Pakistan has fallen six places - 139 to 145 - in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index since 2018
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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Uncluttering the brain of memories will allow it to function properly and faster
Targetting and suppression of media in Pakistan
On May 25, 2021, Islamabad-based journalist and blogger Asad Ali Toor was attacked in the federal capital city of Islamabad
India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement: What does it mean for India and Kashmir?
For a few months now, there is peace across the LOC as the guns have fallen silent from both sides of the divide
India's rural self-government institutions: Issues of funds, federalism and functionalities
Separation of powers, and federalism comprise the basic structure of the constitution, and long-drawn executive and legislative steps are needed to dispose of legislative actions and decisions that circumvent them
The Nature of Wealth
The inherent nature of wealth is frenetic
Pandemic diplomacy: Re-engineering Indian diplomacy to cope with a 'Black Swan event'
The COVID pandemic is now well into its second year. In India we are fighting an exceptionally severe second wave
The Raconteur, the Child Within You
The Raconteur’s the story-teller
176th Indian Arrival Day: Struggle for recognition of Indian community in Trinidad and Tobago
For Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago and beyond, the Indian diaspora must aggressively pursue excellence in science, business and politics as these ideals could better define the Indian identity and reinforce the virtues of culture and values
Desiderata VII
Imagination will not bring you nor lead you to, Paradise
Vaccination for all: Is it going to be a long waiting time for India?
As events unfold by the day, the vaccine shortage story only gets more baffling with little hope for an early replenishment to meet the government’s objective of procuring 2.67 billion doses by the yearend
Mankind’s yearning for heaven
Alternatively, we can all work together to make this earth a very nice and hospitable place to live where the lives of all its inhabitants are emotionally satisfying and sustainable. Then this planet earth will become the heaven that we all dream to reach after death.
Desiderata VI
Beware of heights
Foolish, indeed, is the World of Men
How arid is Mortality
Relevance of SAARC: South Asian nations are tied by a common culture and a shared future
Today, with the overarching presence of China in South Asia, if India has to hold its ground as the paramount power, it is imperative to keep the bilateral differences aside
