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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...

Geopolitics at the Covid 19 pandemic- A panel discussion

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 Greetings to all readers!! It has been 8  months since covid-19 pandemic is taking the world, on a scary roller coaster ride, not knowing when this will end. Politics and International Relations is dynamic, trying to suit the present scenario. Even in the pandemic, we can see that geopolitics is changing to a new normal which we haven't seen ever before.  Politics and International Relations is dynamic, trying to suit the present scenario. Even in the pandemic, we can see that geopolitics is changing to a new normal which we haven't seen ever before. With new diplomatic rifts,  Geopolitics at the Covid 19 pandemic itself is a going to be a chapter for itself. We present to you this podcast which was recorded on 8th August. We have kept this podcast exclusively to make the audience aware about the tipping geopolitical issues and as said that Indians are not usually interested in international politics but rather stick with state/national politics a...