From the exploitative moneylender of iconic movies like Mother India to the factory owner who employs goons to beat up workers who dare to stand up against exploitation, the protagonist of business has tended to be portrayed, in the public discourse, as being deficient in ethics. Of late, a subspecies of the immoral tycoon has grownlarger than life: the crony capitalist.
Even as Hurricane Melissa ripped off roofs in Jamaica, killed dozens in Haiti, and wreaked damage in the Dominican Republic and Cuba, another kind of whirlwind swept through South-East and East Asia. US president Donald Trump visited Malaysia, Japan and South Korea in rapid succession, taking home trade deals, a gold medal and a gold crown, the latter two artefacts being gifts — bribes, say the uncharitable — from South Korea.
One little Diwali tradition was the art of making 'gharondas' -- houses made of clay decorated with natural colours made with rice flour, hibiscus flowers and turmeric. These little abodes of mud houses were adorned with diyas, flowers, gulaal, colourful cardboard, broken bangles and other discarded items
When one wears the lens of feminism there is no going back , only a urge to break the centuries old structures that once seemed ordinary
Misogynistic means beliefs , behaviour , law , tradition etc which treats women as LESS important, LESS intelligent, LESS worthy and objects to control at large
The severity and overarching implications of climate change in the world’s most populated country need no introduction. According to World Bank reports, India undergoes extreme heat, rapidly changing waterfall patterns, overexploited groundwater resources, and security threats including but not limited to energy, food, water, and agriculture, along with regional migration conflicts.
The Korean wave, etymologically known as the hallyu, refers to the soft power of the Korean popular culture that originated in Southeast Asia, first in mainland China and eventually spreading across Asia in the late 1990s. The transnational cultural influence of the K-wave in the postmodern era is one of a kind due to the decisive yet dominant nature of ‘compressed modernity’. South Korea experienced a century's worth of economic growth-led cultural influence within the span of a few decades. The phenomenon of ‘Miracle on the Han River’ transformed a war-ravaged South Korea that was one of the 25 poorest countries in the world in the 1960s into an advanced economy built on technology and innovation, with the help of the International Development Association of the World Bank.