Category: True Events
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India at 75: A Tryst with Fertility; the Green Revolution
The dreadful Bengal famine occurred amid World War II, only four years before independence. As India turns 75, the occasion calls for many celebrations, one of which is India’s journey from growing more food to smartly growing it. During the British Raj, India’s grain economy hinged on a unilateral exploitative relationship. As a result, the weakened…
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The Ukraine Crisis and a Century of Academic Boycotts
On the 24th day of February 2022, the world was taken by surprise. The orders came in from Moscow and a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine was underway. An invasion of such intensity was not anticipated by any other government elsewhere, reasoning that it would be logistically impossible to occupy the territory and that the local…
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The Sri Lankan Organic Farming Crisis: An Abandoned Nationwide Experiment
Sri Lanka is currently facing its worst economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948. Huge piles of foreign debt, a series of lockdowns, soaring inflation, shortage in fuel supply, fall in foreign currency reserves and devaluation of the currency have adversely impacted the country’s economic growth. In the face of a worsening economic…
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Climate Change, Conflict and the Middle East’s Misery
Of all the regions of the world that will face severe devastation as a result of climate change, perhaps none seems as destined to suffer as the Middle East, already the planet’s hottest and driest. With temperatures expected to rise more than twice the global average by 2030, this region of highest water scarcity may…
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The Trinity Test And What The World Can Learn
The sixth day of August, 1945, the day an A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Just three days later, another similar bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. What most people don’t know, is how it all started, and how the ever popular analogue photography company, Kodak, would be related to this scenario, and probably, could’ve prevented…
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