Why It’s Not Funny That An Ex-Cricketer Will Head India’s Leading Fashion...
By Sumit Kumar: The appointment of ex-cricketer Chetan Chauhan as the head of NIFT has created the inevitable uproar over the vitiation of institutions of high esteem by the appointment monopoly of the...
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Meet Deka, The BJP MLA From Assam Who Faced Shocking Sexism On Her Electoral...
By Minakshi Bujarbaruah for Youth Ki Awaaz: From Thatcher to Hina Rabbani Khar, women in politics have had to face the brunt of serious sexism, often victimised and discussed on parameters like beauty,...
View ArticleHow AAP Is Making The Best Of The Power Battle Between Kejriwal And The Centre
By Sumit Jain: The last fifteen days have certainly not been the nicest for Indian politics. I am not talking about the attacks made by BJP’s Subramanian Swamy on Raghuram Rajan or Finance Ministry...
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Why India Has No Choice But To Join The Nuclear Arms Race Against Pakistan...
By Prakhar Gupta: Having acted as the cause of its formation at one point, India has been actively lobbying for a place in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an elite club of 48 member states that...
View ArticleSo Much To Say On Foreign Policy, But Silent In India: Why PM Modi Needs To...
By Pranav Prakash: If one were to simply count the multifarious social media posts and news articles lauding the Indian Prime Minister’s recent appearance at a joint session of the US Congress, in what...
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As Punjab Elections Approach, AAP Promises To Tackle Drug Menace And...
By Abhishek Jha: The Aam Admi Party, which won 4 out of the 13 parliamentary seats in Punjab in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, has come out with a youth manifesto for the state ahead of the Assembly...
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Why Peace Talks Between India And Pakistan Are Likely To Remain Just That, Talks
By Sumit Jain: Hypothetically speaking, if there would be a World War, say in the Middle East (with Saudi Arabia and allies on one side and Iran accompanied with China and Russia on the other), I...
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Whose Idea Of ‘Normalcy’ Do We Want In Kashmir – The Government’s Or The...
By Abhishek Jha: Despite curfew-like restrictions in place, the death toll has risen every few hours in clashes between the security personnel and protesters in Kashmir after the killing of the Hizbul...
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A Referendum Worked For UK, But It May Not Be The Best Idea For India
By Sumit Kumar: Brexit, which happened as a result of a referendum, has reinforced the hollowness of the very instrument of referendum in a democratic society. A referendum is an instrument of a direct...
View ArticleThe Prime Minister’s Monologue: Why The Public Can’t Ask Him Questions
By Nissim Mannathukkaren: A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament. – Umberto Eco Another session of the...
View ArticleThe Congress Might Just Return to Power In U.P. In 2017, Here’s Why I Think So
By Sumit Jain: Popularly known as the mini-Lok Sabha of India, UP will go for elections next year. A state which sends 80 MPs (in the lower house of 543) and has over 15% of the population of the...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why PM Modi Visited Mozambique
By Abhishek Waghmare, IndiaSpend.com: It has as many people as Punjab, and its people are three times poorer. But Narendra Modi became the first prime minister to visit Mozambique in 34 years because...
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MP Tathagata Satpathy Takes On The Govt’s Reaction To Kashmir In This Fiery...
By YKA Staff: As per latest reports, 44 people have died in Kashmir in the violence and protests following Hizbul Commander Burhan Wani’s death. A ‘medical emergency‘ has been declared in the state...
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From An Outsider In Kashmir: ‘The Unbearable Agony Of The People Is Awaiting...
By Gitanjoli Dasgupta: “Sweet love of youth, forgive if I forget thee, while the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee...
View ArticleCan The Man Behind Modi And Nitish’s Success Steer Congress To Victory In UP...
By Ravindra Singh: Prashant Kishor was one of the most important people in Modi’s team driving strategies for months before and during the 2014 elections. Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
View Articleआरोपों से घिरी आम आदमी पार्टी से दिल्ली की जनता मांग रही है जवाब
शाश्वत मिश्रा: एक के बाद एक होते अहम खुलासों ने दिल्ली मे सत्तारूढ़ ‘आम आदमी पार्टी (आप)’ की मुसीबतें बढ़ा दी हैं। पंजाब मे होने वाले विधान सभा चुनाव से ठीक पहले इस तरह के खुलासे पार्टी के लिए गंभीर...
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Why Has The Govt. Cancelled The Registration Of 10,000 NGOs?
By Abhishek Waghmare, IndiaSpend.com: Foreign funding for Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) doubled in 2014-15 over the previous year, but with 10,000 NGO registrations cancelled in 2015,...
View ArticleKerala’s Gender Problem: Why Do Women Fail As Politicians In The State?
By Sreedevi R S, IndiaSpend.com: Over 20 years and five assembly elections— as women became better educated, led a variety of popular movements, voted in and contested elections in ever greater numbers...
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With Its New Political Alliance, Is BJP’s Mission Northeast On A Tricky Turf?
By Ayan Sharma: About a fortnight ago, on an eventful morning in Guwahati, the political capital of Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President, Amit Shah was ecstatically charting out the road...
View ArticleHindu Gods Had Beef, So Did The Father Of Hindutva: Why Gau Rakshaks Need...
By Krishna Pandey: Even when Hindus worship cow as God and drink its urine as nectar, India became No. 1 exporter of beef last year with 2.4 million tonnes of beef. Despite that piece of information,...
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