New Jersey state’s Asian population has experienced remarkable growth within the last decade
Empty Classrooms, Crowded Reading Rooms and a Growing Educational Concern
Across Kashmir, the image of crowded reading rooms alongside empty classrooms should compel us to reflect on the direction our education system is taking. Reading rooms may help students prepare for examinations, but schools and colleges prepare them for life.
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.
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India: A case for Right To Protest To Be Heard
What needs to be understood is the fact that protests raise significant human rights issues that force the state to act upon its obligations to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible
'India's vaccine program is slow, making country vulnerable to a third or fourth wave'
Global research has established that protection by vaccines doesn't last long anywhere near a full year, as previously hoped. It is now clear that the efficacy of all vaccines drops sharply every month after a person is fully vaccinated
It is inconceivable to call Aligarh by any other name
The impact of rechristening Aligarh and other towns and districts on their local communities, especially those belonging to the Muslim faith, is likely to have disastrous consequences
Kerala-origin doctors hold their annual convention in Atlanta; raise over $200,000 for Covid relief in Kerala
The 42nd annual Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG) convention was held from Friday, August 13 to Sunday, August 15, At the Inter-Continental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia
Spirituality and galactic travel: Was Sage Patanjali an extraterrestrial being?
The future of mankind is to become a galactic traveling civilization and mastering the technology to do so can only come when we develop the wisdom through spirituality to use it wisely
The world should now allow the Afghans to settle their issues themselves
If a Taliban administration is unable to build its credibility, provide effective governance, bring in reforms and control narco-terrorism, it would just need a spark to ignite passions in tribal regions for a Greater Tajikistan and Pashtunistan, leading to the de facto partition of the country
Free knowledge sharing, lifetime memories help in the evolution of mankind
Since our most significant memories remain after death and go to KS, we should all live a full, purposeful, and happy life – a life doing good deeds and karma
Power of response: How Neeraj Chopra crafted his ‘golden’ moment for India at the Olympics
Neeraj Chopra did not wait for the things to happen, but made them happen
Indian American women doctors lead the healthcare challenge
“Never has there ever been such a strong representation of women leaders in AAPI’s leadership positions”
Framed to die: The case of Stan Swamy
PUDR’s report, Framed to Die: The Case of Stan Swamy, offers an exhaustive account of what lay behind Stan Swamy’s death in judicial custody in a private hospital on 5 July 2021
India needs to quicken speed of vaccination, targeted testing to control another Covid wave
The speed of inoculation across India should be increased by supplying the exact doses required by each state
India needs to package the idea of getting vaccinated as a national duty to defeat Covid
A proposed solution would be a multi-sectoral approach involving various stakeholders including the state governments, civil society and private sectors, as also the religious sectors that influence the beliefs of individuals, writes Abhinav Mehrotra for South Asia Monitor
Closer Russian ties with ASEAN will be a rebalancing factor for Asia
Moscow’s worries about India’s tilt towards a closer partnership with the US will complicate its relations with India and create an imbalance in its ties with China and other Asian countries as well
'Southern Bhutanese' diaspora demand revoking of Japanese award to former Bhutanese minister
Recently, 47 organizations all over the world sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga requesting him to roll back the decision to confer the award to Dago Tshering, accusing him of committing human rights abuses and suppression of democracy while he was in power in Bhutan
