The Beautiful Life

A new study by the University of Toronto found that the lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among adults who had been exposed to chronic parental domestic violence during childhood was 17.3 percent as compared to 2.3 percent among those without this childhood adversity. Dr Shubhangi R Parkar, Prof. and Head of the Department of Psychiatry of KEM Hospital, has been working in the field of suicide and mental health for the past thirty years. She spoke about the need for early identification and intervention of children exposed to domestic violence.  Dr Shubhangi Parkar spoke on the impact of exposure to domestic violence  on children Dr Shubhangi R Parkar Q: Are children exposed to domestic violence prone to suicidal tendencies? Dr Shubhangi Parkar : More than imitating their parental violent behaviour, these various adversities affect children’s socialisation process. Children encode negative beliefs in their memory and they often start believing, feeling ...

Adv Smita Sarode-Singalkar is a practising socio-legal lawyer and is an executive member of the National Green Tribunal Bar Association (West zone). Adv Smita spoke on the need to break the nexus between officials, politicians and the garbage mafia which is proving to be a serious hindrance in development of smart cities in the state. How severe is the issue of solid waste management in the state? A: Though the state government has plans to develop some big cities in the state as smart cities, the idea can be seen facing challenges because of management of solid waste. Garbage poses a new challenge in Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan, Dombivali, Nashik, Pune, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Sangli-MirajKupwad, Nagpur and Latur. What are the major issues related to solid waste management? A: The constant neglect towards the management of garbage has already created a big threat and without tactfully handling this threat we cannot develop any city in the state as a smart city. Nexus between poli...