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In India, the government is thinking about two big changes: Changing how many seats each area gets in Parliament (this is called delimitation) Making sure 33% of seats are reserved for women in elections Both ideas are important—but they are also a bit complicated. What is delimitation? Delimitation means deciding how many representatives each state…

Lots of people really hate cockroaches. But here’s something surprising: cockroaches are actually some of the toughest and most important creatures on Earth. They’ve been around since before the dinosaurs. When dinosaurs went extinct, cockroaches… Source link

Higher political representation for women should not be based on outdated population stats GOI’s twin objectives this Parliament session, 1) advance the delimitation exercise, that decides the number of representatives in Lok Sabha, and 2) change laws in order to roll out women’s 33% quota by 2029 LS polls, need parsing. For both of these…

  The small rotunda taken up by the Arzaani Atelier at Bikaner House spawned into a historic 100 year tribute for Raseel Gujral Ansal’s father the polymath , Satish Gujral. Walking into this exhibition of sculptures and a few reprints of paintings became an exercise in nostalgia for art historian, curator and Neemrana Hotel founder…

Do you know that the Government of India runs a scheme that supports families and couples to promote childbirth and help increase population, in a country of over 140 crore people? At first glance, this may sound paradoxical. After all, India is often associated with the challenges of managing a large population. Yet, this very…

B Purushartha The word ‘shakti’ is derived from the potential indicator root ‘shak’. Therefore, ‘Shakti’ is the ability to do something. Outcome is inherent in the cause, in its unmanifest form, and requires Shakti to manifest itself as action. Shakti Puja is the process of awakening this inherent energy and making it useful. Without Shakti,…

Assam’s upcoming assembly election will be the first in recent memory to be held in a single phase, for an electorate of 2.5cr people. While delimitation, carried out in 2022-2023, by ECI, retained legislature size at 126 seats, the constituency boundaries were redrawn, and so, it is a newish electoral landscape. Read full story on…

The Iran war-linked energy crisis is different from previous shocks. Oil and gas markets are not simply rising, they are repricing violently, around disruption risk. On March 20, Brent settled at $112.19 per barrel, its highest since July 2022, after roughly 440mn barrels were removed from global supply, over 22 days. By March 24, after…

Iran war again shows smart devices are a grave national security risk. US is acting on this. India must vet imports  What 10 years of fighting and killing couldn’t do in Troy, a wooden gift horse did overnight. And now, almost 2,800 years after that story was first told, “Trojans” are hiding in plain sight…

A long time ago, in a famous story called the Trojan Horse, soldiers hid inside a giant wooden horse to sneak into a city and win a war. Today, something similar can happen with modern gadgets. If you’re reading this on a phone or computer, you might be using devices like Wi-Fi routers or security…