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A critique of legacy media.

Today, as the world is increasingly advancing towards negativity and hatred, there is a need that is desperately felt for independent, non-biased, non-partisan journalism. Today's legacy media organisations have increasingly turned towards the global uptick in general hatred, negativity, and partisan agendas to keep their businesses up and running in an age where certain sections of social media themselves are more non-partisan than the mainstream media that claims to be 'independent' but is generally not. The media is advancing toward such a level of self-entitlement so as to preach entire groups of people, certain regions, and even certain countries on the supposed 'code of conduct' holding others accountable, but not themselves for violating the very 'codes of conduct' they set for the world. The job of the media is to disseminate correct, actual and factual information without any hidden agendas or ulterior motives, which legacy media around the world is

India - a country punching below its weight?

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The Raisina Hill houses many government ministries and the President's official residence. Today, the growing importance of India, emerging as a new axis on the world stage, and gaining tremendous influence in many aspects, cannot be understated. But as an emerging great power, India seems to not be doing enough to assert its worldview, and its perspective on geopolitics on the world stage in an effective fashion. For instance, India's independent foreign policy has allowed it to maintain valued and consequential strategic relations with both Russia, and the United States. But a small country like Israel, with its then prime minister Naftali Bennett, made more efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, than India ever did. India played it too safe, and in my opinion, for the leverage that India has with both Russia and Ukraine (aka the West), with proper mediation, could have prevented another huge crisis, when the world was already crawling out of one. Another example

Russia-India-China, a distant dream, or a practical possibility?

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When you think of these three countries, you may think of a power tussle between the three for domination in Asia. Yes, it is largely true. But, what I, as an Indian see, is a very powerful bloc that has the power to completely shake up the world order. Russia, an energy powerhouse, has always been a dominant military power capable of power projection way beyond its borders. Although today, Russia may be in a weaker position economically, it still wields significant power on the world stage because of its permanent membership in the UN Security Council. Having one of the largest militaries in the world, Russia, by herself is a force to be reckoned with in modern times. China, an economic Titan, is on pace to beat the US, if not already beating it in many aspects at present.  The military power of China is also great beyond any doubt, and the delicate tendency of China having a stable government unlike many rogue states, (although under a certain Xi, China is certainly headed in that di