I had started out to write on a fictional character I secretly wish was real and I unabashedly confess that not only do I hope that Sherlock Holmes existed but I often imagine and convince myself of the fact that he did, in fact, walk the streets of Victorian London with Dr Watson. No other […]
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BHARAT BANDH in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision on The SC and The ST Act, 1989, and its culmination into widespread violence across the country, raises some serious questions pertaining to the socio-political discourse in post-independence India, which needs to be answered. The apex court, in its recent judgement of 20th March, had […]
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Disparities are there. There is caste. There is religion. But mind it. Above all is humanity and its existence is lost somewhere. I am not able to see the empathy and concern or the sense of being a human. The people, they are frightened and feel the need to protect themselves more from other human […]
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The Indian Political System and Social Order is filled with instances, where the judiciary has evolved certain distinct concepts and principles to counter the challenges emerging with this dynamic society. In Indian Political Scene, ‘Creamy Layer’ is used in reference to the relatively forward and better educated members of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The […]
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Since 2014, a new trend has come in to the sphere. A lot of Indian youth are showing their interest towards international political issues, which was not visible in the last few decades. Due to globalisation, the world has come closer, and nothing is hidden from the people. With the blink of an eye, anyone […]
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“Attendance proves nothing in terms of learning.” Terming it as “non-academic” achievement, Bruce Macfarlane, the author of Freedom to Learn: The Threat to Student Academic Freedom and Why It Needs to be Reclaimed laid a strong foundation against any attempt by the imperious moves by a lot of academic administrations across the globe to impose compulsory attendance upon […]
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16 फरवरी, 2018, दिन शुक्रवार, भारत के इतिहास में एक अद्वितीय घटना घटी जब तालकटोरा सभागार दिल्ली में बैठे हजारों विद्यार्थियों से तथा भारत के विभिन्न भागों में टी.वी. और रेडियो के माध्यम से जुड़े हुए लाखों विद्यार्थियों से उनके प्रधानमंत्री सन्मुख हुए. विषय था- परीक्षा के तनाव पर विजय पाने के तरीके. इस विषय […]
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Universal Basic Income:Reimagining Social Security (Part I) GLOBAL EXPERIMENTS London In 2009, a Charity undertook a project of disbursal of GBP 3000 per annum to street dwellers. It never got Government backing. The result of that experiment was eye opening and worth deserving due attention. On an average only GBP 800 was spent by the […]
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A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place. -John Rawls It has been beautifully suggested after deep deliberation that, “People don’t just have needs, rather they have ideas about their needs”, ideas which evolved over considerable period of time with […]
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The cold dark night of 19th January 1990 was probably the worst nightmare ever witnessed by Indian secularism. “Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv – Join us, Die or Flee, Yha Kya Chalega Nizam-e-Mustafa, Azadi ka Matlab Kya, La Illah IL laalh “ were some slogans which were taking round in Kashmir valley. We want “Kashmir to […]
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The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led NDA government at the centre came up with the Citizenship Amendment Bill in 2016 which proposed to grant citizenship to migrants residing in Assam, who came from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh belongingto the following religious communities- Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Parsis and Budhists. Right from the moment when updates […]
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There is a common belief amongst the literateurs that fiction and reality are two different things. There is a belief that romanticism and revolution, devotion and debacle, reverence and revolt never go hand in hand. They exist at the extreme ends of the spectrum. Romanticism is filled with dreams and high flight of imagination. Whereas […]
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