Vengeance is a bit of a joke
The virtues like civic discipline or gender sensitivity in India are not at premium. Basic civic sense is conspicuous by its absence. It gets manifested as indiscriminate littering, spitting, traffic indiscipline, vulgar or derogatory comments against women etc. Such attitudes find manifestation in foreign destinations as well.
Ties between India and East and Southeast Asia are bound to strengthen, given the growing synergies in strategic areas such as defence, critical technology and higher education. It is important for Indian students, professionals, and skilled workers to harness educational and work opportunities in that region that is open to receiving Indian students and techies. This is especially important given that countries in the Anglosphere, not just the US but also Canada and to an extent Australia, are adopting increasingly insular immigration policies and tightening student and work visa regulations.
Across Kashmir, the image of crowded reading rooms alongside empty classrooms should compel us to reflect on the direction our education system is taking. Reading rooms may help students prepare for examinations, but schools and colleges prepare them for life.
The future of Indian higher education may depend not on greater central control, but on creating autonomous institutions operating within a strong framework of accountability.
Vengeance is a bit of a joke
To Sleep
Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, all dead,
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
Through the tavern door as I stumbled forth
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
I am an amateur homeopathic practitioner and have been using it for myself, my family, and a few of my friends for the last 20-25 years
I see calls for wakefulness
If there is an after life
Is this what it’s all about
There is no simpler things to do
The Narendra Modi-led government's tough stand against foreign interference in India's domestic affairs forced Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mellow his rhetoric and support to the ongoing farmers' agitation
'Midst the might of desert sands
In early 1952, my 22 Mountain Regiment was out for field firing in Nowshera (near Rajaori in J&K), where we were joined by the Gwalior Mountain Battery