Euthanasia: The right to die, and many arguments

December 20, 2024

The Greek term ‘Euthanasia’ means a painless death. Euthanasia embodies several facets , from active (introducing something to cause demise) to passive (discontinuing treatment); voluntary (consent) to involuntary (consent from guardian) and physician’s assistance (where a physician prescribes the medicine and patient or the third party administers the medication to...

Internal Security Challenges

September 4, 2024

The NDA government has arrived at the scene once again. India has an influential power internationally, which it probably has never wielded since Independence. Our economy is on an upswing. That it can no longer bulldoze India and, beyond a point, and India would not hesitate from a bloody retaliation...

Embed Reverence for Women in the Mind of Boys

August 21, 2024

We dwell in a society that advises girls or women to be ever vigilant and not to get raped instead of teaching boys or men to revere women. Rape is the most heinous of all crimes. What happened in Kolkata put even a Taalibani- ideologue to shame. It hung the...

Changes In Kashmir After The Abrogation Of Article 370

August 7, 2024

ON AUGUST 5, 2019 the Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament about the abrogation of the Article 370, the temporary provision within the Indian Constitution that had given a special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The abrogation brought about no domestic rebellion, no home-grown intifada on the streets...

Treat the Earth as a Living Entity Deserving Rights

July 15, 2024

Citing Articles 14 (equality before law and the equal protection of laws) and 21 (right to life and personal liberty) of the Indian Constitution as the sources, The Supreme Court of India ruled that people have a right ‘to be free from the adverse impacts of climate change’. A similar...

How to Make the Swachh Bharat Mission Highly Effective

June 8, 2024

Countries are ranked on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vibrance by Environment Performance Index (EPI). 40 performance pointers are measured across 11 issue categories, such as air quality, drinking water and sanitation by the EPI. India was placed right at the bottom of 180 countries in the Environment...

Food gives the food for thought

May 4, 2024

We have taken food for granted, never contemplating how nutritious or eatable it is. Scientists or govts. are concerned about the number of mouths to feed or stomachs to fill in the future. But did we ever deliberate on how to make nutritious food available or the consequences of deficiency...

Making India self-reliant in defence sector

April 15, 2024

DR. A.P.J. KALAM always maintained that self-reliance in the defence sector would make India a developed country. INDIA’S DEFENCE ECOSYSTEM has witnessed an unprecedented metamorphosis in several significant areas in recent years. Defence indigenization, domestic capital procurement and defence exports have been expedited by key institutional and policy changes. 50...

Impact of population on Viksit Bharat goal

March 12, 2024

India will have the embarrassing distinction of being the world’s most populous nation in years to come. Despite it, it does not seem to be the alarming prospect it was once believed to be. All strata of the society have begun to implement family planning and fertility has consistently diminished...

Demystifying Soul

January 30, 2024

No idea is so absurd, difficult to accept, and even scary as that of the ‘human soul’. Despite that few ideas are as well-known and as deeply rooted in human minds as those of a soul. Surprisingly, there is a shortage of universally acclaimed research on every religion’s near-universal subject,...