Bhutan and its people

Where Happiness is a Measure of Governance: What Bhutan’s Democratic Consolidation Can Teach Global South Nations

As democracies around the world confront public dissatisfaction, Bhutan reminds us that the health of a democracy cannot be measured only through the ballot box.  It must also be evaluated through the well-being, dignity, security, and trust experienced by citizens.

India's Education Deficit: Real Reforms Lie in Making Coaching Redundant

India's digital infrastructure can certainly deliver free coaching to millions. But an even greater achievement would be to build an education and employment system in which families no longer feel compelled to buy coaching in the first place. Making bottled water cheaper is useful. Making the water from taps trustworthy is the real solution.    

India’s Education Report Card: Student Retention, not Enrolment is Key to Success

The message is clear. India needs not merely more children entering classrooms, but more children staying, completing and learning. Achieving the ambitions of NEP 2020 and SDG 4 will require sustained public investment, stronger secondary-school retention, better support for vulnerable learners and a sharper focus on completion.

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.

More on Education and Gen Z Voices

I Often Wonder

If Birds were Man’s Mentor
Would we a better breed be
 

The Cradle of Friendship

The cradle of friendship
Is too delicate for words

Faith

For all my proclamations  of belief, 
Which in intent and conviction are true,

In Search of the Soul

Endless, fruitless, journeys
That we oft embark upon,

In The Precincts Of The Mind

In the precincts of the mind,
In the fortress I call mine,

O Demise, Are You Fair?

O Demise, thou art a friend true
When I feel lost and dark blue

Destiny

The capriciousness of destiny
at play I see in every day

The Paradox of Time- Life’s Pantomime

Is my Time really mine
Or, is there a paradox there,

Conscience

Light up the wick of Conscience,
And the waiting lamp within,

Chisel Away

Does too much joy a sadness bring
Must there be little bits of everything,

Tears and Time and the Rivers

Rivers flow but they tell us no more
Where they come from , where they go,

Sermons, Soliloquys, are an awful Bore!

Since we don’t know why we are here
Let’s do what the the Heaven we like,

Let’s Think Again

Impatience they say, now holds sway
Impatience will bring forth gains,

I C B M's

You see, I C B M’s, as the much-touted
 

One Man, One Woman, That is All

When life’s no more than each breath we take,
Than the days and nights that we call the past,