For a few months now, there is peace across the LOC as the guns have fallen silent from both sides of the divide
South Asia Needs Cross-Border Internships, Not Only Degrees Abroad
South Asia often discusses youth mobility after a student has already decided to leave the region. A stronger regional system would give students another option before that point: international experience that is close enough to be practical, but different enough to change what they learn.
School Absenteeism and Growing Coaching Culture: Are we Compromising the Future of an Entire Generation?
If dummy admissions, prolonged school absenteeism, and an unregulated coaching culture continue unchecked, we may end up producing students who have spent enormous amounts of time and money on education without actually receiving the education they need.
Education as a Game Changer for South Asia: India can Become an Educational Leader
If South Asian governments urgently review and reform their education systems, the region can all benefit within 15 years from our demographic dividend and unleash the region's immense knowledge and growth potential within a generation.New education systems must be interactive and inter-operative to allow free movement of professionals, capital and labour around the region
The Reconstituted Nalanda: Can it Leverage its Civilizational Memory to Become an Alternative Academic Hub for the Global South?
Nalanda serves as a counterweight to the historic monopoly of Western universities over social, political, and ecological theory. It invites Asian and African scholars to address regional dilemmas such as resource sovereignty, post-colonial statehood, and sustainable modernization using indigenous analytical categories.
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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
The Wasp and I
It buzzed around my ears and nose
Perennial, A Hapless Word
Perennials, things that last a long time
Blasphemously Yours
Fill the cup before you bring it
