Indian movie industry Bollywood is known mostly for its romantic movies. Apart from these typical romantic movies it has little to offer to those who are looking for representation of variety of cultural ideas and values. In the spectrum of these varied cultural ideas one idea that is almost totally missing is the idea of […]
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Jan
Jan
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his latest Davos World Economic Forum speech, which he delivered in Hindi and caused surprise and flurry in delegates who had to reach for their translation headsets quickly, defended globalization and attacked the increasing trend of protectionism around the world, especially in United States under President Donald Trump. Does […]
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Jan
Jan
Decades old investment treaty with foreign governments was scrapped last year by the Modi government. The new treaty, which is offered by the Modi government to foreign investors, is having terms and conditions that give no protection to foreign investors, which is the reason why they are now reluctant to enter the Indian market: Negotiators […]
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Jan
Jan
Do the state (aka the government) has any right to coerce us and we have any duty to obey it? This is the question that philosopher Dr. Michael Huemer addresses in his important work, The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey. The answer at which […]
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Jan
Jan
Which factors determine country’s economic development? Development scholars have looked into this question for more than a century and they came up with different explanations like the theory of colonial victimization, dependency theory, geography and climate, institutions, culture etc. Out of these explanations the cultural explanation is fundamental. I strongly think that culture is the […]