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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...

What are the consequences of elections to five Indian States in 2021?

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It has been quite some time since India has seen a heated election season after 2019. Sparing Maharastra and Haryana in 2019 we have not seen anything big in 2020 except for Bihar. In 2021, we have an interesting election season where we have totally new and different contents in each contour. It has been quite some time since we have discussed national-level politics. That is why we are here to remove your confusion regarding the effect of these elections on the national picture.  Before you proceed ahead with the topic, do read our previous article for a better understanding! Lessons for Indian Politics from Bihar 2020 elections.  As you must have guessed, these five states which are in the elections right now are West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry which has a legislature. The election phases for Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry are over and as of now, we have only a few phases of Bengal elections left. The election re...