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Farmers listen to a speaker during a protest against the farm laws at Singhu border near New Delhi, India, January 30, 2021. [Reuters]
Indians have been in Kenya for more than a century. Beyond business, trade and manufacturing, they have not extensively socially integrated into Kenyan society.
They have kept a low profile even on matters of the heart, which naturally know no boundaries.
Think about it: getting a mzungu husband or wife is still considered a feat and is hard to copy. This doesn’t apply to being married to an Indian because it rarely happens.
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Ahemdabad design week to showcase vocal for local toy theme
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Gandhinagar, Jan 29 : Aspiring to be a platform that will augment the design students capabilities about toy creation, the second edition of the Ahmedabad Design Week (ADW) will be launched in Ahmedabad on February 3.
Through this show, the ADW will be reaching out to thousands of school and design students, design faculties and professionals from the industry. This edition s theme, Toy ing with Design is inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi s vision of making India a global Toy Hub .
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The draft science policy is a rambling document, but it contains nuggets of scientific vision and information
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The draft science policy is a rambling document, but it contains nuggets of scientific vision and information
On March 4, 1958, under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, for the first time in the history of independent India, Parliament passed a resolution on science policy. The resolution stated: “Science. has provided new tools of thought and has extended man’s mental horizon. It has thus influenced even the basic values of life, and given to civilization a new vitality and a new dynamism.” The resolution said the aim of the scientific policy was, among other things, to “encourage individual initiative for the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, and for the discovery of new knowledge, in an atmosphere of academic freedom.” In effect, this resolution proved to be a springboard for the development o
How India has become an unequal republic
In the wake of covid-19, the ILO estimates that 400 million workers in India are at risk of falling into poverty.
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Kalaiyarasan A.
Inequality based on class, rural-urban metrics and religion has risen. The pandemic will only make things worse
The elites who benefited thanks to the public sector, IITs, IIMs in the era of economic planning are the same class of people who benefited the most post the 1990s pro-business reforms
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Inequality is broadly found to have risen in India between 1990 (which marked economic reforms) and 2020. There are three processes behind this rising inequality, which became apparent in the early 2000s. First, the much-touted pro-market reforms in industry in the 1990s ended up being pro-business reform.