Speaking in a meeting on August 28, 2020, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had said that “realism should shape India’s China policy.”
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Education as a Game Changer for South Asia: India can Become an Educational Leader
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The Reconstituted Nalanda: Can it Leverage its Civilizational Memory to Become an Alternative Academic Hub for the Global South?
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'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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