Defeating’ India And ‘Controlling’ Afghanistan Have Been The Goals Of Pakistan’s Jihad Industry

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

The education ministry indoctrinated young minds and trained a crop of Jihadis through a special madrassa network.

…In the past few years, Pakistan has witnessed an exceptionally high level of tolerance for extremism among the middle class, which staffs Urdu media and provides intellectual direction to public opinion. Urdu newspapers glorify militant groups as the agents of local and global “Jihad” and are steeped in the Jihadist discourse that emanated from Pakistan’s concerted alliance with the USA in the 1980s to nurture the mujahideen and later efforts to seek “strategic depth” in Afghanistan and “fix” India via proactive Jihadism.

Little has changed in the past three decades except the fact that a grander version of Urdu press now exists in the shape of electronic media. The latter, barring few exceptions, has also overtly and covertly supported soft Islamism as a natural policy option for an Islamic Republic endowed with nuclear weapons.

World Environment Day: With Dwindling Food Production, How India Can Tackle The Problem?

By SALEHA HASEEB | INNLIVE

A lot has been spoken about climate change over the years. It is one of the major challenges planet earth faces currently amongst various other issues. Even the much talked about COP21 discussions held in Paris last year ended without any tangible and immediate steps to curb the alarming issue of climate change.

With global greenhouse gas emissions reaching unprecedented levels despite multiple efforts, the UN's weather agency recently said, "Temperatures in the first two months of the year 2016 soared to new highs, following a year that broke all previous records by a wide margin". It is high time that all key stakeholders including the businesses take initiatives for achieving the common objective of a greener planet.

In Defense Of English: Blame The Education System, Not The Language

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

The argument that the stress on English-medium education is to blame for problems of inequality and poor levels of understanding is faulty.

The English language has taken a beating from several quarters recently and is being blamed for many of India’s woes. An article in a vernacular online news pirtal said that one reason for the poor quality of Master of Business Administration graduates in India was the use of English to teach complex concepts. Another article on the website, from last year, states that a majority of children are being deprived of a real education because of the country’s obsession with English.

Loneliness Can Affect Your Wisdom, Study Reveal

By NIKITA VYAS | INNLIVE

Our level of wisdom varies dramatically according to the situations and is affected by factors like loneliness and togetherness, a new study has found.

The study defines wise reasoning as a combination of such abilities as intellectual humility, consideration of others' perspective and looking for compromise.

Breaking Noise: Why TV News In India Will Never Change?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

Every few years, one of our news channels rebrands itself as the place for news. News is back, they proudly declare. So apparently, they’d been doing this other thing till now, and they’re letting us know that they’re finally going to try to do the thing that they were supposed to have been doing all along.

It’s like watching an addict clean up his act for the umpteenth time. Sure, he says, the heroin is out of my system! I’m not touching that alcohol again, she assures her support group. That piece of cake was my last sugar high, they promise their dieticians. But the minute things get tough, they’re back to square one, chasing the dragon again.

It's All In Numbers: Don't Celebrate India's Economic Growth Yet

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

An analysis of the components of the GDP show that there has been a decline in several indicators, and an unexplained rise in some.

The government recently announced that India’s Gross Domestic Product has grown from 7.2% in the December 2015 quarter to 7.9% in the March 2016 quarter. This should be a reason for much celebration, but popular sentiment seems unaffected. This is because the statistical picture being presented doesn’t reflect ground realities.

Fake Federalism: How 'National Parties' Turned The Concept Of 'Rajya' In Rajya Sabha Into A Farce?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE 

The upper House of Parliament, literally a Council of States, was meant to be a federal chamber to look out for the interests of the states.

The continued abuse of the idea of the Rajya Sabha – or the Council of States – by the so-called national parties continues with the upcoming round of Rajya Sabha elections.

RIP Boxer Muhammad Ali: There Never Has, And Never Will Be, An Athlete Like Him

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

He was the best. The greatest. The brashest. The boldest. There was nobody like Muhammad Ali when he exploded on the boxing scene to become the world heavyweight champion at 22 with an ego to match. He was calling himself "The Greatest" even before fighting for the title. There has been nobody like him since.

Ali was a true original. He wasn't the next branch in the evolutionary boxing tree. He was sui generis; his own kind. Unique. He was a big man but moved with the grace of a ballroom dancer in the ring. And he was beautiful. "A splendidly plumed bird who wrote on the wind a singular kind of poetry of the body" as Mark Kram once put in forSports Illustrated.