Volume 8

The Cursor
Volume VIII
Page 02 - Capturing Thapar MUN ‘21
Page 05 - Should only the Literate Vote?
Page 08 - The Multiverse
Page 13 - India VS England
Date of Issue:
01 / 04 / 2021

Capturing Thapar MUN’21
- Suvrat Arora
Thapar Model United Nations, continuing its endeavour of imparting an unprecedented experience
of quality debate and dialogue, successfully organized its annual MUN conference -Thapar MUN
2021. With the hindrances put forth by the uncertain situation at hand, Thapar MUN 2021 took the
shape of an online conference.
Thapar MUN 2021 initiated with the opening Ceremony wherein the General Secretary, Director-
General, Chargé d’affaires, Head of International Press and Deputy Secretary-General addressed the
delegates. Lastly, the Secretary-General addressed the assemblage and declared the conference open.
In its eleventh edition, Thapar MUN 2021 observed a simulation of 6 committees along with the
International Press Corps; which cumulatively led to a tremendous participation of more than 300
delegates. This participation, however, was not confined merely to Thapar Institute, the conference
recognised participation from some of the most eminent colleges from all over the nation - Jesus
and Mary College, Delhi Technological University, Punjab Engineering College, to name a few.
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA-SPECPOL)
The UNGA at Thapar MUN 2021 discussed the very imperative issue of the
status of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Many inhabitants of the Non-Self-
Governing Territories are of the notion that the Administering Powers
act supreme, and the predicaments of racism and discrimination
continue to divide their society. Taking this issue into account the
committee deliberated on various prospective measures that can help
establish a situation of stability in these regions.
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United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
Disagreements and conflicting political views can irrefutably transpire unless they are engrained in
the denial of humanity and rudimentary rights to exist. Several wars inflicted violence and crimes are
swept under the carpet since they are not directly listed under the ‘International Humanitarian Law’.
This handcuffs several nations and necessitates to be pondered over- with revised rules and laws.
Thus, the United Nations Human Rights Council deliberated to come up with measures in order to
protect Human Rights against War Crimes.
World Health Organization (WHO)
While the world strives to emerge out of this vulnerable COVID-19 situation, the significance of
strengthening the health care system cannot be stressed enough. On that very imperative note, the
formal session of the World Health Organization (WHO), converged its discussion on combating the
pandemic with an efficient vaccination process and furthermore, build a healthcare system concrete
enough to confront any such issue with efficiency in the future.
All India Political Parties Meet (AIPPM)
The electoral system of India is said to be contaminated by the influence of money and muscle
power and thus ought to be subjected to reforms. Besides, a lot of the government’s money, time
and energy is directed on the conduct of different elections in the country, which is another cause
for concern. With these issues at hand, the All India Political Parties Meet held discussions on
prospective reforms in the Indian Electoral Design that could help alleviate the current situation.
Stakeholders Meet
With the protest against the Indian Agricultural Acts 2020 extending nearly
over four months, the Stakeholders Meet deliberated upon the future
that the agriculture sector of the nation holds amidst the havoc the
society is enduring. However, the situation did not seem to get on to
a point of consensus. The committee concluded with the delegates
putting forward solutions to settle the matter.
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Committee X (UN Command)
Committee X, unveiled as the UN Command, simulated the situation of the Korean War. On June
25, 1950, the North Korean People’s Army splashed across the 38th parallel, marking the beginning
of the Korean War. Following this, on June 27, 1950, US President Harry S. Truman ordered the
air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the nation in repulsing an invasion by North Korea. By
July, American troops entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. The Committee witnessed dynamic
discussions with the influx of continuous updates.
International Press Corps
The International Press Corps comprised reporters and caricaturists who captured the entire
conference in the shape of art and articles. The reporters observed the deliberations between various
delegates in all the committees, conducted Press Conferences and seized the committee in form of
articles while the caricaturists encapsulated the conference in pictorial form.
Conclusively, the International Press Corps successfully released two Standpoints covering the
entire MUN conference.
The two days of the conference, packed with turbulent debate and dynamic discussions
came to a conclusion. The Executive Boards announced the awards of their
respective committees and finally, the Secretary-General declared the
conference closed.
With a word of coming back with even intriguing subjects of discussion
and intensified debating quality, Thapar MUN Society looks forward
to hosting you all at Thapar MUN 2022.
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Should only the Literate Vote?
- Anirudh Singh
Socrates said that giving voting rights to everyone
in a democracy is a bad idea because people don’t
know what they want most of the time. They’ll
end up making the wrong choices and end up
wrecking society. One instance he cites is of a
Ship with a navigator. The navigator is the only
one who knows where the ship should go, but
he’s not democratically elected. The crew throw
him out and choose a more likeable person. The
ship ends up going wayward and everyone gets
screwed.
It’s quite true and it’s a legitimate theory, but is
our democracy only about the right to vote? Is
democracy not more than this? Every citizen
should be able to vote in a democracy, citizens
have a conscious and they decide whom to vote
according to what they believe is right or wrong,
in a democracy like India we surely need the
lower pyramid (in terms of economy) to vote as
it’s the only hope for them to come out of misery
and there is no guarantee that the knowledgeable
class would listen and even cast votes to those
who would work for the poor. knowledge does
not bring empathy, in a democracy this would
be important.
Urban India does not vote for rural India and vice
versa, there would become a huge imbalance in
the representation in this system too.
In a democracy, it’s not who should vote? but it’s
the dissent and truth that the literate ones should
think about.
Even though India has developed slowly, we have
always tried to bring each and everyone on this
path of development and I hope this continues.
A person from a lower economy knows what’s
going on around, he wants to speak but he does
not have a platform to speak, he may get a chance
to speak but it’s taken away by those who are
privileged but foolish than him/her.
Over here our roles start (the literate, the
privileged) and the politician’s end, most of us
have a good lifestyle and can think on topics, we
need to influence not votes but people to think
with a rational mind, we need to start good
debates, in India, many of us have a well-informed
mind and the least thing in a democracy we can
do is to inform others. I also hope to see a new
crop in politics where informed minds reach and
not ill-willed people.
The lower pyramid is aware of the short-comings,
they were just given hope and they voted, we have
to voice their hopes again to whom they gave them
hope so that in the next election they vote with an
assurance that democracy is more than a vote.
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Elon Musk and his Space
Adventures
- Sahil Chugh
While the last decade has witnessed a tremendous
growth in technology and exploring space, it will
be unfair to not mention the name of Elon Muskthe
entrepreneur who has the vision of creating
another Earth but better and sustainable.
While this vision seems intriguing and somewhat
impossible to achieve, Musk has laid out a pretty
impressive plan to safely reach Mars and colonize
it with the least number of human workforce
possible!
With the help of his company, Space X, he has
decided to manufacture re-useable rockets which
will be making several trips to Mars back and
forth. However, this can only be achieved when
Musk is able to establish a refuelling centre at
Mars also and consequently start Interplanetary
Transportation System.
Once spaceships can refuel at the Red Planet
it can easily make a trip back to earth and
therefore several such trips will also ensure that
people transported to the planet have a good
chance of returning back also.
Eventually, Musk wrote, he envisions 1,000 or
more ITS spaceships, each carrying 100 or more
people, leaving Earth orbit during each of
these Mars windows. The architecture
could conceivably get 1 million
people to Mars within the
next 50 to 100 years,
he has said.
However, this is
not it !! Apart from
establishing fuel
centres at Mars, Musk’s game plan involves setting
up a propellant production plant that will be
collecting one ton of ice per day to create new fuel,
while also establishing basic life support systems.
Hydroponics essentially involves growing plants
in a solution filled with nutrients, making direct
contact with the roots, instead of using soil. This
seems to be one of the smartest and most efficient
methods of creating a self-sustaining colony on
Mars with enough potential to extend such a
lifestyle and hence lead to the first-ever smart city
on the Red Planet.
The Tesla Founder has even suggested a theory
which scientists are still researching upon - “
Given the basic atmospheric scheme of Mars
if we apply enough pressure directed towards
the ground, it is possible to reinstate all basic
elements of air at mars as then the byproduct of
the reaction which is Carbon Dioxide will settle in
the upper atmosphere that is crucial to start The
Water Cycle!!!
While Musk’s intention and SpaceX’s vision is
planned to be achieved by 2060, some might say
that the deadline is bogus especially taking into
consideration the delay that has been caused due
to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also, establishing Smart City, rocket fuel Centers
and Water Cycle on a planet that is 260 million km
away is a very huge statement and hard to imagine
but if this is ever possible the next big thing to
discuss will be the stakeholders of the New Mars.
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How Misuse of State Machinery are
Setting up Bad Examples
Central Investigative Agencies and State Police forces
are turning into personal militias of the centre and state
governments which used for political vendetta rather
than for public welfare.
All over the country, the government agencies have
been unleashed by both centre and state to protect their
interests and punish their critics. These agencies have
often come into a serious conflict among themselves
when two opponent parties are at loggerheads. The
whole fiasco witnessed in Bengal between the CBI and
Kolkata Police in Feb 2019 is nothing but a national
shame. CBI arrived for the questioning of the police
commissioner in a very unconventional method.
While the State government and the Kolkata Police hit
back by staging a dharna for the support of CP and
the police led a temporary siege to the headquarters.
The centre government were protecting their dear
leashed parrot who harasses their opponents, while
the state was defending their purge tool. The state
machinery is working as the SS for those who are in
power.
This centre-state distrust is a clear result of the way
CBI and revenue officials are making regular visits
and raid to the critics and opposition to the central
government. Then we have state governments
indulging in their own misuse of the police force.
We have the Maharastra government harassing
their own critics with BMC raids and demolitions
instead of a CBI raid. They have also transferred
their Mumbai Commissioner, while the
DGP had resigned to join the CISF.
While the Commissioner has
revealed how ASI Sachin
Waze was used by the
home minister for
the extortion. The
case of ASI Waze
was itself curious.
- Srajan Dikshit
Waze resigned from the police after he was accused
of custodial death of another accused criminal. He
joined the Shiv-Sena party, and when the party formed
the government he was re-instated in the police
force. Currently, ASI Waze has been slapped with
UAPA by the NIA in a case related to the murder of a
businessman and gelatin sticks. It seems that the centre
which is miffed with the MVA government won’t miss
this chance at all.
New tremors were witnessed in the Bihar Assembly
where a violent scuffle broke out between the
opposition and government MLAs over the new police
law i.e. Bihar Special Armed Police Bill 2021. This law
changes the name of the state’s armed police- Bihar
Military Police to Bihar Special Armed Police and gives
them sweeping powers to arrest, seizures and search
without any warrants and clearance of a Magistrate.
This will become a Na Appeal – Na Vakeel – Na Daleel
until they catch somebody and take that person to the
court. This law will replace the Bihar Military Police Act,
1892. This empowers special police to arrest over mere
suspicion, the court can take cognizance of complaints
and seek accountability from this force unless they get
a clearance from the state government. These powers
are even greater than the AFSPA. This law will set a bad
precedent giving incentive to state to form their own
private armies and use it to defend their state borders
and interest.
We can only apologize to Victor Hugo, that in India;
nobody can stop a bad idea whose time has come.
Politicians and Parties continue to use their police
and agencies to fix their opposition and the people
they don’t like. Bad precedents have been set out quite
regularly the way state machinery has been reduced to
a political vendetta tool. Their credibility and public
trust are being tarnished at the behest of the Politicians
they serve. It is disheartening to see Public servants
serve anyone but the public.
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The Multiverse
- Archi Chaudhary
Is there another version of you reading this article,
deciding to put it aside without finishing this sentence
while you choose to read? A person living on a planet
called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and
sprawling cities, in a similar solar system with seven
other planets! The life of this person has been identical
to yours in every respect - until now, that is when you
get to know about the existence of your doppelganger
in a universe far, far away. The idea that our universe
is just one of many or maybe infinite, other universes
is known as the multiverse theory.
For an instance, let’s think of our insipid normal
universe that we dwell in, following our daily routines,
running errands. Consider an average human being
from this universe, Raman, who is an employee
under a strict employer. Raman is a fellow who
has to work for a living but postpones his work
till the last possible minute. Yet when he does the
work, he makes sure that it is done to the best of his
capabilities. He earns a subsistence wage, feeds his
family and lives a simple life, enjoying all the small
luxuries and moments of joy. In a parallel universe,
where technology has boomed way past the mark
today, there exists a brilliant, young Nobel prize
laureate, also called Raman and identical in age,
face, DNA and most other physical aspects to our
average Raman. He is a researcher who knows a lot
about the parallel universes and has studied them
extensively. He is a professor, a scholar and a diligent,
silent worker who live all by himself devoting
all his time and energy to his work with
numerous discoveries and inventions
to his credit. He is a scientist
who doesn’t procrastinate,
always wishes to give
his best and does
his job with utmost
sincerity. There
might be another
macrocosm, where
in the same city, at the same place, the same raman lives
in ugly wealthiness, his riches extorted, snatched and
looted from the helpless and the poor. Committing
lowly crimes, this Raman is a disgusting, self centred,
cold hearted human. Lacking the love, kindness and
generosity of his counterparts in other universes, he
is a greedy man who would be a shocking disgrace to
his clones in the parallel universes.
The physical difference between the three? None.
All three live in their own environment, with the
different perspectives towards their lives. All follow
varying mindsets and methodologies. They might
be the same person but are composed of their own
characteristics and traits. Their worlds migh have
evolved differently but the people are still the same.
Other universes might even be a little different- there
may be an earth where dinosaurs were not wiped
out or even an Earth where our more advanced and
intelligent twins thrive.
And there could be universes completely unlike our
own, with no Earths, perhaps no stars and galaxies,
like we know them. Us humans have had a wellknown
past and present of having hubris, arrogantly
imagining ourselves at center stage, with everything
revolving around us even when we didn’t have the
smallest clue about our universe. We’ve gradually
learned that it is we who are revolving around the
sun, which is itself revolving around, this galaxy
among countless others thus proving our own
theories wrong. There might still be other truths lying
unknown to us, yet to be discovered.
Thanks to the breakthroughs in physics, we are
gaining still deeper insights into the true nature of
reality. Quite soon, we may find ourselves inhabiting a
reality grander than our ancestors could have dreamt
of in their wildest dreams.
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Deciphering India And The Essence
Of Indian-Ness!
- Piyush Zaware
Our very own Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
mantra for the entrepreneurs, or for that matter
for the whole of India, is simple: Innovate. This is
easier said than done. India used to be a country
of innovation, which gave the world zero-concept,
astronomy, philosophy, etc. In fact, Indians knew
before anyone else how to calculate the distance
between the earth and the moon. More than that, the
influence of Vedantic philosophy on Greek thought
and mythology, or of Vedic Maths on the making
of the Egyptian pyramids, has been remarked upon
by many Indologists, France’s Alain Danielou being
one of them. Even after the savage onslaught of Arab
invasions, from the 10th century onwards, Chinese
and Portuguese writers still marveled in the 16th
century at India being a land of ‘gold and honey,’
where the ‘iron never rusted,’ as symbolized by the
Vishnu pillar, which is today in Delhi’s Qutub Minar.
It is probably the British colonization that blunted
the Indian innovation spirit. First, the English
broke the backbone of rural India, which had lived
on barter for centuries – farmers would exchange
part of their crops for whatever they needed
from potters, weavers, food merchants, etc., –
by imposing crops, they required for their
industrial revolution, such as tobacco
or cotton, which led to widespread
famines in the 19th and
early 20th century. And
then the infamous
Macaulay decided
that the only way
to win India’s heart
would be to fashion a class of Indians, educated in
Oxford or Cambridge, that would think like the
British and act as intermediaries with the ‘natives’.
This masterstroke heralded the end of India’s
innovation, as Indian leaders started copying
everything that the British did. At Independence
indeed, Nehru adopted whatever the British had
left – the constitutional, judicial, education systems,
without caring to adapt them to the Indian psyche,
which is unique and very different from the English.
The result today is that Indians lag three decades
behind nations like China, which was in the
same bracket as India at Independence, with
overpopulation, analphabetism, and poverty.
Take the manufacturing sector, for instance; since
Independence, India has often copied English models,
such as the Ambassador car, the Royal Enfield Bullet,
or the Raleigh cycle, selling them at huge profits for
decades and never caring much to improve them.
Today we see even companies like Hero, who for
decades produced the same heavy cycle and still do,
partner with the Japanese to produce better quality
products, then dump them unceremoniously after
copying the Japanese models – and still not able
to come up with anything new. We also observe
that since the much-hyped software revolution
happened in India 20 years ago, Indian companies
are still not manufacturing any hardware worth the
name for computers; even more, no computers of
international quality. This is not to say that Indians
did not innovate at all-but when it happened, it was
the exception to the rule – like the Tatas, for instance.
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A word about Indian architecture, which used to be
one of the most innovative in the world – witness
Mohenjo-Daro, or the recently discovered marvel
of Sinauli whose planning, houses, sewer systems,
water supplies were so good that it would take
Europe quite a few centuries to catch-up. Today
India is a vast jungle of concrete, city after city, town
after small town in styles used in the ‘50s in the
West and since then have been razed. It’s only the
five-star hotels that have borrowed some of India’s
architectural genius and used indigenous materials,
tiles, wooden pillars, inner courtyards, thatch.
Today Indian universities teach the same curriculum
that is imparted in the West. As a result, they produce
brilliant clones with no roots in their own culture
and are only suitable for export. This is, in fact, what
happens: as most Indians who go abroad, either as
students or on employment, eventually settle there and
their children and grandchildren, are lost for India,
without bringing anything of an Indian-ness to the
Thus it is clear that India does not innovate anymore.
What is that Indian-ness then? And what to do so that
Indians become innovators again and not copiers
anymore? If France had one Jeanne d’Arc, India
has had dozens of them: Rani of Jhansi, Ahiliabai,
Chennai, Rani Abbakka, Rani Rudramma, Rani
Velu Nachiyar, etc. The British have Shakespeare,
but India’s Kalidasa, even translated from Sanskrit,
is one of the greatest poets ever, on par with
Homer. In warfare, the French had Napoleon,
but Maharashtra’s very own Shivaji Maharaj
should be a hero for Modern India: alone
with a few hundred men, he stood
against the most powerful army
in the world of his time,
with only his wits
and extraordinary
courage. But
is he taught in
schools? No!
Every civilization has its view of the world and
man’s place in it, values that leak into the psyche of
its members. Sympathy has been a dominant value
in the world view of our civilization. What happens
then when Indian-ness blooms? First a feeling of
nationalism: “I am proud to be an Indian” – not
like often now: ‘” am ashamed to be an Indian, as
intellectuals and media keep harping about our
poverty, castes wars, or fundamentalism; let me
thus blend in the US and become totally American,
or British.” Secondly, “I excel in business, in arts, in
entertainment, in sports, not only for myself but
also for my nation.” And finally: “it’s been a privilege
to be born in a country where such an ancient
Knowledge still exists, whereas it has disappeared
from other ancient civilizations such as Greece,
Egypt, or Mesopotamia; let me give me back to my
country a little bit.” We are an established state but
an emerging nation. Given the march of exclusive
nationalisms all over the world in recent years,
religious nationalism in Turkey, Indonesia, India and
parts of the Islamic world, racial nationalism in the
United States, cultural ‘sons of the soil’ nationalism
in most of Europe, one would be tempted to say that
a secular, inclusive nationalism was a liberal dream
which has few takers today. But perhaps what is
needed is a vision of inclusive nationalism that is not
of the ‘progressive’ kind, which only pays homage to
man’s reason and conditions of material life, but one
that bases itself on the fostering of a consciousness
irradiated by our civilizational heritage of sympathy.
What is needed is a revival of an ‘idea of India’ that
has deep roots in our civilization and to which our
most significant cultural icons have borne witness,
namely that each one of us is deeply embedded with
other human beings as also connected to animate
and inanimate nature. This connectedness demands
the cultivation of sympathy for all that is not-self.
Jay Hind!
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The Poet’s Sphere
Let’s get
Lost- Netra Hirani
Let’s get lost.
Somewhere, someday.
No maps, No plans.
Let’s get lost.
Just the me and you.
Walking on red bricks
Of some faraway Costa land.
Racing along the
hot dog vendor streets,
Laughing at thrift stores,
You could play guitar
and I could shuffle my feet.
Let’s get lost.
We could find new homes,
In the hearts of
places and people,
We could spend an evening
With our toes dug in sand,
We could watch a sunrise,
From the old buildings of
Some city in Ecuador.
Let’s get lost.
No worries about
money in our pockets,
We can always wait a table,
For a month with our exotic
Indian accent, in a Russian country.
We could be on a run,
Running away from monotony,
Running away from Normal.
Let’s get lost.
Our passports could reflect
an outdated Atlas.
We could read so many books
In small cute cafés
With a dollar pizza slice.
I could buy me
Big old cowboy boots
And you could mend an
Old sexy motorbike,
We could climb mountains,
We could drift along the skies,
There’s so much to life,
So much when
there are no plans.
I don’t need a lover,
I don’t need a partner,
A lot of secrets, and undying life
Just take my hand
With a promise of never-ending
Crazy maddening eternal
Beautiful Friendship
And let’s get lost
Just me and you.
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India’s Vacuous Sachem
- Muskaan Walia
The recent commemoration of International Women’s Day on the 8th of March was observed throughout
the world with varying degrees of enthusiasm. While there was as common front on the need for Equality
and observance of basic Human Rights for all, our elected officials have not always held on to these ideals.
“Just because India achieved freedom
at midnight does not mean that
women can venture out after dark.”
“Anklets should be banned. The
clinking sound can distract boys. It can
affect their studies and concentration.”
Botsa Satyanarayana
KA Sengottaiyan
“Women wearing powder and
lipsticks are the same as J&K
terrorists.”
“Every Hindu woman must
produce at least 3-4 kids to protect
Hinduism.”
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Sakshi Mahajan
“We have power and the state
government at our disposal. We
won’t let the police intervene in child
marriage.”
Shobha Chouhan
“When a daughter is born, plant a tree.
Twenty years later, you can sell five
trees for her wedding.”
Narendra Modi
“Earlier, if men and women would hold
hands, they would get caught by parents
and reprimanded. But now everything is
so open. Rapes happen because men
and women interact freely.”
Mamata Banerjee
“Such crimes hardly take place in
Bharat, but they occur frequently in
India. Go to villages, no gang rapes or
sex crimes there, they are prevalent in
urban areas.”
Mohan Bhagwat
“Women wearing ripped jeans cannot provide
the right environment at home for their
children.”
Tirath Singh Rawat
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India VS England
1.
- Aditya Kumar
2.
4.
3.
6.
5.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Down:
1. Batsman cum bowling captain
4. Believes the Indian team is actually
Mumbai Indians
6. He hits his shots into his name
8. Most entertaining keeper
11. The perfect spinning debut
13. Spartans had 300. This
guy has 400
Across:
2. Told No.5 to look at the ball
3. Stadium as big as the personality.
5. Struck at 70
7. This one is for you, Dad
9. Win toss, bowl first, lose- repeat
10. The Lord who saves India at crucial
times
12. You want this guy cheering for the
opposition
Answers
1-Rohit Sharma 2-AB de Villiers 3-NaMo Stadium 4-Michael Vaughan 5-Virat Kohli 6-SKY
7-Krunal Pandya 8-Rishabh Pant 9-England 10-Shardul Thakur 11-Axar Patel 12-Gautam
Gambhir 13-Ashwin
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Prodigious Disputes In The World
- Muskaan Walia
Russia
and
Georgia
China
and
Tibet
These two countries have fought many wars and now are at a point
that in near future the hope of bringing peace in the relation of
these two countries is very slim. The tensions between Georgia
and Russia, which had been heightened even before the collapse
of the Soviet Union, climaxed during the secessionist conflict
in Abkhazia in 1992-93. After that, it was all downside. Few
prominent incidents include the 2008 Georgia–Russia crisis, 2007
Georgian demonstrations, 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and
Georgian wines, 2006 Georgian–Russian espionage controversy
and the deportation of Georgians from Russia in 2006.
This rivalry goes back to the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by
the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1453. Following the Greek War of
Independence, the Greeks regained their autonomy in 1832. The newly
established Greek Republic and the Ottomans would fight further
wars over the years, culminating in World War I. Despite the Ottoman
Empire being dissolved at the end of that war, little was resolved, and
only a year after WWI’s conclusion, the two were at war once again.
Many of these tensions have carried over to today, as threats and ill will
continue to be exchanged between Greece and Turkey.
Greece
and
Turkey
Tibet has always been oppressed by the People’s Liberation Army of China.
From 1951 to 1959, after eight long years of oppression, the Tibetans gave
rise to the famous Tibetan Uprising against the PLA of China. In 1959,
the Tibetan Uprising lead by the 14th Dalai Lama revolted against the
Chinese Government. It was a failed attempt, and Dalai Lama had to
flee to India, with his few thousand followers. The rivalry between the
Tibetan Government, which is in exile as of now, states that Tibet is an
independent territory under unlawful occupation, while the Chinese
Government states that Tibet is an integral part of China.
One of the most absurd culmination of international rivalry
occurred in 1969 when El Salvador invaded Honduras over a
soccer game. The conflict is referred to as ‘The Football War’.
To be fair there was a lot of tension between the two
countries at the time and the conflict went deeper
than the rather superficial tag that history
has placed upon it. Still, folks take to
soccer, excuse me, football, seriously.
El
Salvador
and
Honduras
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@thaparmunsociety
@thaparmunsociety
@thapar-mun-society
@thaparMUN
https://thaparmunsociety.in/
IP Head:
Suvrat Arora
Head of Design:
Satyam Gupta
Designed By:
Muskaan Walia