Bangladesh-Japan relationship has reached a new level in investment and trade, with Tokyo offering plenty of assistance to Dhaka
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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A dress code that does disservice to education in India - and the global reputation of a state
The girls at the centre of the protest have lost in the near term, but the longer-term loser is the state of Karnataka and India as a plural society and nation
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A growth-oriented balanced budget for India
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What is wrong with India's language policy?
India's insular upper class is one of the major problems in the way of learning regional languages or dialects
Bangladesh needs to be friends with both US and China
It is the moral responsibility of China and the US to cooperate with Bangladesh, which needs both countries to achieve its developmental goals
Sri Lanka needs to choose its friends wisely
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ASEI to have 34th national convention virtually
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Is the US right in sanctioning RAB in Bangladesh?
Although the RAB has paid a heavy price in its campaign against terrorists and drug smugglers, the US has unfairly imposed sanctions against the group
Is raising legal age of marriage for Indian women the answer?
Merely raising the age is not the solution; educational opportunities for women need to be promoted as well as protected from being denied
Demonising of Punjab will have negative consequences
An unfair and uncalled for narrative was built as if Punjab was out to harm the Prime Minister, demonizing a state known for its sacrifices towards nation building
India can help reduce the global vaccine inequity
Though the invention of vaccines is good news to the world, no one is safe from Covid-19 until everyone is safe and vaccinated
