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China has, in the recent decades, has consolidated its interests in the South Asian region. This change in China's foreign policy, from a focus on the North-East and South-East Asia, hints at an attempt to sustain China's own peaceful rise. India, on the other hand, has emphasised on a 'Look East' foreign policy in the recent times. Both India and China share an important diplomatic relationship with Maldives. However, China's growing influence in Maldives might be a serious strategic concern to India. This article is an exploratory study of the relationship that China shares with Maldives and its implications to India.

This study was undertaken to test the effectiveness of Role play model in the achievement of 8th standard students in Hindi when compared to the achievement of their counterparts who were exposed to prevailing method of instruction adopted in the schools of Kerala. The sample consists of 144 students out of which 72 students were included in the Experimental group and the rest in the Control group. Pre-test was conducted and Experimental group was exposed to Role play model and Control group to the prevailing method. The result of the study shows that Role play model is much effective than the traditional method as far as the achievement of students is concerned. The result of the study also shows that when compared to the students in the government school, Role play model was found to be much beneficial to the students of aided schools.

Democracy stands for inclusiveness. It's the form of government and way of social life to be inclusive enough to accommodate a society's diverge sections. Ensuring the weaker and vulnerable sects properly and adequately represented in the spaces of power thus forms the necessary pretext for the success of democracy. Inclusive politics thus form the core tenet of real democracy. Only through constitutional measures can the exacerbating socio-political conditions of Dalits and other weaker sections in India be adequately resolved. Even though local self-governing institutions started functioning in 1959, it continued to be non-participatory and less inclusive for almost three decades. The entire project was dominated by upper castes, expelling Dalits from the centres of power and decision making. But with the 73rd and 74th amendment of 1992, the unfair picture happened to change as provisions were encapsulated in these amendments to assure easy and fearless access of Dalits and weaker sections to grass-root power edifice, which had been anti-Dalit for centuries. This article attempts to analyse how the 73rd and 74th amendments of the constitution contributed in terms of achieving the ultimate goal of inclusive politics