My body is bare from wear and tear
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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What can I say, I’m no sage
The Silver Spoon and The Carving Knife
I often get lost in the sands of time
Many wishes for India: May it continue to celebrate the richness of religious diversity
As we enter the holiday season and approach the new year, I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt best wishes to and for India and Indians
Happy New Year
May there be no doubts, no fears, ahead
A love affair with steam engines
As one grows older one remembers nostalgically the era gone by
Why Do We Want To Be
Like Someone Else
Me And My Little Flower
Cast no shadow upon me,
Vendetta
Vengeance is a bit of a joke
To Sleep
To Sleep
Some Literary Nonsense
Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, all dead,
Indian educational institutes pledge to achieve carbon neutrality
As many as 12 vice-chancellors of various prestigious educational institutions in India took a voluntary pledge to develop the roadmap towards making their university carbon-neutral on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on December 12
Wearing the Garb of Innocence
Wearing the garb of innocence
Rise To The Challenge, O Lord
Through the tavern door as I stumbled forth
Is Kashmir's terror heartland turning its back on militancy?
Southern Kashmir's Tral in Pulwama district has for long retained several dubious distinctions in the last 31 years of armed insurgency in the valley
