For Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) ‘superhero’ has a standard definition. They are intelligent, sedulous, good looking, sacrificing, male, white and the hope of humanity. The conception is so immutable that even though recently there have been number of female characters portraying such characters, we still don’t have a word for female super'hero'? Merriam Webster says it is ‘superheroine’, as it logically should be. But it hasn’t really caught up and also it does not have that ‘superhero waali feeling’ as is also the case with ‘superhuman’, which misses the concept of ‘protagonist’ altogether. Even the storyline of these superhero movies is quite standard. A city in the US is in danger. It falls in the hands of a superhero, as defined above, to save millions of lives because it is his destiny to do so. A fight ensues between the superhero and the villain amongst the high-rise buildings of a metropolitan American city. It is the fantasy story of an ordinary westerner which is
Economics is not a science. Economists and textbooks of economics will die trying to convince you that it is indeed a science but let me tell you, it is not. Economics is more of an ex post facto kind of science, even if it is any. It is a rarity when it is able to predict correctly the outcome or repercussions of any measure, which is the touchstone of any scientific discipline, the capacity to foresee. It does explain, with great precision, the rationale behind the events that have already taken place. In those aspects, it does work on logic and has theories and principles of its own. But for ensuing events, it relies more on sentiments than on any logic or equation. Sentiments of the market I mean. With the world market nose-diving, courtesy trade war, rising oil prices, trade protectionism, geopolitical tensions, and numerous other reasons, the resilient Indian economy has also been gasping for breath. The GDP growth percentage has almost