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International Politics

Happy and Glorious? Young people and the spirit of democracy

Authors: Aaran Pilot & Biswajit Sahoo “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Winston Churchill The prayer and the anthem “God save the King” have been the […]

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International Politics

Wolf Warrior Diplomacy

Wolf War Diplomacy refers to China’s transition from a conservative to an aggressive or assertive style of diplomacy in the twenty-first century to defend national interests in confrontational and conspiratorial ways under the leadership of Xi Jin Ping. The term was derived from the two popular Chinese action blockbusters – Wolf Warrior and Wolf Warrior […]

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History International

The Holocaust – One of History’s Greatest Tragedies

The Holocaust – The genocide that was aimed at the Jewish Community residing in Europe. An event that annihilated more than six million Jews in less than twenty-four months. The catastrophic happening was carried out under the Nazi Regiment during World War 2, during which Adolf Hitler had succumbed to power. This horrific act of […]

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Climate Change International

COP26: A UN Lifeboat or False Hope?

The world was left quite disrupted after struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries scrambled to safeguard their population and livelihood from the virus but there’s a bigger enemy that is still looming over our heads. Climate change poses a threat to the very existence of our planet and its people as we know it. A […]

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International Politics

Government-Military Tussle in Sudan

The presence of military coups in the news over the last nine months may lead individuals to believe they are a common prevalent issue. Starting from 1st February 2021, a coup d’état in Myanmar was set about in the early morning.  And just after seven months on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, heart-wrenching news of the […]

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Finance International

China’s Evergrande Crisis

Even after a decade of The Lehman’s Brother collapsing, Wall Street shudders. The stroke is still felt. No wonder a new crisis was forthcoming. A businessman named Hui Ka Yan founded the company known as Hengda Group now known as Evergrande Group. Situated in China, this company now deals in real estate development. Over the […]

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Finance International

Pandora Papers Leak

History has a habit of repeating itself, be it in any sphere, the same stories come up again and again like bubbles because it’s not over till it’s over. Beginning from The Panama Papers when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists had exposed the rogue offshore finance industry with a massive leak of more than […]

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International

Protecting the Rights of Journalists

The information we receive shapes the world. But what kind of world would we build if the people who pass on the information are cut off by certain powerful people. Last year on the 17th of February 2020, a journalist named Aziz Memon, an employee of a local television channel named KTN News was found […]

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International

UNGA’ 76

Every year leaders from 193 countries gather for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. However, since the pandemic has begun, the format of conducting this meeting changed. 2020 saw a digital method of conducting, whereas 2021 explored the hybrid format wherein members joined either physically or virtually. Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives, being the Current […]

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International National Politics

A New Direction to India-US Relations: Modi Meets Biden

Ah yes, it’s that time of the decade, when the two most famous senior citizens within the political world meet, i.e, U.S president Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On September 25th, Prime Minister Narendra Modi finished writing another chapter within a subtle story playing out within our eyes, a story that no […]