Kunal

For a long time, while I was preparing for competitive exams and college admissions, a favourite topic for application essays and Group Discussions tended to be around the subject of ‘Brain drain’. The term refers to the trend among Indian students, especially in the engineering field, but also to some extent in medicine and pure science, of leaving the...

A Transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different from their assigned gender. It is typically used as an umbrella term to cover all those who do not belong to a strictly-defined gender identity. Some definitions conceptualise transgenders as a third gender, apart from masculine and feminine, and may include those who practice cross-dressing as well. Image source In India,...

Post-liberalisation, the FMCG landscape in India has been dominated by the two giants who dominate the world market – the Netherlands-based Unilever (HUL) and the American Proctor and Gamble (P&G). Apart from these two, Indian brands like Godrej and Dabur have also carved out a decent place for themselves in the market, with smaller competitors like Marico and Emami...

India is home to over a billion people, a mix of ethnicities, religions and beliefs that might be quite unique in the developing world. Naturally, this extends to the sexual preferences as well. Despite the regressive, colonial-era law that criminalises homosexuality in India, India has a vibrant LGBT community. The acronym itself stands for ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender’,...

A question that many people have regarding the country’s economy is the impact of the Stock market on it. After all, the ‘economy’, commonly viewed through the prism of GDP growth, sometimes seems to be moving in a quite different direction than the market. In reality, it is important to understand that the ‘Market’ is also something we view through...