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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?

The Ganga Water Treaty Needs More Than Renewal: It Needs Reinvention

The treaty that once symbolized diplomatic success should now become a model for climate-resilient hydro-diplomacy. The river has changed, the climate has changed, and the needs of both nations have changed. The treaty must change with them.

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Pakistan stares at an uncertain future

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Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar to address Indian physicians in US

Indian cricket veteran and former captain Sunil Gavaskar will be a keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Convention of AAPI  to be held in San Antonio, Texas from June 23-26, 2022,” AAPI President Dr. Anupama Gotimukula announced

A dress code that does disservice to education in India - and the global reputation of a state

The girls at the centre of the protest have lost in the near term, but the longer-term loser is the state of Karnataka and India as a plural society and nation

Art and resistance in South Asia: Fighting the challenges of dark times through creativity

The deliberations highlighted how political turmoil and violence in South Asia have catalysed creativity with many artists grounding their work in response to the challenges

A growth-oriented balanced budget for India

This is a very balanced budget as it boosts spending towards growth-oriented policies that would boost manufacturing, help agri economy and infrastructure creation

What is wrong with India's language policy?

India's insular upper class is one of the major problems in the way of learning regional languages or dialects

Bangladesh needs to be friends with both US and China

It is the moral responsibility of China and the US to cooperate with Bangladesh, which needs both countries to achieve its developmental goals

Sri Lanka needs to choose its friends wisely

Sri Lanka should not go the way Pakistan has gone by almost reducing It to the status of extended territory of China

ASEI to have 34th national convention virtually

The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) is hosting its 34th Annual National Convention with the theme Sustainable Technology Innovations (STI-2022)

Is the US right in sanctioning RAB in Bangladesh?

Although the RAB has paid a heavy price in its campaign against terrorists and drug smugglers, the US has unfairly imposed sanctions against the group

Is raising legal age of marriage for Indian women the answer?

Merely raising the age is not the solution; educational opportunities for women need to be promoted as well as protected from being denied

Demonising of Punjab will have negative consequences

An unfair and uncalled for narrative was built as if Punjab was out to harm the Prime Minister, demonizing a state known for its sacrifices towards nation building
 

India can help reduce the global vaccine inequity

Though the invention of vaccines is good news to the world, no one is safe from Covid-19 until everyone is safe and vaccinated

Brands must take a stand, not bow to bullies

None of the brands took a stand and instead bowed down to the demand of those who aggressively claimed to be offended

Raise self-esteem of girls, not age of marriage

It is important to raise the self-esteem of girls to help them make their own decisions rather than force them into a tyrannical legal system