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Reforming Indian Civil Services to Suit the Needs of the 21st Century Globalized World
Guest Opinion Bureaucracy is considered to be the backbone of any country’s administration. India is not an exception wherein bureaucracy...
Sentence First Verdict Later
Guest Opinion Image credits: Livemint In the last three years of political governance in the State of Kerala, the LDF government has...
A Humanist Approach to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Guest Opinion Image Credits: FairObservor Reading about the perceptions of historicists and various theories that go on and on about the...
Catch 22 The Capitol
Guest Opinion Image Credits: NYT/WP/LAT/GS/Twitter On 6th January, the epitome of freedom and liberty was smacked hard when a mob incited...
IFS: The Indian Frugal Service?
A little more than a year and a half ago, former Ambassador to both the United States and China, and ex-Foreign Secretary, Subrahmanyam...
Weaponization of Sedition and the UAPA to Curb Free Speech in India
Guest Opinion INTRODUCTION: This article discusses the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, and Section 124 A, of the Indian Penal Code...
Job Quota in Private Sector: Vote Bank Politics or a Boon to People?
Guest Opinion The job protection agenda for locals is rearing its head again in India. On November 5, 2020, the Haryana Assembly passed a...
The Superpower & The Regime: New Relations between DPRK & U.S.A
With Joe Biden being elected as the President of the United States, the nuances of inter-state relations with North Korea are expected to...
A Case for Affirmative Action in the World of Meritocracy
Guest Opinion Coined in 1958 by the sociologist Micheal Young in his book The Rise of the Meritocracy—describing a dystopian society in...
The Romans are Worried: Rise of China & Future of the West
Since the times of the Romans, Spaniards, Portuguese, the French, the British, the Germans, the Russians, and now the Americans - the...
Hijab: Meanings, Disputes & Perspectives
Singapore: When Sarah arrives at the clinic, she removes her veil. “They told me that I can't work here if I wear the Tudung (local Malay...
A Tale of Two Streets
Guest Opinion As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc, only a handful of countries managed to get out of it unscathed. With...
The Not So Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize
The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, awarded almost every year by the Norwegian Nobel Committee along the rules laid down in the will of...
Latent Heat of Society
Guest Opinion “The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.” - Mahatma Gandhi...
The Anatomy of Moral Panic & Sensationalisation of News: Middle Class, Media and Rhea Chakraborty
Guest Opinion The High Court of Bombay pronounced the much-awaited verdict concerning the criminal bail application by Rhea Chakraborty...
How is India Responding to China’s ‘Salami’ Diplomacy?
Guest Opinion The concept of ‘salami tactics’ was pursued by the Soviet Union during the Cold War as a coercive civil-military diplomatic...
“Have You Eaten?”
Guest Opinion India is known for its vibrant aura, idiosyncratic quirks, and awe-inducing culture. In contrast to the west, the values...
An Overview of Changing US-UN Relations
The United States of America holds a significant position in the United Nations. The largest financial contributor, one of the founding...
Is India the World's Most Dangerous Country for Women?
In 2018, a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters Foundation had ranked India as ‘the world's most dangerous country for women’, ahead of...
Culture of Scapegoat Arrests: Rhea Chakraborty’s Arbitrary Arrest & Media Lynching
Did Rhea push Sushant to the verge of suicide? Was she involved in Sushant's 'alleged' homicide? These are questions which no journalist...
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