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Crypto Currency: The Rise Of Bitcoin
The world is in financial disarray. With currencies falling and jobs being lost, the economy is going down the drain. Now just imagine if there was an entirely new economy-…
Bet on the Future: Why India Needs a Regulation on Betting
ABSTRACT The spot-fixing controversies which enveloped the Indian Premier League have voiced the debate for a regulation for legalizing gambling and betting in the country. The current legislation in the…
Cracking The Indian Taxation Code:- Transaction Tax vs. Direct Taxes Code vs. Goods and Services Tax vs. No Income Tax
AAP’s glorious start in the game of politics in India’s Capital has forced the BIG GUN to structure its election manifesto document, Vision for 2025 so as to woo the…
Sustainable Development & Green Technology
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it…
A Gandhi Worth Remembering.
If there was ever a Gandhi from the Nehru-Gandhi clan who could stand against what’s wrong and who expressed views uninfluenced by the greed for power and who upheld what…
Traditional Knowledge- An Introduction
An Eskimo hunter once saw a polar bear far off across flat ice, where he couldn’t stalk it without being ; But he knew an old technique of mimicking a…
The Shehzada, Mango Man and a Vikas Purush : A tale of election 2013
To a country that has been a witness to umpteen elections, the winning or losing of a party is not an unusual phenomenon. The sphere of…
Indian Media and the Allied Debates – Part I
Media is the fourth pillar of Indian democracy. It is a source of information, awareness and also, a mode creating sensational news. The visual and the apparent resources entrusted with…
“My Country”- Right or Wrong?
I am reminded of a parable of Mencius, the disciple of Confucius. If a child were on the brink of falling into the well, we spontaneously reach out to save…
Defining the Nation and Interpreting History
Defining India and its history is something like the definition given by an Irishman when he was asked what the word “trousers” would be- singular or…