Srinagar school children

School Absenteeism and Growing Coaching Culture: Are we Compromising the Future of an Entire Generation?

If dummy admissions, prolonged school absenteeism, and an unregulated coaching culture continue unchecked, we may end up producing students who have spent enormous amounts of time and money on education without actually receiving the education they need.

Education as a Game Changer for South Asia: India can Become an Educational Leader

If South Asian governments urgently review and reform their education systems, the region can all benefit within 15 years from our demographic dividend and unleash the region's immense knowledge and growth potential within a generation.New education systems must be interactive and inter-operative to allow free movement of professionals, capital and labour around the region

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. 

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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

Destiny

The capriciousness of destiny
at play I see in every day

The Paradox of Time- Life’s Pantomime

Is my Time really mine
Or, is there a paradox there,

Conscience

Light up the wick of Conscience,
And the waiting lamp within,

Chisel Away

Does too much joy a sadness bring
Must there be little bits of everything,

Tears and Time and the Rivers

Rivers flow but they tell us no more
Where they come from , where they go,