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Featured What are the parameters on which you should evaluate a ULIP?
ULIP evaluation involves the analysis and comparison of several parameters. The Wealth Secure+ Plan from Edelweiss Tokio Life fares well in all these aspects. Investing in a Unit Linked Insurance Plan is one of the smartest strategies for investors keen on achieving long-term financial goals. And in today's financial markets, there's no dearth of ULIP schemes offered by...
- 6 hrs ago
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Featured Are you paying more, driving less? Pay for the distance by Liberty Insurance solves your problem
Pay for the distance' feature offered by Liberty Insurance is an innovative feature that lets car users decide on how much they drive and pay accordingly. Innovation and disruption are knocking the doors of the motor insurance industry. Usage-based car insurance is gaining in popularity globally, and now comes to India as well. 'Pay for...
- 6 hrs ago
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Featured Why Do We Neglect Where We Came From?
Birth anxiety is not as common as death anxiety, but there is a case to be made for thinking about where we came from and how we just started existing Many people feel anxious about the prospect of their death. Indeed, some philosophers have argued that death anxiety is universal and that this anxiety bounds and organises human existence. But do we also suffer from birth anxiety? Perhaps. After all, we are...
- 7 days ago
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Featured A Letter 'From' The EditorEditors as Shapers of OpinionThe Nuts and BoltsWe Leave You With These MessagesIn Essence
When the Editor at Qrius decides to go meta and attempts to deconstruct the calling card that is the editorial Mayur Mulki If one would like to go bone-dry with the definition of what an 'editorial' is, it could be that section of a publication to which the senior editorial staff contributes. It generally features...
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Featured Indian Music.and all that Jazz
Indian music conjures thoughts of classical strains in Hollywood montages or Bollywood kitsch, but Jazz's history has as much to do with New Delhi as New Orleans. Jazz is a word that means different things to different people. Before it became a word used by one to trail off in a conversation they are rapidly losing interest in, it was actually a form of music. Not just any form of music, but the kind of music...
- 3 months ago
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Featured Anglo-Indians: Are They Fading into the History of India?Anglo-Indians and JazzThe Anglo-Indian IdentityFading Out and the Future
They are not quite Indian, but have strong cultural ties to the country they call home. They're not quite British, but have a family tree that finds itself rooted in Europe, and their native tongue is English. Will this unique cultural identity of the Anglo-Indians one day be lost to the mainstream? Will they be...
- 3 months ago
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Featured Gandhi's 150th Anniversary: How America Embraced the MahatmaDiscovering GandhiUnderstanding nonviolenceSimplicity and harmonyWhat Gregg brought to America
How a philosopher, friend and follower of Gandhi helped translate the Mahatma's ideas to Americans, helping them embrace his way of life October this year marks Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday. One of the 20th century's most iconic figures, Gandhi's legacy defines how many...
- 4 months ago
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Featured India's Seed Warrior and His Mission to Save Rice
India's Seed Warrior, Debal Deb is on a mission to save the country's rice biodiversity. The ecologist's sustained effort has created a massive seed bank, housing more than 1,410 endangered rice varieties. Debal Deb is known as the Seed Warrior, having spent the past two decades collecting and preserving India's increasingly rare indigenous rice species. The ecologist's...
- 4 months ago
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Featured Is Elon Musk's Starship Enterprise a Moral Catastrophe?Planetary protectionOther moral issues
SpaceX's Starship project may be a bold step in space exploration, but will these interplanetary journeys to Mars and beyond account for moral repercussions? Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members on interplanetary journeys...
- 5 months ago
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Featured India's Extraordinary Growth Has Lessons for Global Leaders
As one of the world's fastest-growing major economies, India's has been a dramatic rise, commanding attention on the global stage. With structural reforms, a growing young middle-class, and adoption of advanced technologies, the stage is set for India to announce itself as major world economic power in the next decade-and-a-half, with the potential to reach $10 trillion. If...
- 5 months ago
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