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.
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.
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 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.
As Indians rail against the social media dominance of US-based Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook that often appears to go against the country's interests, India and its entrepreneurs have to acknowledge the failure to produce a single world-class social media app that is visible on the world map
To Memories we cling
In the splendour of Night
Cricket has been described as a game of uncertainties and surprises, but it should be noted that the same is true of politics
Why are we chasing mirages always
Failing to win even one of the nine district chairpersons and vice chairpersons posts for which elections have now been completed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), valley-based traditional ruling parties, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have begun to level allegations of horse-trading
The Ferris Wheel goes round and round
Thank you to, my friends, all
The bare tree with leaves again
The latest tragedy in Uttarakhand resulting in around 170 people missing definitely requires introspection on the development of the hill State
Soon after the COVID-19 vaccines started appearing in the global market, it has emerged as a strong, yet unexpected, diplomatic tool for the handful of manufacturing countries
If I were God, what would I do?
Why hold back tears let them fall
For all those people who are in the age group of 65-70 and above, COVID has been quite bad
The recent budget presentation by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has special projects doled out to election going states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Assam. For Kerala, the budget has a massive outlay of Rs 65,000 crore for the development of the national highway 66 corridor, as well as the announcement of the second phase of the Kochi Metro and the development of the Kochi fishing harbour as a commercial hub
