Inclement is a funny word
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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'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
The Pandemic and Us
Let’s cut the mournful numbers out
Corny is the World of Men
You may not always as you desire, succeed
Adieu K.R. Gouri, 'Iron Lady' of Kerala and inspiration to women leaders
Gouri Amma had a mind of her own and always lived life on her own terms which did not go down well with the patriarchal society in Kerala
The Virtues of A Rose Elude most Thorns, sadly
Enmity and Jealousy both see Virtue as a thorn
Can’t take life seriously
Hold the hand of Silence
Be Sensible, Say Merci Beaucoup
Wear your mask, keep your distance, be Sensible
Ne l’oublions pas (Lest we forget)
All was ablaze, bizarre the scenes
Why India's Covid battle is making the rich-poor gap starker
Obviously, when the gap between availability and requirement of facilities is so huge, there would be a tendency among the rich to buy them at any cost, whereas others like politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, judges, journalists, etc are going to ‘buy’ the same facilities by peddling their influence
I Wonder
Is it wiser to remain the fool that you are
Take Heed, O Lord, Thou Art Yourself in Danger
Things, O Things, all cluttered around
