Insights Daily Debates: Day – 20 21 August 2015 Archives Today’s Topic Should India Permanently Stop Talking to Pakistan? Indian Express Indian Express DailyO Indian Express Many Indians feel that India should permanently stop talking with Pakistan and let the guns do the talking. There is growing angst among Indians at Pakistan’s impunity when it comes …
Insights Daily Debates: Day – 13 12 August 2015 Archives Today’s Topic Is it Fair to Blame the British Raj, the Licence Raj or the Economic Boom as the Root Cause for the Growth and Spread of Corruption in India to Epidemic Proportions? CFR The Economist Harvard Huffington Post Where does roots of corruption in India …
Insights Daily Debates: Day – 5 31 July 2015 Archives Today’s Topic Is Privacy of Citizens in Danger in India? The Hindu Reference (For Concept) The Hindu Livemint The Telegraph What is Privacy? Is Privacy a Fundamental Right? Do we citizens give the State power to own our privacy? Can the government, in the name …
ARCHIVES 17 August 2014 Today’s Topic In India, Civil Society and NGO’s (Domestic and Foreign Funded) are Acting as Roadblocks to Development Though the issue was concerned with only foreign funded NGOs, some have also argued that there are certain NGOs along with civil society groups are stalling development processes in India. The …
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ARCHIVES 10 August 2014 Today’s Topic Poverty In India – Do We Need Poverty Line To Fight Poverty? In India, there is more concern for poverty estimation than finding ways and means to fight poverty itself. Recently we were introduced to one more poverty line by one more committee. Add to this a new …
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Few aspirants requested me to restart our popular Weekend Debate/Discussion initiative again.Hence starting it again from tomorrow. I promise that this initiative will continue as long as meaningful and enthusiastic participation is ensured from your side. It’s our policy to discourage aspirants from indulging in useless debates and provide them an avenue to express their thoughts …
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Welcome to the Ninth edition of Insights Weekend Debates. You can access details of last Eight debates here. And the topic is: Criminalizing Homosexuality is a Regressive and Diffident Verdict Recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the constitutionality of Section 377 of IPC has disappointed LGBT rights activists who were hoping for a liberal judgement by …
Welcome to the Seventh edition of Insights Weekend Debates. You can access details of last Six debates here. And the topic is: Do You Think Easy Access To Adult Movies Leads To More Rapes? Should Government Completely Ban Adult Movies and Websites? It is said that porn is one of the major factors in provoking …
Welcome to the Sixth edition of Insights Weekend Debates. You can access details of last Five debates here. And the topic is: Should Betting Be Legalized In India? Five days ago, the CBI Chief opined that betting should be legalized in India. Former England captain Geoffrey Boycot has also expressed the same opinion in the past. But …
Last week’s debate was also successful. Thank you all. Below is a PDF of views expressed by all the participants. Insights Weekend Debates – 3 (PDF) Topic for this week’s debate will be on Science and Superstition. Debate starts at 6 pm.
This is the second edition of Insights Weekend Debates. Last one was a huge success. As we posted earlier, the topic for this week’s debate is related to Gender Issues. The Topic: Is More Affirmative Action A Solution For Women Empowerment? Agenda: Discrimination against women is entrenched in our society. When the society fails them, …
Last week’s debate was a huge success. 58 people participated in the debate. 235 comments were posted in three hours (22,000 words, equal to 150 pages book). The highlight of the debate was a comment by 1982 batch IAS officer and the author of the book ‘Breaking Free Of Nehru’, Mr Sanjeev Sabhlok. We thank …
Debate – Week One Last month few aspirants had asked me to start a forum for them to discuss civil services related issues. Now time has come to explore this idea. A new forum will not be started though, but an alternative idea has struck me. It will be named ‘Insights Weekend Debates’. What is …
