Let’s cut the mournful numbers out
School Absenteeism and Growing Coaching Culture: Are we Compromising the Future of an Entire Generation?
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.
Education as a Game Changer for South Asia: India can Become an Educational Leader
If South Asian governments urgently review and reform their education systems, the region can all benefit within 15 years from our demographic dividend and unleash the region's immense knowledge and growth potential within a generation.New education systems must be interactive and inter-operative to allow free movement of professionals, capital and labour around the region
The Reconstituted Nalanda: Can it Leverage its Civilizational Memory to Become an Alternative Academic Hub for the Global South?
Nalanda serves as a counterweight to the historic monopoly of Western universities over social, political, and ecological theory. It invites Asian and African scholars to address regional dilemmas such as resource sovereignty, post-colonial statehood, and sustainable modernization using indigenous analytical categories.
'Girls going to schools would be the real revolution in Afghanistan'
The daughters and granddaughters of these warlords, like those of several key Taliban commanders, live and study abroad. Sabori’s school in Archi is half-closed, owing to the ban on education for girls over 12 years of age. Several underground schools have sprung up where even some Taliban foot-soldiers send their daughters.
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Corny is the World of Men
You may not always as you desire, succeed
Adieu K.R. Gouri, 'Iron Lady' of Kerala and inspiration to women leaders
Gouri Amma had a mind of her own and always lived life on her own terms which did not go down well with the patriarchal society in Kerala
The Virtues of A Rose Elude most Thorns, sadly
Enmity and Jealousy both see Virtue as a thorn
Can’t take life seriously
Hold the hand of Silence
Be Sensible, Say Merci Beaucoup
Wear your mask, keep your distance, be Sensible
Ne l’oublions pas (Lest we forget)
All was ablaze, bizarre the scenes
Why India's Covid battle is making the rich-poor gap starker
Obviously, when the gap between availability and requirement of facilities is so huge, there would be a tendency among the rich to buy them at any cost, whereas others like politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, judges, journalists, etc are going to ‘buy’ the same facilities by peddling their influence
I Wonder
Is it wiser to remain the fool that you are
Take Heed, O Lord, Thou Art Yourself in Danger
Things, O Things, all cluttered around
In stay-at-home time, a low-cost air-conditioning system that needs no electricity
In these times of the COVID-19 pandemic when the air pollution and temperatures in the cities are increasing and more and more people and families are forced to stay inside their homes during the lockdown, they need to have a comfortable stay, especially in hot summer months
Time, the Resident Infidel
What is Time, I often wonder
Academic life facing the brunt of the pandemic
The ongoing second wave of coronavirus has hit India with much greater fury than before. It’s a nightmare come to reality with the number of cases soaring to over 400,000 dail
The Dance of Democracy, When it’s Ugly
People, like those who like true Democracy
Tagore the universal man: A tribute from Trinidad
Tagore the universal man had conceived of a world where man would be integral to nature and where cosmogony would find moorings in the full soul force, a world where cultures would talk, integrate and assimilate and where the creative impulse of man would unfold and seek fulfillment in merging with infinite consciousness
