Bhutan and its people

Where Happiness is a Measure of Governance: What Bhutan’s Democratic Consolidation Can Teach Global South Nations

As democracies around the world confront public dissatisfaction, Bhutan reminds us that the health of a democracy cannot be measured only through the ballot box.  It must also be evaluated through the well-being, dignity, security, and trust experienced by citizens.

India's Education Deficit: Real Reforms Lie in Making Coaching Redundant

India's digital infrastructure can certainly deliver free coaching to millions. But an even greater achievement would be to build an education and employment system in which families no longer feel compelled to buy coaching in the first place. Making bottled water cheaper is useful. Making the water from taps trustworthy is the real solution.    

India’s Education Report Card: Student Retention, not Enrolment is Key to Success

The message is clear. India needs not merely more children entering classrooms, but more children staying, completing and learning. Achieving the ambitions of NEP 2020 and SDG 4 will require sustained public investment, stronger secondary-school retention, better support for vulnerable learners and a sharper focus on completion.

For a Developed India, Its Young Need to Be Instilled with Civic Values First

The virtues like civic discipline or gender sensitivity in India are not at premium. Basic civic sense is conspicuous by its absence. It gets manifested as indiscriminate littering, spitting, traffic indiscipline, vulgar or derogatory comments against women etc. Such attitudes find manifestation in foreign destinations as well.

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Materialism at its Zenith

Materialism’s at its Zenith Now
But, Money can’t buy God nor ever will,

Where is the Human Connect Today?

It’s not about Perfection
But, all about Connection,

Befriend your Fears

The look in your eyes is no surprise,
The fear I see is meant to be

To An Old Friendship

I think I knew who lived here once
And, I think, I knew him well,

Twilight

Twilight, that time between sunset and nightfall
When Orange, nay Red, is the colour of the sky,

How Arty is the World of Artificial Intelligence,( AI ) 

Is AI the  way forward, or
Out there to destroy Humanity,
 

Blue Moon

O waning moon, where do you go?
Why are you not on constant show?

Milestones

Milestones are milestones, mere distance recorders
How you travelled and journeyed unknown,

Time, the Vagabond

Each grain of Sand does a message carry
Stagnation’s ruin, do not tarry,

A Lost World

Never has the world so lost its way
As it has, alas, so sadly today,

Desire

O how immortal is the soul,
And how fatal is desire,

If This Valley In Which I Wander

If this valley in which I wander,
And the hills surrounding it,

Pandora’s Box

If the box was full of Evil
Why was it gifted at all?

A Missive (Not a Missile) for Peace, Mr. President

Certainly, do what you think you must
To keep your country ‘first’

My Life

When I look back at the years gone by
I do so with a gentle smile