When the need of the hour is Vaccines
Better Opportunities for Youth can Transform Balochistan’s Future
The CMSPP can help Balochistan address one of the most pressing challenges it encounters today – youth unrest and militancy. The radical Islamic groups and terrorist organizations often utilize the discontent of the youth of Balochistan to further their own agendas.
The Cockroach Republic: Not just a Creature of Filth; it Signals a Survival Grammar
The power of the cockroach in the current viral moment of the CJP seems to resonate with something Kafkaesque that is crawling beneath: unwanted, impossible to eliminate. The apparent insult is meant to make someone feel unworthy. But when an insult is taken up by a community, it culminates in a “badge”, where shame becomes performance, humiliation becomes satire, and satire culminates in political self-recognition.
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
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Desiderata V
When Time itself, for each of us, comes with its limits clear
Desiderata IV, The Shepherd and the Flock
‘Tis for the Shepherd to lead the flock
Let’s Dissect this Thing called Laughter
Let’s dissect Laughter and see
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The next Covid wave will be no less than a ‘war’ and India will have to make preparations similar to what armed forces all over the world do in war situations
Desiderata III
Yes, pre-eminence, surely, must belong to the one who leads
Violent attacks in Afghanistan and the Maldives threaten human rights and democracy
Only the harshest and most forceful terms would be fitting to describe terrorist attacks that specifically target children, no matter in which part of the world
Ending the 'forever war' in Afghanistan: Implications and options for India
Washington has formally started the process of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, beginning the end of what President Joe Biden has famously called "the forever war"
My Banyan Tree and I, It’s not a Tea Party
There’s a Tree that I see in front of my home
Is Peace, Even Remotely, the Desired Objective
I think there is an enormous gap
Nonprofits in Kolkata and Bangalore named finalists in Global Environmental Contest
Solution Search, an effort by international environmental organization Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment recently announced the ten finalists in its ‘Water Pollution & Behavior Change’ contest that highlights local solutions to the world’s most challenging environmental problems
India must have international research team probe truth behind second Covid wave
The truth behind Covid 19 and its second wave in India should be thoroughly investigated, so that the world knows whether it is God-made or man-made
The Weight of the World on Your Shoulders, O Lord
The Weight of the Pandemic and the World
The Candle of Hope and Faith
The Candle that carries Hope throughout the nights, dark
