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Atop Sensex 60k, Stop Preening, Start Diversifying

TK Arun In a song from Rajnikant’s Padayappa, the hero urges you to climb the peak, and having scaled the peak, to ascend to the sky — Freshdesk founder and CEO Mathrubootham cited this as his inspiration, after his company’s…

Sustainable Homes as a service for Sustainable Cities

Sameer Unhale Adoption of sustainable living practices at house level is crucial for achieving sustainable cities . Consumption of energy – electricity and Cooking Gas, use of Water potable and non potable , recycle and multiple use of water, renewable…

India Prioritises Future

Dhiraj Nayyar It is important to come out and start narrating every facet of India’s emerging economic story. It is good to note that the Government is willing to explicitly prioritise the future. In the end, that is where the…

TAU

The Life & Contribution of Tau Shri Devi Lal Devender Singh The first time I saw him was when I along with other kids was busy playing ‘catch’ in the village chaupal. A white Ambassador stopped near the chaupal, and…

Courtroom’s visionary indigence on professional women

Women’s issues never die out of news like patriarchy which remains an inexhaustible product of human creation. On one hand the UN’s gender equality and empowerment organization publishes a feminist roadmap to tackle triple crisis of jobs, care and climate on the other a leading national party of India embraces a #MeToo accused as a leader of a prominent state in India. Do our legislators irrespective of being man or a woman even believe in the laws they formulate? Apparently, the deficiencies embedded in women’s laws which has disturbed social equilibrium by putting men and women as two blood thirsty enemy states, armed with gross vengeance derails enforcement by shedding off respect, relationship or responsibility so integral to man-woman relationship. Nonetheless, worry for policy makers is that despite the plethora of laws women may suffer decreasing work participation and their own advancement since laws offer little when they are reduced as Gustav Hugo a German legal philosopher wrote, “into an algebra of legal concepts.”

What English has done to India and the World

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd  By October 5, 2021, English language life in India is 204 years. For the last few years, the celebration of Indian English Day on that day is catching up. Ever since the first English medium school started…

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