As we enter the holiday season and approach the new year, I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt best wishes to and for India and Indians
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'Girls going to schools would be the real revolution in Afghanistan'
The daughters and granddaughters of these warlords, like those of several key Taliban commanders, live and study abroad. Sabori’s school in Archi is half-closed, owing to the ban on education for girls over 12 years of age. Several underground schools have sprung up where even some Taliban foot-soldiers send their daughters.
Where Happiness is a Measure of Governance: What Bhutan’s Democratic Consolidation Can Teach Global South Nations
As democracies around the world confront public dissatisfaction, Bhutan reminds us that the health of a democracy cannot be measured only through the ballot box. It must also be evaluated through the well-being, dignity, security, and trust experienced by citizens.
India's Education Deficit: Real Reforms Lie in Making Coaching Redundant
India's digital infrastructure can certainly deliver free coaching to millions. But an even greater achievement would be to build an education and employment system in which families no longer feel compelled to buy coaching in the first place. Making bottled water cheaper is useful. Making the water from taps trustworthy is the real solution.
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Happy New Year
May there be no doubts, no fears, ahead
A love affair with steam engines
As one grows older one remembers nostalgically the era gone by
Why Do We Want To Be
Like Someone Else
Me And My Little Flower
Cast no shadow upon me,
Vendetta
Vengeance is a bit of a joke
To Sleep
To Sleep
Some Literary Nonsense
Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, all dead,
Indian educational institutes pledge to achieve carbon neutrality
As many as 12 vice-chancellors of various prestigious educational institutions in India took a voluntary pledge to develop the roadmap towards making their university carbon-neutral on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on December 12
Wearing the Garb of Innocence
Wearing the garb of innocence
Rise To The Challenge, O Lord
Through the tavern door as I stumbled forth
Is Kashmir's terror heartland turning its back on militancy?
Southern Kashmir's Tral in Pulwama district has for long retained several dubious distinctions in the last 31 years of armed insurgency in the valley
How homeopathy works on the human body: A conjecture
I am an amateur homeopathic practitioner and have been using it for myself, my family, and a few of my friends for the last 20-25 years
Denuclearize
I see calls for wakefulness
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If there is an after life
