Education and Gen Z Voices

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.

Gholam Muhammad Sabori (seated right), with his spouse (seated left), children, a sister and a niece. The picture was taken (circa 1991) after a RAWA school function in Quetta.

'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.

Denuclearize

Dec 18, 2020

I see calls for wakefulness

Untitled

Dec 16, 2020

If there is an after life

Those Golden Days Of Yore

Dec 12, 2020

Is this what it’s all about

The Simplest but Hardest Thing to Do

Dec 12, 2020

There is no simpler things to do

India's tough stand forces Trudeau to soften rhetoric?

Dec 12, 2020

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

Dec 12, 2020

'Midst the might of desert sands

Recollections of Gwalior Mountain Battery

Dec 12, 2020

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

Dec 11, 2020

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

Dec 09, 2020

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