Author name: Ashish Gupta

2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their pioneering work in explaining how innovation drives long-term economic growth. Their research offers a profound understanding of how societies progress from stagnation to sustained prosperity through technological change, scientific advancement, and institutional adaptation. Joel Mokyr’s […]

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India has the Responsibility of Crafting a New Multilateralism.

The 21st century is witnessing a global order in flux. The relative decline of American hegemony, the contested rise of China, and the persistent gridlock within multilateral institutions have created a world where legitimacy and authority are increasingly fragmented. In such a turbulent setting, India’s aspiration to be a leader is not merely rhetorical ambition

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Extensive overdependence on digital tools may lead to diminishing the ability to solve a complex problem.

Part-2 The effectiveness of speech therapy in both children and adults is indeed strong evidence for neuroplasticity, though the way plasticity works differs depending on age and the type of brain injury. Let me break it down: 1. Children and plasticityIn children whose brains are still developing, speech therapy taps into the naturally high levels

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Extensive overdependence on digital tools may lead to diminishing the ability to solve a complex problem.

There is profound concern and evidence that extensive overdependence on digital tools may lead to diminishing the ability to solve a complex problem that needs concentrating on the contours and the solution of the problem, not just for hours, but even for months. There is apprehension that if the new generation of humanity loses this

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Affection Economy vs Transactional Economy

In today’s world, success in trade, innovation, and value creation no longer depends solely on capital or scale. It increasingly hinges on how skillfully communities are curated, kinships kindled, and cohorts nurtured. Cohorts, kinships, and communities are the real building blocks of cooperation. They provide the trust, emotional capital, and shared identity that lubricate markets,

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ISB 2001 and the Evolving Landscape of Cancer Treatment

Cancer treatment has witnessed a revolutionary shift over the past few decades—from conventional, broadly targeted methods to highly specific, immune-driven approaches. At the center of this transformation lies a promising class of drugs like ISB 2001, a trispecific antibody currently in clinical trials for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Understanding how ISB 2001 works requires a brief journey through

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Hydropolitics, Climate Change, and the Fragility of India’s Eastern Himalayan River System.

India’s northeast, a region already battered by seasonal monsoon floods, today faces a new and more uncertain hydrological threat — one that stems not from traditional scarcity, but from growing variability in water availability, driven by climate change, engineering interventions, and geopolitical tensions. In particular, the proposed hydroelectric dam by China on the Yarlung Tsangpo

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Rivers of India and Their Major Dams

India is endowed with a vast and diverse river system, which forms the backbone of its agricultural economy, drinking water supply, hydropower generation, and cultural life. Broadly, Indian rivers can be classified into Himalayan Rivers and Peninsular Rivers, based on their origin, flow pattern, and seasonal behavior. I. Himalayan Rivers These rivers originate in the

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The adverse effects of climate change due to global warming and the broad policy direction to take the remedial effects to mitigate them.

Part- 4 The relation of increasing incidence of respiratory diseases to climate change. The increasing incidence of respiratory diseases is closely related to the ongoing changes in climate. Climate change affects respiratory health both directly and indirectly: 1. Direct Impact: Climate change can directly promote or aggravate respiratory diseases by altering the environmental conditions in

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The adverse effects of climate change due to global warming and the broad policy direction to take the remedial effects to mitigate them.

Part – 2 Adverse effects of climate change driven by global warming on life that exists on planet earth in particular human life. Every year, the planet is heating up more. Experts say that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planets recorded history. The problem appears to get worse as years pass by.

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