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For a Developed India, Its Young Need to Be Instilled with Civic Values First
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.
Indian Students, Techies Look Eastward as Ties with East/Southeast Asia Grow
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.
Empty Classrooms, Crowded Reading Rooms and a Growing Educational Concern
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.
Reforming Higher Education in India: Institutions Should Have Freedom to Innovate While Remaining Accountable
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.
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Between the dreams of old
Marganlised and vulnerable should be on priority list for COVID-19 vaccine: CHRI
Urging the Commonwealth Secretariat to take a lead in ensuring that the marginalized and most vulnerable people in countries like India and Pakistan are kept in mind while producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, CHRI has said that “people” should be placed “before power, price and profit.”
Ordinary Lives, Lived Just
Lost in the woods, as it were
Bills in the name of ‘love jihad’ undermine India's constitutional liberties
‘Love jihad’ is a term of recent vintage, coined by the Hindu right-wing, for Muslims who they allege seduce Hindu women to convert to Islam on the pretext of love and marriage
Happines lies in your Hands
Unsullied lies the lotus flower
Words that we unthinkably Utter
Remove the cobwebs from your mind
The Tyranny of Truth
Bits of Satan live within me
Pakistan's 'dirty war' against India will have consequences
The Pakistani 'deep state; has suffered a devastating blow with the bloody interception of battle-hardened terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit at the Nagrota toll plaza in Jammu district on November 19
Is RCEP another Chinese trap?
China has not concealed its ambition to become the global superpower by dominating the world politically, economically, and militarily
The Jungle we call Our World
Rob the poor to feed the rich
Indian madrassas: A need for reorientation
If the Indian madrassas could reorient themselves, it may silence their critics besides influencing the government to support these initiatives
Why FATF shouldn't be fooled by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed's 'conviction'
26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his aides being handed down a collective imprisonment of over 10 years in terror-financing cases is being viewed as yet another farcical exercise conducted by Pakistan to fool the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which has retained the deep state on its grey list since 2018
Time, The Master of all things
Prairies, Steppes, Savannahs all
Leave the Skin Aside, Look Inside
Black as coal is a nice expression
