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Men May Always Remain Dogs; What About Women?

When I was a kid (around 8 years old), in spite of all the warnings from all the well-wishers, I approached the hottest babe in the school and passed of a chit claiming, “I love you”. Well, she yet again coolly passed off the chit to the lady teacher. Ramifications: Century for the girl and the caning for me. Yes, I was her 100th victim. I am sure that the…


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Udaan

Rebellion is a necessity in any political society. It is a check on power. It emanates in many forms and is never without a cause. The attempt has to be made to understand the cause. For example, the most prominent rebellion is that of the teenagers, which is always considered as being without cause. But, is it true? A teenager considers herself a political prisoner of her parents, who have…


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Defining Politics

To me, politics is intrinsically linked with power. Politics is inevitable whenever an individual interact with others or even otherwise. Power is the ability to act. Every individual has vested interest in acting. At the most basic level, a body needs to be active to survive, which also needs the power of limbs. Newborn children and infirms are dependent on others for even this basic an exercise of power. This…


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Corruption

“Corruption” is departure from what is “correct”. “Correct” means conformable to a just standard or truth. I will take one example. Constitutional and legal duties have been fixed upon the government employees and the ministers, and they are not supposed to deviate from them, whatever the circumstances, whatever the inducements. As per the original standards, a police officer was supposed to register the FIR on receiving a complaint without any…


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The Need for New Sexual Morality for Teenaged Girls.

Morality There are two concepts of morality: the conventional morality and the critical morality. The conventional morality reflects the moral views of the majority in a society; whereas the critical morality denotes rational or other standards that do not depend upon the majority’s point of view. The abolition of Sati, Child Marriage, etc., via law are the examples of the triumph of the critical morality over the conventional morality. I…


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Happily Unmarried

Mr. AB, a modern guy, meets Miss XY, a modern girl, and “falls in love”. Miss Y also “falls in love”. Miss Y wants to marry and have kids. Mr. B doesn’t want to marry but doesn’t want to lose Miss Y either. Mr. B and Miss Y talk it out. Miss Y: We have been seeing each other for long now. I am fine with marriage if you propose. Mr. B:…


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Right to Freedom from Wrongful Confinement

Thankfully, the humans can now talk of freedom after the abolition of slavery. Now, only the state is left with the right (?) of putting a person behind bars, of course, through a criminal justice process: the process in which a hi-fi criminal gets bail, the investigators fail to get evidence and the prosecution thus files the case; or, in a process, in which a poor accused is kept behind…