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Mumbai 24×7

-Prashant Nagpal   Mumbai, the maximum city and sprawling metropolis of India comprises of a population of 18 million ‘Mumbaikars’ within the city and its suburban districts. The island city is officially the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India. If there is one thing that Mumbai has taught its people, it is that time […]

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In Sport, Gender Equality is an elusive goal.

  – Jitendra Nath Misra   Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador and vice-president of Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society. Observing sport has many takeaways. One of them is gender discrimination. Sports meritocrats usually argue that sport is for all to see, and thus gender- blind. Sport is a concrete activity, with a victor […]

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Making Mumbai a 24 by 7 hub.

  -Kashvi Jaggi “I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps” – Frank Sinatra This line from a famous song, ‘New York, New York’ gave a new purposeful title to the New York City as a city that never sleeps. In this current generation where people believe in the adage of living […]

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‘Consent’ vs. ‘The Institution of Marriage’: The question of Marital Rape

“But the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retract”, said Sir Mathew Hale, Chief Justice of England prior to his death in 1676. While […]

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Analyzing the New Draft Hajj Policy

Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either. -Mahatma Gandhi Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither. -Albert Einstein.   India- the country of religions as it is rightly called, is but majorly divided by politics. Indian Islamic scholars and Muslim politicians want immediate removal of the […]

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Security Council Reforms (Will India become a permanent member?) by Ambassador Prakash Shah*

If a country which is the largest democracy in the world, has a population of some 1.3 billion people, is multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-faceted, has provided the largest number of soldiers to UN’s peacekeeping operations, has played an important role in peacemaking, and has a major say in its regions affairs cannot be a permanent member of […]