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.
The farmers' agitation in India against three controversial farming reforms has put the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dock as it appears to be groping in the dark to find an amicable solution to defuse the crisis that could potentially have far-reaching implications as the country’s economy that is largely dependent on agriculture
Sleep
Between the dreams of old
Urging the Commonwealth Secretariat to take a lead in ensuring that the marginalized and most vulnerable people in countries like India and Pakistan are kept in mind while producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, CHRI has said that “people” should be placed “before power, price and profit.”
Lost in the woods, as it were
‘Love jihad’ is a term of recent vintage, coined by the Hindu right-wing, for Muslims who they allege seduce Hindu women to convert to Islam on the pretext of love and marriage
Unsullied lies the lotus flower
Remove the cobwebs from your mind
Bits of Satan live within me
The Pakistani 'deep state; has suffered a devastating blow with the bloody interception of battle-hardened terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit at the Nagrota toll plaza in Jammu district on November 19
China has not concealed its ambition to become the global superpower by dominating the world politically, economically, and militarily
Rob the poor to feed the rich
If the Indian madrassas could reorient themselves, it may silence their critics besides influencing the government to support these initiatives
26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his aides being handed down a collective imprisonment of over 10 years in terror-financing cases is being viewed as yet another farcical exercise conducted by Pakistan to fool the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which has retained the deep state on its grey list since 2018
Prairies, Steppes, Savannahs all
