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Emigration Is (Not) Bad: Rethinking the Debate

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The Ministry of External Affairs, in a question to the Rajya Sabha, gave a response that over 2 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship in 2024. Since 2022, every year, this is the figure of number of Indians giving up Indian citizenship. The past two to three years in India have seen extensive talk about the number of people moving out and relinquishing their citizenship. People also give a very catchy term for that- "Brain Drain", where intelligent and well-qualified citizens are leaving the country for opportunities elsewhere. Then there is the argument of demographic change, where regions are seeing young people leave for green pastures and old people remain with no one to take care of them. All of them are true and valid points, but there is another side of the debate which we often ignore and miss.  The causes of migration can be broadly categorised as push and pull factors. Only if both of them work together, mass migration usually happen. As we have already discussed m...

Is Article 14 of Indian Constitution supreme?

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Article 14 is considered to be one of the most important pillars of the Indian Constitution. It is popularly known to us as Equality before law. So, let us look into a question whether Article 14 itself is supreme or does it prevent the Government from not making other laws which may violate the so-called Equality. Article 15 and 16 follows with further classification and clarity.  Quoting the article 14-  The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Article 14 came into a hype during the CAA protests when critics quoted it multiple times. While the defenders of CAA multiple times repeated that there is no violation of Article 14. The main essence of this article is not the article itself but the idea of what do you mean by the term "Equal". Mathematically or scientific...