Anil Trigunayat President Donald Trump has a special affection for West Asia, not only for its hydrocarbon riches, strategic location, security of Israel, and competition with China and Russia but also for the style statements coming through the inflow of...
Avneet KaurIn recent years, a new force has crept into the heart of international politics—not a rising power or a radical ideology, but the changing climate itself. From the Arctic’s melting ice to devastating floods in South Asia, environmental...
Siddhartha NatarajanHypothesising the Nuances of the ‘Middle’ and ‘Great Powers’The march of cultures across history has often been defined by the trajectories of ‘Great Powers’; kingdoms, nations, states, or empires whose were able to distinguish themselves from their contemporaries...
Aadithya SaratI have been fascinated with the concept of soft power and how it has been used by powerful nations to influence global citizens in some meaningful way or the other. The youth of this generation are easily influenced...
Policy UpdateSreeja MukherjeeBackgroundIn October 2020, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) officially recognized and created the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) as an innovative cell under the Ministry of Education. The concept was introduced through the National Education...
Policy UpdateDiva BhatiaBackgroundLaunched on 1st July 2015 as part of the Digital India initiative, DigiLocker is the flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) that gives every citizen a unique, cloud-based storage space in which...
Policy UpdateSanju JoshiWetlands are a unique and productive ecosystem where terrestrial and aquatic habitats meet. They are described as the transitional land between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems where the surface is covered with shallow water. Wetlands cover 6% of...
TK ArunWar is too important to be left to the generals — that statement is attributed to French statesman Georges Clemenceau.Similarly, constitutional propriety is too important to be left to legal luminaries. It is in this light that we...
TK ArunThe choice of a Muslim officer and a Hindu officer to brief the world on India’s attack on terror infrastructure in Pakistan was an admission that the politics of Hindutva is not fit to be displayed before the...
Policy UpdateDiva BhatiaBackgroundThe Scheme for Adolescent Girls (SAG) was launched in 2010 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) to cater to the nutritional and developmental requirements of out-of-school girls between the ages of 11–14 years. The...
