When months and years don’t count anymore
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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Sustainable living can help us cope with future pandemics
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12th European Union-India Counter Terrorism Dialogue
The 12th Counter Terrorism Dialogue between the European Union (EU) and India was held virtually on 19th November 2020
The World in moral regress
Que Sera Sera, whatever will be
Arnab Goswami: Investigative journalism vis-a-vis state vengeance
The essential requirement of democracy anywhere in the world is that it should be the government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people
Dreams Are What I Mostly Sell
Dreams are what I mostly sell
Nehru was a prisoner of his time
November 14 is the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister and one of the main architects of Independent India
Arnab Goswami – sinning or sinned against?
In his Republic TV, Arnab Goswami has been strongly pointing out several, what he thinks as, irregularities or doubtful intentions by the Government of Maharashtra on a number of issues in recent times
India-China relationship post-Ladakh standoff: The way forward
India should follow a policy of three Cs as a mantra with its relations China – compete, cooperate and confront, said former Indian Army chief General Shankar Roychoudhury
Theoretical precepts of an army’s will to fight: Implications for the Indian armed forces
Assessing morale and will to fight (adversary and own) is crucial to the science and art of war (Warcraft)
The Heart is Large - and Gracious
Does the Heart have eyes
‘Inappropriate time’ to hold EU-Pakistan strategic dialogue, says EICC
Noting that it was the most “inappropriate time” for the European Union (EU) to hold the EU-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue keeping in view the violent anti-French and anti-European demonstrations in that country, the Europe India Chamber of Commerce (EICC), a Brussels-based non-profit organisation, has said that holding such dialogues are a “perfect example” of how some of EU’s policies have “boomeranged.”
A nail-biting US election show victory of democracy
Joe Biden has finally won the US presidency. This has been one of the most contentious US presidential elections in its history and a blot on a great democratic country
If Life was never-ending.....
For the Gods to receive my prayers
Let the Imagination run Wild
O, how pretty can barren be
