Times change, values change, but
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.
BIMSTEC’s Strategic Challenge to Pakistan: Geopolitical Recasting or Regional Fracture?
Pakistan’s absence is not without costs. Diplomatic exclusion is only one facet of the spectre that looms over the country: limited transit access, reduced prospects for integration into Bay-centric supply networks and weakened soft-power influences across the Indian Ocean littoral.
Proxy Village Governance: The Pradhan Pati Problem in India's Democracy
It has been formally recognised in the Report of the Advisory Committee on Women Pradhans, Transforming Women’s Representation and Role in Panchayati Raj Institutions: Efforts to Eliminate Proxy Participation, which recorded that elected women representatives are often “represented by their husbands or male relatives” and recommended the imposition of stringent and exemplary penalties to curb such practices.
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Little Heavens
It’s the little ones that a big heaven make,
'Intolerant majoritarianism' and a less open India not aligned to vision of 'Global Britain': Chatham House
Presenting a vision for an influential ‘Global Britain’, a leading British think tank has clubbed India in the “difficult four” countries for the future strategic scenario for Britain. Calling India’s importance “inescapable”, the paper said developing the relationship will be a ‘complex task”
US-India strategic partnership likely to thrive under Biden - with some millstones
The US-India strategic partnership is likely to continue on the same upward trajectory, albeit with some millstones under Joe Biden's presidency which will assume office next week on January 20
Sri Lanka in discussion with India for two vaccines
Sri Lanka is in discussion with India for procurement of two Covid-19 vaccines. The issue was also raised during the recent visit by Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Sri Lanka
That Nebulous Search
When I hear my heart sing
Need independent institutions in India to strengthen democracy
India as a nation looks divided. We have serious problems relating to health, defence, and the economy of the nation. Unity is needed to meet all these challenges
Is education a commodity in India?
Youth are crucial for the success of any country. They are the catalysts for change
Food For Thought
The arrow that without feathers, flies
An Ode to the River Ganges
Along your banks, O Revered Mother
Lessons to be learned from 2020 COVID crisis
The year 2020 gone by has been one of the most horrible years in our living memory
A Strange New Year
To kill time or fill time
Recalling epic tank battles of 1965 war: When Pakistan Army began avoiding Indian Army tanks
The two intense tank battles of the 1965 Indo-Pak war, matching those in World War II, fought at Phillora (Punjab, Pakistan) by Hodson’s Horse (4 Horse) and Poona Horse (17 Horse), and at Asal Uttar (Punjab, India) fought by 3 Cavalry, 8 Cavalry, Deccan Horse (9 Horse) and Scinde Horse (14 Horse debilitated Pakistan’s armour and depressed it men’s morale
If wishes were horses, may you have them all
Time to go, Adios, Goodbye
Does India have the doses to fulfil Phase-1 Covid vaccine goals?
Given that India has set the goal of vaccinating 30 crore/300 million people with COVID-19 jabs by July, can the country procure enough doses to fulfil that goal? To vaccinate 30 crore/300 million people, the country will need 60 crore/ 600 million doses as the two vaccines that are leading the race to get the approval from the government requires two-doses per person for protection
