Category: Perspectives

Disclaimer: The below article is for entertainment purpose only and must not be construed as scientific in nature. Although sufficient research has been done to draw conclusions, we do not claim any. The coronavirus COVID-19 has got the entire world hooked on to it. On 11 March 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As of 4 April, about 205 Countries and Territories around the world have reported a total of 1,203,188 confirmed cases with a death toll of 64,747 deaths. The situation…

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The rise in petrol prices in India, in the backdrop of the fall in rupee against dollar has been sending many into political opportunistic exploitation. Both the decline in rupee value and therefore the rise in petrol prices are factors not under the direct control of the government or attributable to domestic factors, to any noticeable degree. These imply how a globalized world can impact the remote corners of a country. The fact that such rises cause inconvenience is undeniable; however it needs to be highlighted here that it is…

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Is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) missing India’s valuable role, a role that can achieve something that OIC definitely needs, but that had been evading it until now? The Khaleej Tmes had in one of its editorials about a decade back, opined that India must have an observer status in the OIC and that it would be beneficial if Pakistan proposed to India’s candidature. Pointing out to Russia and Thailand, the Khaleej Times noted that many non-Muslim nations have got observer status or even full membership. Now with Bangladesh…

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The largest democracy in the world India, elections in India are considerably different from most other countries. In several countries, particularly those with high levels of educated youth and Internet, elections are just about speeches, involving only politicians and their party volunteers. However here in India elections are no less than a celebration, full of color, song, dance, and most importantly humor. After all it is probably only our political parties integrate all sections of the society in its core that is evident from its various wings or sections like…

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Are the days of holistic bilateral relationships among nations less observed today than ever before? Are the terms, ‘Friendly nation’ and ‘Hostile nation’ being less evident today? The tough compulsions facing nations today make it extremely difficult to pursue a holistic approach with each other. The world is changing at a rapid pace, in an already shrinking world. It is confronting not just changes in social, political, economic domains, but also a creeping of new factors within these domains or across domains, which demand focus and action by individual nations.…

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There has been a topic of ‘spiritual politics’ in recent times ever since super star Rajinikanth had announced his entry into politics. People had begun to ponder at the idea of spiritualism in political science. Can spirituality fit into politics? To understand the application of spirituality in politics, we need to first understand spirituality in the first place. The Oxford dictionary defines spirituality in many ways. Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. Having a relationship based on a profound level…

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“Four out of every five dollars of wealth generated in 2017 ended up in the pockets of the richest 1%, while the poorest half of humanity got nothing” a report just published by Oxfam found. In the report published to coincide with the gathering of some of the world’s richest people at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam said billionaires had been created at a record rate of one every two days over the past 12 months, at a time when the bottom 50% of the world’s population…

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Happiness research in general and the association of money and happiness in particular, has gained much interest and that too in contemporary times, with much written on them.  The relationship between happiness and money is security, higher social status and democratic attitude. Examination of the association of money and happiness has an important bearing on life and living for men. In the early seventies, money was perceived to bring happiness, which however was reversed two decades later. In Jim Holt’s review of McMahon’s book, Happiness: A History, Holt suggests that…

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The art of filmmaking has experienced tremendous growth and innovation in the 120 years since the first minute-long silent clips that involved little technique, no camera movement, and a big, wooden contraption that resembled a camera obscura. The silent movie era spread across thirty years from the 1890s to the 1920s, during which time it emerged from being an obscure novelty to a main form of entertainment. The origins of film making may be attributed to the remarkable developments with regard to the ‘Moving Pictures’ that involved the patenting of…

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