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.
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.
Ties between India and East and Southeast Asia are bound to strengthen, given the growing synergies in strategic areas such as defence, critical technology and higher education. It is important for Indian students, professionals, and skilled workers to harness educational and work opportunities in that region that is open to receiving Indian students and techies. This is especially important given that countries in the Anglosphere, not just the US but also Canada and to an extent Australia, are adopting increasingly insular immigration policies and tightening student and work visa regulations.
Across Kashmir, the image of crowded reading rooms alongside empty classrooms should compel us to reflect on the direction our education system is taking. Reading rooms may help students prepare for examinations, but schools and colleges prepare them for life.
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
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 Pandemic and the World
The Candle that carries Hope throughout the nights, dark
Inclement is a funny word
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
We dare not go ashore lest, perchance, we get into a snare
Willows swaying by the riverside
The aching heart needs some love
Let’s cut the mournful numbers out
You may not always as you desire, succeed
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
Enmity and Jealousy both see Virtue as a thorn
Hold the hand of Silence
Wear your mask, keep your distance, be Sensible
