The world at present is facing the worst global pandemic COVID-19. China's Wuhan emerged as the epicenter and as the virus spread across the world, it shattered world economies, imbalanced the fiscal markets, and led to a severe shortage of…
There is a popular mythological saying in India – Hey Raam tere liye sab samaan (Oh God Ram, for you all are equal). That is true for most of the disease when Tartaglia spoke that “disease does not discriminate”. This comes true in the case of the…
Undoubtedly, the type of world we lived in during the pre-COVID-19 era would not hang on for long. During the last six months, indications of structural changes in the global power hierarchy can be perceived. The world may gradually inch towards a…
The Indian economy was ranked as the 5th largest economy in 2019 (Myers, 2020). The country overtook France and Germany to secure the ranks of the top five largest economies of the world. On an optimistic note, it has been growing steadily at a…
Edward Lorenz, a meteorology professor at MIT, had posed a question during the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1972): “Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” He intended…
COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) did not discriminate against anyone based on their economy, political affiliation, power equation, or social strata. The virus has touched every continent and almost all countries and impacted entire humanity.…
We are in the midst of a knowledge society that, endowed with technological innovation, promotes the production of new ‘useful knowledge’. While knowledge flows are increasingly diversified and complex today, what underlies them are hierarchies of…
Shoshana Zuboff (2021), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Profile, Pages: 691, ISBN: 9781782832744-1782832742
The ‘haves vs have-nots’ discourse has become a strongly grounded reality in our country with respect to access to education in the past two years. Digital divide persisting in the country is crucial evidence for this. National Sample Survey…
This article is a psycho-social musing regarding the importance of lipstick as an item of makeup at a time when its primary area of usage, the face, has been covered due to demands of health and safety as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Being a…
