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October 2020 focus

US Presidential Election 2020 United States of America, referred to as a Super Power in a Multi-Polar world, is world’s most powerful nation. It has enough and more to its credit to be called a Super Power, whether the size of the economy in monetary terms or the size of its arsenal, there isn’t any country to match it. Former USSR was the only competitor, more due to its stock-pile of arms and ammunitions, which the present day Russia is not comparable. The 21st century leadership of China is trying hard to displace USA or US as generally referred to, as the only Super Power, but so far couldn’t succeed in realizing this dream. Unlike US, the Peoples Republic of China is a centrally controlled polity with communist ideology hence has largely restricted personal freedom to its citizens. US is an open society with a democratic way of life with abundant freedom to its citizens. With its economic and military might, world looks at it with a degree of respect, reserved only for the US. Tha...

Month-in-Perspective October 2020

NEW DELHI :Minister of Home Affairs, Government of India, Amit Shah has been in the news, since some months, getting in and out of hospital at irregular intervals. Reportedly despite having been recently recovered from Covid-19, he has just been admitted to AIIMS for a complete medical check-up. There need not be much to make out from this routine news. He became news because he is the high profile minister of a high profile ministry. And AIIMS stands for All India Institute of Medical Sciences. We all know that AIIMS in Delhi is an institute of higher medical learning in Post Graduate studies with students and cream of medical professionals being the teachers and guides to these students. It’s a premier institute with large in-house hospital facilities. This news appeared in the first page of Times of India (14/09/2020). There was also another report on a high profile politician, in the same news paper on the same day. But strangely, the news was published in the 6th page, which said ...