Social Science

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 […]

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

India’s emergence as a Great Power increasingly appears less a question of whether and more a question of when. Yet the second question may prove far more difficult to answer. India possesses many of the attributes associated with major-power status: a vast population, a rapidly expanding economy, nuclear weapons, a large military, a strategically crucial

In India, the Governor is appointed by the President under Articles 153–162 of the Constitution. Since the President acts on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers. The Governor thus occupies a peculiar constitutional position: formally the head of the state executive, but structurally dependent upon the Union government for appointment and continuation in