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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...

News Capsule for the Month of October 2023

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Following are the top news for the month.   If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can sign up using the email on the left sidebar.  Article of the month Kerala  CPI-M leader Ananthalavattom Anandan Passed away.  19th-century sketch put up online by an Israeli Prof draws attention to the dying community of Cochin Jews. Kerala CM inaugurates various projects backed by CIAL- Inauguration of Cargo terminal, DigiYatra, Airport Emergency Services & Launching of T3 expansion, Golf tourism, PIDS & Aero Lounge. Karuvannur Bank Fraud grabs headlines in the state.  Kerala to get its first night street- Manaveeyam Veedhi. Massive rains were received across the state. The capital Trivandrum saw extensive waterlogging for a day.  Kerala has successfully managed to mitigate the Nipah disease outbreak. Multiple trains were delayed in Kerala due to Vandebharat.  BJP chief, 5 others asked to appear before the court in an electi...

Why is Israeli-Hamas War Happening? Reasons and Causes Explained

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On 7th October, Israel witnessed multiple rockets showering over its cities and its southern cities attacked on-ground by Hamas. Many Israeli and foreign citizens were taken hostages and many others were killed in direct attacks. The amount of deaths is one of the highest in years for Israel. Many experts also claim it is Israel's 9/11 or the 7/10. Why it happened? We will answer it elaborately in the article. You will see extensive coverage of the live events and analysis on mainstream media, but what I will be focusing on is the reasoning behind the same.  In 1973, during the festival of Yom Kippur, the month of October, Syria and Egypt jointly made a surprise attack on Israel. Exactly 50 years after the same, Hamas made a surprise attack on Israeli cities, firing rockets and through ground incursions. Hamas fired more than 5000 rockets and Israel dropped 6000 tonnes worth of bombs in Gaza at the time of publishing the article. With Israel calling for a full-scale invasion in Gaz...

Geopolitical Impact of Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Context of Recent Updates

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  Greetings to all listeners and readers!! The Israel-Palestine conflict is more than a century old with complexities and convolutions. Today we won't discuss the history and the basics of the conflict rather stick to the present with recent updates we have received. On 7th October Hamas infiltrated the Israeli territory and sent thousands of rockets on cities in the country. Israel retaliated with airstrikes, direct confrontation among many options. This has created widespread anger and fear across the world. Hence we will see a massive impact which will be discussed in the episode.  This episode is brought to you by  Newshamster , a digital news portal based out of Bengaluru and you can check them out at www.thenewshamster.com. You can also check them out on all social media handles for local, national and international coverage.   About The Collaborator  Newshamster  is a digital news portal based out of Bengaluru and you can check them out at www.t...

Why BJP Wins and Dominates Urban India?- What, Where, When, Why, How

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People often assume that voters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are driven by uneducated and illiterate masses mostly in North and West India. This is not true, even though BJP since 2014 has made inroads into new parts of India and even barged into rural areas, BJP's traditional or core votes have always been urban-centric. Since BJP's emergence in the late 1980s and the unprecedented rise in the 1990s, BJP has always dominated urban areas of North, West, Central and some pockets of South India. Since 2015, the BJP has also established a strong foothold in Urban Areas of the North-East such as Agartala, Guwahati, Imphal and many more.  BJP in 2004, lost the election heavily as the message of BJP- India Shining worked only in Urban pockets of India. Even then the BJP held on to almost all of India's mega cities. Whereas in the 2009 election, the BJP lost most of it to Congress in a surprise. The party was able to cling to only one mega city- Bangalore. In 2014, the BJP...