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What Budget 2012 means for the Student – Manish Parashar

The students’ life-line—the mobile phone is set to burn a deeper hole in their pockets as telecom bills are also set to increase.

“I have to be cruel to be kind”, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as he presented the Budget for the current fiscal year (2012-13). These words from Shakespeare’s ‘Prince of Denmark’ rightly sums up his state of mind vis-à-vis Mamata Bannerjee’s outright opposition to any policy of the Govt. and a tumultuous global economic scenario. It seems that the Budget… Continue reading What Budget 2012 means for the Student – Manish Parashar

Kony 2012:Social Media’s low point? – Manish Parashar

Joseph Kony's LRA has been inactive in Uganda for the past 6-7 years now, having fled to the neighboring countries with an ever-decreasing rank strength

Sometime back a gory image of roasted bodies lying strewn across a field went viral across Face book and other social networking sites. The caption described it as the handiwork of Muslim fundamentalists in Nigeria who had planted land mines in that place. Expectedly, a flurry of ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ was set forth by concerned netizens… Continue reading Kony 2012:Social Media’s low point? – Manish Parashar

India’s Foreign Policy: Muddled Principles – an analysis by Manish Parashar

Tightening the screws a bit ... http://www.sikhchic.com/humour/he_handles_indias_foreign_policy

A foreign policy is to a country what social etiquette is to a civilized person. You can survive without it no doubt, but devoid of any social relations or contacts. A nation could have existed fine without a foreign policy in the past based purely on its own resources but in a world of ever-increasing… Continue reading India’s Foreign Policy: Muddled Principles – an analysis by Manish Parashar

India’s Foreign Policy: Trapped in a Web – Adyasha Ranbir

India's foreign policy kowtows to two of its neighbours

India has long been befuddled by trying questions on it’s sketchy foreign policy, never more than in the reign of the current government. With fledgling loyalties being tested by increasingly real threats, will we be able to take the right stand , or are we destined to repeat time worn mistakes? If it were possible… Continue reading India’s Foreign Policy: Trapped in a Web – Adyasha Ranbir

Uttar Pradesh: A Dirty Story of Cast(e)ing the Vote

Caste - The primary catalyst in winning an election in Independent India

“In India when people cast their votes, they vote their caste” Nothing can better sum up the political mind-set of the aam aadmi than these words of Shashi Tharoor. It makes even more sense when elections are being held in the most populous state of India—Uttar Pradesh. Considered to be the penultimate trial of the… Continue reading Uttar Pradesh: A Dirty Story of Cast(e)ing the Vote