Environment-Approaches for Landslide Mitigation !!!
Why landslide mitigation is important? The monsoons may bring life and prosperity to our agrarian societies, but it also has harmful consequences, especially for hilly regions. […]
Polity-Land Mark Judgements-Part 2 !!!
Content:- Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978)-Beginning of a golden era of human rights jurisprudence in India. Article 21 and the Due Process of Law. Gopalan Vs State of Madras ; Satwant Singh and his Passport. Maneka Gandhi's Passport, Surya and a Scandal. Breathing Life into Article 21 Small [...]
Project Limelight-Max Weber -Part 3 !!!
Why bureaucracy is incapable of emotion and providing care, in short bureaucracy is incapable of empathy..but Why? (Weber has the ANSWER) Gandhi is a Führer and so is Mandela. Really ? Weber informs us that- Nine out of ten politicians are nothing but vain windbags...but Why ? In this part, [...]
Society-“Make India great again” !!!
Note – Notwithstanding the cliched nature of the title of this post, this article does not have the objective to be lost in our “glorious past” but gives more than 50 ways to make India a better country. You may ask why this title then, well, there is a simple answer [...]
Project Limelight-Max Weber -Part 2
We often hear people say that they are very disciplined and we give them credit for it. But Weber tells us that the one who is disciplined is a- "narrow specialists without mind, pleasure-seekers without heart. And why does he says so ? Weber gives us answer to why does [...]
Science-Radioactive Waste Management !!!
Understanding Radioactive Waste […]
Project Limelight – Max Weber – Part 1
Part -1: Max Weber’s in the Twenty-first Century Note:- The civil service examination will be incomplete without understanding certain individuals - be it Gandhi or Max Weber. Understanding Gandhi is central to understand India, its values, its ethos, its ethics and its contradiction. Same can be said for Max Weber, [...]
Society-TB Crisis: a looming threat !!!
About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease. […]
Polity-Understanding Article 370 !!!
Why it was incorporated? […]
Society-Conserving water, the ancient way !!!
Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle the present ones? They can if we care to look in the right place — for instance, the walls of temples in Tamil Nadu. […]