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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
FAIR 2025 Conference - A Global Gathering of Reinsurers and Insurers in Mumbai
PNN Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 29: General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) is honoured to announce that registrations are now open for the 29th FAIR (Federation of Afro-Asian Insurers and Reinsurers) Conference, to be held in the vibrant city of Mumbai from 5th to 8th October 2025. The Federation of Afro-Asian Insurers and Reinsurers (FAIR) is a professional business association committed to promoting regional cooperation and advancing the insurance industry across Afro-Asian countries. Given FAIR's strong brand recognition and its network of 204 member companies across 52 countries, the conference brings together a diverse array of nationalities and cultures. Being a biennial event held since 1967, the 2025 edition will be the 29th FAIR Conference which also coincides with the 60th anniversary of FAIR. This seminal event promises to unite a distinguished assembly of leaders, strategists, regulators, and practitioners from the insurance and reinsurance fraternity across Asia, Africa, and the broader global risk landscape. Held under the resonant theme "Emerging Markets - Towards Resilient Growth", this edition invites the industry to contemplate not only the opportunities but also the responsibilities of navigating an era defined by systemic volatility, technological disruption, geopolitical flux, and climate unpredictability. It serves as a clarion call to industry visionaries: to forge new pathways of collaboration, embrace sustainable innovation, and strengthen regional self-reliance amidst global uncertainties. Notably, this edition also features insights from industry experts on enhancing insurance accessibility through reinsurance strategies, in alignment with IRDAI's Vision 2047. Carrying forward FAIR's legacy as a beacon of dialogue and direction, the Mumbai Conference is poised to welcome over 600 delegates, representing a cross-section of markets, institutions, and thought traditions. The multi-layered agenda will feature keynote sessions from global policy architects and reinsurance pioneers, strategic panel discussions and opportunities for bilateral meetings. As Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, "The future enters into us long before it happens." FAIR 2025 seeks to be that very threshold -- where the invisible challenges of tomorrow are named, shaped, and faced. We welcome you to Mumbai, not just as a location but as a metaphor -- a city that reflects the spirit of emergence and endurance. Here, amidst dialogue and diversity, we aim to build not just strategies, but a shared resilience worthy of the age we inhabit.
Washington Post
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Want to find better solutions? Learn to embrace questions.
What do I do when I don't know what's next? How do I move forward when I feel stuck? These were the queries at the heart of Franz Kappus's letters. It was 1903 when Kappus, a 19-year-old aspiring poet, began writing to the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and asking for advice about how to live his life. Like many 19-year olds, he had a lot of questions — about love, work, art, relationships.
New York Times
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Joy of Reading One Poem in Many Different Translations
One of my favorite pages on the internet contains eight back-to-back translations of 'Au Lecteur,' the first poem in Charles Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal,' all in English. I have visited this page many times to compare the different versions of the last stanza. Initially, I was shocked that each rendition of the last line ('— Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!') is unique. Most end with the phrase 'my brother,' but 'mon semblable' generates more variation: my fellow, my twin (several times), my likeness, my like, fellowman, my double. That last interpretation, which I like for its echo of the French word, comes from Robert Lowell's translation. Lowell also makes the choice that most delights me on the page, translating 'C'est l'Ennui!' not as 'He is Ennui!' (William Aggeler) or 'It is boredom!' (Wallace Fowlie) but as, surprise, 'It's BOREDOM.' The caps transpose all that emphatic energy from the exclamation point onto the word itself, a move with the casual flair of genius, yet faithful to the original. I'm not sure the choice would have struck me as much if I hadn't read it next to seven others. I once heard someone quote the end of Rilke's 'Portrait of My Father as a Young Man,' in Stephen Mitchell's translation ('Oh quickly disappearing photograph/in my more slowly disappearing hand'). I found those lines so moving I was nervous it would show. Years later I read Edward Snow's translation: 'O you swiftly fading daguerreotype/in my more slowly fading hands.' I vastly preferred the Mitchell — much more natural and immediate, and 'fade' seems so weak, in reference to one's body, one's existence, next to 'disappear.' This liking it less taught me something profound, not just about translations, but about words, and choices, in general. I love this feature of great poetry in other languages, the way it spins out mutations. I love to see how different minds find (hugely or minutely) different solutions to the same set of problems. An array of translations is decision porn. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938), like Rilke and Baudelaire, attracts many translators, as Margaret Jull Costa notes in the introduction to her new translations, THE ETERNAL DICE: Selected Poems (New Directions, 144 pp., paperback, $16.95). This is because 'translators are naturally, and possibly masochistically,' she writes, 'drawn to the difficult.' I suspect poetry is always hard to translate, but if Vallejo is especially so, it's because of his linguistic ingenuity, an innovative style that adheres to a complex worldview. When you're reading Vallejo, it may seem the rules of grammar don't obtain, but nor do the laws of physics — the self of his poetry is godlike, outside time, and anything is also its own opposite. These are poems about the constancy of suffering, as in 'I'm Going to Talk About Hope' ('My pain is so deep, that it has neither cause nor absence of cause') and 'The Nine Monsters' ('Never … has health/been more deadly,/nor has migraine extracted so much forehead from the forehead!'). They speak to the death always present in life, the dying of living. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
News18
05-06-2025
- General
- News18
World Environment Day 2025: Inspiring Wishes, Quotes & Images To Share On June 5
Last Updated: Happy World Environment Day 2025: Share these inspiring wishes, quotes, images, and greetings to encourage everyone to protect and preserve the planet. World Environment Day 2025: Observed every year on June 5, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental awareness and action. Celebrated by millions worldwide, it has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since its inception in 1973. Over the decades, it has grown into a powerful movement driving change through education and community participation. The Republic of Korea will host World Environment Day in 2025, with a focus on ending plastic waste globally. This year, World Environment Day joins the UNEP-led #BeatPlasticPollution campaign to encourage communities throughout the globe to adopt and promote solutions. This year's theme aims to highlight the harmful impact of plastic waste on ecosystems and to inspire collective action toward sustainable, long-term solutions. Whether you're a passionate environmentalist or just learning about sustainability, sharing quotes and well wishes can inspire others to care for the environment. Here's wishes and quotes that you can share with your family and friends. World Environment Day 2025: Wishes World Environment Day 2025: Quotes 'The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." – Lady Bird Johnson 'If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees." – Rainer Maria Rilke 'The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth." – Marlee Matlin 'The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." – Robert Swan 'One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken." – Leo Tolstoy 'Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." – Albert Einstein World Environment Day – FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What is World Environment Day? World Environment Day is the United Nations' principal platform to raise awareness and encourage action for the protection of the environment. When is World Environment Day celebrated? It is celebrated every year on June 5. Who organises World Environment Day? It is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and supported by governments, organizations, and individuals globally. Why was June 5 chosen for this day? June 5 marks the opening day of the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, which laid the foundation for modern environmental diplomacy. Why is World Environment Day important? It mobilizes millions around the world to take environmental action. It serves as a reminder that everyone has a role in building a greener, more sustainable future. How can individuals participate in World Environment Day? top videos View all How can schools and organisations get involved? They can organize eco-friendly activities like tree planting, awareness campaigns, art contests, recycling initiatives, or host guest speakers on environmental topics. About the Author Bhaswati Sengupta Bhaswati Sengupta is a Sub-Editor at News18, where she works closely with the Web Stories and Photo Gallery team to create visually engaging and impactful digital content. She also contributes to Lifestyle More The News18 Lifestyle section brings you the latest on health, fashion, travel, food, and culture — with wellness tips, celebrity style, travel inspiration, and recipes. Also Download the News18 App to stay updated! tags : lifestyle World Environment day Location : New Delhi, India, India First Published: June 05, 2025, 07:10 IST News lifestyle World Environment Day 2025: Inspiring Wishes, Quotes & Images To Share On June 5
New York Times
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In These Poems Life Is a Party, Complete With Designer Drugs
In his seminal 'Letters to a Young Poet,' Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice to be as patient as possible with everything unsolved in his heart, to learn to love the questions themselves 'like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.' 'Do not now seek the answers,' he writes, 'which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' Alex Dimitrov, in his unflinching fifth collection of poems, 'Ecstasy,' is for the most part proudly unconcerned with answers. 'I have nothing/to prove and nothing to teach you,' he writes in 'Alex, It Was Really Nothing,' 'and this poem is not going to solve/any crisis or pretend it knows anything/about anything.' Early in the collection, one speaker declares: 'There is no true self./No one gets to the bottom of anything.' Dimitrov, it would appear, is loath to try. Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke's — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as much, or the patience they require — the basic message rings true: Stop worrying about figuring everything out, embrace the pain and unknowing, live in the present as best you can. To this end, and true to its title, there is no shortage of indulgence in 'Ecstasy.' The characters in these poems party hard; there is plenty of sex and drinking and drugs. They smoke Sobranies and down bottles of Chablis at Café Charlot in Paris. They are seasoned regulars of New York nightlife, bouncing from one downtown fixture to the next. One poem is titled 'Xanax'; another is called 'Poppers.' There's a full section with poems dedicated to each of the seven deadly sins. Dimitrov — who leans toward single stanzas broken into short lines and succinct, staccato sentences — doesn't hesitate to air a few grievances along the way. In 'Monday,' he writes: 'Doesn't it bother you sometimes/what living is, what the day has turned into?/So many screens and meetings/and things to be late for.' But overall, 'Ecstasy' reads more like celebration than critique, a reminder to enjoy the pleasures of the world wherever possible and not take ourselves, or life, too seriously. As in 'Love and Other Poems,' his previous collection, Dimitrov's man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems remain candid and conversational, but at times they also feel more disillusioned and resigned. 'Everything is a lie/but everything is still beautiful,' he writes in 'Wednesday,' which ends: 'I just love this running around/even if I'm not free.' But Dimitrov still comes across as the romantic he was in his earlier work, too, with a curiosity and thirst for connection and life's possibilities. In 'Tuesday' — an endearingly earnest meditation on love and selfhood 'meant to be read/at the bar on a Tuesday/when you're dehydrated/and not feeling so great' — he writes: The speaker admits that he imagined his life (and perhaps a past relationship) would have turned out differently, but the poem ultimately ends with an emphasis on all that is still possible: 'You can walk out/tonight and feel totally new./All you need is the right pair of boots.' 'Ecstasy' is a rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience. These poems are raw and honest and deeply personal, and vibrate with the intimacy and electricity typically reserved for late-night conversations between old friends or new lovers after the third round. Hilarious in places and heartbreaking in others, they emerge from a place of inner turmoil and inner knowing, and do not apologize for anything. Dimitrov is keenly aware of the hardship and labor involved in living, how imperfect and lost we sometimes feel, but insists we learn to embrace this, to celebrate it unabashedly, to accept that the freedom possible in the present is far more sacred than most wisdom we can glean from the past. In this way, the sense of resignation and disillusionment that permeates the collection functions as a form of liberation and empowerment. And maybe, as it turns out, a kind of answer in itself: 'I'm just gonna do it my way,' he writes in the final lines of 'Thursday.' 'I'm gonna ignore the news and the fads/and the outrage because baby—/heart is mostly all I have./That and some fight on the side.'
