Things not always cast in iron
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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"I made a mistake": 'Confessions' of a Kashmiri-footballer-turned-militant
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The Last Words of a Dying Tree
My body is bare from wear and tear
Randomly Yours
What can I say, I’m no sage
The Silver Spoon and The Carving Knife
I often get lost in the sands of time
Many wishes for India: May it continue to celebrate the richness of religious diversity
As we enter the holiday season and approach the new year, I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt best wishes to and for India and Indians
Happy New Year
May there be no doubts, no fears, ahead
A love affair with steam engines
As one grows older one remembers nostalgically the era gone by
Why Do We Want To Be
Like Someone Else
Me And My Little Flower
Cast no shadow upon me,
Vendetta
Vengeance is a bit of a joke
To Sleep
To Sleep
Some Literary Nonsense
Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, all dead,
