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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...
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Five entities which are considered Chinese but are actually not!!

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With rising tensions between India and China , which are nuclear power states, fastest-growing economics, developing and whatnot, we have seen a rise in social media wave of hatred and rivalry. This wave is calling out and trending twitter hashtags and stories calling out for a boycott of Chinese products, good and services which is a farse idea. Amidst all these many of companies and goods have already fallen under the soup for their alleged Chinese links. Even Indian companies are being forced to show their patriotic/nationalistic feelings by making them show 100% Indian or Make In India labels . On the other hand with previous false notions, we had already branded a few of these as Chinese even if they are not. Whether it is food, apps, technology etc ... the wrong perception still remains. Credits- SCMP I didn't get enough time to draft a detailed article rather I have just made a short article. I have included few food items not only because I am a foodie but al...
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BoycottChina Movement- Myths vs Reality

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Credits- Tech Crunch BoycottChina and Uninstall TikTok was a popular hashtag trending on social media due to two reasons. The first reason was nothing but the Youtube vs TikTok struggle amongst the millennials . The second reason is the border standoff between India and China in Ladakh. Both these reasons collided with the COVID-19 sentiments calling for action against China for coronavirus. This reason is as if China wanted to deliberately let the virus go everywhere with its citizens travelling across the globe. Credits- Tribune India But the main reason for boycott china sentiment began when Sonam Wangchuk a local of Ladakh, whose story was made into 3 idiots film called for a boycott of Chinese apps like TikTok, calling it as an attack on Chinese software to hurt China's wallet. Nationalists took forward this idea made it a trending hashtag and used it for nationalistic/political gain. Government knowingly or unknowingly didn't respond to his call because th...
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