In the light of the recent Supreme Court order against hate speech, discuss the challenges in fighting hate speech while preserving freedom of speech. What needs to be done?

The Supreme Court has directed the police and authorities to take suo moto action in case of hate speeches without waiting for a complaint to be filed. What constitutes hate speech: In India, there is no legal definition of hate ..

Outline the recommendations of the official language committee. What are the implications for the official language debate in India?

The 11th volume of the Report of the Official Language Committee has been submitted to the President of India. It has triggered sharp criticism from some of the Southern states and has been viewed as an attempt to impose Hindi. ..

The risk and impact of natural disasters has increased a manifold in recent times because of the rapid and unplanned urbanization along with high population growth. Discuss the measures needed to address the issue in India.

As per UN-DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), about 50% of India’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. This, accompanied by climate change has increased both risk and impact of natural disasters. Hazard + vulnerability ..

There is a need to shift focus from food security to nutritional security in India, comment. Also, suggest a framework to achieve nutritional self-reliance.

Hunger is the distress that arises from insufficient calorie intake. Thus, early policymakers focus was ensuring adequate calorie consumption via food security. Hence, India adopted the PDS/T-PDS/I-PDS, and recently the National Food Security Act, 2013. Challenges: While, food security has ..

Highlight the benefits of urban forests and steps taken by the government to promote urban forestry in India.

The Urban forests are classified forests (legally), which lie within the permit of urban areas. Benefits of Urban Forests: Helps in air filtration, offer ecosystem services of clean air. Tackle urban heat island effect and also reduces the impact of ..

Comment on the need to improve disabled people’s access to entertainment. How can this be achieved?

Persons with disabilities face a lot of difficulties in getting involved with mainstream socio-economic and cultural activities, due to lack of mobility and transportation, inaccessible physical environments, unavailability of assistive devices and technologies, and inaccessible websites and services. Making entertainment ..

Women in India do not enjoy their full reproductive rights. Highlight the interventions adopted to remove these barriers.

Reproductive health & choices are an important component of fundamental rights to life & personal liberty of women, under Article 21 as ruled by the Supreme Court in a recent judgement. Despite above fundamental right, there exist barriers to its ..

"India has a huge variety of soft power resources."Evaluate.

Soft power depends on three factors: Hint: Culture Political values Foreign policy Kindly give reference to Vasudeva Kudaumbakam and loka samartha sukhino bhavanthu. Various soft power resourses such as; Spiritualism, yoga, movies, television, dances, music, democratic values, ethics, cuisine have ..