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JLF Brave New World

Online literature series crosses over 2 million views

In April 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic forced a global lockdown, isolating millions, Teamwork Arts, the producer of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, launched “JLF Brave New World”, an online literature series to celebrate books, their power, and positivity. JLF Brave New World sought to address issues critical to our times apart from discussing poetry, fiction, environment, the writing process, geopolitics, war and conflict, art, music, food, fashion and more through conversations with renowned writers and leading experts from around the world. In just a few months JLF Brave New World has captured the attention of a loyal tranche of followers. Teamwork Arts announced that the series has reached 2 million (20,00,000) cumulative views and a reach of over 9 million (90,00,000).

HIGHLIGHTS

The series has featured around 90 episodes so far and will be hosting a celebratory 100th episode on 29th July 2020.
Sessions at JLF Brave New World has covered subjects as diverse as the political and economic impact of Covid-19, the creative process of writing, literature, climate change, psychological wellbeing and compassion in these challenging times, the art of poetry, technology, and Artificial Intelligence, etc.
The series has hosted nearly 200 speakers including Abhijit V. Banerjee, Asma Khan, Benjamin Moser, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Colm Toibin, Devdutt Pattanaik, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ira Mukhoty, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manu S. Pillai, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Muldoon, Peter Frankopan, Peter Carey, Peter Morgan, Ruskin Bond, Rupi Kaur, Shubha Mudgal, Shashi Tharoor, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sonal Mansingh, to name a few.
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.

The “Bada Parda” comes right to your home, with ShemarooMe Box Office

The platform is all set to release a buffet of massy, classy, spicy and hatke stories from Bollywood as well as Regional Cinema

One of India’s most loved digital video streaming portals, ShemarooMe promises to deliver the “good old” theatrical experience to fans all over with their brand new platform ShemarooMe Box Office.

HIGHLIGHTS

From 31^st July 2020, ShemarooMe’s Box Office shall begin to stream some remarkably captivating movies that will delight the “Filmy keeda” in our heart. The platform’s very first release is “My Client’s Wife”, the critically acclaimed crime thriller featuring esteemed talents such as Sharib Hashmi, Anjali Patil and Abhimanyu Singh in pivotal roles. Next in line is the multiple award winning drama “Scotland”, followed by Sharman Joshi starrer “Graham Staines, Ek Ankahi Sachhai: The Least of These” based on startling true events. “The Hidden Strike”, an edge of the seat action packed entertainer will also be streamed on the platform.
ShemarooMe intends to blend old school charm with new age philosophy, it has thus joined hands with BookMyShow to retain the classic “Box Office” experience for moviegoers. This innovative concept lets consumers enjoy the nostalgic moment of purchasing a ticket with the help of BookMyShow. ShemarooMe along with BookMyShow shall enable booking of tickets for every release on their respective app and website. Lockdown or no, the “standard tradition” of logging on to BookMyShow and grabbing a ticket is still alive!

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Hiren Gada, CEO, Shemaroo Entertainment Limited

“We are extremely delighted to bring some really vibrant and distinctive films for audiences through ShemarooMe Box Office, a platform that showcases unreleased movies. Amid the nationwide lockdown, the simple joy of going to the theatre with friends and family has been put on hold. As a company that has revolutionised the experience of entertainment in India, it was hence our onus to provide a platform to movie enthusiasts by premiering unreleased movies and re-creating the theatre viewing experience for our audiences. With a handpicked and exciting mix of Bollywood and Regional movies, ShemarooMe Box Office brings the magic of cinema to millions of viewers across the country.”

Sharib Hashmi

“I am elated to have my movie premiered on the ShemarooMe Box Office platform for millions of Bollywood fans across the country. My Client’s Wife is a story very close to my heart and I feel there is nothing greater than entertaining our audience, especially during these times of uncertainty when cinema may have great relevance in our lives. It gives me immense honour to be associated with a brand such as Shemaroo Entertainment and kick start this journey of ShemarooMe Box Office.”

Also scheduled to release on Box Office is “Graham Staines, Ek Ankahi Sachhai: The Least of These”. Sharman Joshi, is part of the internationally applauded project.

Sharman Joshi

“It is amazing that ShemarooMe is encouraging a diverse range of cinema through Box Office. My film is a heartfelt tale that narrates some very tragic facts, and I am glad it finds place on an incredible platform such as ShemarooMe Box Office”.

Prakash Belawadi

“It’s great that people can still get the big screen experience, and in their homes, thanks to ShemarooMe Box Office. Our film contains some hard hitting facts along with an important message; it is indeed rewarding to know it will finally get out there instead of being lost in oblivion.”

The best part of this festival of cinema is that audiences can relish these movies over and over again, each ticket being valid for not one but three days. The prices are a steal too, at 100 INR. Last but not the least, subscribers and non-subscribers alike can avail of this special treat. The days of “Housefull” and “Sold Out” are long gone, there is always a seat reserved for you at ShemarooMe Box Office!

Visit: https://www.shemaroome.com/

Catch a glimpse of My Client’s Wife – the much-awaited first OTT release on ShemarooMe Box Office here

Meet through the Virtual Windows

Make Your Presence Felt

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The Body Shop under its ‘Your Safe Space’ campaign has ensured all possible safety measures at stores to make your shopping experience stress free and in an environment that is safe for you even in times such as now. Additionally, if breaking the house arrest seems like a serious crime to you, The Body Shop ensures contactless & safe free home deliveries on online orders!

Availability: All stores of The Body Shop and www.thebodyshop.in

Launch of Dining App

Future of Contactless Self-checkout at Food Places

Covid-19 is a word that has shaken the entire world.Meeting and greeting our friends and family has become a distant thought now because social distancing is the new normal.

With digitalization taking over the market with a storm, the hospitality industry is welcoming it with open arms, and one such pro service available in the market is Fastor.

Highlights

Fastor is helping restaurants and other food places execute their regular operations with zero contact and 100% safety.
This offline to online technology is designed in such a way that customers wouldn’t need a physical menu card, they can simply use their unique QR code placed on the table to automatically be directed to the menu without even downloading any app, and place their order digitally.
The interface of the service is user friendly, and the customer can see the entire menu digitally, place the order, and self check-out by paying through the app itself.
An all-in-one solution, Fastor, not only provides the user with a digital menu for the food place but also lets them pay for their order through its wallet and UPI. All you need to do is SCAN – the QR from the menu, ORDER – your choice of food, and PAY- your bill, all at the same place.
The technology basically creates a win-win situation for both the restaurant and the customer, as not only is it providing a safe dashboard for conducting the operations, it is also encouraging an increase in the footfall, lowering the labor cost, increasing the profits and boosting the confidence of the customer to go out and socialize, without worrying about unwanted physical contact.
It also looks after the restaurant owners by helping them manage their tables and layout, manage their headquarters and counter, and also by providing them a detailed order analysis that can further aid them in increasing their sales during low times. Plus, the restaurants can come up with dynamic deals to attract customers through the app itself.
Entertainment, education, transportation and even the retail vertical are benefitted.
Contact-less buying and selling likely will lead to a greater introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and other approaches to personalize the interface.

About Fastor

Co-founded by Karan Sood, Anmol Wadhwani & Rajeev Sood, this app is an AI-enabled self-checkout system aimed at enabling a contactless and queue less process for the easy functioning of business processes. It is an alive, digital, and dynamic system that uses a QR mechanism to make the ordering and payment contact-free, feasible, and user-friendly. It took its first breath in late 2018, with the Beta version being launched on 16th October 2019. By January 2020, it was rolled out at multiple high footfall locations and by mid-February, it has touched over 5000 orders.

‘Breathe.Believe.Balance’

Breathe. Believe. Balance is a book about personal growth and journey of self-discovery. From understanding the importance of self-love to decoding the science of healthy relationships; from learning to be emotionally present in every conversation to engineering your environment for success, Breathe Believe Balance helps you take a deeper look at your life. Using his knowledge and experience from the worlds of science, spirituality, and psychology, in this book, Vallabhjee takes you through this introspective and self-healing journey.

In a time where mental health is being neglected on a major scale and positivity is present in the surrounding in a very scarce amount, the book aims to help the reader re-evaluate their daily habits and mindset to achieve a much healthy and vigilant mind. The book is an amalgam of 25-year-old long research based on science and experience garnered by the author over the years. It covers a plethora of topics that are associated with psychological, physical, and spiritual subjects.

Many personalities and celebrities such as Gaur Gopal Das, Brad Hodge, Sania Mirza, Soha Ali Khan, Mahesh Bhupati and Lara Dutta have went on to state their honest opinions about the book being very informative on topics such as personal growth and mindfulness, emotionally healing, Inspiring, uplifting and thought-provoking.

Link: https://breathebelievebalance.com/

Launch of “Rakhwaali “

Studio Gaaba, a production and content communication house that work with brand stories and brand engagements have released a visual concept in collaboration with designer Ayush Kejriwal, titled “Rakhwaali” (meaning caretaker) to shed light on the pressing issue of the disproportionate distribution of household responsibilities that an Indian woman has to live with amid the lockdown.

“The idea is to humanize a message,” says Ayush. “Rakhwaali Ke Rakhwale” is a phrase that gets to the viewer through the voiceover panning in the video, and whispers to them that those who take care of us, need someone to take care of them as well, and if this war against the virus isn’t in our hands to fight, the least we can do is ease the burden off of those we love.

Due to the lockdown still prevailing, the shoot was conducted virtually using ‘FaceTime’. This trend is being followed by photographers around the world due to the will to keep creating content.

‘Mapulz’

The Dopeadelicz all set to launch ‘Vishama’, a poisonous outburst of our true reality, from the

upcoming album

Dopedaddy & Stony Psyko are dropping yet another track titled ‘Vishama’, from their upcoming album ‘Mapulz’. Vishamais a Tamil track that speaks to the true reality of our country. ‘Vishama’ which means poison, highlights the brutality of situations due to negligence, inequality, and injustice.

The song is written and performed by both Rajesh Radhakrishnan aka Dopedaddy and Tony Sebastian aka Stony Psyko. The lyrics of ‘Vishama’ showcase various scenarios playing out today, where people have lost their humanity. Even though they have legal bodies and institutions to protect them, common people are facing ever-increasing injustice. The video has been artistically curated to depict these stories. The characters illustrate the agony and pain of not being able to voice their opinions.

It amplifies the fact that today, our country and the whole world are facing a situation where our livelihood is endangered by human behaviour. Vishama’svideo showcases examples of ‘fields turning into graveyards’ and ‘air getting poisonous’,that explicitly intends to awaken us along with the hard-hitting lyrics of the song, to take action.

The Dopeadelicz, managed by Karan Amin, have always endeavoured to entertain audiences with their interesting concepts and innovative music ideas. This time with ‘Vishama’ they are here to make a point, to stand strong, think right and raise your voice when you need to.

Vishama is being released by Most Wanted Records, a division of Sippy Media LLP.

Quote

Dopeadelicz

“Since the past few months we have been facing a lot of issues due to Corona Virus and being in a Lockdown state not knowing when this is going to get over and will we be able to go back to our normal life. But if we turn the pages and look at our history, the suffering of people has always been there but the only difference is that every time we overcome a problem another one rises. Innocent people are locked up in jail for crimes they haven’t committed. People are locked up in wrong beliefs and superstitions. Women are locked up and raped. The lockdown is not outside but inside our mind, we have limited ourselves from standing for what’s right. Vishama means poison, once a snake bites you, immediately you seek an antidote to cure yourself before it’s too late right, the same way when something happens around us, we got to react quickly before it’s too late. Let’s not kill our own.”

Watch out the song on https://youtu.be/CSeIIc8fgKA

Leading online literature series JLF Brave New World crosses over 2 million views

In April 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic forced a global lockdown, isolating millions, Teamwork Arts, the producer of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, launched “JLF Brave New World”, an online literature series to celebrate books, their power and positivity. JLF Brave New World sought to address issues critical to our times apart from discussing poetry, fiction, environment, the writing process, geopolitics, war and conflict, art, music, food, fashion and more through conversations with renowned writers and leading experts from around the world. In just a few months JLF Brave New World has captured the attention of a loyal tranche of followers. Teamwork Arts announced that the series has reached 2 million (20,00,000) cumulative views and a reach of over 9 million (90,00,000).

The series has featured around 90 episodes so far and will be hosting a celebratory 100th episode on 29th July, 2020. Sessions at JLF Brave New World has covered subjects as diverse as the political and economic impact of Covid-19, the creative process of writing, literature, climate change, psychological wellbeing and compassion in these challenging times, the art of poetry, technology and Artificial Intelligence etc . The series has hosted nearly 200 speakers including Abhijit V. Banerjee, Asma Khan, Benjamin Moser, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Colm Toibin, Devdutt Pattanaik, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ira Mukhoty, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manu S. Pillai, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Muldoon, Peter Frankopan, Peter Carey, Peter Morgan, Ruskin Bond, Rupi Kaur, Shubha Mudgal, Shashi Tharoor, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sonal Mansingh, to name a few.

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 favourite 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.

‘JLF presents Brave New World’, is an online literature series in which the sprawling grounds of Diggi Palace are replaced by the boundless possibilities of the Internet.

Gautam Gambhir backed FYI Health, launches ‘Made in India’ FYI Health Post to help workplaces open with confidence in Covid-19

Backed by former cricketer and current member of the Lok Sabha, Gautam Gambhir, FYI Health, a community health technologies venture, announced the launch of its ‘Made in India’ FYI Health Post. Earlier, the company had launched its FYI Health App that allows enterprises of all sizes to create a safe environment for their workforce by enabling a daily health check-in for employees and guests visiting the corporate eco-system with secure contact tracing.

FYI Health Post is a pioneering effort by FYI Health and a first of its kind ‘Made in India’ product. As the name suggests, it is designed as a 6 feet sleek Post (tower) to offer enterprises, hotels, factories, banks, and hospitals, an all in one solution for authentication and identification of each person entering the premises, mask detection, temperature scanning and contactless sanitisation. Integrating all information flow through a centralised web dashboard, FYI Health Post offers locations a powerful solution to take preventive measures against the spread of Covid-19.

FYI Health Post helps workplaces comply with the National Directives for COVID-19 management and will enable them to open for business with confidence. The directive states that all workplaces must make adequate arrangements for temperature screening, sanitisation at entry and exit points as well as make the wearing of masks compulsory.

It offers automatic mask detection with a 7-inch LCD display, touchless temperature scanning, and contactless sanitisation with an auto-refill mechanism. It dispenses up to 800 sprays that are motion enabled and a single button operated autofill with auto cut mechanism for efficient usage. Location administrators can choose to identify all persons entering the location through face detection, RFID or QR scanning and this information is made available through a secure health dashboard for swift action in the case of a vulnerable profile.

“The FYI team has been working around the clock for several weeks to build, test and mobilize the FYI Health Post. Businesses need to resume and the need of the hour is solutions that can help them do so by complying with regulations and ensuring that the health of their employees is not compromised,” said Gautam Gambhir. “We are in the thick of this fight against Covid-19 and all indicators point to this being long drawn. My personal backing and support to FYI Health comes from my own desire to contribute towards helping fight this crisis in whatever way I can. Testing and tracing, along with precautions such as wearing masks and sanitising hands are vital in helping contain this pandemic”, he added.

“With the launch of our FYI Health App earlier and now the Post, we plan to carry that same momentum forward with new health tech products that will help our customers manoeuvre a new normal with the resources they need”, said Yash Raj Gupta, Founder & CEO, FYI Health.

FYI Health Post can be ordered online on the company website www.fyihealth.in and is currently retailing at an introductory price of INR 74,900 + taxes.