Reforming Higher Education in India

Reforming Higher Education in India: Institutions Should Have Freedom to Innovate While Remaining Accountable

The future of Indian higher education may depend not on greater central control, but on creating autonomous institutions operating within a strong framework of accountability.

BIMSTEC’s Strategic Challenge to Pakistan: Geopolitical Recasting or Regional Fracture?

Pakistan’s absence is not without costs. Diplomatic exclusion is only one facet of the spectre that looms over the country: limited transit access, reduced prospects for integration into Bay-centric supply networks and weakened soft-power influences across the Indian Ocean littoral.

Proxy Village Governance: The Pradhan Pati Problem in India's Democracy

It has been formally recognised in the Report of the Advisory Committee on Women Pradhans, Transforming Women’s Representation and Role in Panchayati Raj Institutions: Efforts to Eliminate Proxy Participation, which recorded that elected women representatives are often “represented by their husbands or male relatives” and recommended the imposition of stringent and exemplary penalties to curb such practices.

Students Must Study; But They Must Also Ask Questions and not Ignore Injustice

When the university community itself has not succeeded in resolving many serious problems confronting higher education, on what moral basis should students simply be asked to remain silent and trust the system?

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Eyes

Eyes Never look at me and lie,
Cos eyes are windows to the soul,

The World Seen Through the Eyes of the Blind

How much different would the world appear Seen through the eyes of the blind?

If God Resides In The Hearts of Men

If God resides in the hearts of men
As I believe He does,

Golf

If there are no flowers where you are, 
and the stars seem too far, 

The Phantom called immortality

Vast stretches of arid land,
rivers that never know the sands to traverse.
 

At one's mother’s feet

Lies the stairway to heaven,
And eternal peace.

My River

There’s a river i know
Whose name i, often, forget,

There’s Divinity in Silence

Spend time with Silence
For, wisdom lies there,

The Arrogance of Misfortune

Gloat not, O misfortune
Your triumphs are not eternal,

I Often Wonder

If Birds were Man’s Mentor
Would we a better breed be
 

The Cradle of Friendship

The cradle of friendship
Is too delicate for words

Faith

For all my proclamations  of belief, 
Which in intent and conviction are true,

In Search of the Soul

Endless, fruitless, journeys
That we oft embark upon,

In The Precincts Of The Mind

In the precincts of the mind,
In the fortress I call mine,

O Demise, Are You Fair?

O Demise, thou art a friend true
When I feel lost and dark blue