Private reading rooms/libraries

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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How Arty is the World of Artificial Intelligence,( AI ) 

Is AI the  way forward, or
Out there to destroy Humanity,
 

Blue Moon

O waning moon, where do you go?
Why are you not on constant show?

Milestones

Milestones are milestones, mere distance recorders
How you travelled and journeyed unknown,

Time, the Vagabond

Each grain of Sand does a message carry
Stagnation’s ruin, do not tarry,

A Lost World

Never has the world so lost its way
As it has, alas, so sadly today,

Desire

O how immortal is the soul,
And how fatal is desire,

If This Valley In Which I Wander

If this valley in which I wander,
And the hills surrounding it,

Pandora’s Box

If the box was full of Evil
Why was it gifted at all?

A Missive (Not a Missile) for Peace, Mr. President

Certainly, do what you think you must
To keep your country ‘first’

My Life

When I look back at the years gone by
I do so with a gentle smile

The Cycle of Life

The ferocity of the good ol’ sun
The serenity of the moon,

My Name Is Pretty Winter

Why do you look at me disconsolately,
When warmth is all I provide?

Someone Keep Me Company

Someone keep me company,
Someone share some thoughts with me,

The Game of Life

Life is a game,
Light-hearted stuff:

The Eyes Will Not Your Secrets Keep

Those with secrets in their hearts,
Have no place to hide,