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Agricultural reforms – the politico-economic hot potato of India
- Abhijit Rajkhowa -
Farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting near Delhi against three recently enacted Parliamentary laws. The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act which allows inter-state and intra-state trade of farmers’ produce outside the physical premise of APMC mandis... [Read More]
India-U.S Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership
- Anubhav Shankar Goswami -
Domain awareness is essential to stay ahead of adversaries. As the saying goes, “knowing is half the battle’. In a significant development at the third Indo-US 2+2 summit, the United States signed an agreement with India to provide New Delhi with access to advanced satellite imagery, topographical and aeronautical digital data in real-time. [Read More]
Analysis: Capital punishment for rape in India
- Anupriya Dubey -
Recently, the alleged gang rape of a Dalit girl in Hathras district of UP caught everyone’s attention, igniting conversations around the case and the rape culture prevalent in our country. Amidst the cry for justice to the victim and her family, most people also demanded capital punishment for the culprits, and this isn’t the first time we’re hearing the public demanding capital punishments [Read More]
Mao’s five finger policy, Xi’s fateful punch
- Lucas Baishya -
This is a story of two world leaders. Although, both of them are from different timelines their motto remains the same. The first one was a visionary and an expansionist. The latter one is a hardcore executioner, who would stop at nothing to make sure that the grand vision is manifested in reality [Read More]
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The Fault in Our Academicians
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
The Fault in Our Academicians
Having established my predicament as a student, I have to say that no matter how educational these articles, books and commentaries are, they are all elitist. And as sad as it may get, most of them are ‘all words, no work’. [Read More]
Big Brother is Watching You
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
The Fault in Our Academicians
The relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dystopian novel by George Orwell, is greater now globally, than ever before. The novel speaks of a society that has been destroyed by relentless wars, conflicts, and revolution [Read More]
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
The back to back peace agreements signed by Israel with the Gulf Arab countries signals the potential death knell for the purported two-state solution, a course correction is necessary [Read More]
The Bandhani fall
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
Hope of a two-state solution- gone with the wind
“Bandhani” saree, translating to “tying the dye together”, is a highly decorated piece of traditional garment that requires exquisite craftsmanship to produce. Bandhani art is centuries old and customary in large parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan. [Read More]
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
In 1907, British forester E.O. Shabbeare reported seeing some cream coloured langurs close to Assam-Bhutan border at Jamduar, east of the Sankosh river. These langurs he described were of a different colour as compared to the common langurs of mainland India... [Read More]
Masochistic and melancholic maze
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
Conserving the golden langur: One of India’s rarest primates
Some of us are innately happy and positive almost always radiating with optimism and hope. Well! My apologies but this piece of writing isn’t about them. It’s about those on the opposite end of the spectrum, the ones who are addicted and comfortable to sadness and being hurt in life... [Read More]
Boat Clinics are at the forefront of healthcare
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
I woke up to a beautiful breeze right through the windows of the S.B. Nahor (boat clinic for Jorhat district) on the morning of the first weekend of December last year. What could I ask more? The previous night, I slept with the excitement of waking up at “Luitor Bukut”... [Read More]
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
It would be cliché to say that Indian democracy is in crisis. Like any other bourgeois democracy in the world, it was in crisis right from the day of its birth. By writing this I want to drive home the point that democracies and parliamentary systems in history have co-existed with slavery and imperialism... [Read More]
Online Classes are a Fever Dream
Pervading Conservatism and Indian Democracy Today
Online Classes are a Fever Dream
Our country has been battling a pandemic on all fronts possible and education is not an exception. Students have been out of their schools and institutes for about half a year now. As the saying goes ‘life must go on’, so did the classes, but virtually and online [Read More]