Youth-Focused Initiatives and Social Change – The Turning Tide in India
Change for change’s sake can often be a good thing; but initiating a movement of social change is something totally different all together; and is often twice as hard. Yet the turning tide in India with respect to the wave of youth-focused initiatives that have catalyzed social change within the …
Aadhaar Card Is No More An ‘Amigo’ – High Time To Understand!
Democracy In India Democratic form of government is a citizen oriented form of government, in which citizens rest the supreme power to decide their leader and are provided with varied rights and duties. Not even the Government can exploit the citizens because of these rights. All these facts have turned …
Regaining India’s Position in Global Economy: India Ranks 7th in World Economy
Recently, India was ranked 7th in world economy 2017.The economy of the United States is the largest in the world. At $18 trillion, it represents a quarter share of the global economy (24.3%), according to the latest World Bank figures followed by China, Japan, Germany, UK and France. This is …
Need for Safer Cities Before Smarter Cities
Introduction ‘No Man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one, or love the other or else he will hold the one, and despise the other’. It holds for the Government too, as it does for the proles of the country. While focusing to develop the country …
I Stand by my Country: Is Patriotism the Same After Seventy Years?
Introduction The BJP, after achieving Maximum Governance with Minimum Government, hopes to initiate a movement which is named ‘I stand by my country’ on the occasion of 70th anniversary of Independence Day and 75th anniversary of Quit India Movement. It believes this venture could ignite the spark of patriotism and …
Bullet Trains in India: Boon or Bane?
Introduction In December of 2015, headlines were made when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Japan would be introducing its world famous bullet trains in India, in an attempt to improve on the current rail system. The bullet trains, known as Shinkansen, are built to reduce transit times as much …
Shani Temple Controversy: Why Are Women Considered ‘Impious?’
What Was The Controversy? In January this year, a group of four hundred odd women belonging to the Bhumata Ranragini brigade, led by Trupti Desai, a 31-year old housewife, attempted to break a tradition no one woman had ever dared of doing before. They tried to barge into the Shani Shingnapur …
A Stereotype Portrayed “Beautifully”: Desi For The Weekend
Coldplay and Beyoncé just released their new song, Hymn for the Weekend. Society became consumed and fascinated over the song without hesitation, but only my desis can understand the frustration and irritation that this song produced in Indian communities. Problematic People To better understand people’s arguments as to why the …
Secessional Clashes: Conflict in Assam Between Bodos and Adivasis
India is a vast region consisting of many different ethnic identities. From North to South, East to West, thousands of different cultures exist, making India an extremely ethnically and culturally diverse area. Like any other land, the people of these individual groups have vastly different ethnic, political, and sometimes religious …
Water and Air: India Has a Pollution Problem
In a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, it was revealed that New Delhi is the city with the highest amount of air pollution in the world. In India, the most polluted cities of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan are in the north. Even worse, air pollution is exacerbating the issue …