If the postponement of local body polls means less democracy for some time, let it be so, and it is in the interest of Sri Lanka.
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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Despite high-profile anti-corruption drives, corruption is rampant across India
While campaigns for honesty in public and private life by various sources have been taking place for a long time in the country, this has not seen any reduction in the level of corruption in India. The repeated catching of corrupt persons by the vigilance department has also not yielded many benefits as they are only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
How to reduce fear in children: Encourage reading; expand mental horizons
Thus reading, listening to great stories, discussing interesting issues in schools, will help children learn to focus and will help them to reduce their fears and make them better citizens.
The eco chamber syndrome: Controlling minds is not what democracy needs
Authoritarian party leaders and military or religious dictators do not wish to confront alternative ideas or opinions; so there is always an attempt to suppress the ‘other’ voices, both offline and online. These often lead them to put citizens into an eco-chamber where only praising of the power structure gets heard and echoed. Tolerance is the first victim of this, and the next is free speech, and then freedom in general.
Channelling religion in the cause of climate justice: When faith actors combined forces with climate activists
‘Can Interfaith Collaboration Contribute to Climate Justice?’ -- the discussion was the fifteenth in the Sapan series ‘Imagine! Neighbours in Peace’.
Need to inculcate reading habits in children in this age of audio-visual addiction
Love for book reading cannot take place overnight. All of us need to work together to make our children get into the habit of reading books. So on every occasion, we should gift books to children.
The second anniversary of Myanmar's audacious military coup: International community found wanting
The Tatmadaw's violence, repression, and civil war in Myanmar have left people living in perpetual fear and uncertainty. The international community must restore democracy to Myanmar's youth and give displaced people like the Rohingyas new hope.
BBC has been biased in its India coverage
BBC has since decades been projecting the Indian Army and security forces who have been bearing the brunt of terrorism in J&K and the Northeast for decades as violators of human rights, very often at the behest of terrorist organisations through their overground representatives and separatists.
Hard work or Harvard: What India needs is more educational autonomy
If autonomy, creativity, freedom to design curriculum, the appointment of faculties, and incentivization of research are used as a sales pitch to lure world-acclaimed institutions, why not set your own house (Indian universities) in order first? Why not harness the potential of Indian universities like the JNU instead of stigmatising them?
Netaji Subhas Bose and his concept of nationalism
But unfortunately, the entire history, struggle, and ideas of nationalism of Netaji are restricted to a few paras in history textbooks.
How deep is the political insecurity in Sri Lanka?
The Wickremesinghe government argues that sustained protests undermine the rule of law and create an anarchical situation in the country. Using these justifications, the government has been continuing its brutal and often violent repression in order to remain in power.
Bangladesh and Myanmar can resolve outstanding issues through closer trade and investment ties
The troubled Rakhine region of Myanmar can potentially become a trade hub between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
How humming can help keep mind and body healthy
If we keep our noses clean it will help us to remain healthy and happy!
Is the world celebrating the new year in a vacuum?
The pre-conditions for the wishes on the eve of 2023 for peace and harmony to be realized is that the battle for the future has to be fought and won in the minds and hearts of the people.
Where are the engineers who will build India?
This sorry situation in Indian engineering education is not the students' fault, but a skewed and faulty education system that focuses only on the numbers.
