In 2022, India implemented a new tax regime aimed at taxing gains and, or, income from virtual digital assets (VDAs) – i.e. cryptocurrencies, at 30%, plus surcharge and cess, on the transfer of any VDA such as Bitcoin or Ethereum under the Income Tax Act.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had sought to ban cryptocurrencies in 2018, the Supreme Court quashed the attempted ban leaving cryptocurrencies in regulatory limbo – neither illegal nor, strictly speaking, legal. The legal position of cryptocurrencies in India remains in limbo.

Equity-based Crowdfunding is a form of crowdfunding where the supporters become the stakeholders of the firm. Under this, a business can invite the general public to invest in their business which would get them a share in the equity. Currently equity- based crowdfunding is banned in India.

Political realism refers to the philosophy that politics and its discourse should focus upon principles that deal with tangible realities and outcomes, for example, national interest and limited resources. Its primary assumption is that power is and ought to be the primary end of political action.
Political idealism posits that the goal of countries' policies (foreign and otherwise), and consequently political action and discourse on the part of various actors/stakeholders, should be reflective of the world one wishes to create, eg. reduction of poverty, timely and proportional justice, defence of human rights, and redressal of inequity.

Coined by Emmeline Clein in 2019, dissociative feminism describes a subset of feminism characterized by jadedness and “interiorizing our existential aches and angst, smirking knowingly at them.” Dissociative feminism describes women who, once exuberant soldiers of the gender equality movement, are now exhausted past the point of anger. Feminist author Leslie Jamison identifies the root of dissociative feminism as “aching gone implicit,” reflecting a reaction to the recent plateauing of women’s rights reforms.
Dissociative feminism resonates with many women because it describes women’s exhaustion at the stagnant gender revolution and the catharsis of feminine misery.

An example of its portrayal can be seen in the popular show, Fleabag. Like any good dissociative feminist, Fleabag also submits to hopelessness. Certain that fourth-wave feminism will never truly establish gender equality, Fleabag ceases protests against the patriarchy and internalizes her anger, embracing feminine messiness and pain. By her own admission, she is a “greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman” who can’t even call herself a feminist.
Outside these moments of emotional vulnerability, Fleabag often makes light of her messiness, and views men as vessels through which she can achieve validation; she does not even bother to name the majority of the men with whom she is involved, only referring to them by amusing monikers such as 'Bus Rodent,' and 'Hot Misogynist.'

Amidst the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine applied to become a member of the EU. At present the application is pending before the EU. Proponents say that the move will disincentivise further aggression towards Ukraine, while opponents say that it will have the opposite effect. EU membership requires number of socio-economic requirements to be met and at present, Ukraine has met only a very limited number of the requirements.

A key part of post-conflict resolution is the trial of perpetrators of violence during the conflict. The current debate revolves around whether these trials should be left in the hands of the nation in question or should be handed over to a UN-backed tribunal or the International Criminal Court.

Central Asian governments have refused to endorse either the invasion or Russia’s annexation of eastern Ukrainian provinces. And even though in January, under the terms of a mutual-security pact, Mr Putin sent troops to Kazakhstan to help counter an attempted putsch, no debt of gratitude exists. The idea that Kazakhstan should “eternally serve and bow down at the feet of Russia” is “far from reality”, Kassym- Zhomart Tokayev, the president, told Russian television. The protocols and body language of meetings between Mr Putin and Central Asian leaders are also revealing. At a gathering last month in Uzbekistan, the Russian president, notorious for keeping world leaders waiting, stood twiddling his thumbs for President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, a small, poor country where Russia is used to calling the shots. At a Russia-Central Asia summit hosted by Kazakhstan last week, Mr Tokayev conspicuously failed to have a one-on-one meeting with Mr Putin. Cumulatively, these signs and slights point to Russia’s waning influence in Central Asia.
Historical ties between the countries run deep. Economic ties are crucial. Central Asia relies on remittances from migrant workers in Russia, as well as imports of sugar and wheat. One of the world’s biggest pipelines carries most of Kazakhstan’s oil to a Russian port on the Black Sea. Russia employs the ability to close it at will. Its security services remain powerful in the region. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are also keen to move closer to Turkey and the West — all part of what Kazakhstan calls a “multi-vector” approach (the development of friendly and predictable relations with all states that play a significant role in world affairs and are of practical interest to the country) to balance between competing powers.

The International Theatre Festival of Kerala, held in Thrissur in January, made room for protests and demonstrations. There were vigorous protests both against and for the CAA at this event, which happened routinely, in public view, in a civilised fashion, without disrupting the main programme. This proves that if an arts festival wants to, it can accommodate dissent in a way that is enriching and affirming for visitors and artists alike.
Even outside these institutions and highly corporatised events, art has been proliferating everywhere—on the streets, graffiti, at protest sites. Artists have been bearing witness, acting as catalysts and custodians for difficult and necessary conversations, and offering joyous as well as thoughtful ways of articulating dissidence to very diverse publics. The protest site at Shaheen Bagh had become a giant canvas. Installations and giant murals had appeared and disappeared. An armada of paper boats, installed by the artist Arif Nayeem, with the text of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, “Hum Dekhenge”—We Shall See—once remain anchored next to the protest gathering. However protests site not only in Shaheen Bagh, but also in Khajoori Khas, Chand Bagh, Mustafabad, Jafrabad now bear a deserted look — they're now ashen, abandoned and poorly kept.

Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general.
Somewhat paradoxically, anti-art tends to conduct this questioning and rejection from the vantage point of art. An expression of anti-art may or may not take traditional form or meet the criteria for being defined as a work of art according to conventional standards.
Works of anti-art may express an outright rejection of having conventionally defined criteria as a means of defining what art is, and what it is not.
Anti-art artworks may articulate a disagreement with the generally supposed notion of there being a separation between art and life. Anti-art artworks may voice a question as to whether "art" really exists or not.
In a similar vein, Karl Marx posited that art was a consequence of the class system and therefore concluded that, in a communist society, there would only be people who engage in the making of art and no "artists."
Anti-art was the inspiration behind what eventually became the Dadaist movement, which rejected cultural and intellectual conformity in art and more broadly in society.

The Delimitation Exercise refers to the idea that Lok Sabha should have its seats readjusted every few decades based on the growth of populations from different states.
However, since the late '70s, when family planning became a priority this exercise has not been carried out. The delimitation exercise is scheduled to be carried out in 2026 and will reallocate seats according to the changed population of states and will dramatically change the makeup of the Lok Sabha. Delimitation will increase the seats of almost all states but in proportion to the amount their population has grown. The current Lok Sabha Delimitation is based on the 1971 census. The 2026 delimitation exercise will increase the seats by: 15 for South India; 14 for East India; 1 for North East India; 104 for North India; 22 for West India.

The International Theatre Festival of Kerala, held in Thrissur in January, made room for protests and demonstrations. There were vigorous protests both against and for the CAA at this event, which happened routinely, in public view, in a civilised fashion, without disrupting the main programme. This proves that if an arts festival wants to, it can accommodate dissent in a way that is enriching and affirming for visitors and artists alike.
Even outside these institutions and highly corporatised events, art has been proliferating everywhere—on the streets, graffiti, at protest sites. Artists have been bearing witness, acting as catalysts and custodians for difficult and necessary conversations, and offering joyous as well as thoughtful ways of articulating dissidence to very diverse publics. The protest site at Shaheen Bagh had become a giant canvas. Installations and giant murals had appeared and disappeared. An armada of paper boats, installed by the artist Arif Nayeem, with the text of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, “Hum Dekhenge”—We Shall See—once remain anchored next to the protest gathering. However protests site not only in Shaheen Bagh, but also in Khajoori Khas, Chand Bagh, Mustafabad, Jafrabad now bear a deserted look — they're now ashen, abandoned and poorly kept.

Filial Piety Laws/Legislation refer to laws that make adult children financially responsible towards their parents once they are aged.

The Delimitation Exercise refers to the idea that Lok Sabha should have its seats readjusted every few decades based on the growth of populations from different states.
However, since the late '70s, when family planning became a priority this exercise has not been carried out. The delimitation exercise is scheduled to be carried out in 2026 and will reallocate seats according to the changed population of states and will dramatically change the makeup of the Lok Sabha. Delimitation will increase the seats of almost all states but in proportion to the amount their population has grown. The current Lok Sabha Delimitation is based on the 1971 census. The 2026 delimitation exercise will increase the seats by: 15 for South India; 14 for East India; 1 for North East India; 104 for North India; 22 for West India.

Consider People X, characters in a fictional script, who don't know that they are. They believe they are simply ordinary people, living in ordinary neighbourhoods, in an ordinary city, but in fact, every little detail of their lives is carefully orchestrated, planned, and written down. Their fictional city is surrounded by a tall, thick, deep forest with no end, impossible to penetrate. They never attempt to leave their city, convinced that those who go in, never come back. They do, however, get to do pretty much everything they want to do, leading a life similar to that of a people in any city, apart from the fact that they live in an isolated world defined by the boundaries of this script.
If you asked them, they would certainly reply that they feel quite in charge of their life. Of course, it is also true that their life is being controlled in a way that manufactures their agency, and thus, their freedom. You are now in posession of this script. If you choose to tear it apart, the forests disappear - People X become a part of our reality.