Category: Political Writings

It is quite important that India understood its role in the comity of nations and as a harbinger of peace, harmony and development all across the undeveloped and developing world. While it is heartening to claim that India will be

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The Indian people have given their resounding verdict and this heralds a new beginning in the history of a young nation whose recorded history spans over five thousand years. It is these very people, by voting in record numbers in

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The title of this write up ‘Government, Governance and Planning’ was the name of one the elective that I opted for in two my years at the Faculty of Planning and Public Policy at CEPT University, Ahmedabad for my specialization

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While the Pakistani politicians and the ruling class leave no stone unturned to shed crocodile tears regarding how Pakistan itself is a victim of terrorism and therefore should not be labeled as a terrorist state, they conveniently ignore the highly

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We perceive love in different forms, but love is a kind of emotion that manifests in our life at every stage, just the object of our love changes and the tone of affection becomes different. However, no one can deny

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The role of our educational institutions such as various universities and colleges in being the temples of learning for the young and the learning minds has long been established, where since ancient times the tradition of young lads going to gurukuls for

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Certainly not me. Certainly not you. Certainly not our so called ‘civil society’. Who then has the right to cast the first stone? It is imperative then to understand that before the rights comes the duties that each and every

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Today is National Voters’ day, and it is apt that I share my personal viewpoint regarding this power that every citizen of India has to shape up their individual destiny and the destiny of the nation as well. Specially meant

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In recent times, especially in the run up to the general elections due in 2014, a spate of food subsidies and cash transfer schemes have been brought into effect by the central government. Prominent among them being the recently introduced

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