"For the purposes of this debate, religions that ""center the self"" embrace human existence and individual experiences as special. Believers are asked to consider their choices and experiences, struggles, and connection to God as uniquely important and a path to salvation.

In contrast, religions that ""reject the self"" explicitly reject the idea that human existence and individual experiences are special. Believers are asked to accept individual experiences as temporary and unimportant, and individuality as an illusion that causes unhappiness."

Religions differ in how they assign spiritual authority. Some place it in living leaders, chosen through lineage or recognition, such as the Dalai Lama in Tibetan Buddhism or rulers claiming divine mandate like Temüjin (Genghis Khan). Others place authority in past prophets or sacred texts, where no living person holds divine status (e.g. Christianity, Sikhism).

"For the purposes of this debate, religions that ""center the self"" embrace human existence and individual experiences as special. Believers are asked to consider their choices and experiences, struggles, and connection to God as uniquely important and a path to salvation.

In contrast, religions that ""reject the self"" explicitly reject the idea that human existence and individual experiences are special. Believers are asked to accept individual experiences as temporary and unimportant, and individuality as an illusion that causes unhappiness."

Religions differ in how they assign spiritual authority. Some place it in living leaders, chosen through lineage or recognition, such as the Dalai Lama in Tibetan Buddhism or rulers claiming divine mandate like Temüjin (Genghis Khan). Others place authority in past prophets or sacred texts, where no living person holds divine status (e.g. Christianity, Sikhism).

During WWI, Wilfred Owen was serving as a British sniper on the frontlines. While on duty his focus falls upon a German soldier showering in the German frontline trench. The German is naked, unarmed and poses no immediate threat to anyone on the British lines but is a legal target.

During WWI, Wilfred Owen was serving as a British sniper on the frontlines. While on duty his focus falls upon a German soldier showering in the German frontline trench. The German is naked, unarmed and poses no immediate threat to anyone on the British lines but is a legal target.

India accounted for 25% of the global IPOs in the first half of 2024

The corporatization of hospitals is the process of transforming hospitals into business-like organizations, either by converting institutions into corporate entities or by consolidating independent hospitals into large corporate systems

The SHANTI Act enables private companies and joint ventures to build, own, operate and decommission nuclear power plants under a license from the Indian government.

Fat-loss Drug Mounjaro now India’s No.2 pharma brand. Several Indian pharma companies like Dr Reddy, Sun Pharma are planning to launch their obesity drugs soon in the country

A Social Credit System is a national government-facilitated rating system that rewards citizens for good behaviour and sanctions them for bad behaviour. 1. It evaluates a defined set of actions that includes but goes beyond illegal or legally-obligatory acts (e.g., charitable donations, recycling, volunteer work; or jaywalking, and littering). 2. Scores can be given by members of the public, corporations, NGOs, and the government. 3. Based on these scores, the government applies rewards and sanctions (e.g., fast-track through airport security, government-subsidised mortgages, free public transportation; or higher tax, slower document-processing times, and increased barriers to public sector jobs).

Surrogate advertising is the indirect promotion of restricted products through legally permissible brand extensions. E.g. Alcohol brands advertising bottled water, Tobacco companies advertising pan masala/mouth fresheners etc. 

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to allocate part of a public budget.

In recent decades, popular music has increasingly been used as a vehicle for explicit political messaging, whether through protest songs, campaign anthems, state-sponsored cultural projects, or artists publicly aligning with political movements. This politicization occurs across genres and geographies, from hip-hop and folk to pop and national music industries, often amplified by social media and mass platforms.

A sorority is an organisation on the college campus which is only for women to join. It is formed on the common principles of fostering friendships, sisterhood, academic support around common goals of aspiration and networking. However, in order to enter a sorority you have to prove yourself worthy of the group and prove your allegiance towards it through an extensive recruitment process organised by its members.