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The Indo-Pak Partition 1947

-Aman Baldia   The partition of India in 1947 remains one of the bloodiest and the most violent chapter of Indian history where communalism and the British policy of ‘divide and rule’ led India being broken down into a Hindu majority India and a Muslim majority Pakistan (Bangladesh was a part of the same). The […]

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The need of ‘Out of the box’ skills for the Indian Youth.

-Gaurav Agashe   India is a remarkably young country. Half of the Indian population today is under the age of 25. In fact, we have 234 million Indians ready and poised to enter higher education. This is significantly in contrast to the ageing population of the rest of the world. Today, most of the supposed […]

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Our unpredictable and complex world: Can we understand it better?

-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 matter of […]

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Reforming the life- line of Mumbai, A priority.

  -Niraj Dubey Instructions on a flight always say that you should put your own oxygen mask before assisting others. I believe it’s time that the Government is instructed the same because we don’t have a good basic infrastructure for our citizens and the Government is planning to provide with advanced infrastructure which is not […]

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China’s move on JeM chief Masood Azhar’s reflecting UN’s handicap

  -Aman Baldia If you are a follower of International Affairs, a major story that would have caught your attention in the beginning of November was China blocking the bid of India and later that of US, France, and the UK to get Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar declared as a UN-designated terrorist in the United […]

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Mental Health awareness in India

-Kashvi Jaggi “Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘WE’, Illness becomes Wellness.” If you ever heard someone being called ‘insane’, ‘mental’, ‘crazy’, ‘delusional’, ‘depressed’, ‘schizophrenic’; you would probably shun away from the conversation or subconsciously judge the person who is at the listening end. Mental health as […]

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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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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 […]

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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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‘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 […]