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Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job

For all the glamour surrounding Indian cricket, the selector remains one of its least celebrated figures. He must look beyond the next headline, the next controversy, and even the next defeat. His finest decisions may never make the headlines. His mistakes certainly will.

Rethinking Climate Security in South Asia - Through AI

South Asia’s climate risks are shared across countries. Rivers such as the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus do not respect national boundaries, and torrential rains in one country can lead to floods in another. Satellite data, flood forecasts and flood warnings could, therefore, be shared to enhance disaster preparedness across the region.  

Transnational Education: Making International Skills Development Inclusive

The British Council's South Asia dialogue on TNE brought together policymakers, quality-assurance agencies, experts and higher education leaders from five South Asian countries and the United Kingdom. The discussions covered TNE policy, quality assurance, partnership management and mutual recognition of qualifications.

Better Opportunities for Youth can Transform Balochistan’s Future

The CMSPP can help Balochistan address one of the most pressing challenges it encounters today – youth unrest and militancy. The radical Islamic groups and terrorist organizations often utilize the discontent of the youth of Balochistan to further their own agendas.

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Why India's Covid battle is making the rich-poor gap starker

Obviously, when the gap between availability and requirement of facilities is so huge, there would be a tendency among the rich to buy them at any cost, whereas others like politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, judges, journalists, etc are going to ‘buy’ the same facilities by peddling their influence

I Wonder

Is it wiser to remain the fool that you are

Take Heed, O Lord, Thou Art Yourself in Danger

Things, O Things, all cluttered around

In stay-at-home time, a low-cost air-conditioning system that needs no electricity

In these times of the COVID-19 pandemic when the air pollution and temperatures in the cities are increasing and more and more people and families are forced to stay inside their homes during the lockdown, they need to have a comfortable stay, especially in hot summer months

Time, the Resident Infidel

What is Time, I often wonder

Academic life facing the brunt of the pandemic

The ongoing second wave of coronavirus has hit India with much greater fury than before. It’s a nightmare come to reality with the number of cases soaring to over 400,000 dail

The Dance of Democracy, When it’s Ugly

People, like those who like true Democracy

Tagore the universal man: A tribute from Trinidad

Tagore the universal man had conceived of a world where man would be integral to nature and where cosmogony would find moorings in the full soul force, a world where cultures would talk, integrate and assimilate and where the creative impulse of man would unfold and seek fulfillment in merging with infinite consciousness

Dame Fortune is a Fickle Mistress

Do not pluck flowers from my garden

Conquest

Let’s look at the world from

Streaming Thoughts

The hand of fortune is more effective than the arm

Random Thoughts

When you take the paths, dark

The Long and Short of Life’s Race

The more you prune the Vine you own

Salutes To The Women of India and the World

Rise, O Ladies and show us the way

The Need for A National Lockdown

Now, Now, Now