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Price Tag of Deception: How Fast Fashion Exploits South Asia’s Supply Chain

It is high time South Asian countries not only pass stricter environmental regulations but also strictly enforce them, making sure that there is no factory releasing waste water without adequate treatment. Besides, upholding legally binding labour standards must also be a priority together with ensuring safety of the workplace environment.

How Korean Noodle Brands Captured the Indian Market

The Korean noodle story is not really about noodles. It is about what happens when cultural influence travels faster than commercial infrastructure and faster than regulatory awareness. India's Gen Z - and possibly that of other South Asian countries - did not wait for brands to tell them what to eat. They watched K-dramas, did spice challenges, and built market demand that brands, regulators, and consumer education campaigns have simply not kept up with.

Security for Whom? Needed a Human-Centred Approach to ‘National Security’

If “security” is to have real meaning, it must be grounded in the lived experiences of those it is intended to protect. This requires a shift from state‑centred metrics to civilian‑centred measures of stability; where continuity of daily life, equitable protection, and psychological well‑being are integral to how we define security.

Cinema Is Not Policy, But Films Like Dhurandhar Culturally Reflect India’s Place in the World

 

The progression from Purab Aur Pachhim to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to Dangal is not a neat policy timeline. It is something subtler: a cultural echo of India’s journey from caution to engagement to assertion. The shift is not just in policy documents or diplomatic speeches; it is embedded in how stories are told, how characters behave, and how audiences respond.

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And the waiting lamp within,

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Must there be little bits of everything,

Tears and Time and the Rivers

Rivers flow but they tell us no more
Where they come from , where they go,

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Let’s do what the the Heaven we like,

Let’s Think Again

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Impatience will bring forth gains,

I C B M's

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When life’s no more than each breath we take,
Than the days and nights that we call the past,

Materialism at its Zenith

Materialism’s at its Zenith Now
But, Money can’t buy God nor ever will,

Where is the Human Connect Today?

It’s not about Perfection
But, all about Connection,

Befriend your Fears

The look in your eyes is no surprise,
The fear I see is meant to be

To An Old Friendship

I think I knew who lived here once
And, I think, I knew him well,

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Twilight, that time between sunset and nightfall
When Orange, nay Red, is the colour of the sky,

How Arty is the World of Artificial Intelligence,( AI ) 

Is AI the  way forward, or
Out there to destroy Humanity,
 

Blue Moon

O waning moon, where do you go?
Why are you not on constant show?