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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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