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The Chaos of Communal Riots

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                   By - Suraj Rawat                     & Saurabh Yadav Image courtesy - Smithsonian American Art museum                     Introduction -  From the Hijab row to the gyanvapi mosque to the latest riots in North India is all a indication that India's social cohesion is in shambles. The gap between religious groups is widening. Despite the fact that India has a long history of communal strife, this time is different.                  History -  Many people blame the British for instilling religious intolerance in India, however many historians argue that communal strife has existed in Indian society since the Mughal era. Whoever is to blame, no one can dispute that this is the current reality in the nation.Formation of India was in the midst of communal riots ( violence during partition) . From Nellie massacre to hindu sikh riots of 1984 the country has seen many of these tensions. The current scenario, on the other hand, is directly related to

Marital Rape - Social and legal aspects

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                By - Suraj Rawat &                       Saurabh Yadav           Image credit - Hindustan Times There is an impression in our social circle and community, due to our patriarchal heritage and colonial legacies, that a woman is tied to her husband as a form of property owned by him. But our constitution treats women as a separate legal entity, who are not bound to her spouse for justice and are entitled to every right as other segments of society receive. So, the question rolling in minds of many is why there is inequality just based on their marital status, just because the offender is her spouse, would they be denied justice? The immunity provided to the spouses in section 375 is in contradicton with several fundamental rights provided to every citizen which incorporates right to equality, life with dignity, personhood, privacy, sexual, and personal autonomy. A two-judge Bench of Justices Rajiv Shakder and C Hari Shankar is hearing a clutch of four petit

Does New Delhi need an arrant stratgen in Indo-Pacific ?

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By - Suraj Rawat & Saurabh Yadav Introduction In contemporary geopolitical schema, when we talk about Indo Pacific, we have an indistinct delineation of a region stretching from the East coast of Africa to the west coast of the USA. Indo pacific doesn't have a patent for geographical or political cartography. First time, the term 'Indo Pacific' was used by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Indian soil in 2007. When we plunge in world affairs we make a premise that Indo Pacific somehow is a merger of both, Political & Geographical spaces yet uncertain in many aspects, as most states involved in the region have their own contrasting definition of the region, based on their foreign policies, economical & military temptations in the region. In geopolitics maritime dominance plays a crucial role to have a strong hold on other major actors and unambiguously to have a lead when it comes to trade as it passes muster as one of the most potent trade rout

Secrets of Blue Supergiant Stars

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                A blue Supergiant star(artist's view).                                                                                                       Astronomers study the nature of Blue Supergiant Stars for decades. Blue Supergiants are difficult to study because they have a short lifetime as they die young. Stars temperature are determine by their colour - Blue Supergiants are hottest while Red stars are the coolest. Blue Supergiants have a surface temperature between 20,000℃ to 50,000℃.                                                                                           Blue Supergiants are the final burning phase before the death of a super massive star in Supernovae. Research are limited on these giants due to unavailable technology and equipments because telescopes can't see the interior of stars.             The illustration in this video shows the waves generated in the interior of a star.                                                            

NASA's Dragonfly mission

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                      A artist's impression on Dragonfly probe.                                                                                                                                                                           A week ago, American space agency NASA announced it's next destination in solar system. NASA planning a mission to Saturn's moon, Titan in search of Alien life, they named this project as 'Dragonfly'. Dragonfly was selected as part of agency's new frontiers program, which includes the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the kuiper Belt, Juno to Jupiter and OSIRIS REX to the asteroid Bennu.                                    Dragonfly is the first multi rotor vehicle for science on another planet, it contains eight rotors. It is dual quardcopter lander ( a Mars rover-size, drone like vehicle) that will explore the prebiotic Organic Chemistry of Titan, the biggest of Saturn's 62 moons.