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The Kasai Conflict

-Aditi Goel No walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with a failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations. -Kofi Annan These words definitely hold true for Congo’s evolution, […]

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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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Of Climbers and Fallers: How the Election of Dalveer Bhandari is Part of a Power Game

By Jitendra Nath Misra Short of a political tsunami, a failure of State or a devastating natural calamity, change in the international system tends to be incremental. Dalveer Bhandari’s victory over Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is exactly the sort of gradual change which occurs when established and rising powers jostle. […]

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Five Steps for a successful startup– Reviewing start-ups.

– Mansi Mistry A Start-up (new venture company) is usually a young company that is just introduced in the competitive market and is beginning to develop. Start-ups are usually small and initially self-financed and operated by a handful of founders/CEOs or just one individual. These companies offer a product or service that is not currently […]

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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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USA – North Korea, an impending war

We live in the age where a diplomatic lunch between the heads of states of two countries gets cancelled due to the food menu, an age where diplomats indulge into name-calling and use false facts and images to gain global sympathy, an age where aims and aspirations of nations have made the value of human […]

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How the Youth is Rejecting Godmen

– Chaitanya Kejriwal Millennials, we call ourselves. A fresh generation. A fresh mindset. A different, rather aggressive approach towards life. The desire to achieve something early in life. A generation that truly believes in – “Be the change you want to see.” A generation that has their set of idols that they look up to, […]

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Mumbai University: A playground to destroy careers!

– Anjani Raipat Stationed in the financial capital of the country with more than 700 affiliated colleges and more than 5,00,000 students enrolled with it, Mumbai University boasts of alumni like none other. From the late B.R Ambedkar to Pratibha Patel, from Anil Kapoor and Vidya Balan to the Ambani’s and Adi Godrej, the list […]