Category: Perspective
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Volunteering Warriors: A Covid perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a testament to the power of mankind, its resilience and its hope in restoration. While we heard an ample amount of information on the adverse effects of the pandemic, we thought of covering a story of hope. This is the story of Karpagam, a 22-year-old Master’s student from Chennai who…
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Depressed India needs to discuss about it
“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “i” is replaced with “we”, “illness” becomes “wellness”.”Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “i” is replaced by “we”, “illness” becomes “wellness” – Randle Grimes.
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Why does India invest in Space?
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) budget for fiscal year of 2018 was around Rs. 10,000 crore which amounted to about 0.0004% of the 2018 Union Budget of India. To understand the broad reasons behind this investment, it is important to highlight the direct and indirect benefits of Space to the country. The reasons behind…
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The Bridge Project
Why does one want to solve problems in the society? Our mind is a river and these problems around us are like rocks which obstruct its flow. When the mind-river get obstructed, one cannot live in peace. Some rocks smaller, some bigger, some huge. This article is about one such huge rock that affected me…
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Zero to 1: Private Governance as a Service
By the turn of this century Africans will constitute 40% of the world’s population. At approximately 1.3 billion people Africa’s population is presently lower than that of China. Over the next 80 years that will change in an incredibly massive way. Whilst this transformation happens, something else equally impressive will be taking place; Africa will…
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#MeToo in India
I am disturbed by the number of posts in the social media against various celebrities be it a minister or an actor or a lyricist or a musician in the past week or 10 days. This is not a very good sign of civility in public life if the news feed is in fact correct…
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Changing Education and Jobs
Consistently across the world, the criticism continues to be with the education system existing in every country. The education system that was established to help the Industrial Revolution era find skilled ’employees’ to make or maintain or handle men and machines. The same system still manufactures “graduates” in batches, eligible to work in Industries for…
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The difficulty in discernment of Truth
It’s getting more and more difficult to choose what to believe and what not to.
Yosee 