KEYWORDS
SOCIETY
Invisible 'Unpaid' Work -Dual Burden -Self-Limiting Mindset
Breaking of Glass Ceiling
Benign Neglect
Cumulative Discrimination (from womb to tomb)
Perpetuation of Patriarchy
Prisoners of Patriarchy
Reproductive Slavery
Agents of Socialization
Alienation
Ethno centrism
Feminization of poverty
Commodification of women
Folk way
Melting pot
Gender socialization
Caste based stratification
Cultural relativism
Triple burden faced by women because of triple role( reproductive, productive and
community)
Care Economy
Gender Parity
Missing women
EDUCATION
Crisis of Credibility
Hallowing out of the public schools
From Right to Education to Right to Learning
Bridging Learning Deficit
Skill Capital
Over Regulated and under governed
Quantity without Quality Syndrome
4 Ds(Demand, Demography, Deregulation and Democracy)
Massification of Higher Education
Degree Shops
Islands of Excellence, Ocean of Mediocrity
Politicization of Education
Brain Drain
YOUTH AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Winner takes it All.
Life Cycle Based Approach
Demographic Bulge
Demographic Dividend
Demographic Disaster
Demographic Time Bomb
Soft Diplomacy
Gig Economy
Smart Factory
4Ss (Skill, Scale, Speed with Standards, To become ‘SKILLED INDIA’)
Skill Mismatch
Skill Shortage
Cultural Ambassadors Vs. Brain Drain (CA- Sonam Wangchuk)
Golden Mean Between Ideological Rigidities Vs. Mindless Apting of West
3 As(Access, Affordability, Availability of skilling courses)
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
PARLIAMENT
Policy ambiguity(Lack of clarity in the terms of the policy framework)
Political Neutrality
Secular Education
Basic Structure Doctrine
Bulldozer Effect (Tanzanian President) [ A tough, no-nonsense leader who’s not
afraid to stamp on corrupt toes and doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty.]
Purposive Interpretation [ When statutory and constitutional laws are interpreted by
common law courts on the basis of the purpose of enactment of the law]
Constitutional outrage [ Attempts to sabotage parliamentary processes and
functioning ]
Institutional Correctives
Voter Apathy
Missing Voters [ More than 20 million missing women voters on average in every
constituency in India in 2019 elections.]
Super cabinet
Fair Power Sharing
Political Football [ Alliance between ideologically different political parties like in
Maharashtra ]
Political Arm Twisting [Center using post of governor to control policies in state]
Parking lot for Politicians [Vidhan Parishad is considered parking lot for politician]
Safety Valve [Rajya Sabha, the Safety Valve of Indian Federalism]
Power of Purse
Inverted Democracy [Voices of dissent being curbed in a democratic country]
Civic Nationalism [inclusive form of nationalism]
GOVERNANCE
Integrated Service Delivery [ In Healthcare, delivery of preventive as well as a
curative treatment ]
Rule-based human resource management
Armchair bureaucrats [during lockdown, policy maker ignores the realistic aspect of
migrants and their real issues ]
Responsibility Matrix
Laboratory federalism [73rd and 74th amendment act]
Micro-Management of States
Governance Trap
Light but tight regulatory approach [ eg. New Education Policy]
JUDICIARY
Fair Balance Test [ balance between the general interest of the community and
the interests of the individual is always tested ]
Scandalizing the Court [Kunal Kamra’s latest tweets on the judiciary]
Stopgap Arrangement
Basic Procedural Justice [ Procedural justice is the idea of fairness]
People’s Tribunal [A tribunal organized by Civil society groups ]
Tribunalisation of Justice
Alternate dispute resolution mechanism
Dispute Containment
Trivialization of Justice
Polity
Hand in glove with power elites [ Bureaucratic and politicians nexus.]
Reducing Regulatory cholesterol
Implementation Deficit
Suited booted plutocracy
Image of entrenched corruption
Principle of subsidiarity
Regulatory arbitrage
Creeping Decentralization
Sarpanch Pati
Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat [ Unity in diversity]
Sankalp se Siddhi [Poverty–free India, Corruption-free India, Terrorismfree India,
Communalism-free India, Casteism-free India]
Jan Andolan [ People centric government]
Red Tape to Red Carpet [ People-friendly reforms]
'Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan [ Panchayati Raj institutions have to be made
stronger and more vibrant]
Sabka Saath, Sabka Gaon, SabkaVikas [ Inclusive development]
Integral Humanism
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
MutuallyAssuredDestruction
Preventive diplomacy
Quiet Diplomacy
De-Hyphenation
Panchsheel
New Panchsheel [The guiding principles defining Indo-China relations. Soch
(thought) Sampark (contact) Sahyog (cooperation) Sankalp
(determination) Sapne (dreams)]
Act Far East Policy
Soft Diplomacy and Sandhi
String of Pearls’
Neighbourhood First Policy [SAGAR initiative]
Twitter Diplomacy [ Hashtag Diplomacy]
Unilateralism
Medical Diplomacy
Chequebook Diplomacy [China’s aid and investment in Sri Lanka]
Debt-trap Diplomacy
First Responder [ India’s aid to cyclone Ava in Madagascar ]
Strategic Encirclement [OBOR Initiative, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, String
of Pearls]
India as Net Security Provider
BILATERAL RELATIONS
STRENGTH Strategy [STRENGTH stands for S-Spirituality, T-Tradition, Trade and
Technology, R-Relationship, E-Entertainment (Movies, Art, Dances etc.), N-Nature
conservation, G-Games, T-Tourism H- Health and Healing.]
Roti-BetikaRishta [Indo-Nepal relations]
2+2 Engagements [U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, IndiaAustralia Secretary-
level 2+2 dialogue]
Wuhan Spirit [Cooperation in areas of trade, investments, culture etc]
Bivalent relationship [It means that the two countries compete and corporate at
the same time.]
Inter- governmental agreements (IGA) [Russia – India IGA on joint design and
development of conventional submarines. ]
Goodwill Visit
The Great Game
New Great Game
Multipolar World [Power is not dominated by one country but distributed among
multiple countries.]
Minilaterals [Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) 2.0, Lancang- Mekong
Cooperation (LMC) mechanism, India-U.S.-Japan trilateral, etc.]
China-Russia- Pakistan axis
Three Evils [Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on tackling the 'three evils' -
terrorism, extremism, separatism]
Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle
Reverse Globalization
NORMS: New Orientation for a Reformed Multilateral System
India's Extended Neighborhood
Principle of Collective Defence
Opinion Manipulation [Cambridge Analytica Case]
Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS)
Medical Tourism
Global supply chains
Extinction Rebellion [global environmental movement using nonviolent civil
disobedience to compel government action to tackle climate change ]
The Asian Century
Zero-Sum Game
Blue Dot Network
Abraham Accord
Peace to Prosperity
Positive Consensus Mechanism
Natural Partner/Ally [India and Bhutan are natural allies]
India's Extended Neighbourhood
Deep State [Pakistan]
Malacca Dilemma
De-dollarization
Camaraderie [Mutual trust and friendship ]
Techno politics [China-Facial recognition technology]
Smart Power [Using hard power and soft power according to requirement]
Rapprochment [Resumption of good relations after a conflict or irritation]
Rebalancing of powers/ global rebalancing [Decline of US Hegemony and shift of
BoP politics to Asia steered by rise of China]
Strategic Convergence
New world order [representative, democratic, just and multipolar world order]
Vasudhev Kutumbakam
Strategic autonomy
Maximizing convergences and Minimizing divergences
Plurilateral solutions
Global good
New Asian Rebalance [India- US - Japan against Russia-Pak- China]
Hesitations of history [India and the US Overcome the Hesitations of History.]
Diplomatic capital [refers to the trust, goodwill, and influence]
Chicken neck problem of India
New International Economic order