Spring sneakers in winter  – With its shimmering sequins and soles compensated, HAPPYRUI for men by Christian Louboutin stands out as the worthy heiress of the tennis shoe, star of the 70s. Launched worldwide on November 13, it’s time to put replace them Gucci styles for this.

The Christmas season, calls for a new sneaker. Following a longstanding tradition, the HAPPYRUI low-top is set to spearhead Maison’s sneaker offering for Spring/Summer 2020. With this line, the designer pays tribute to the iconic tennis shoe that made fashion history both on and off the courts in the 70s. Boasting a new specially developed rubber platform outsole and a singular upper, the low-top sneaker is as stylish as it is easy to wear.

From its new metallic CL signature that echoes 70s varsity letters to its contrasting toe cap and singular eyelet system, every detail on this low-top sneaker nods to vintage retro style. True to Maison’s design codes, the HAPPYRUI mixes materials and textures including suede, lamé leather, and a shimmering sequin body, whilst some versions also come with signature spike-adorned a toe cap.

Significance of business –  An effective business comprises of a decent technique and an extraordinary group to execute it. There are not many individuals who make it to the group of a fruitful business. These are individuals who have total information on their field, their rivals and are knowledgeable in business manners.

What are business behaviors?

The business world comprises of some inferred rules which assume a significant job to distinguish your character and to get you inclination over others in the challenge. These guidelines are found out through business manners. It is simply the manner in which you present, the manner in which you articulate your focuses, keeping up a positive non-verbal communication, etc. These business decorums are exceptionally esteemed in the business world and will take you much ahead in the aggressive condition.

Business Etiquettes advantage you in the accompanying manners

Makes you stick out

Individuals with information on business decorums will be obvious in a horde of individuals. A work environment comprises of individuals from various foundations and an individual with great business manners will consistently regard decent variety and have an amicable non-verbal communication. Imparting plainly, without being misconstrued is another quality you learn through business manners. Business experts effectively notice such individuals and lean toward them over others.

Increases trust

One of the fundamental mainstays of business decorums are trustworthiness and regard for reality of others. With these characteristics, you effectively gain trust of individuals in your very own association as well as different associations who may be working with you. With such characteristics, different associations will consistently need to work with you and you become a benefit for your organization. Inability to rehearse these qualities will be a restriction in your way to progress.

Makes you sure

Business Etiquettes incorporate the manner in which you converse with various types of individuals, the manner in which you spruce up for various kinds of business occasions, the manner in which you eat and how to spot others with indistinguishable characteristics from you. By these characteristics you will consequently feel progressively certain to stroll into a room loaded with business experts and will have the option to talk without bobbling. Being certain will likewise improve your non-verbal communication and you will build up a positive and receptive emanation around you.

GST Slabs – A panel of officials on ways to augment Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue has suggested two GST slabs of 10 per cent and 20 per cent and the transfer of some goods from the 18 per cent slab back to the highest 28 per cent category.

The GST council has fixed over 1,300 goods and 500 services under four GST slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent. This is besides the tax on gold which is at 3 per cent and rough, semi-precious and precious stones that attract a special rate of 0.25 per cent under GST.

The panel has made a presentation to the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi who is heading the panel on GST revenue augmentation.

The recommendations could be discussed at the next GST Council meeting provided they make to the agenda, which has to be approved by all the states.

In its presentation, the committee alerted that there could be a shortfall of Rs 63,200 crore in GST collections in the current financial year and a deficit of as much as Rs 2 lakh crore by 2021.

Citing the suggestions made by the officials’ panel, informed sourcs here said that its recommendations on increasing the GST revenue include moving items from 5 per cent and 12 per cent tax slabs to higher ones like 18 per cent, such as moving mobile phones from 12 to 18 per cent and precious metals from 3 to 5 per cent.

The paNEL also called for revising rates on certain items which were earlier taken higher to 18 per cent, and withdrawal of exemption for certain items.

The GST Council had cut rates on a number of consumer durables and paints to 18 per cent from 28 per cent in July 2018 in a bid to lower prices and boost consumption.

Modi, who is the Bihar Finance Minister and head of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Integrated GST (IGST), had ruled out the possibility of changes to the rate structure at a time when exchequer revenues have moderated owing to the economic slowdown.

Aparna Jain is not only a certified Integral Master Coach but has also authored two female-centric books – one that takes a searching look at women in the workplace and the other showcasing role models for young girls, as also their parents – and a volume on family recipes. She has now turned her attention to men who broke the mould as males are also subject to partiarchy and tropes.

“Since the publication of ‘Like A Girl’ (in 2018), there have been a number of books about Indian women. There was a time I was thinking of doing a Volume Two of ‘Like a Girl’. But Karthika, my publisher, rightly observed that there what we needed now were some stories about incredible and inspiring men,” Jain told IANS in an interview of the just-published “Boys Will Be Boys” (Context/pp 175/ Rs 799).

“I thought about it, and you know, men are also subject to the patriarchy. Not just tropes like ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ or ‘Boys Don’t Wear Pink’ but how men are subject from a very young age to be ‘successful’ to live their lives; to pursue a certain type of career; to be a certain type of man; toxic masculinity actually. So, it was important to showcase men who broke the mould,” Jain added.

To this end, the book chronicles the lives of 45 Indian men who followed their heart and dared to be different – soldiers (Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, 2nd Lt. Arun Khetrapal), a sailor who circunavigated the globe (Commander Abhilash Tomy), a designer who took Indian fashion to Paris (Rahul Mishra), a doctor who revived rivers (Rajendra Singh), a barefoot artist (M.F. Husain), rocket scientists (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai), entrepreneurs (J.R.D. Tata, Azim Premji), engineers (E. Sreedharan), sportspersons (Bhaichung Bhutia, Vishwanathan Anand), journalists (P. Sainath, Josy Joseph), writers (Perumal Murugan, Vikram Seth, Anant Pai) and activists (Sunderlal Bahugana), among others.

Speaking about the research that went into the writing of the book, Jain said this was of two types.

“Secondary – reading people’s biographies and autobiographies. Then going to YouTube and seeing their interviews. And then primary – which was interviewing whoever I could. I would record the interviews, my colleague would help with transcriptions and then I would put together a skeletal story. It seems simple – the final product – but it was arduous. Getting interviews also was tedious,” Jain explained.

As with “Like A Girl”, 27 artists showcase their arresting interpretations of the individuals featured in the book. This involved Jain, Art Director Ayesha Broacha and the artists working as a close-knit team.

“Surprisingly for this book, many stories started coming in after I had commissioned the art. Oxfam thankfully agreed to come aboard as Art Patron for the book again. So based on my secondary research, I would send artists cue words or articles. Some were fairly straightforward. But the minute I interviewed someone, I would send an artist the unedited story so they would get a sense of the person in the way I wrote about them.

“That helped. Or I would call the artists and give them a sense of which part of the person’s story I was going to focus on. For example J.R.D. Tata. The man is incredible right? He has accomplished so much. Which facet of him would I cover? So in the beginning the artist was trying to put an entire lifetime in the picture. Ayesha gave her art feedback and since we asked all artists to send us rough compositions it was fair to change it. So we had to work with the artists quite carefully.

“When the artist read the story she made this stunning picture of J.R.D. with a Puss Moth (in which he made India’s inaugural airmail flight from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad)! It was perfect and such a long way from the initial sketches,” Jain explained.

What’s next on the cards?“Hah. Good Question. I was working on a book in millennials which was pushed to the back burner two years ago. I have pulled it back but it may take on a different shape or form. I have done 60 interviews for that so you know – the data is rich. But I am figuring out what would work now – two years later. No fixed address yet,” Jain said.

Her first book “The Sood Family Cookbook” of traditional ‘pahadi’ recipes was published in 2013. Her second book “Own It: Leadership Lessons From Women Who Do” (2016) was based on interviews with over 200 women professionals in senior managerial and leadership positions and leveraged on her experience as a certified Integral Master Coach, where she draws on the themes and teachings of master coaches from a variety of disciplines.

“Own It…” was awarded a Laadli Prize and was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live Business Book Award, while “Like A Girl” was shortlisted for the Crossword Popular Prize.