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Swami Vivekananda’s Idea of Service
January 17 , 2019 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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What is the concept of service? Swami Vivekananda says: “This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really ...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Idea of service , Vivekananda’s ideals

Research and Development Reforms
January 16 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
Commentary Views: 2927
Iconic slogans evolve with time, reflecting changing aspirations and needs of society in general and the political leadership in particular. Lal Bahadur Shastri’s famous ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ cry had b...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : India’s R&D , Jai Anusandhan

Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016-Implications for Assam
January 14 , 2019 C D Sahay
Commentary Views: 5648
The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 (CAB) has created a division in Assam along historical fault lines. The differences hark back to the language riots of 1960-61, and then again in 1972, with violent ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Assam Accord , Citizenship Amendment Bill

CAB 2016: Home Minister Assures Assam on Sharing of Burden
January 14 , 2019 Nitin A Gokhale
Commentary Views: 50990
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while introducing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (CAB) in Lok Sabha mentioned, and rightly so, that the entire country will share the burden of refugees and it will ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Citizenship (Amendment) Bill , Opposition to CAB

Gandhi and the Question of Racism: The Statue Controversy in Ghana
January 11 , 2019 Dr Neha Sinha
Article Views: 20833
With the gaining of Independence from the Britishers in 1957, the Gold Coast of Africa came to be known as Ghana with Accra as its capital. The country lies in the western part of Africa, in the Gulf of...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Gandhi in Africa , Ghanian misunderstanding of Gandhi

Bangladesh : Leveraging its Locational Advantage
January 11 , 2019 Dr Sreeradha Datta
Commentary Views: 3852
India and Bangladesh recently made history. After years of discussion and negotiations the first land and air transshipment between them finally took place towards the end of 2018. The first bonded cont...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh elections , Indo-Bangladesh transport and economic partnership

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