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From Farm Chickens to Cockroaches: Why South Asia’s Gen Z Is So Restive

Until the region’s economies produce jobs, and its ministers produce respect, at the pace they produce graduates, South Asia’s Gen Z will keep finding new, and increasingly desperate, ways to be heard

Bridging the Policy Gap: Why Northeast India Cannot Tap Bangladesh Pharma Market Across the Border?

The real question is simpler: do Indian states want to use a resource that is geographically closer, internationally certified, available already, or would they prefer to continue to suffer from a yearly deficit on the other side of the Corridor?

Green AI? The Global South Cannot Afford the Wrong Kind of Digital Growth

In the case of the Global South, this would mean designing AI according to the demands of that particular place and within the bounds of its available power. It would mean opting for small language models, frugality, and less energy-intensive infrastructure over costly mimicry of Silicon Valley.

Inside India's Modern Counter-Terrorism Strategy: The Zero-Tolerance Mandate

The government is also engaging doctors, psychologists, lawyers, civil society organisations, NGOs, religious leaders and community representatives to facilitate de-radicalisation and reintegration. Young people are encouraged to participate in constructive social activities that promote communal harmony and reduce the appeal of extremist ideologies.

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A doc’s unconventional prescription for meeting a possible third Covid wave in India

The next Covid wave will be no less than a ‘war’ and India will have to make preparations similar to what armed forces all over the world do in war situations

Desiderata III

Yes, pre-eminence, surely, must belong to the one who leads

Violent attacks in Afghanistan and the Maldives threaten human rights and democracy

Only the harshest and most forceful terms would be fitting to describe terrorist attacks that specifically target children, no matter in which part of the world

Ending the 'forever war' in Afghanistan: Implications and options for India

Washington has formally started the process of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, beginning the end of what President Joe Biden has famously called "the forever war"

My Banyan Tree and I, It’s not a Tea Party

There’s a Tree that I see in front of my home

Is Peace, Even Remotely, the Desired Objective

I think there is an enormous gap

Nonprofits in Kolkata and Bangalore named finalists in Global Environmental Contest

Solution Search, an effort by international environmental organization Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment recently announced the ten finalists in its ‘Water Pollution & Behavior Change’ contest that highlights local solutions to the world’s most challenging environmental problems

India must have international research team probe truth behind second Covid wave

The truth behind Covid 19 and its second wave in India should be thoroughly investigated, so that the world knows whether it is God-made or man-made

The Weight of the World on Your Shoulders, O Lord

The Weight of the Pandemic and the World

The Candle of Hope and Faith

The Candle that carries Hope throughout the nights, dark

The Inclement, English, Weather

Inclement is a funny word

'Save 100 lives, you are a nurse'

May 12 is celebrated globally as International Nurses Day  and recalls the pioneering contribution of Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910),  who is considered to be  the founder of modern nursing

The Shipwrecked Men at Sea

We dare not go ashore lest, perchance, we get into a snare

The Fairies and I, ( a tete-a-tete )

Willows swaying by the riverside

Desiderata II

The aching heart needs some love