the watch is complete with genuine high-quality handcrafted leather for the straps.
  • The hand-painted watch: Inspired by traditional Ganjifa paintings, this handcrafted luxury is an ode to the virtuosity of local skilled artisans. Celebrating art and beauty, each dial is distinctive and tells a different story. The patience and precision of the artist signifies love, passion and dedication.

Available at: https://jaipur.watch/

Sartaaj’s New Song AUZAAR Release

#??ℤ??ℝ (An approach towards existence )

ਬੰਦੇ ਦੇ ਹੱਥਾਂ ਵਰਗਾ ਕੋਈ ਔਜ਼ਾਰ ਨੀ ਬਣਿਆ ।
ਏਨਾ ਕੁਛ ਬਣ ਗਿਆ ਲੇਕਿਨ ਕੁਦਰਤ ਤੋਂ ਪਾਰ ਨੀ ਬਣਿਆ ।

Bande de Hattha’n varga..Koi Auzaar ni baneya !
Ena kuchh ban geya lekin..Kudrat to’n paar ni baneya..

 Means {Nothing like Human Hands have been made
How much has been invented, still couldn’t surpass the Nature in any ways!!}

 Saga Music Beat Minister Sandeep Sharma #???????

Click to hear AUZAAR

To Sister …With Love

Gorgeous Selection of Rakhi gifts for your sister

By Jewellery Designer Archana Aggarwal

Trendy and contemporary jewellery pieces for young girls and some sophisticated and elegant pieces for middle-aged women…

The Rakhi collection features striking pieces made in pure gold and diamond.

Highlights

  •  Graceful jewellery collection: Exquisite earrings and gorgeous rings are a part of the Rakhi collection jewellery.
  • Beautiful gold jewellery design:  The pieces are enough to create a strong fashion statement. Every piece, be it the kada, ring, or earring, displays intricate and modern designs.
  • Gold and diamond earrings: The studded gold earrings in the Rakhi jewellery collection feature  numbers of designs and patterns. There are clip-on, bali-style earrings and much more. The drop earrings with pearls are to die for.
  •  Traditional design patterns: The collection has traditional design pieces like a peacock collection, rings and pendants, temple jewellery, as well.
  • Gold/ diamond rings: This collection features stunning finger rings that can be worn regularly. The lightweight rings look extremely alluring and go with any look be it modern or traditional. The collection has most stunning rings in terms of design, pattern, and workmanship. The modern rings that are eye-candy for the college-going girls to some very elegant patterns for housewives; the collection has something for everyone. The collection also features gemstone rings.

About Archana Aggarwal

Archana graduated in Gemology and further launched her own label Jewels by Archana. Her unique designs and quality in jewellery have always been her strength and forte. To suit the taste of the consumers she has blended the contemporary artefacts into modern designs with authentic and 100% hallmarked certified Jewellery. 

Showroom: Ambawatta One, H 5/3-4, Kalka Das Marg, Mehrauli, New Delhi 110030

International Trans Beauty Fights for her Existence even after Winning Pageant

India’s Naaz Joshi wins Ms. Universe Diversity 2020

Naaz Joshi, India’s first international trans beauty queen bagged her 6th international crown for India. For the first time, the Miss Universe Diversity organisation took the pageant digital this year due to Covid-19 outbreak. Contestants from 30 countries were given various online tasks, Joshi picked up the task on women safety. She educated women in rural areas the importance of self defence.

Replying to her final question how she sees the future of digital pageants, she answered,”that in situations like covid 19 pandemic, its best to go digital as an organization needs a spokesperson and a representative every year to perform duties to the mankind and a beauty queen duties can be performed digital as well. This has changed the things that were stereotyped for example kids education, working from home, zumba classes and many more that went digital this year.”


Her idea is to participate in various pageants to earn a name for herself so that she can have the voice and power to bring in the change. Next year Joshi will be participating in an international competition in New York where she will be representing Asia at large.

Her life has been full of struggles since childhood, she is from Delhi, her father is a Punjabi, and her mother is a Muslim. Her upbringing took place in her maternal uncle’s family.Even being crowned 6 times internationally, members of her own society don’t know her, the reason being that our society promotes the beauty of a woman but when it comes to transgenders most of the people are transphobic.
She received a 1000 USD cash prize with a Swarovski studded crown. Naaz Joshi is mother to two girls whom she adopted last year. She aims to build an orphanage specially for girls. Even after bagging 6 international titles for India,Naaz leads a life of a commoner, having no job. She lives on donations that people raise for her on a crowd funding app.

QUOTE

Naaz

“Trans women who don’t look like women have to struggle on an everyday basis. Her mother doesn’t let her meet her relatives and any visitors at home because she thinks that Naaz is a curse to her family.”

Jaipur Literature Festival

Man Booker recipient George Saunders to feature at the 100th episode of JLF Brave New World

Teamwork Arts, the producer of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, launched JLF Brave New World a few months ago, as the world went into lockdown grappling with a global pandemic. JLF Brave New World celebrates the power of literature in bringing together communities, a vital need in the de-globalised world created by Covid-19. Since its inception in April, the series has come a long way in a mere four months, witnessing some of the best conversations of current times with a diverse range of speakers. The series will soon celebrate its 100th milestone episode on Wednesday, 29th July 2020, with an extended celebratory evening featuring leading contemporary authors and speakers.

HIGHLIGHTS

In this special episode, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders will share insights into the mosaic of his prolific life and genre-bending body of work. In conversation with writer Amitava Kumar, Saunders, the master of modern fiction, will discuss the state of contemporary literature, its relation with power and politics, and the place held by darkness and kindness in stories.

The following episodes on Friday and Saturday will feature speakers like Stephen Fry, Bapsi Sidhwa, Urvashi Butalia, Carl Miller, Paulo Lemos Horta, etc.

Stephen Fry is one of the world’s best-known actors and comedians. But when he arrived at Cambridge, he was a convicted thief, an addict with a failed suicide attempt, and convinced that he would be expelled. Instead, university life offered him love and the chance to entertain. He befriended bright young things like Hugh Laurie and actress Emma Thompson. On Friday, Fry talks about his life and work with Mint Lounge editor Anindita Ghose as he tells the hilarious and compelling story of how he took his first step in the worlds of theatre, radio, television and film.

The next session will feature celebrated Zoroastrian novelist Bapsi Sidhwa speaking to writer and feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia about her creative journey across cultures, continents and chronicles, and what she calls her ‘Punjabi-Pakistani -Parsi’ roots. Her novels ‘Ice Candy Man’ and ‘Water: A Novel’ were adapted by Deepa Mehta for acclaimed films like ‘Earth’ and ‘Water’.  A biopic – ‘Bapsi: The Silences of My Life’ – is currently in production.

Multinational corporations are being shut overnight with a single tweet, Facebook has grown bigger than any state, robots are battling for elections, coders and hackers are writing policies, and algorithms are shaping our lives in more than unimaginable ways. On Saturday, Carl Miller, co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and author of the Transmission Prize-winning ‘The Death of the Gods’ that analyses the trajectory of power in the digital age, delves into how this power is indeed being transformed, fought over, lost and won in the digital medium, at this timely and incisive session.

Writer and translator Paulo Lemos Horta has written on the cultural and literary history of the ‘Arabian Nights’ and of the travellers, translators and storytellers who gave the world these unforgettable tales in his ‘Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights’ and Aladdin: A New Translation’. In ‘Aladdin’, Horta takes us on a dazzling journey, interweaving and reinventing the dark themes and enchanting whimsy of a classic that has transfixed us for ages. In conversation with Jaipur Literature Festival & JLF producer Sanjoy K. Roy at the week’s concluding session, Horta speaks of the stories, along with the stories behind the stories, to provide a fascinating glimpse of the great cultural reservoir of Arabic, Persian and Indian narratives.

Sessions at JLF Brave New World include conversations with speakers as well as Q&A picked from social media channels where audiences can submit questions and share comments with their favorite speakers.

The full archive of past sessions, as well as a list of upcoming sessions of the series, can be accessed via the #JLFLitfest social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

IntrCity RailYatri opens new SmartBus Lounge in Central Delhi in-time for festive travel

Investment underlines confidence in the revival of travel in India

 IntrCity RailYatri, India’s leading intercity mobility platform, announced that its new SmartBus boarding lounge at R K Ashram, on Panchkuian Road (near Rajiv Chowk) is now open to bus travelers.

 HIGHLIGHTS

  • The company pioneered the concept of SmartBus Lounges – designed along the lines of airline boarding gates – for the safe & convenient boarding of bus travellers, and now has 7 such lounges across the country with another 4 to open shortly.
  • The IntrCity SmartBus lounge has an air-conditioned waiting area and provides full free Wi-Fi capability with charging points, ample comfortable seating space, recliners for taking power nap along with basic amenities like clean drinking water, coffee and toilets for the travelers. The lounges also feature laptop desks for working professionals and staff to help the passengers board their buses.
  • The timing assures festive travellers to be able to board from Lounges maintaining social distancing and sanitised interiors. The company is operating similar SmartBus lounges in Lucknow, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad and will continue to invest by adding more at Gorakhpur, Jalandhar, Kanpur shortly.
  • IntrCity RailYatri launched Safe+ initiative before re-starting SmartBus operations to make intercity mobility safe and instil confidence amongst the travellers. Under the Safe+ initiative, the company has launched a series of measures described below.
  1. Pre-sanitisedPrivate Cabins for safe and contamination free travel for self and family.
  2. Five Step cleaning and sanitization protocolwhich ensures that every SmartBus would be disinfected and fumigated after every single trip. All the cabins will be sealed after the disinfection process till a traveler boards the bus and accesses the cabins.
  3. Mandatory Checkup of the staffwhere all IntrCity RailYatri crew are regularly checked for symptoms and thermal scan is recorded. They are required to wear protective masks and gloves at all times.
  4. Travelers will board the bus after a KYC process, quarantined patients will be allowed only after they are able to show a certificate, mandatory thermal check from contactless device and checking of Aarogya Setu app status.
  5. IntrCity RailYatri has issued travel advisory for all travelersto travel with their own blankets and inflatable pillows for their own safety. However if needed, fresh sanitized blankets & personal bed-sheet are available from the bus captains. All travelers will be provided hand sanitizers and disinfected wet wipes and they are requested to wear masks and gloves for extra precaution.

IntrCity SmartBuses offer a wide range of features that make travelling a comfortable experience for the travelers. The buses are equipped with on-board washrooms, full Wi-Fi connectivity, passenger information system and on-board infotainment. To ensure the safety of the passengers, each bus has CCTV cameras, GPS, a state of the art AI enabled driver fatigue alert system and alcohol tests for the drivers. All the Buses are constantly monitored from a central command center, which tracks and monitors the buses.

 Official Website: www.intrcity.com , www.railyatri.in

DESIGNER LABEL ASHA GAUTAM GOES DIGITAL

LAUNCHE OF E – STORE

Asha Gautam is ushering in a new space as they announced the launch of E – Store today.

Known for its handmade sarees in authentic Indian weaves comprising a  range of these exquisite sarees in Bandhani , Patola , Paithani , Banarasi and the likes will be up for grabs on their  website for the first time.

 The website will feature a myriad of their Masterpieces, Lehengas in handmade textiles, Kurtas and Anarkalis in addition to their hand-woven sarees.

Customers can now browse and buy the products from their fusion- wear label, GG by Asha Gautam through the same website too. The website also seeks to be a platform that enables the label to engage with the customers and provide them with personalised experience & customised designs going forward. They are working towards creating an interface where each client will be given personal attention and catered according to their needs. With this initiative Asha Gautam strives to bring a seamless buying experience to their customers with maximum ease and minimum effort.

QUOTE

  Asha Gupta 

“I have my buyers who have been with me for 22 years but there are some who are not able to engage with us on a regular basis due to the demographics. I am very happy and hopeful this step will bring back those relationships which made Asha Gautam what it is today”

  Gautam Gupta 

“The idea of an online store was brewing in our minds for a long time but due to time constraints we kept on deferring. This lockdown gave us time to consolidate all that we have and to create the website in the way we have been wanting to. The website will keep surprising the clients with novel ideas, innovations, and collaborations and of course new products. In our commitment towards promotion of local crafts and Vocal for Local as our PM Modi rightly said this is a big step and we are quite excited for the same.”

WEBSITE – www.ashagautam.com