Category: Politics
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Lending Hands To Someone Is Better Than Giving A Dole
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequalities of one kind or the another. – Amartya Sen The challenge of poverty alleviation has been around ever since democratic governments based on universal adult franchise have been setup in different parts of the world. Many solutions have been proposed to eliminate […]
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Does India Need Superpower Status?
Before thinking whether India needs to become a superpower or not, we need to understand the term ‘superpower’. Superpowers are nations that wield considerable influence over the world and possess significant economic, technological and military power. In the era of cold war, the so called superpowers were USSR and USA. When some nation gains significant […]
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How Twitter Transformed the Way I see Politics
Approximately a year ago, I was sitting in my hostel, wondering how to drag a slow Saturday evening. I was in my final year of engineering and had a good amount of time to spare. I considered myself an informed citizen as I used to regularly watch NDTV and read The Hindu newspaper on a […]
The Idiosyncratic Idiot 