India as a nation looks divided. We have serious problems relating to health, defence, and the economy of the nation. Unity is needed to meet all these challenges
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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The arrow that without feathers, flies
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Along your banks, O Revered Mother
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The year 2020 gone by has been one of the most horrible years in our living memory
A Strange New Year
To kill time or fill time
Recalling epic tank battles of 1965 war: When Pakistan Army began avoiding Indian Army tanks
The two intense tank battles of the 1965 Indo-Pak war, matching those in World War II, fought at Phillora (Punjab, Pakistan) by Hodson’s Horse (4 Horse) and Poona Horse (17 Horse), and at Asal Uttar (Punjab, India) fought by 3 Cavalry, 8 Cavalry, Deccan Horse (9 Horse) and Scinde Horse (14 Horse debilitated Pakistan’s armour and depressed it men’s morale
If wishes were horses, may you have them all
Time to go, Adios, Goodbye
Does India have the doses to fulfil Phase-1 Covid vaccine goals?
Given that India has set the goal of vaccinating 30 crore/300 million people with COVID-19 jabs by July, can the country procure enough doses to fulfil that goal? To vaccinate 30 crore/300 million people, the country will need 60 crore/ 600 million doses as the two vaccines that are leading the race to get the approval from the government requires two-doses per person for protection
Goodbye 2020, welcome 2021: A more mature outlook on life and its purpose will emerge
It is reported that in a normal year, around 55 million people die in the world. It is now reported that in the year 2020 around 1.8 million people have died in the world due to COVID 19 alone
Wonder, Wonder, Wondering
Things not always cast in iron
Exiled Baloch activist's death a turning point in Balochistan's struggle?
The mysterious death of exiled Baloch activist Karima Baloch, believed to be a case of murder by many, has not only triggered a week of protests from Toronto to Dhaka but also fueled the Baloch freedom movement at ground zero
Farwell 2020, an awful year for Indian journalists
Devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic since early this year, the robust Indian media fraternity is set to bid farewell to 2020 with a heavy heart as many lost their lives due to COVID or were targeted and killed
"I made a mistake": 'Confessions' of a Kashmiri-footballer-turned-militant
A footballer-turned-militant from Sopore, in Jammu and Kashmir regretted joining terrorist ranks, according to his last conversation which went viral before he was killed by the Indian security forces in a gunfight last week
The Last Words of a Dying Tree
My body is bare from wear and tear
