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'వృద్ధి రేటును మరోసారి కుదించిన మూడీస్'
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Published : Dec 16, 2019, 1:26 PM IST
భారత వృద్ధిరేటు ప్రస్తుత ఆర్థిక సంవత్సరం ముగిసే సరికి 4.9 శాతంగా ఉంటుందని తెలిపింది మూడీస్ ఇన్వెస్టర్స్ సర్వీస్. గతంలో 5.8 శాతంగా ఉంటుందని అంచనా వేసిన మూడీస్.. ఇప్పుడు 0.9 శాతం మేర తగ్గించింది.
'ఏడాది చివరికి భారత వృద్ధి రేటు 4.9 శాతమే'
ప్రస్తుత ఆర్థిక సంవత్సరం ముగిసే సరికి భారత వృద్ధిరేటు 4.9 శాతంగా ఉంటుందని మూడీస్ ఇన్వెస్టర్స్ సర్వీస్ తెలిపింది. గతంలో 5.8 శాతంగా అంచనా వేసిన మూడీస్ ఇప్పుడు 0.9 శాతం మేర కుదించింది.
గ్రామీణ ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థలు చితికి పోవడం, ఉద్యోగాల కల్పన తగ్గడం, ద్రవ్యపరమైన నిబంధనలు తదితరాలు భారత ఆర్థిక వృద్ధిరేటుని ప్రభావితం చేస్తున్నాయని మూడీస్ అభిప్రాయపడింది.
భారతదేశం గత ఏడాది జీడీపీలో.. గృహావసరాల వ్యయం 57 శాతంగా ఉండగా ఈ ఏడాది ఇది తగ్గి ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థపై పెను ప్రభావం చూపిందని తెలిపింది.
ఇదీ చూడండి:'మమత నిర్ణయం హింసను ప్రేరేపించేదిగా ఉంది'
ప్రస్తుత ఆర్థిక సంవత్సరం ముగిసే సరికి భారత వృద్ధిరేటు 4.9 శాతంగా ఉంటుందని మూడీస్ ఇన్వెస్టర్స్ సర్వీస్ తెలిపింది. గతంలో 5.8 శాతంగా అంచనా వేసిన మూడీస్ ఇప్పుడు 0.9 శాతం మేర కుదించింది.
గ్రామీణ ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థలు చితికి పోవడం, ఉద్యోగాల కల్పన తగ్గడం, ద్రవ్యపరమైన నిబంధనలు తదితరాలు భారత ఆర్థిక వృద్ధిరేటుని ప్రభావితం చేస్తున్నాయని మూడీస్ అభిప్రాయపడింది.
భారతదేశం గత ఏడాది జీడీపీలో.. గృహావసరాల వ్యయం 57 శాతంగా ఉండగా ఈ ఏడాది ఇది తగ్గి ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థపై పెను ప్రభావం చూపిందని తెలిపింది.
ఇదీ చూడండి:'మమత నిర్ణయం హింసను ప్రేరేపించేదిగా ఉంది'
AFGHANISTAN FEMALE TATTOO ARTIST
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Kabul – 9 November 2019
1.Various of Shaheedi inking tattoo on wrist of her male client
2.Shaheedi cleaning the tattoo
3.Close of Shaheedi's face
4.Close of tattoo
5.SOUNDBITE (Dari) Suraya Shaheedi, tattoo artist:
"Creating tattoos is my profession, a profession which I am very interested in. For me it doesn't matter if my client is male or female, I will do tattoos for them."
6.Various of Shaheedi sketching the model of eagle on the paper
7.SOUNDBITE (Dari) Suraya Shaheedi, tattoo artist:
"If the Taliban come back and their return is peaceful to Afghanistan, we would be very happy. But if their return interrupts our work and the freedom of women is impeded, then I would be the first woman to stand against them, because I don't want such a scenario to happen."
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Kabul – 22 November 2019
8. Tilt down of mosque
9. Worshipers entering the mosque
10.Various of worshipers attending prayers
11. SOUNDBITE(Dari) Enayatullah Baligh, Member of Afghan scholars' council:
"It (Tattooing) is vain and forbidden, it does not bring any beauty for the youths' appearance, it just brings them disgrace and it is not going to benefit them in any way."
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Kabul – 20 November 2019
12. Pull focus from lion's sketch to man getting tattooed on his arm
13. Close of tattoo artist tattooing sketch of a lion
14. Omid Noori getting a sketch of a lion tattooed on his arm
15. Tattoo of a wolf on Noori's hand
16. Various of Noori getting tattooed with a sketch of lion on his arm
17. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Omid Noori, tattoo lover:
"Sometimes I think if the Taliban returns, they will chop off my arms and legs, that is what comes to my mind. Taliban are Taliban, they are not kind to anyone, so how can we expect them to be good to me? I might not be alive with them, only God knows."
18. Nazeer Mosawi 42-year-old tattoo artist, doing tattoo on Noori's arm
19. Mosawi and Noori's reflection in mirror
20. Mosawi tattooing Noori's arm
21. Various of Mosawi washing lion tattoo
22. SOUNDBITE (Dari) 42-years-old tattoo artist, Nazeer Mosawi:
"They have even threatened to beat me, burn my shop, and I told them that is fine beat me, burn my shop, do whatever you can, just because of threats, I won't flee from my country, it is my homeland."
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Kabul – 15 November 2019
23. Various of Kabul city
24. Pull focus from flowers to Shaheedi
25. Various of Shaheedi talking to her son
26. Close of Shaheedi's son
27. SOUNDBITE (Dari) tattoo artist, Suraya Shaheedi:
"Being a woman in Afghanistan requires courage, you must have the courage to live in Afghanistan. I am proud of myself as a single mother, I look after my son all alone, work and live here in Afghanistan."
28. Various of Shaheedi playing darts with her son
LEADIN:
Afghanistan's first female tattoo artist is taking a big risk with every customer she takes on.
She started her mobile tattoo shop in Kabul 18 months ago, but has since received death threats for her line of work, as well as being a single woman willing to work with men.
STORYLINE
Suraya Shaheedi breaking the mould and creating body art.
Despite death threats she is passionate about her career , and says it would be hard to give up something she loves.
"Creating tattoos is my profession, a profession which I am very interested in. For me it doesn't matter if my client is male or female, I will do tattoos for them."
Before any ink is put on the skin, Shaheedi first sketches what the tattoo will look like.
She is getting regular bookings for tattoos from both men and women - as social attitudes towards the body art loosens up and more tattoo parlours open.
It's the kind of small, but important change that Shaheedi feels the return of Taliban rule could threaten.
After decades of war, Afghans want peace.
A big concern for many Afghans like Shaheedi is that US-led peace talks with the Taliban will boost the militant group.
"If the Taliban come back and their return is peaceful to Afghanistan, we would be very happy," she explains.
"But if their return interrupts our work and the freedom of women is impeded, then I would be the first woman to stand against them because I don't want such a scenario to happen."
Women like Shaheedi have carved out a space for themselves in a society where custom heavily restricts their roles and education.
But there is still some way to go in changing attitudes to the tattoo artistry.
"It is vain and forbidden, it does not bring any beauty for the youths' appearance, it just brings them disgrace and it is not going to benefit them in any way," says Enayatullah Baligh, a Member of Afghan scholars' council.
More than 39% of Afghanistan's eligible girls are not allowed by their families to go to school, and almost 20% are forced by their families to leave school after grade six, according to a survey by the Asia Foundation released this year.
Many women are not allowed to leave their homes without a male escort in areas under the Taliban, who now control or hold sway over roughly half of the country.
The group ruled Afghanistan with a strict version of Islamic law from 1996 to 2001 when the US invaded.
Tattoo artists say that demand among the younger generation has risen for more flamboyant and personal designs, and with it, the number of ink parlours has increased in the capital.
Omid Noori, who's 23, has 16 tattoos all over his body.
He wants to add another on his left arm, showing the head of a lion with a crown and wreaths.
But he only wants new designs on parts of his body that his clothing can hide, because he says he's tired of hearing people's negative comments about the ink work.
He also worries about what would happen if Islamic militants caught him.
"I'm thinking that if the Taliban return, they'll cut off my hands and legs," he says.
He inked his last tattoos at a parlour belonging to a former Afghan army officer, Nazeer Mosawi.
Mosawi fought for seven years in Afghanistan's civil war with the Islamic insurgents.
He says he is still fighting the war, but this time his battle is against society's conservatism, with his tattoo machine as his weapon.
Mosawi receives threatening phone and social media messages almost every day, demanding he close his tattoo business.
"They have even threatened to beat me, burn my shop, and I told them that is fine, beat me, burn my shop, do whatever you can," he says. "Just because of threats I won't flee from my country, it is my homeland."
But for every threat he gets, Mousawi says he gets several messages with positive feedback or people curious to learn more.
Shaheedi divorced her husband eight years ago while she was pregnant.
She and her son now live with her parents.
Her father supports her work, even though Afghanistan's patriarchal society often forbids a woman from touching a man to whom she is not related or married.
Her parents and elder brother persuaded her to become a tattoo artist, Shaheedi says, after she got her first tattoo while visiting Turkey.
It's an arrow piercing the image of an eye on her right hand, which she says symbolizes overcoming adversity.
Shaheedi also does manicures and makeup.
When she met one customer recently at a hair salon, the customer's husband recognized her from her social media pages as being the tattoo artist "Ahoo," the nickname she uses online.
The husband allegedly threatened to kill Suraya, if she kept posting images of her tattoo work on social media.
Tattoos were common in some of Afghanistan's rural areas, especially among Pashtun and Hazara women, but the ink piercings were used sparingly, often only a few green dots on the face.
Shaheedi says she is working to educate her only son, who is 8 years old and in the second grade.
She is also studying business management at a university in Kabul.
"Being a woman in Afghanistan requires courage, you must have the courage to live in Afghanistan." she says.
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