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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.
Indian Students, Techies Look Eastward as Ties with East/Southeast Asia Grow
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.
Empty Classrooms, Crowded Reading Rooms and a Growing Educational Concern
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.
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Keep India’s morale high in this hour of crisis
What the governments need today from the politicians, critics and media are not destructive criticism, but constructive suggestions with an attitude of cooperation and support
The Call of the Wilds
Nothing brings me nearer to Thee
Don’t Just Dream, Live Them too
Let’s get drunk on Happiness
One God, let’s not test His Patience
Waheguru, Dieu, Allah, Prabhu
Failure of leadership in India
There is hardly any mechanism of self-correction or mid-course correction since the people who can give alternative advice have been filtered out from the decision-making process
The Leaf, Charmed By The Waves
The leaf that does, forever, float
No Greater Balm For The Soul
The gentle sounds of running water
Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Emergency COVID-19 Assistance for India
Reflecting the United States’ solidarity with India as it battles a new wave of COVID-19 cases, the United States is delivering supplies worth more than $100 million in the coming days to provide urgent relief to our partners in India
Time And Tide
When Time seems to hang a bit
Unfair criticism of prime minister is weakening India's fight
Modi knows that a large section of the Indian population stands by him as he tackles this grave crisis, though some opposition parties, pledged critics and sections of the media want to paint a different picture
Asian Americans must fight for their rightful place in America
Like many Americans, I reacted to the recent murders of six Asian Americans in Atlanta with horror
Don’t Speak, Just Smile
Don’t speak, just smile!
India needed better foresight and planning in vaccinations
Eight months ago, the daily Covid 19 infections began a declining trend in India to the extent that by January, India’s leadership itself, going by its own policy actions, believed that a devastating second wave was unlikely
H N Bahuguna: A man who could be prime minister
He would have become the prime minister of India had he not changed parties too often, writes Anil K. Rajvanshi for South Asia Monitor
