What is Time, I often wonder
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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Tagore the universal man: A tribute from Trinidad
Tagore the universal man had conceived of a world where man would be integral to nature and where cosmogony would find moorings in the full soul force, a world where cultures would talk, integrate and assimilate and where the creative impulse of man would unfold and seek fulfillment in merging with infinite consciousness
Dame Fortune is a Fickle Mistress
Do not pluck flowers from my garden
Conquest
Let’s look at the world from
Streaming Thoughts
The hand of fortune is more effective than the arm
Random Thoughts
When you take the paths, dark
The Long and Short of Life’s Race
The more you prune the Vine you own
Salutes To The Women of India and the World
Rise, O Ladies and show us the way
The Need for A National Lockdown
Now, Now, Now
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
