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Editorial

Impressionability – How Cultures lose Value

Impressionable individuals usually lack a good sense of self and a clear idea of their own identity and character. They are stimulated by their environment and are believed to be easy to fool into following trends and changes in society. Marketing executives have learnt the psychology behind the triggering effects of mass influence. The idea …

Editorial Politics

BRICS – The West Under Siege

A unipolar world, or what once was, has been dictating policies it deems fit for nations with different cultural and economic mindsets. Liberal economic nations have imposed policies on under-developed nations that do not apply to their framework of institutions and market behaviors. Joseph Stiglitz put it best, that the most ignorant machinery to exist …

Sports

Our Beautiful Game – Cricket

The sun-scorched maidans of Mumbai reverberate with the crack of willow on leather. Local lads wield improvised bats of discarded wood, striking bundled rags across dusty gravel. It is gilli-danda, a game as old as the land itself. The origins are uncertain, but the joy is visceral. Centuries later, English ships arrive on Indian shores. …