Author: Anant Chetan

  • A Right to Unemployment

    A Right to Unemployment

    A week ago I came across a German law regarding the education of a child. It turns out education is compulsory for every child. There are stern consequences if a child does not attend school. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany. 100% attendance is required, barring exceptions like illness or funerals etc. If parents do not…

  • When or How does a child become “caste-literate”?

    When or How does a child become “caste-literate”?

    Society today is an outcome of a child’s learning born two decades ago. Common things most of the children learnt then, subsequently became a practice today and may become a cult or tradition in the future. If you identify a flaw with any “group of people” today and sincerely want to rectify it, you should…

  • Mahagathbandhan: A Cry for help!!!

    Mahagathbandhan: A Cry for help!!!

    A grand alliance “mahagathbandhan” is the only way forward to survive

  • SC’s (L-G vs AAP) verdict: An inevitable, silent but deadly storm approaching Delhi

    For a long time, the Delhi Government has been claiming that the Lieutenant Governor is not letting them work and creating problems. With the Supreme Court’s order things seem to be pacified between the two. The Delhi Government also came up with  an Outcome Report of the Office of Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor. The report roughly has…

  • Whose fault is Thomson Reuters Foundation’s survey?

    Whose fault is Thomson Reuters Foundation’s survey?

    Everybody is so upset with the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Survey that they are not even interested in finding the root causes that lead to a perception survey like this in the first place

  • Delhi’s Political Pollution

    Delhi’s Political Pollution

    Air Pollution is not a complicated topic. The causes, the effects and the various ways to curtail it are well known. Fixing this issue is not rocket science. It is straightforward. Despite this, air is polluted and continues getting worse at an alarming rate. According to the report ‘Body Burden 2015’ published by the Center of Science…

  • Some ideas to reduce pollution and create startups/employment opportunities

    Some ideas to reduce pollution and create startups/employment opportunities

    This article outlines some of the ways which could be taken into consideration while thinking about the air pollution crisis in Delhi.  The article does not give all possible ways but it does give some and I expect others adding more to the list so that if anybody working in this direction can make a……

  • A Role Model or A Wrong Model

    A Role Model or A Wrong Model

    There is no denying to the fact that emotions play a vital role in Indian Politics. People get emotionally attached to a particular leader or party. Several times in the past, the ruling party and its leader even though did better than their contemporaries lost elections due to people’s emotional attachment to a particular party…