Is that the answer to life’s puzzle
The Reconstituted Nalanda: Can it Leverage its Civilizational Memory to Become an Alternative Academic Hub for the Global South?
Nalanda serves as a counterweight to the historic monopoly of Western universities over social, political, and ecological theory. It invites Asian and African scholars to address regional dilemmas such as resource sovereignty, post-colonial statehood, and sustainable modernization using indigenous analytical categories.
'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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The Ballad of the Sea
The voice I heard came from the seas
Till the end of Time
Till the stars in the sky
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
Primordial are all impulses
India’s controversial farm bills: Will it benefit farmers or destroy agriculture?
The farmers' agitation in India against three controversial farming reforms has put the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dock as it appears to be groping in the dark to find an amicable solution to defuse the crisis that could potentially have far-reaching implications as the country’s economy that is largely dependent on agriculture
The Enigma Called Sleep
Sleep
Me and My Destiny
Between the dreams of old
Marganlised and vulnerable should be on priority list for COVID-19 vaccine: CHRI
Urging the Commonwealth Secretariat to take a lead in ensuring that the marginalized and most vulnerable people in countries like India and Pakistan are kept in mind while producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, CHRI has said that “people” should be placed “before power, price and profit.”
Ordinary Lives, Lived Just
Lost in the woods, as it were
Bills in the name of ‘love jihad’ undermine India's constitutional liberties
‘Love jihad’ is a term of recent vintage, coined by the Hindu right-wing, for Muslims who they allege seduce Hindu women to convert to Islam on the pretext of love and marriage
Happines lies in your Hands
Unsullied lies the lotus flower
Words that we unthinkably Utter
Remove the cobwebs from your mind
The Tyranny of Truth
Bits of Satan live within me
Pakistan's 'dirty war' against India will have consequences
The Pakistani 'deep state; has suffered a devastating blow with the bloody interception of battle-hardened terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit at the Nagrota toll plaza in Jammu district on November 19
Is RCEP another Chinese trap?
China has not concealed its ambition to become the global superpower by dominating the world politically, economically, and militarily
