All you own are your words, Ashok
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.
More on Education and Gen Z Voices
The Magic of Music
Rock ‘n Roll or Twist away
The unhealthy ordinance of 'Love Jihad'
The 'Love Jihad Ordinance' is antithetical in letter and spirit to an empowered, integrated nation constituted in 1947
O, Mother
I cried like a child
Alone, But Connected
Not superior nor inferior
Renunciation
Is that the answer to life’s puzzle
The Ballad of the Sea
The voice I heard came from the seas
Till the end of Time
Till the stars in the sky
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
Primordial are all impulses
India’s controversial farm bills: Will it benefit farmers or destroy agriculture?
The farmers' agitation in India against three controversial farming reforms has put the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dock as it appears to be groping in the dark to find an amicable solution to defuse the crisis that could potentially have far-reaching implications as the country’s economy that is largely dependent on agriculture
The Enigma Called Sleep
Sleep
Me and My Destiny
Between the dreams of old
Marganlised and vulnerable should be on priority list for COVID-19 vaccine: CHRI
Urging the Commonwealth Secretariat to take a lead in ensuring that the marginalized and most vulnerable people in countries like India and Pakistan are kept in mind while producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, CHRI has said that “people” should be placed “before power, price and profit.”
Ordinary Lives, Lived Just
Lost in the woods, as it were
Bills in the name of ‘love jihad’ undermine India's constitutional liberties
‘Love jihad’ is a term of recent vintage, coined by the Hindu right-wing, for Muslims who they allege seduce Hindu women to convert to Islam on the pretext of love and marriage
