“You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing”. India celebrates its seventy-three years of Independence this year, along with bravely fighting the covid-19 virus with the lowest death rates per million. However, the question is, were we independent for seventy-three years? The time between 1970-1980 is our lost […]
Author: Taman Bachani
Is Overpopulation a Concern for Us?
It goes without question that our population has skyrocketed in the last two centuries. It took humans over 2 million years to reach 1 billion but only 200 more to reach 7 billion. Our population today tops 7 billion people and never before has such a large population existed on earth. It has been estimated […]
Time Travel Paradoxes
INTRODUCTION Time travel – hopping between various points in time is a very popular concept in the world of fiction for decades. Various movies and series like Back to The Future, Dark, and so much more are fully based on messing up with the timeline. In all these movies and series, we see a person […]
MUN as a Means of Personality Development
From lobbying before the committee even starts to opening speeches, moderated and unmoderated caucuses, and backbone writing, there’s always something that needs your full attention. Model UN may be a fast-growing competitive activity for several students, but to excellent deal folks, it means something more. Model UN has helped us grow into leaders, discover our […]
Chanakya in Today’s World
These days politicians are being dubbed as being the Chanakya of their political parties. This is because of various reasons such as their policy-making capabilities or their ability to control power. Today, Chanakya is often dubbed as the creator of dirty politics, but is it so? Taking a look into the deep history, in the […]
Model United Nations, a name that itself emerges from the United Nations, aims to find solutions to the real-life problems that are fundamentally resolved by the organisation named, United Nations. United Nations, founded in the year 1945, is an international organization that has the autonomy to take action on issues confronting humanity in the 21st […]
India and the US have maintained cordial relations, especially in this century. The US has seen 3 presidents in the 21st century with Joe Biden emerging to be the 4th one after securing a majority vote in the latest US election. In the past 5 years, the relations have become better with leaders of either […]
Possible Reforms in the Election Process
The World’s largest democracy celebrates its largest festival every 5 years, the General Elections. Although that is one of the major elections in India, it is the election that is covered and followed the most. Ever since India’s independence, we have chosen representatives through elections, the first one being in 1951. The first elections were […]
Perspective: Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) IntroductionFollowing the defeat at the hands of the British in the First Opium War, China ceded the island of Hong Kong in the ‘Treaty of Nanking’ in 1842. The Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island were later surrendered to the UK in the ‘Convention of Peking’ in […]
Mental Health – an issue frequently recognized as ‘unreal’, ‘inconsequential’ or ‘trivial’ by a majority of the Indian population. A topic that is not very often (if never) touched upon by India and is very likely to get lost in our society might be one of the major reasons holding us one step away from […]