When does the heart slow its beat
Where Happiness is a Measure of Governance: What Bhutan’s Democratic Consolidation Can Teach Global South Nations
As democracies around the world confront public dissatisfaction, Bhutan reminds us that the health of a democracy cannot be measured only through the ballot box. It must also be evaluated through the well-being, dignity, security, and trust experienced by citizens.
India's Education Deficit: Real Reforms Lie in Making Coaching Redundant
India's digital infrastructure can certainly deliver free coaching to millions. But an even greater achievement would be to build an education and employment system in which families no longer feel compelled to buy coaching in the first place. Making bottled water cheaper is useful. Making the water from taps trustworthy is the real solution.
India’s Education Report Card: Student Retention, not Enrolment is Key to Success
The message is clear. India needs not merely more children entering classrooms, but more children staying, completing and learning. Achieving the ambitions of NEP 2020 and SDG 4 will require sustained public investment, stronger secondary-school retention, better support for vulnerable learners and a sharper focus on completion.
For a Developed India, Its Young Need to Be Instilled with Civic Values First
The virtues like civic discipline or gender sensitivity in India are not at premium. Basic civic sense is conspicuous by its absence. It gets manifested as indiscriminate littering, spitting, traffic indiscipline, vulgar or derogatory comments against women etc. Such attitudes find manifestation in foreign destinations as well.
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When the World around You is Bleak and More......
Let Hope not Die in the human Breast
The Eternal Quest for Answers
When Autumn says a tearful bye
Vendetta
More naked never the intention
Coax a Smile Out
Do conversations need speech
Donate, Donate, Donate
When the need of the hour is Vaccines
Heaven’s Mercies and Rains of Kindness
Storms of torment and great terror
Desiderata V
When Time itself, for each of us, comes with its limits clear
Desiderata IV, The Shepherd and the Flock
‘Tis for the Shepherd to lead the flock
Let’s Dissect this Thing called Laughter
Let’s dissect Laughter and see
A doc’s unconventional prescription for meeting a possible third Covid wave in India
The next Covid wave will be no less than a ‘war’ and India will have to make preparations similar to what armed forces all over the world do in war situations
Desiderata III
Yes, pre-eminence, surely, must belong to the one who leads
Violent attacks in Afghanistan and the Maldives threaten human rights and democracy
Only the harshest and most forceful terms would be fitting to describe terrorist attacks that specifically target children, no matter in which part of the world
Ending the 'forever war' in Afghanistan: Implications and options for India
Washington has formally started the process of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, beginning the end of what President Joe Biden has famously called "the forever war"
