When the whole world is grapple with a new disease coronavirus, COVID-19, and staying home is the only option to protect themselves but for those experiencing domestic abuse –the vast  majority of whom are women, children, and LGBTQ +individual home is a dangerous place. Definition Understanding its definition can help us to take more effective action against its manifestation of abuse. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior the purpose of which is to gain control over a spouse, partner, girl/boyfriend, or intimate family member. Globally the victims of domestic violence are overwhelmingly women, sometimes victim even may not realize that abusers are inflicting domestic violence on them and they thought it must be a family conflict which goes out of control. It was in the year 1989 that a committee of United Nation recommended that its member state should act to protect women from violence of any kind and especially that occurring within the family. With a view to give ...

"Comrades-comrades come along, let's choose the prettiest of them all- that young girl so thin and tall with lustrous hair, spotless skin is surely the best and will rise above the rest." Today, there are a no. of platforms that can be used to evoke progression, and for creating breakthroughs one of these they say are pageants. These extremely glamorous beauty pageants have somehow managed to gain popularity since their centuries-old tradition and are holding their position of esteem even in 2020. Why have these pageants been so sought-after? One of the most important reasons is, they are said to provide a huge platform to the candidates to present themselves before the world, besides this, they generate employment for a section of the society thus enabling more job opportunities in the field of acting, business, etc. but for the good of a few can the harm it is doing by setting such unrealistic standards of beauty in the society be neglected? When these contests allure a...

Have you ever wondered why nuclear disarmament attempts always fail? Or why we have a festering problem of "free-riding" when it comes to public goods? Or on a fundamental level, why is it said that we can't live peacefully in the absence of a state formed on the basis of a social contract? This article tries to explain these phenomena by borrowing some ideas from the yet developing but fascinating branch of social sciences called Game Theory, devoted to studying strategic decisions. Ideas from the game theory have very wide applicability and can help us understand many social situations. "Prisoners' Dilemma" is one such idea which I'm going to use to explain the need for social cooperation or theoretically a "social contract". To illustrate what this dilemma is all about, let's turn to one of its classic representations given by one of its earliest developers A. W. Tucker: Suppose there are two prisoners A and B, suspects of a major cr...