( By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Junior Editor ) The year was 1919, when the Palace of Versailles stood on the outskirts of Paris, waiting to create global history. The marble walls of the hall of mirrors had the presence of 27 delegations representing 32 powers. The four representatives of the principal allied powers—France, the USA, [...]
by Surabhi Chhikara, Deputy Editor At the stroke of the midnight hour when the whole world slept, India had just woke up from the long nightmare of colonial subjugation on 15th August 1947. With this nightmare over, began another- the Partition. The division of a nation into the two- India and Pakistan- not only meant [...]
By Ashmita Chowdhury, Editor-in-Chief The 2008 Global Financial Crisis served as a wake-up call for American economists. It criticised the state of American economic research and profession and signalled that economic study was incompetent in understanding and explaining real-world phenomena due to its strong focus on methodological rigour and a monist paradigmatic structure (Beker, 2010; [...]
By Vedika Sakhardande, Deputy Editor British colonialism in India is accredited with globalizing the Indian economy and building modern cultural institutions and forms of social structures that put it on the path to growth. This colonial encounter is perceived as a defining moment in India’s history and in the eyes of some critics an encounter [...]
By Tavishi Sharma In the BBC documentary, Story of India, Michael Woods recounts “As the brief heyday of the West draws to a close, one of the greatest players in history is now rising again”. These words perfectly encapsulate India’s rise from cultural hub to leading player of the Global South. According to the 2017 [...]
By Vedika Sakhardande, Deputy Editor Path dependence is the theory that history affects the present. History imbibes frameworks with certain structural properties which in turn drives its further progress. An example of this is Agglomeration where new firms locate in the vicinity of similar established firms not because of systematic advantages but due to set [...]
By Aditi Gupta Deputy Editor Banks play a pivotal role in the growth of any country as they deal with the heart of the economy, money. They keep any economy running, they hold savings, lend loans, and provide interests (of course they do so much more than that too). They directly contribute to the various [...]
by Deshna Saraogi, Junior Editor. When I was in school, caste as a conversation was only brought up when discussing the validity of the reservation system in India. Most of those discussions ended with pitying the general category because concepts like privilege and inclusivity are never taught inside school classrooms. Neither textbooks nor class discussions [...]
By Bharati J Krishnan, Deputy Editor Major events in history, like wars, pandemics, terrorist attacks, technological changes etc., often come to be understood as monolithic occurrences. Initially there might be a lot of explanations for the said event, however eventually one of the explanations is usually given more attention and credibility. The other reasons might [...]
By Dipanshu Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Shreyanka Pal, Miranda House If you’ve spent quarantine trying to finish as many Coursera courses possible to display on your LinkedIn, or if you’ve missed your statistics class in hopes to catch up via a Youtube tutorial, you’ve fallen prey to the edtech industry. But, why [...]
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