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Indian society: Evils: Caste system: Plato, acknowledging the greatness of Indian literature -Vedas, Geeta etc attributes its limitations to rigid evils such as the caste system.  Great poet Iqbal on India: Yunan-o-Misr-o-Roma sabmit gaye jahan se, Baqi abhi talak hai nam-o-nishan hamara. Kuch bat hai ke hasti mit-ti nahin hamari, Sadion raha hai dushman daur-e-zaman hamara Unity: Sri narayana guru -BY uniting drops of water that evaporate easily, we must become an ocean which is eternal,  ‘ one and yet many ’ . Kalidasa in Raghuvamsa equates taxation power of king to  Crises (COVID) As Winston Churchill was working to form the United Nations after WWII, he famously said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” Eg: Israel ’ s water crisis => It’s rise as a model in water management. Water Authority Law to stop illegal pumping of ground water, strict enforcement, sustainable agriculture.  Anecdotes: (Commodification, Gandhian ways, sustainability, environment, pricel...

EU and India- Intro: Relationship founded on the bedrock of democratic values and spirit of multilateral-ism. Basis of this partnership is Michael Doyle's democratic peace theory (cooperation amongst democracies) context: After independence, India's foreign policy objectives were to establish relations with global powers like USA and USSR and emerge as a leader of the third world through NAM. This , in the words of CR Mohan led to a “strategic neglect” of the European continent. relationship was upgraded to “strategic partnership” in 2004 (same year UK became strategic partner as well) In 2018 , EU came out with strategy on India that viewed India as an emerging global power that plays a key role in the current multi-polar world and a factor of stability in a complex region and calls for greater India – EU political, security and defence cooperation At recent India-EU summit , 2020 they have come out with India EU strategic partnership: A road-map for 2025 that has opened up ne...