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Oct

30

2021

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French Presidential Elections in 2022 : A Perspective Report

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialEmmanuel Macron, Eric Zemmour, France, Jean Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen, Presidential Elections 2022

Written by : Rabbani Khan Photo credit : Shutterstock.com Still unknown a few months before the 2017 presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron emerged victorious by crushing Marine le Pen in the second round. His arrival as the head of the State has allowed him to write a new story in French politics. Indeed, he managed to break out of the "right or left" political divide and establish himself as someone "neither right nor left". Manuel Valls, former prime minister of the left, Jean Yves le Drian, former minister of the left, Jean Paul Delevoye, former minister of the right, Alain Madelin,…

Sep

26

2021

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Olipath, Centrality and Trust Issues: India-Nepal Muddled Neighbourhood Friendship

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialIndia, Indo-Nepal Relation, K.P Sharma Oli, Narendra Modi, Nepal, SAARC

Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty. Photo credit : Shutterstock.com Comrades in Alliance: House of Cards The Left-wing politics in Nepal has obliterated Rajshahi (Monarchy) and associated caste-class social hierarchies, yet Samajwad (Socialism) remained a statist utopia. Nepal’s uniqueness is that it tends to present trends in deviation from global experience. While globally communists and communist ideology are in life-support, and communist parties have dwindled, let alone be in determining political positions, Nepal post-2018 presents a case in contradistinction. In 2018 the electoral alliance of the two main communist parties in Nepal won a nearly two-thirds majority in Parliament.…

Sep

06

2021

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From Kabul to Quad: In Which Way World Politics is Heading?

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAfghanistan War, China, Indian Foreign policy, QUAD, United States

Written by : Dr. Pratip Chattopadhyay Abstract: The year 2021 began with renewed enthusiasm of the United States of America and its strategic partners in the Indo-Pacific viz. Indian, Japan and Australia to reenergise the Quad forum with the first meeting (virtually) of member countries’ political head taking place in March 2021. However since July the focus of attention of US and India in particular and of world politics in general shifted to Afghanistan where usurpation of power by Taliban is underway to fill up the vacuum created by withdrawal of US troops after two decades from the country. The…

Aug

07

2021

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Family Man – Season 2 : A distorted notion of History for Generation Z

Art & Culture, PopularAmazon Prime, Family Man, India, LTTE, Rajib Gandhi, Sri Lanka

Written by :Simran Saini You must have heard the term pop music? Well, with the advent of innumerable OTT platforms, and the wide range of content available to the public, we are now welcoming the age of ‘pop’ series/dramas. These platforms offering pocket-friendly subscription packages and multi-user access, host a wide range of dramas, movies and documentaries. Although there is so much content available on these platforms, a few of them become so popular that they go viral for all the right or wrong reasons. These are the series people cannot stop tweeting, instagramm-ing and whatsapp-ing about. These are the…

Jul

27

2021

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There’s a new spectre in town. And it’s here to crack you up.

Art & CultureBritish Comedy, Podcast, Wooden Overcoats

Written by : Anuja Dutta There’s a new spectre in town. And it’s here to crack you up. ‘Rudyard Funn runs a funeral home in the village of Piffling Vale. It used to be the only one. It isn’t anymore.’ Death has a way of triggering within us a sense of discomfort one can sometimes associate with old and extremely embarrassing childhood memories: we know them to be true yet can’t ever seem to come to terms with the full thrust of its meaning and aftermath. In many ways, we learn to survive (and not embrace) the event of death…

Jul

16

2021

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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Footprints of United Coalition Era in India?

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialBJP, Coalition politics, Congress, Mamata Banerjee, Narendra Modi, TMC

Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay The assembly election of West Bengal in 2021 turned out to be a great deception for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its supporters. The Trinamul Congress (TMC), the ruling party recorded a thumping victory with 213 seats out of 292 seats in which polls were conducted. The result of the election came out as a replay of the Delhi assembly election last year. In the immediate post-election phase, we witnessed a spate of violence among the rival party members at the grass root level, then conundrum over arrest, re-arrest and finally bail of two…

Jul

11

2021

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The U.S. withdrawal and the uncertain future of Afghanistan

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAfghanistan, Al-Qaeda, NATO, Taliban, United States, War in Afghanistan

Written by : : Mohammad Qais Rahmani Photo : Shutterstock.com On April 14, 2021, the U.S. President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 American troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. The date is very significant as it will mark twenty years of the al-Qaeda attacks that triggered America's invasion in Afghanistan. However, things are happening more rapidly than expected. By now It is clear that the American administration wants to get out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. The departure of the US troops from Bagram Airbase on July 2 in the darkness of the night without…

Jul

07

2021

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Can genetic manipulation of plants combat climate changes?

Current Affairs, Science & Techchange, CO2 emission, CRISPER, Greenhouse Gas

Written by : Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Photo : Shutterstock.com With the global population set to increase to nearly 10 billion by 2050, climate change has become a major global crisis. If you have been paying attention to the news, the Pacific North West in USA, such as Seattle and Oregon areas, has been experiencing temperatures as high as 104-112 degrees last weekend alone. Such events of extreme weather are becoming more and more common with a likely trend projected to continue as per the Oregon Climate Office. In recent years climate change has played an undeniable role in catastrophes like…

Jun

14

2021

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Language, Articulation and Empowerment: The Chakma and Language Politics in the State of Mizoram

Politics & SocialChakma, Diversity, language, Mizoram, North East India

Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Photo : Shutterstock.com The Backdrop Traditionally the Chakma occupy the South-West and the western belts of the territory between Mizoram and the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) now in Bangladesh and Tripura. The Chakma tribes speak a language heavily influenced by the Eastern Indo-Aryan language group; it is closely related to the Bengali language. They speak different dialects, and their connection with the Zo/Mizo is contested. Recent linguists’ observations have found that the modern Chakma language known as Changma Vaj or Changma Kodha (and a script ‘Ojhopath’) is a part of the South-eastern Bengali…

May

27

2021

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Can China Act as an Antidote for SAARC?

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialChina, Covid-19, India, SAARC, Sion-Indian conflict

Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay Photo : shutterstock.com Snippet: SAARC is a dead organisation for mainstream analysis in geopolitical and regional studies which is mostly inspired by realist and liberal approach to international politics. For realists the regional body doesn’t have any regional interest vis-a-vis other regions to knit them together and for the liberals the index of conflict among SAARC member-states exceeds that of cooperation and solidarity. From a constructivist perspective however SAARC still has enough reasons to carve out an identity for itself, particularly at a time when China is behaving as the continental power with its BRI…