I.I.M.U.N. Blog
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are multiple factors which affect an economy and it’s growth. We can not have a ceteris paribus outlook when we are gauging the performance of an economy. Amongst many, some of the factors include a change in demand, market structure, policies, supply, (rise or fall in) prices, consumption/production rates. The real root cause behind […]
Coronavirus has claimed more than 89,000 lives and infected hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. What started as a simple pneumonia-like disease has now turned into a menace which still does not seem to cease. It all started in late 2019 when a Chinese national was infected with a virus from an animal […]
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 […]