Should India embrace Cryptocurrencies?
A careful regulation is needed if India has to encourage using crytocurrencies in line with the trends across other countries and preferences of local youth.
Government
Government is one of the most powerful institutions in a society. This section talks about various perspectives on government, and also its functioning across countries.
Becoming a Teacher in India – A Web of Illusions
This article revolves around teacher education as a discipline in India. The article is titled ‘web of illusions’ because the field is not as simple and easy as one may perceive it to be, rather an illusion with many dots, some of which connect whereas some don’t, making it a web. There is a perception that all needed to become a teacher is a teacher education qualification. However, that is hardly the case. In this paper, I have attempted to write how complicated the area has become. For instance, it’s comparatively difficult to get into a Teacher Eduction (TE) Programme; recruitment remains a concern if a candidate gets into the program. The aricle discusses admissions into a teacher education program, the occupation’s commercialization, and teachers’ recruitment.
The void in India’s environment regulation
The 2021 COP26 Summit witnessed PM Modi pledging net zero carbon emissions by 2070. While these ambitions and pledges are highly appreciated, there is more to the environment than just carbon emissions.
Assam and the rain: Deluge in paradise
Assam’s flood management needs a more long-term approach to increase room for river to flow.
If not now, then when
A significant change in the recent post pandemic global scenario is the rise in protests and campaigns over climate change issues
Should we not have more women in the Indian Army?
Cutting across all socio-economic strata, women in India face a wide range of discrimination; be it in their job choices, political rights or voicing out their rights. They do confront various degrees of inequality when it comes to developing themselves in any sphere of life. Women empowerment is, thus, in the foremost need to extract…
Community, State, and the Virus
A society can act through communities which are in turn formed and reproduced through sharing of pleasures and losses. A community is one where people know what they are achieving and losing- both collectively as well as personally. The deadly Covid-19 pandemic has encircled perhaps the whole of humanity into its effects but it has…
The King and the Divine
Their place is supposed to be on a throne guarded by sentinels who are on the constant search for dissenters, “rebels”, and “outsiders”. Their ideas are to be upheld and words to be obeyed. There must not lie any source of identification with the divine.
Women and Child Rights in Afghanistan for Past 20 Years – A History of Ups and Downs
Afghanistan has been a centre for warlordism since the 12th Century, sometimes for the tribal Pashtun community, or the Moghul raiders, and as recently as the 1990s for the Taliban.
RBI on board of the NGFS: Greening Financial Curve
India will also be able to garner benefit from the pentagonal dedicated workstreams or skeleton around which the NGFS work programme is focusing upon.
Didi hits double ton – Decoding the West Bengal verdict
The incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost from Nandigram, the seat from which she was contesting in this election and which has played an important role in her political career, she took oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time on 5th May 2021.
Why evidence-based decision making is the need of the hour in India
Evidence-based decisions and policy are, without doubt, the need of the hour, and denying it is pushing India to its doom.
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