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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Leadership and Pathways for a Career in Public Policy: Challenges and Opportunities

On Day 2 of the Careers in Public Policy Workshop, an online monsoon workshop program organized by Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi on 22nd, 23rd and 24th August, 2023 as part of the #WebPolicyLearning series, several distinguished guests including Prof. Mukul Asher, Ms Urvashi Prasad, Mr Sandeep Chachra, Mr Amit Dubey, Mr Yash Agarwal, Dr Devender Singh, Prof Vibhuti Patel, Dr Simi Mehta and Dr Arjun Kumar joined us to offer their valuable insights.

A Bureaucrat’s View on Emerging Dimensions in Public Policy

On Day 2 of the Careers in Public Policy Workshop, an online monsoon workshop program organized by Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi on 22nd, 23rd and 24th August, 2023 as part of the #WebPolicyLearning series, several distinguished guests including Prof. Mukul Asher, Ms Urvashi Prasad, Mr Sandeep Chachra, Mr Amit Dubey, Mr Yash Agarwal, Dr Devender Singh, Prof Vibhuti Patel, Dr Simi Mehta and Dr Arjun Kumar joined us to offer their valuable insights.

Impact of the Passing Away of Michael Gambon on India

India is a multicultural world, with common, shared, underlying themes; its many languages dictate we must be bilingual, trilingual.

The death of actor Michael Gambon grabbed headlines, thanks to his part in popularising a modern myth, playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter movies that together raked in some $7.7 billion worldwide. The British press described him as Sir Michael Gambon, knighted as he was for his long, solid career in British theatre and television, which included playing Shakespearian heroes, and about 150 character roles in films. But people in India know him because he played Dumbledore,the headmaster at Hogwarts, the school of magic where Harry Potter learns magic, and, more importantly, forges friendship, develops moral clarity and courage, discovers love and loss, and fights the good battle against evil.

A Case for Police and Judicial Reforms in India

Profile of Indian Police 

Total Strength of State Police : 2.63 million 

Total Strength of Central Armed Police Forces : 1.10 million 

Total number of Police Stations: 17.379 

Total number of Police Outposts : 8.992 

Police per hundred thousand population: 193.95(S) /152.51(A) 

Population per Policeman :515.59 

Policemen per 100 sq km area: 80.07 

Women Police total strength: 2,17,026 (10.49 % of total)

Women’s Empowerment: From the Lens of  Mahatma Gandhi

Patriarchal societies have often instigated women to remain confined to their families. Under the legal and customary subjection of their husbands or other male family members, it was also prevalent in the pre-independent period. On the contrary, women enjoyed more rights and freedom in the Vedic period compared to medieval and British times. During pre-Gandhian times gender inequality and gender violence were all pervasive. Women were regarded as the root cause of all evil and responsible for the downfall of men.

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