The purpose though is to tell others that they're married and can't be courted but people believe god will poke your eyes if you remove mangal sutra and it's a divine holy thing...
Removing burqa or mangalsutra in a public show is going to do more harm than good in creating tensions. I'm an atheist myself and do not believe in such nonsense, but you have a country of a billion people who do. Education and awareness is already eliminating most of these stupid practices...
China did not randomly end up with skilled labour all of a sudden. They started with the capitalistic mindset around 1976 and we started a decade and a half later when we finally got rid of that stupid Nehruvian socialism). It takes about 12-13 years from policy change to reap dividends - which...
It's not just the Saudi's this time but the entire coalition of Arab countries that are entering the Yemen conflict. All of them are of the Arab league and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, besides being rich.
and that is a good move by Pakistan since the Yemen conflict has nothing to do with you and would simply be an economic drain. However, the perception among the Arab countries is that "if you're not on our side, you're the enemy" and they are now accusing you of siding with Iran. Perception...
If you do not consider this a diplomatic mess up which has divided your country opinion and alienated several of your friends, good for you. If Pakistan now does decide to join the Yemen war, the world will look at it as weak and as being pressured by its Arab masters.
The structural cause of Naxal/Maoist insurgency in India is different to that of Taliban in Pakistan. Naxal's primary motive is that the working style of the government is inefficient towards the poor and skewed towards the rich, with them having witnessed unemployment or persecution from the...
You are right but there is another angle to population as well - social security and healthcare. Governments work on a "pay as you go" basis, which means today's contribution from the young is used to meet the payout for the old. As population ages, there will be more burden on the young to...
The situation of misinformation was so dire that one professor from Germany refused to allow an Indian student intern. Germany records 10x the rape of India per 100,000 population. Now even if you assume only 1 in 10 get reported in India, both the countries are of the same level. I have nothing...