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