Kunal

That India’s agricultural sector is under stress is not a secret. Reams of newsprint have been written about the spate of farmer suicides that have become as much an epidemic as any disease over the last twelve years or so. Image Courtesy : Wikipedia To understand where this misery stems from, one needs to look at larger historical trends around the...

It was not all that long ago that the ‘Government Job’ was a much sought-after career. It raised visions of a good work-life balance, a predictable career path and a healthy amount of pay, with a pension to look forward to when retirement came around. Image source Things are rather less simple now. Though the demand for jobs in the public...

Rural India is going through a slow and at times, agonizing transformation. As agricultural incomes have stagnated, inflation has kept costs high. More-over, aspirations are on the rise – as the migration to the cities acquires pace, more and more rural youth look to a life beyond farming. Image source A lot of attention has been devoted to these aspirations by...

Scarcely a day goes by without reading about a burglary, fire, a building collapse, flooding or similar things happening that damage homes and cause immense monetary loss. Your housing society may have a watchman, your home may have a fire extinguisher, you could take a number of precautions, but if destiny has it out for you, none of that...

At a time when competing –ism’s threaten to overwhelm the national discourse, it sometimes becomes important to sit back and take stock of the relationship between two that seem most to antagonise each other. Patriotism is an emotional attachment to a nation that an individual recognizes as their homeland. This attachment, also known as national feeling or national pride, can...