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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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What does Biden mean for India?

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 […]

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Politics

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 […]

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Finance National Politics

The Road Ahead for India’s Economy post-pandemic

It wasn’t long ago when the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly spread across the world, with uncertain circumstances ahead. The pandemic has aggravated the existing tensions concerning healthcare, education, politics, and the economy as a whole. As the virus spread, restrictions were imposed and the global economy came to a standstill, with an unprecedented recession. Within no […]

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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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International Politics

The liberation of Hong Kong (HKSAR, PRC)

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 […]

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Food & Health

Mental Health in India: A Taboo to Tackle

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 […]

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Sport in the Age of the Coronavirus

Sports in the Age of Coronavirus

Far from breaking social barriers, the COVID-19 crisis actually reinforces them as elite sports coronate high achievers from India’s despairing hinterland. In Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, as plague claims half of Europe, a knight challenges Death to a game of chess to save himself and his friends. What follows is a celebration of the […]

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Finance

India’s withdrawal from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Negotiations

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a proposed agreement between the member states of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN). It was introduced in the 19th ASEAN meet which took place in November 2011. During the 21st ASEAN meet in Cambodia (November 2012), the negotiations were initiated with a deadline of November 2019. Member states […]

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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 […]