THE ‘RULE OF LAW’ AND THE WHIMS OF MEN
When the rule of law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men. ~ Tiffany Maddison What if the ‘rule of law’ is made an instrument for...
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OPINIONS
Fiza Zaidi
Apr 19, 20232 min read
WHY ARE YOU HAPPY IF NCERT IS OMITTING MUGHAL HISTORY IF YOU WON'T EVEN OPT FOR HISTORY IN CLASS 12?
As NCERT plans to omit chapters containing Mughal History from history textbooks of class XI and XII, there is a wave of opinions...
Doreen Bora
Feb 10, 20234 min read
WAS AURANGZEB REALLY A BIGOT?
“For the first time in their history, the Mughals beheld a rigid Muslim in their emperor—a Muslim as sternly repressible of himself as of...
Anurag Dwibhashyam
Feb 1, 20234 min read
COMPANIES, GREENWASHING AND INDIA: A NOTE ON ESG INVESTING
Have you ever come across commercials and advertisements that use fancy terms such as “100% natural”, “completely organic”, or...
Doreen Bora
Feb 1, 20235 min read
NOT ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS: LGBTQ COMMUNITY’S REALITY IN INDIA
If one had to present in a nutshell, the predicament of the LGBTQ community in India, nothing would exemplify it better than the...
Saksham Sharma
Nov 25, 20226 min read
WAS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GREAT BENGAL FAMINE?
The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history, killing by some estimates as much as four percent of the world's...
Sharad Shah
Nov 24, 20224 min read
THE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS - PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND DEVALUATION RESISTANCE
The country is facing a catastrophic crisis of unemployment and the current turmoil in the financial sector has brought a discussion on...
Devdutt Trivedi
Nov 24, 20225 min read
INDIA'S BIODIVERSITY LOSS - ARE WE REACHING A POINT OF NO RETURN?
Development and the environment are all important. The environment is usually the area around us where we work and make a decent living...
Sweta Hate
Nov 11, 20224 min read
WHY SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
There's no denying that conspiracy theories are all the rage these days. From crazy ideas about the moon landing being faked to more...
Fiza Zaidi
Nov 11, 20224 min read
BIHAR - A CAULDRON OF POLITICS
What do we Indians visualize in our imaginations when we talk about Bihar ? All that seems to originate from this benighted state are...
Kumar Amrendra
Nov 8, 20224 min read
YOGA: THE ANCIENT THOUGHT MECHANISM
Yoga is not based on vague doctrines or pious assumptions but on positive and practical method of controlling the physical and mental...
Nabarun Deb
Oct 28, 20226 min read
A MUTED CULTURE IN KASHMIR THROUGH THE LENS OF FARAH BASHIR
Kapila Vatsyayan in her essay, Fluidity and dynamics of tradition, writes on the perception of ‘self’ from the perspective of the...
Ankita Chadha
Oct 26, 20226 min read
ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF DOCTORS DURING DISASTERS
Ethical Dilemmas of Doctors during Disasters Providing care in a catastrophic crisis is the worst-case scenario and significantly strains...
Rijhul Ladha
Oct 26, 20228 min read
URBAN EXCLUSION AND POVERTY
Leprosy is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) affecting the peripheral nervous system causing skin lesions, numbness, and other bodily...
Khushi Maheshwari
Oct 14, 20225 min read
A SEA OF LOVERS
Are there ties between non-monogamy and feminism? Many of us believe that non-monogamy is a contemporary concept blasted into different...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Oct 14, 20224 min read
SHOULD INDIA SPEAK UP FOR UYGHURS IN CHINA?
Several reports of the Uyghur genocide, including admissions in domestic media have served to confirm that ‘Crimes against Humanity’ may...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Oct 14, 20223 min read
DOES THE GLOBAL NORTH OWE REPARATIONS TO THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?
The global conversation around reparative justice - where the rich countries compensate the poor, developing countries for the ecological...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Aug 24, 20224 min read
THE TIBETAN RESISTANCE: 70 YEARS OF STRUGGLE FOR SELF DETERMINATION
When scholar, spy and explorer extraordinaire, Sarat Chandra Das ventured into Tibet in 1879, dressed as a monk, armed with his sextants...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Aug 24, 20223 min read
INDIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS
There are no inefficient people, just inefficient systems. As India grapples with increasing unemployment rate, especially amongst the...
Sahej Marwah
Aug 4, 20223 min read
SHOULD INDIA ALLOW DUAL CITIZENSHIP?
Official data released by the Government of India states that since 2015, more than eight and a half lakh Indians have renounced their...
Fiza Zaidi
Aug 4, 20224 min read
IS OBJECTIVE HISTORY POSSIBLE?
History has an utter bad reputation as a boring tale of past among school children, however as a discipline the subject has forged from a...
Kumar Swati
Aug 4, 20224 min read
DOES BANNING HIJAB EMANCIPATE WOMEN OR INSULT THEM?
Author: Kumar Swati “Nobody forced us to wear our headscarf, nobody will force us to take it off,” said a French activist when the French...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Jul 13, 20223 min read
SAVING THE S8UL OF THE INDIAN GAMING INDUSTRY
Author: Bhuvan Apoorva Jha The gaming industry in India is a behemoth in the making. A report by a leading agency pegs the gaming...
Bhuvan Apoorva Jha
Jun 8, 20224 min read
WHAT AILS INDIAN MEDIA ?
Indian media conglomerates have registered a double-digit growth year on year and have been consistently outpacing India’s GDP growth...
Abhirami Boyina
Apr 12, 20226 min read
IS IT SAFE TO BE A JOURNALIST IN INDIA ?
Author: Abhirami Boyina "Every Threat Against a Journalist is a threat against your freedom" -UNESCO The World Press Freedom Index, a...
Ashmi Jain
Apr 4, 20224 min read
DOES BANNING HIJAB EMANCIPATE WOMEN ?
In the 21st century.. still here we are discussing about the rights of women, her moral and ethical standards, whether her dress sets her...
Stuti Garg
Apr 4, 20224 min read
SHOULD INDIA BAN GAY CONVERSION THERAPY ?
With films like Badhaai Do and Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhaan making a substantial impact on the Indian film industry, the LGBTQ+ community...
Teesta Roy
Apr 4, 20224 min read
WHAT DRIVES MOB VIOLENCE ?
Bringing a crowd together is primarily intended to display a bold, forceful and opinionated stand against something that has gone against...
Jhanvi Negi
Mar 25, 20225 min read
A LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF AFGHAN WOMEN THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERN LITERATURE
“I believed her. I’d felt the same loneliness. I bet we all had, each in her corner of the world, separated by so many walls.” -Nadia...
Arunima Sharma
Mar 25, 20226 min read
ARE WE LIVING IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD ?
Higgins very rightly uses the term ‘post truth’ to describe the phase we are living in. He says, “the term ‘post-truth’ describes not...
Jayesh kavate
Mar 8, 20224 min read
THE CURIOUS CASE OF CRYPTO IN INDIA - TO SHUN OR TO EMBRACE ?
India is home to the largest group of people that hold wealth in form of cryptocurrencies and ranked 2nd out of 154 countries on the 2021...
Vandana Dubey
Mar 8, 20225 min read
DOES BANNING HIJAB EMANCIPATE WOMEN OR INSULT THEM ?
"In times like ours when a country that has 'secular' engraved in its constitution, a country normalized with public display of faith —...
Shubhangi Awasthi
Mar 1, 20225 min read
IS INDIA READY FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE ? - A CASE FOR WHY INDIA HAS A LONG WAY TO GO ?
After countless protests, debates, media trials, tears, heartbreaks, and sleepless nights; one fine morning, India rose to a new dawn -...
Shreshtha Sharma
Mar 1, 20224 min read
JUSTICE AND FAMILY: AN INHERENT CONTRADICTION ?
"Justice is indeed compatible with the institution of family and more importantly, it is a necessary component for the institution of...
Anjanee Khosla
Mar 1, 20225 min read
DECODING INDIA'S WORKING WOMEN CONUNDRUM
"It is time, at last, that India transcends from "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" to "Beti ko Bachao, Padhao aur Rozgaar Dilwao" (Enable the...
Gaurav Bisht
Feb 22, 20225 min read
CULTURAL SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANCIENT HINDUS AND NATIVE AMERICANS
Why do we need to look for cultural similarities between two civilizations, who for all intents and purposes are miles apart, both...
Aviral Raj Jain
Feb 21, 20225 min read
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF AHIMSA - A SOURCE OF STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS ?
"Mahatma Gandhi, a strong advocate of non-violence, believed that ahimsa was his only religion. He believed that ahimsa combined with the...
Varshaa Surabhi
Feb 21, 20224 min read
ANCIENT INDIA: THE BEGINNING OF DEMOCRACY ?
"We have realised that a country as vast and varied as India cannot be classified under one label or another. Today, democracy conveys to...
Pratham Bajaj
Feb 21, 20224 min read
ARE INDIANS OFFENDED TOO EASILY ?
"We live in a society where joint families are normal, and our communities are close-knit. We are closer to our families' communities...
Amandeep Singh
Feb 21, 20225 min read
IS INDIA NOT READY FOR FREE TRADE ?
"Currently, we are not ready for unchecked free trade due to lacking domestic industries and already existing trade deficits that we fund...
Sayantani Nandan
Feb 15, 20224 min read
CAN ED-TECH SOLVE INDIA'S EDUCATIONAL CRISIS ?
At the heart of any Startup sector is the core problem it intends to solve, and for EdTech, it is about solving the issues faced by the...
Teesta Roy
Feb 15, 20225 min read
CAN HUMAN RIGHTS BE A VIABLE FOREIGN POLICY ?
A nation's foreign policies are, at their very core, meant to represent the reputation of the land. Many factors, including domestic as...
Apurv Raj
Feb 15, 20226 min read
DOES INDIA NEED STRONGER POLICING ?
Human existence across the world is ensured in the form of its arrangement as a society, giving humans the moniker of being "social...
Jashanpreet Singh
Feb 15, 20226 min read
SHOULD INDIA LEGALISE CANNABIS ?
"It's “high time” that cannabis should be legalized in India. India has been following a zero-tolerance policy against any cannabis...
Aaditya Desasi
Feb 8, 20224 min read
INDIA'S CRYPTO DILEMMA - TO SHUN OR TO EMBRACE ?
"To begin, defining anything is necessary before enacting a law, but defining cryptocurrencies is more complicated. Under the pseudonym...
Medhavi Bulkunde
Feb 8, 20226 min read
RELATION BETWEEN ANCIENT INDIA AND GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
One might be surprised to learn that the ancient Greeks and Romans were intricately linked to ancient India in science, trade, art,...
Abhinav Kumar
Feb 7, 20224 min read
THE EMERGENCE OF INDO-ABRAHAMIC ALLIANCE
"There is a new scent of alliance in the air – The Indo-Abrahamic Alliance – among India, the US, the UAE, and Israel. If one were to...
Ajay Simha Reddy
Feb 7, 20224 min read
LOOMING CLIMATE CHANGE- IS INDIA DOING ENOUGH
Climate change is the most pressing issue in the world today. It poses an even bigger threat to developing nations like India,...
Akshita Kothari
Feb 7, 20224 min read
SHOULD INDIA CONSIDER ENACTING GENDER NEUTRAL LAWS ?
Since time immemorial the row over equality appears to continue unabated, forcing its way through the Indian Constitution. However, the...
Altaf Ahmed
Jan 23, 20226 min read
IS RESERVATION GOOD OR BAD ?
Before we look at it for good or bad let's first see why there is so much debate on it. First reason for the debate is when reservation...
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