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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 […]

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How to MUN?

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 […]

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THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Have you ever introspected, as to why we fail to reason out the rationale behind our behavior? For a number of years, Psychologists were dazzled by the very same question. Sigmund Freud’s topographic model (which dealt with the structure and function of the mind), out of many contributions made by various other psychologists in the […]

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The Deep, Unsettling Impact of ‘Alone in Berlin’

Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador, and vice president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society. If a film can trigger unexpected emotions and sensations that connect us to our surroundings, it would have done its job. Such a film is Alone in Berlin, starring Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson, which never made it […]

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Multilateralism 3.0

We live in a world, with escalating fissiparous tendencies, where the concept of an egalitarian global order has changed from being viewed as equals to being first amongst equals. In many nations across the world patriotism has given way to jingoistic behaviour and states have openly patronised xenophobia and religious fanaticism. In an ever changing […]

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Surrogacy in India

Surrogacy is a legal arrangement wherein a woman (Surrogate mother) agrees to bear a child for another person or persons. This procedure is entirely legal and needs prior consent of the surrogate mother. A surrogate mother cannot keep the child post-birth.  This procedure is performed by a process called “in vitro fertilization” (IVF). Here, eggs […]

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India and Africa Partnership in the twenty-first century.

-Amb. Manju Seth India and Africa share historical ties and many commonalities including a colonial past. Civilisational links between the two have served as the bedrock to deepen their engagement, especially after India’s independence. Many African countries were inspired by India’s non-violent struggle for independence and began their quest to rid themselves from the yoke […]

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– Amb. Yogendra Kumar   Global uncertainties are growing. There is a sense of crisis, practically, everywhere and the pace and direction of events is becoming increasingly unpredictable. Many of these developments affect adversely the functioning of global, multilateral or regional institutions. Many of these trends are occurring in India’s close proximity and are a […]

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The Rise and Fall of Startups.

-Niraj Dubey   The year 2015 saw the small sparkle of startup turn into a wildfire in India. This ‘Golden Year’ of startups witnessed every small idea with little potential being funded and backed by investors. Both national and international players like Shri Ratan Tata, Shri Mohandas Pai, Kalari, Sequoia, Accel, and many more through […]

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A Bitter Divide of ‘Divide and Rule’

-Jeevesh Garg 70 years of Independence after 200 years of oppression has been full of negativity, hatred and in a constant state of conflict from both countries. A country which was economically and culturally rich was first exploited for false riches and then polluted. Polluted with the ideology that would displace 15 million people, kill […]