In the Tavern one noisy night
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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Our real purpose in life is to first make our minds powerful and strong and then to give back the knowledge gained to others, writes Anil K. Rajvanshi for South Asia Monitor
Let’s Befriend Simplicity
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
I Just Heard, Rasik Balama
by Smt. Lata Mangeshkar - Angelic, and
The Orb in the Golden Robe
With a veil of deep sorrow do I now my heart adorn
Ramadan can be a life-changing period for Muslims
My faith firmly believes in equality, dignity, compassion, respect, tolerance, justice and peace for other faiths, writes Frank F Islam for South Asia Monitor
Address by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inaugural session of Raisina Dialogue 2021 in New Delhi, April 13, 2021
This edition of Raisina dialogue takes place at a watershed moment in human history. A global pandemic has been ravaging the world for over a year
Bengal election: Is Mamata Banerjee on self-defeating course?
In the ongoing West Bengal state election some significant developments are taking shape, which may have far-reaching implications in the political scenario not only in West Bengal but all over India
Manna
There is more to Manna than the Tamarisk tree
Go Live In The Past, Sometimes
When the present, it torments you
Politician-police-criminal nexus makes governance challenging in India
The implementation of apex court-suggested police reforms including creation of state level security commission is required immediately to break politicians-police-criminal nexus that has created a crisis of governance in India.
Healing Power of Words
Let your words a melody carry
Only the rich can fight elections in India
Only the rich can fight polls in India as the cost of electioneering has gone up by many times
Statement by Minister of External Affairs at the Joint Press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
I am delighted to address you all at the conclusion of my talks today with my Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
