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.
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 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.
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.
After COVID-19 pandemic hit India and followed by the strict lockdown, thousands of migrant workers began the arduous journey back to their villages hundreds of kilometers away, most of them on foot, along with their families, including young children
It's all about ego and military might
The Galwan Valley clash between India and China, which started on June 15 June, 2020, was a result of building tensions between the border forces of the two nations since May 5 along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that crosses through the valley in Ladakh
With the passing away of Professor Kalim Bahadur, (July 20), an age seems to have come to an end
Is this the end of Globalisation
The novel coronavirus is one of the most devastating epidemics in the world right now. It is spreading from one end to the other
Civil service is a premier service in India
If Sunshine eludes you then be your
2019 and 2020 – the former, closing, and the latter, enclosing a decade - have emerged victorious in warning us of our fragile existence
Mankind in the last 100 odd years has faced much bigger perils than the COVID-19 pandemic
Indian entrepreneurship and technology potential, lying dormant in its universities, has now been summoned when a unique hackathon was launched by TERRE Policy Centre and MIT ADT University in Pune on July 18, 2020
If you think rulers are now using the pandemic to grab more power then you won’t be wholly wrong. Around the world, the pandemic is being used by the ruling elite as a chance to grab more and more power
At first glance, the COVID-19 pandemic seems pervasive, unsparing, and indiscriminate
It is interesting that India opted not to be part of an international chorus of protests against the Turkish president’s decision to revert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque, a decision which not just hits at the foundation of the modern Turkish state, envisioned in the early 20th century by Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, but also against the universal values of secularism
Twilight, that time between sunset and nightfall
