Joe Biden has finally won the US presidency. This has been one of the most contentious US presidential elections in its history and a blot on a great democratic country
Can AI Improve Student Learning? Only if it is Used the Smart Way
AI will make you a better student if you treat it like an intense sports coach—someone who pushes you, quizzes you, and forces you to run the laps yourself. But if you treat it like a private driver who carries you across the finish line, your own academic skills will totally vanish.
Progress of Education in Jammu and Kashmir: It's not Mere Enrolment That Matters but Learning and Skills
Ultimately, the question is not simply whether children enter school but whether they remain in the system and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for life. That is the standard against which Kashmir’s educational progress must be measured.
Beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Social Wellbeing, and Lessons From the Bhutan Model
Bhutan's approach does not reject economic growth. Instead, it seeks to balance material progress with social, cultural, environmental and psychological well-being. The country's GNH framework provides a basis for assessing how public policies affect different dimensions of people's lives.
Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job
For all the glamour surrounding Indian cricket, the selector remains one of its least celebrated figures. He must look beyond the next headline, the next controversy, and even the next defeat. His finest decisions may never make the headlines. His mistakes certainly will.
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If Life was never-ending.....
For the Gods to receive my prayers
Let the Imagination run Wild
O, how pretty can barren be
US elections would be deemed irregular by standards of India, other nations
The way the United States conducts its presidential election would be considered irregular – and even illegal – in India and many countries
Affirmative action to help orphaned and abandoned kids become self-reliant
There are millions of orphan children across India, who lack the basic facilities required for survival. Having lost their parents at a very young age, they are not fortunate enough to receive encouragement or support and struggle to build their lives
Handling corona to tackling China, Modi has emerged as a global leader
It is only amidst critical hours that the capability will power, patience and presence of the mind of a leader is tested. In fact, the eight months long COVID-19 pandemic as well as China’s multiple intrusions along the Indo-China border or the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in April 2020 and consequent on-going standoff between the two armies had indeed created a tense situation in India
India has ably handled COVID-19 crisis; credit goes to Modi
When COVID-19 started in Wuhan in China and Beijing did not immediately share the information for some months and WHO also did not raise an alarm, as alleged, in not warning the world about the impending disaster, no one thought that the virus would shake the world to the extent that it has done now
Embracing the New Reality
At the six month mark of forced isolation
The Paths I Once Walked
I have never forgotten the paths I walked
Bangladesh and Rwanda: Two economic success stories in two continents underpinned by women
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its World Economic Outlook for 2020, the report has drawn heated, but detailed and significant, discussions in India
Interludes of Joy and Sadness
Just interludes of joy and happiness
Handwashing one of the best defences against COVID-19, other diseases
Ten months into the pandemic, handwashing with soap remains one of our best defences against the virus, along with other public health measures such as maintaining physical distance, avoiding crowded places, practising cough etiquette and wearing a mask wherever recommended
A Mirage in the Mind
When we’ve lived our lives to the fullest
Crime against women in India: Time to teach moral education from young age
The recent assault and abuse of a poor and innocent woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh has justifiably raised nationwide concern and condemnation
That is Life
Just interludes of joy and happiness
