Author name: Rohit Shukla

Stabilisation of Vital Parameters: How Economic and Biological Systems Sustain Their Dynamics and Serve a Meaningful Social Purpose

From economic crises to medical emergencies, the science of stabilisation offers a way to understand how complex systems preserve their functioning, recover from disturbances and continue to evolve. Introduction: The Problem of Stability in a Changing World The world is composed of complex systems whose existence depends on a delicate relationship between stability and change. […]

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The French Revolution as a Comparative Lens for Understanding Societal Upheaval:The Lessons That Can Be Drawn from a Critical Study of the Indian Uprising of 1857 and the American Civil War

History contains moments when societies appear to change suddenly. A revolt begins in one place, a government loses authority, a political disagreement becomes violent, or a military confrontation develops into a much larger conflict. Yet major upheavals rarely emerge from a single incident. Behind the visible explosion usually lies a longer accumulation of economic pressures,

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From Buddha’s Compassion to Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Ahimsa from Indian Ethics to Global Resistance

Introduction Few ethical ideas have travelled such a remarkable historical distance as ahiṃsā, usually translated as non-violence or non-harming. What began within the religious and philosophical traditions of ancient India as a question of how human beings ought to conduct themselves towards other living beings eventually acquired a much wider political meaning. In the twentieth

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From Physical Reality to Mathematical Structure: Graphs, Topology and Feynman Diagrams

How mathematics strips away physical detail to reveal structure One of the remarkable powers of mathematics is its ability to represent a complicated physical system without reproducing every detail of that system. A physical object may contain enormous amounts of information: its shape, dimensions, materials, location, temperature, colour, mass and countless other properties. Yet a

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The Physics of Prosperity. Can the Laws of Physics Help Us Understand How Economies Move, Grow and Decline?

What if an economy could be looked at not merely as a collection of markets, firms, consumers and governments, but as a dynamic system? Physicists do not understand the universe simply by listing its objects. They ask deeper questions: What are the fundamental quantities? What changes them? What flows between systems? What is conserved? What

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Beyond Environmental Clearance: Why India Needs a New Mountain Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability is about what we can go on taking from nature without finding the courage to face our organised, well-disguised greed. This observation acquires a particular force when we look at India’s three great mountain systems—the Western Ghats, the Aravallis and the Himalayas. All three are under pressure from roads, mining, tourism, urbanisation, infrastructure and

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Generation Z’s Societal Sonic Boom: When Aspirations Outrun Opportunity

One of the most important contributions of Robert K. Merton to sociology was his attempt to explain how social structure shapes individual behaviour. His theory of social structure and anomie remains particularly relevant to understanding contemporary youth, including India’s Generation Z, gig workers and educated unemployed youth. Merton built upon Durkheim’s concept of anomie but

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From Shouting Matches to Informed Deliberation: Strengthening India’s Parliament through Mandatory Committee Scrutiny

Parliamentary democracy is not simply a mechanism for converting an electoral majority into legislation. Its deeper purpose is to provide an institutional forum in which competing ideas are debated, the executive is scrutinised, legislation is examined and, through the interaction of government and Opposition, public policy is improved. The strength of a Parliament should therefore

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Topping Up the Nehruvian Vision: From IITs as Centres of Excellence to Institutions of Public Good by 2047

When Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of building institutions of higher learning in independent India, his vision extended far beyond the creation of a handful of elite educational institutions. The establishment of institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) reflected a larger nation-building philosophy: create centres

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