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Cryptocurrency is prone to cybercrime and fraud. Cryptocurrency's novelty and lack of information allow con artists to trap the less informed - often the elderly - easily.
How India can rightly become a 'Vishwaguru'
In the past, all great thoughts from India went abroad after they were practiced in India for quite some time. Thus, there is a need for our own population to be tolerant of different shades of opinion and use technology to light up the lives of the rural poor.
Protecting families from ruinous healthcare costs
With the very limited government money on offer and the need for protection being almost universal, the states would do well to use that money instead to offer an insurance plan that covers their entire population (the poor and the non-poor) for only a limited number of very expensive and very rare conditions.
Bangladesh has become a role model for other LDCs
Prime Minister Hasina has repeatedly said that infrastructure development has been happening at a massive rate in Bangladesh that will attract foreign investors.
Covid, Chinese lab 'leaks', and the risks of playing with nature
Traditional Indian wisdom teaches us that we are not separate from nature, that all forms of life are connected and inseparable from the rhythm of the planet – the air, the mountains, the forests, the seas and the sun. If this thinking is allowed to take root again, sustainability is already achieved.
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Why Patanjali is the teacher who I never saw
To me Patanjali has been a true scientist who gave the first knowledge about the control of mind.
India needs to give up its colonial mindset, embrace Gandhi's ideals
If India has to truly give up its colonial mindset, it must reform the bureaucracy, remove undue privileges for those in power, offer firm, enforceable and many more protections for ordinary citizens and decide on a growth journey that does not mimic the destruction that the West and China have wrought on the environment.
Divided by borders, united by aspirations
The workshop provided a safe space to open up, share what we felt, and connect with one another. This event made us feel like one big South Asian FAMILY
Hate speech, nationalism and its impact - as seen through a celebrated novel's prism
In India, the core of the issue is that nationalism is now being built by arousing religious sentiments and instigating animosity against followers of other beliefs
Land acquisition for industrial/infrastructure projects in India: Need for a humane policy in consultation with state governments
It is high time that the Government of India creates a comprehensive policy along with a suitable compensation mechanism for acquiring land for industrial and infrastructure projects
New Education Policy in India: Frequent policy revision creating uncertainty, fundamental issues unaddressed
Instead of designing and announcing a new education policy every now and then, it would have been appropriate to bring some modifications to the existing system to the extent needed and from time to time, without tampering with the entire system
Divisive communalism, patriarchy and honouring culprits of mass rape and murder
The Supreme Court must respond to the PILs and put these Gujarat convicts back to where they belong -- the prison
A historic college walks the talk, pledges to be carbon-neutral
The movement of Net Zero signals the end of empty talks and hollow street protests and triggers real action by transforming the college and university campus into a laboratory for Net Zero.
The changing contours of India's neighborhood policy
The best part of the ongoing neighborhood policy is its flexibility and pragmatism
China's miscalculations can prove costly for Beijing
As the world is realizing, China’s words and actions are deeply destabilizing. There is bound to emerge a scenario where protests by people in different countries and territories that are sought to be occupied by China will become too hot for Beijing to handle
Can one imagine India as an inclusive, democratic haven of freedom Tagore dreamed of?
Sectarianism should not lead to conflicts regarding mutual superiority/inferiority and the beliefs and practices of a sect should not affect the public lives or right to life, food and livelihoods of others
What does Independence Day mean to us?
Thus on this Independence Day let us all Indians pledge to get independence from noise pollution;poverty; general environmental degradation and from hatred based on caste, creed, and religion
The India of Our Dream
Hearts and Minds all alight
Ruminations about reading: Do publishers and society have a role to play?
The written word is history, it is also the present and the future, as also a record of a nation's culture and civilization
