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The Cockroach's Evolution: Acquiring a Life Beyond the Insult
The CJP’s journey, however, is no longer confined to the politics of examination failures and youth precarity. Its School Thik Karo campaign has extended the movement’s work towards accountability for basic public-school infrastructure, while its latest mobilisation has turned to electoral accountability.
‘Himalayasia’: Can a Mountain Range Give South Asia the Identity It Never Had?
Whether or not “Himalayasia” ever catches on as a name, the underlying question it poses is a serious one for a region that houses a quarter of the world’s population, spends tens of billions of dollars a year arming itself against its own neighbors, and still trades more easily with the far side of the globe than across its own borders
South Asia Needs Cross-Border Internships, Not Only Degrees Abroad
South Asia often discusses youth mobility after a student has already decided to leave the region. A stronger regional system would give students another option before that point: international experience that is close enough to be practical, but different enough to change what they learn.
School Absenteeism and Growing Coaching Culture: Are we Compromising the Future of an Entire Generation?
If dummy admissions, prolonged school absenteeism, and an unregulated coaching culture continue unchecked, we may end up producing students who have spent enormous amounts of time and money on education without actually receiving the education they need.
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Rising Sindh and Balochi nationalism a growing worry for Pakistan
On January 18, 2021, in a massive pro-freedom rally organised in Sann Town in Jamshoro District of Sindh, on the 117th birth anniversary of Ghulam Murtaza Syed, one of the founding fathers of modern Sindh nationalism, protesters raised placards of several world leaders to seek their intervention for the "liberation of Sindh"
Memories
A moment’s ecstasy is worth a hundred years
Share Your Joys, Keep Sorrows To Yourself
Moods are very contagious, indeed
Bengal polls will have national and international implications
The upcoming elections in West Bengal are making heads turn, not only in India but also across the borders
Can one shot of Covishield vaccine protect from COVID?
The Covishield (developed in the UK by Oxford Astra Zeneca) vaccine is 62 percent effective if both the full doses are given four weeks apart and 90 percent effective if the half dose is followed by the full dose
The Trip To Mars
The need for originality of thought and action
Why so many Indians think Modi’s stewardship is necessary to make India great
For the last nineteen years ever since Narendra Modi first became chief minister of Gujarat and later on Prime Minister of India, he has been receiving bouquets and brickbats from a cross-section of countrymen
Usha Rao-Monari appointed UN Under-Secretary-General
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed investment professional Usha Rao-Monari as an under-secretary-general and the associate administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: The guiding light of Bangladesh
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Keep The Spirits Soaring
There’s a mountain within me that I climb everyday
Why Me ?
When fortune does not smile upon us
Heaven and Hell Must Be Very Close
Never been there so really can’t say
Will the BJP be able to capture West Bengal?
The battle for Bengal has begun
How long will India keep depending on US social media apps?
As Indians rail against the social media dominance of US-based Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook that often appears to go against the country's interests, India and its entrepreneurs have to acknowledge the failure to produce a single world-class social media app that is visible on the world map
