Quick notes: U-turn on e-commerce, Unsafe nuns...

• Lobbyists win: Govt does U-turn in e-commerce policy after aggressive lobbying by MNCs: Govt clarifies that there are no restrictions on private labels being sold by e-marketplaces.  The sharp reversal of policy comes barely a week after the govt had explicitly restricted such sales. 



• Unsafe nuns of India: The Associated Press blows the lid off decades-long sexual abuse of nuns by Catholic priests in India. The nuns AP interviewed—some decades younger than their abusers—described the fear of retribution and being isolated or even expelled from their community, which forced them to avoid making official complaints. “It’s a fear of being isolated if I speak the truth. If you do that, you have to go against your own community, your own religious superiors.”



• Missionary Fraud:




• English is the albatross that's strangling India:

English is the albatross that's strangling India. It's making us think of ourselves as second hand imitations of the west. For heaven's sake, our journos talk of 'blue-eyed boy' (a freak in India!) or 'christened' (we just name kids) https://t.co/xlTRg5RHh5

— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) January 3, 2019




• The Keto Diet, Explained: We are fueled primarily by glucose, or blood sugar, much of which we derive from carbohydrates in foods like bread, fruit, potatoes, and sweets.  If glucose levels in the blood drop to really low levels, we’d pass out and die. But, interestingly, the body can’t store much glucose — only enough to last a couple of days. So if we forgo eating carbs for a few days, we need other ways to keep going. One of those is a process called ketogenesis.  In ketogenesis, our livers start to break down fat into a usable energy source called ketones bodies, or ketones for short. “Organs like the brain that normally rely primarily on glucose for fuel can begin to use a substantial amount of ketones. So ketones can stand in for glucose as fuel for the body when there’s a glucose shortage. It’s an amazing physiological adaption to starvation that allows tissues like the brain to survive”. 



• Africans singing "Kal ho na ho":

Africans singing "Kal ho na ho" like wtf pic.twitter.com/LmJPahm8Sg

— Squint Neon (@squintneon) December 20, 2018




• Raga Shukla Bilawal: