Let the will to succeed take you to heights anew,
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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All You Own are Your Words
All you own are your words, Ashok
The Magic of Music
Rock ‘n Roll or Twist away
The unhealthy ordinance of 'Love Jihad'
The 'Love Jihad Ordinance' is antithetical in letter and spirit to an empowered, integrated nation constituted in 1947
O, Mother
I cried like a child
Alone, But Connected
Not superior nor inferior
Renunciation
Is that the answer to life’s puzzle
The Ballad of the Sea
The voice I heard came from the seas
Till the end of Time
Till the stars in the sky
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
Primordial are all impulses
India’s controversial farm bills: Will it benefit farmers or destroy agriculture?
The farmers' agitation in India against three controversial farming reforms has put the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dock as it appears to be groping in the dark to find an amicable solution to defuse the crisis that could potentially have far-reaching implications as the country’s economy that is largely dependent on agriculture
The Enigma Called Sleep
Sleep
Me and My Destiny
Between the dreams of old
Marganlised and vulnerable should be on priority list for COVID-19 vaccine: CHRI
Urging the Commonwealth Secretariat to take a lead in ensuring that the marginalized and most vulnerable people in countries like India and Pakistan are kept in mind while producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, CHRI has said that “people” should be placed “before power, price and profit.”
Ordinary Lives, Lived Just
Lost in the woods, as it were
