The BJP’s emergence as a potent third force has altered many equations. Kerala’s politics is no longer bipolar, even if the UDF and the LDF may still claim it is.
When the gains from global integration can be captured within a limited zone such as Hainan, governments may find it more efficient to confine liberalisation than extend it nationally.
Rather than presenting the full spectrum of Indian culture at once, a more strategic approach would be to identify one globally intelligible cultural lane & invest in it consistently.
India must ensure that while the world tightens its belt, India’s schools remain open without fear, its factories remain humming, and its informal workers remain employed.
As global innovation and tech agendas evolve, the challenge lies in ensuring that biodiversity is not an afterthought, but a central component of climate-AI partnerships.
The government’s supposedly investor-friendly Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy in 2016 has failed to yield results. India’s domestic crude oil output has continued to fall.
Women may enter the workforce in large numbers, but evidence from multiple sectors shows that participation does not automatically translate into leadership or economic power.
China and India are home to 1.2 billion young people. They’re the pioneers in advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realising the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
What is interesting about the narrative is how diverse thought processes of people, allow them to intermingle to make a social fabric, which exists even to this day.!!!!
Appreciate the information in the article but there is a mistake the author has made. Sallekhana cannot be termed as “ritual suicide”
Suicide is something done with a disturbed state of mind and is escapist. Sallekhana is the polar opposite, it is the giving up of the body, when it is no longer useful for penance and following the vows of Ahimsa in Jainism. It is carried out with a completely peaceful state of mind. It is the masterful art that only the most austere can perform, to equate it with suicide in any form is entirely a misrepresentation.
I please request the author to make this necessary change so as to be accurate with his words, as it can take on a different meaning otherwise.
What is interesting about the narrative is how diverse thought processes of people, allow them to intermingle to make a social fabric, which exists even to this day.!!!!
Appreciate the information in the article but there is a mistake the author has made. Sallekhana cannot be termed as “ritual suicide”
Suicide is something done with a disturbed state of mind and is escapist. Sallekhana is the polar opposite, it is the giving up of the body, when it is no longer useful for penance and following the vows of Ahimsa in Jainism. It is carried out with a completely peaceful state of mind. It is the masterful art that only the most austere can perform, to equate it with suicide in any form is entirely a misrepresentation.
I please request the author to make this necessary change so as to be accurate with his words, as it can take on a different meaning otherwise.