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<keyword id="4119771" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="bee-rowlatt">Bee Rowlatt</keyword> is a writer and journalist who is known for her current book, In Search of Mary which is inspired by the life of <keyword id="2169484" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mary-Wollstonecraft">Mary Wollstonecraft</keyword>, who is called the first feminist. 
 She has always been the harbinger of <keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Women">Women</keyword>’s rights, and now that she is settled in India, she’s helping women with an employment startup Sheroes, where she helps recent mothers or mothers-to-be to find flexible and rewarding work. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-what-moms-want-from-the-budget-2017/articleshow/56872243.cms">ALSO READ: Exclusive: What moms want from the Budget 2017</a> 
 <keyword id="4119770" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="rowlatt">Rowlatt</keyword> talked to <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword> during Jaipur Literature Festival where she was talking on the ‘Mansplaining’ panel. 
Here are the excerpts from a conversation about womanhood at work. 
Rowlatt finds a lot of difference in culture especially when it comes to working moms,’’Motherhood is idolized here. As a journalist in the U.K., we didn’t want to divulge into our parental status as it made us seem distracted. In India, a young woman is asked about her marriage and then, when she plans to conceive quite often, which is uncomfortable.’’ 
 
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She also thinks that Professional Indian women are more confident in putting their word across in a professional setting. ‘’Currently, I’m helping mothers become financially independent with Sheroes and I find that they are much more professional and straightforward about their career compared to the U.K.’’ 
An encouraging prospect is that technology has enabled women to work from anywhere,’’Gig-economy flexible working suits a lot of women.’’ 
The only question is why do they leave the workforce after marriage? 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/india-vs-us-healthcare-industry/articleshow/56816059.cms">ALSO READ: India vs. the US: Healthcare industry</a> 
 " They go and get an MBA, then they get married and then they leave the job! I’ve been told that the family structure in India is not very supportive of working women. Family relationships are very different in <keyword id="11101" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Britain">Britain</keyword> and it must be hard to defy your parents or in-laws to work,’’ she laments. 
 
Women Leaders 
 
‘’Political women leaders, business leaders, and spiritual leaders have a lot of power in India. For example, in the U.S.A., the idea of a woman president is not widely accepted and the conversation is very gendered,’’she signs off.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11969343" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="prince-charles" source="Orion">Prince Charles</keyword> told the <keyword id="11911568" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bbc" source="Orion">BBC</keyword> his <keyword id="12160562" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="aston-martin" source="Orion">Aston Martin</keyword> car ran on fuel partly sourced from wine and cheese.</li><li>He said his views on protecting the environment were once widely ridiculed.</li></ul>Prince Charles' vintage Aston Martin sports car is <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09y7bzx/the-big-interviews-prince-charles-and-his-battle-for-our-planet">partly powered by cheese waste and surplus wine,</a> he told the BBC's climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, in an interview that aired on Monday.In the interview, filmed in a garden he said he planted at Balmoral to honor the birth of Prince George, Charles described the practical ways he was incorporating his passion for the environment into everyday life. One of those ways, he said, was converting the fuel source for the vintage car, which the Queen gave him on his 21st birthday."My old Aston Martin, that runs now on waste products," he said. "It runs on - can you believe this - surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process."<div type="image" title="In this composite image HRH Prince Charles is seen driving both Camilla Parker-Bowles (Top in 2004) and Princess Diana (Bottom in 1985) in the same Aston Martin car. Clarence House has confirmed February 10, 2005 that Charles and partner Camilla Parker-Bowles will marry on April 8, 2005." height="3000" width="2879" msid="86944498" hostid="261"></div>Charles <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/11/08/charles-forced-aston-martin-make-car-run-wine-royal-train-cooking/">told The Telegraph last year</a> that he'd insisted Aston Martin engineers find him an alternate fuel source and was initially met with some pushback."The engineers at Aston said, 'Oh, it'll ruin the whole thing,'" he said."I said, 'Well I won't drive it then,' so they got on with it and now they admit that it runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol," he added.His Aston Martin is also not the only royal mode of transport he's managed to convert: He told The Telegraph he'd battled to change the royal train to run on used cooking oil.Charles, who Rowlatt said first mentioned environmental issues in 1970, said in the latest interview that he found it interesting that after being "rather ridiculed for so long," he was being asked to speak about the climate crisis.<div type="image" title="Prince Charles In The Gardens At His Country Home, Highgrove House In Gloucestershire." height="1735" width="2314" msid="86944500" hostid="261"></div>"I was accused of being anti-science," Charles said. "It wasn't much fun, as you can imagine."He described himself as a realist who thinks it's taken the world "far too long" to make climate concerns mainstream. It's time for world leaders to stop talking and "get action on the ground," something he's been trying to make happen for the past 40 years, he told Rowlatt.Charles added that he was "deeply worried" about the world he will leave behind for his grandchildren."Why do you think I've done this for all these years? Because I've minded about - and always have done - the next generations," he said. "I've been doing this really to make sure my children, your grandchildren and everybody else's have some future."Representatives for Clarence House and Aston Martin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Prince Charles says his Aston Martin sports car, gifted to him on his 21st birthday by the Queen, runs on white wine and cheese

<ul><li>Polls open in states of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh where the <keyword id="602141" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Armed-Forces-Special-Power-Act">Armed Forces Special Power Act</keyword> (<keyword id="60149" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="AFSPA">AFSPA</keyword>) is still enforced. </li><li>The controversial colonial law allows the governed to deploy armed forces in places that they believe are ‘disturbed areas’.</li><li>Congress has promised to amend AFSPA to address international concerns. </li></ul> The colonial law of Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) is still enforced in four states that will be voting today — Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. The controversial law has often been called into question for its human rights violations. But, the Indian National Congress has promised to amend the law should they come into power. <div type="ExtQuote" text="Amend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 in order to strike a balance between the powers of security forces and the human rights of citizens and to remove immunity for enforced disappearance, sexual violence and torture." auname="Excerpt from Congress Manifesto"></div>

 Earlier this week, AFSPA was withdrawn <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/afspa-withdrawn-partially-from-arunachal-pradesh/articleshow/68687005.cms">partially</a> in the state of Arunachal Pradesh after being in force for 32 years but its still enforced in three districts — Changland, Tirap and Longing. Even Meghalaya was a AFSPA state as recently as last year until it was withdrawn <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/what-is-afspa-and-where-is-it-in-force/article23648102.ece">completely</a>. While <a href="https://swarajyamag.com/politics/why-it-is-necessary-for-afspa-to-continue">supporters</a> of the act cite that AFSPA is just an ‘extraordinary measure’ in the face of ‘extraordinary situations’, critics believe that the act is being <a href="https://amnesty.org.in/news-update/indian-government-must-repeal-afspa/">misused</a> to conduct fake encounters and the sexual exploitation of women. What is AFSPA? AFSPA — enacted by the parliament in 1958 — <a href="http://nagapol.gov.in/PDF/The%20Armed%20Forces%20Special%20Powers%20Act%201958.pdf">gives</a> the central or state government the right to call in the armed forces to help the local authorities in places classified as ‘disturbed areas’. The legal immunity of the act allows security forces to arrest people, search private property, and ban the possession of firearms without warrant is as long as they at least have ‘reasonable suspicion’ that a person is about to commit a cognizable offence. For maintaining public order, AFSPA also allows armed forces to prohibit a gathering of five or more people in an area — even by force. The act itself is from the colonial days and was enacted as a reaction to the Quit India Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942. The arrest of Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, VB Patel and other activists left the movement leaderless and incidents of violence erupted in different parts of the other. Viceroy Linlithgow used the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Ordinance, 1942 to control the riots. In 1947, the one ordinance was split into 4 smaller ordinances to handle violence resulting from the partition efforts — but it was also repealed within the same year. AFSPA was only brought back in 1958 for Assam and Manipur before gradually encompassing the other seven sister states of the north east as well as Jammu and Kashmir. Issues with AFSPA The argument for enacting AFSPA in India was that it is a more efficient way to handle insurgencies. The powers allotted to armed forces allows them to protect the boundaries of the country. And removing strict law from the picture allows the armed forces to carry out orders unhindered, not to mention to morale boost in bringing the rule of law to ‘disturbed areas’. But AFSPA is <a href="https://www.orfonline.org/research/43363-the-road-to-peace-in-kashmir-public-perception-of-the-contentious-afspa-and-psa/">reportedly</a> exploited by people in the armed forces as well. In the name of national security, incidents of fake encounters, sexual exploitation of women and other human rights violations have been brought to light. ‘ Activists like Irom Sharmila who went on a hunger strike for nine years to protest against AFSPA strongly believe that AFSPA overrides dozens of civil rights including the right to freedom of expression and the right to free association. That being said, if a wrong is committed by anyone in the army under AFSPA, they can be prosecuted in a court of law — but the central government needs to sanction an approval. Amnesty International’s <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/PK/DevelopmentsInKashmirJune2016ToApril2018.pdf">report</a> calling for the end of AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir cited 58 case studies where the act was allegedly used in excess by the armed forces. <div type="ExtQuote" text="In responding to demonstrations that started in July 2016, Indian security forces used excessive force that led to unlawful killings and a very high number of injuries. Civil society estimates are that 130 to 145 civilians were killed by security forces between mid-July 2016 and end of March 2018, and 16 to 20 civilians were killed by armed groups in the same period." auname="Amnesty International on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 in Jammu and Kashmir"></div>

 Many even <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/would-delhi-dither-on-afspa-if-it-had-been-in-force-in-up-bihar-afspa-in-manipur-thangjam-manorama-irom-sharmila">compare</a> the AFSPA to the Rowlatt Act where the British could imprison any citizen on the basis of suspected terrorist activity against British India for up to two years without there necessarily being a trial. <div type="ExtQuote" text="The repeal of this law will not only bring domestic law more in line with international standards, but also send out a powerful message that instead of a military approach the government is committed to respect for the right to life of all people of the country." auname="Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions"></div>

 The Indian Army, the organisation actually being accused of these acts, has barely come out in the open to express its stance on AFSPA. Essentially, the act is a last resort. The army is only called in once the situation is beyond the capabilities of the civil administration, the police and the central armed police forces. Congress’ promise Congress, in its election manifesto, has said that they will bring amendments to AFSPA should they win the general election. They faced heavy backlash from the opposition <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/politics/revoking-afspa-in-jammu-and-kashmir-is-like-sending-our-soldiers-to-gallows-says-pm-modi-2094245.html">saying</a> that this is an ‘anti-national’ approach and that Congress is compromising on India’s national security. 
 <div type="ExtQuote" text="The government must have the power to protect its armed forces. Only then will they have the morale to fight. Revoking AFSPA would be like sending our soldiers to the gallows. I won’t let this happen." auname="Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the current Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi"></div>

 Even Arun Jaitley, the current minister of finance and corporate affairs who aligns with the BJP, and Palaniappan Chidambaram, former union minister of finance and member of Congress, exchanged some harsh words on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/PChidambaram_IN/status/1113747990714314752"> <div type="twitter" handle="arunjaitley" handlename="Chowkidar Arun Jaitley" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000828197225/f1d53aeab8f0534c7d73b0fbd5651130_normal.png" favoritecount="10332" retweetcount="4132" status="2019 Congress Manifesto is a Charter to Weaken India. After reading Congress Manifesto my worst fears have come tru… https://t.co/3yTGps3MVa" createdat="1554203974000" id="1113038257279918082"></div>

</a> <div type="twitter" handle="PChidambaram_IN" handlename="P. Chidambaram" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/603422412785328128/9Y6OuwJM_normal.jpg" favoritecount="4221" retweetcount="1432" status="Why has Mr @arunjaitley not answered the questions on withdrawal of AFSPA from Tripura (2015), Meghalaya (2018) and… https://t.co/5K4rV1ViIK" createdat="1554373188000" id="1113747990714314752"></div>

 That being said, multiple observations made different committees, like the Justice Santosh Hegde Committee and the J.S. Verma Committee, have found the AFSPA to be arbitrary and have recommended that it should be repealed. The former even explained that rather than create peace in the north east, AFSPA has widened the divide between the people living in the peripheries of India and the mainland.

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