Piyush Pandey (1955–2025) revolutionized Indian advertising by crafting iconic, emotionally resonant campaigns such as Fevicol, Cadbury, and "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara," introducing local language, humour, and relatable storytelling that deeply connected with audiences and made Indian ads globally recognized for their creativity.
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The Supreme Court of India’s NALSA judgement (2014) recognized transgender persons as a “third gender” with fundamental rights, mandated social welfare measures, and directed governments to treat them as a socially and educationally backward class entitled to reservations. Despite this, a Supreme Court order last week criticized both the Centre and states for failing to implement these directives, calling their attitude “grossly apathetic” and forming an advisory committee to recommend equal opportunity policies and ensure real enforcement of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.
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India has long projected itself as the world’s largest democracy and a champion of the Global South, but recent international reports—like the V-Dem Institute ranking India 100th out of 179 on the Liberal Democracy Index in 2025 and Freedom House categorizing it as “Partly Free”—highlight growing concerns about democratic backsliding, selective solidarity on global issues, and a foreign policy increasingly shaped by pragmatism over principle, raising questions about its current moral and ideological leadership on the world stage.
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