Wearing the garb of innocence
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.
Students Must Study; But They Must Also Ask Questions and not Ignore Injustice
When the university community itself has not succeeded in resolving many serious problems confronting higher education, on what moral basis should students simply be asked to remain silent and trust the system?
The Ganga Water Treaty Needs More Than Renewal: It Needs Reinvention
The treaty that once symbolized diplomatic success should now become a model for climate-resilient hydro-diplomacy. The river has changed, the climate has changed, and the needs of both nations have changed. The treaty must change with them.
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How homeopathy works on the human body: A conjecture
I am an amateur homeopathic practitioner and have been using it for myself, my family, and a few of my friends for the last 20-25 years
Denuclearize
I see calls for wakefulness
Untitled
If there is an after life
Those Golden Days Of Yore
Is this what it’s all about
The Simplest but Hardest Thing to Do
There is no simpler things to do
India's tough stand forces Trudeau to soften rhetoric?
The Narendra Modi-led government's tough stand against foreign interference in India's domestic affairs forced Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mellow his rhetoric and support to the ongoing farmers' agitation
The Bedouin
'Midst the might of desert sands
Recollections of Gwalior Mountain Battery
In early 1952, my 22 Mountain Regiment was out for field firing in Nowshera (near Rajaori in J&K), where we were joined by the Gwalior Mountain Battery
Colonel Gill @100: Unique service record of a soldier-sailor-airman
Colonel Prithipal Singh Gill (retd) - who turned 100 on Friday (December 11) - is a celebrated Indian military veteran with a unique service profile
Students in India to take carbon-neutrality pledge to commemorate Paris Agreement
On the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Dec 12, students from leading Indian educational institutes will take a pledge to go carbon neutral at a virtual event
Humility Is Indeed Divine
The goblet bows and also bends
When The Curtain Falls
How long before you’re a dot on a page
