Srinagar school children

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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Pakistan's 'dirty war' against India will have consequences

The Pakistani 'deep state; has suffered a devastating blow with the bloody interception of battle-hardened terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit at the Nagrota toll plaza in Jammu district on November 19

Is RCEP another Chinese trap?

China has not concealed its ambition to become the global superpower by dominating the world politically, economically, and militarily

The Jungle we call Our World

Rob the poor to feed the rich

Indian madrassas: A need for reorientation

If the Indian madrassas could reorient themselves, it may silence their critics besides influencing the government to support these initiatives

Why FATF shouldn't be fooled by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed's 'conviction'

26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind  Hafiz Saeed and his aides being handed down a collective imprisonment of over 10 years in terror-financing cases is being viewed as yet another farcical exercise conducted by Pakistan to fool the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which has retained the deep state on its grey list since 2018

Time, The Master of all things

Prairies, Steppes, Savannahs all

Leave the Skin Aside, Look Inside

Black as coal is a nice expression

A Walk Down The Lane Called Life

When months and years don’t count anymore

Sustainable living can help us cope with future pandemics

Almost a year has gone since COVID-19 came into our life.  It has created havoc in our personal, social, and economic spheres and it will take quite some time for us to recover from its effects

12th European Union-India Counter Terrorism Dialogue

The 12th Counter Terrorism Dialogue between the European Union (EU) and India was held virtually on 19th November 2020

The World in moral regress

Que Sera Sera, whatever will be

Arnab Goswami: Investigative journalism vis-a-vis state vengeance

The essential requirement of democracy anywhere in the world is that it should be the government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people

Dreams Are What I Mostly Sell

Dreams are what I mostly sell

Nehru was a prisoner of his time

November 14 is the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister and one of the main architects of Independent India

Arnab Goswami – sinning or sinned against?

In his Republic TV, Arnab Goswami has been strongly pointing out several, what he thinks as, irregularities or doubtful intentions by the Government of Maharashtra on a number of issues in recent times