There’s a Tree that I see in front of my home
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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Is Peace, Even Remotely, the Desired Objective
I think there is an enormous gap
Nonprofits in Kolkata and Bangalore named finalists in Global Environmental Contest
Solution Search, an effort by international environmental organization Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment recently announced the ten finalists in its ‘Water Pollution & Behavior Change’ contest that highlights local solutions to the world’s most challenging environmental problems
India must have international research team probe truth behind second Covid wave
The truth behind Covid 19 and its second wave in India should be thoroughly investigated, so that the world knows whether it is God-made or man-made
The Weight of the World on Your Shoulders, O Lord
The Weight of the Pandemic and the World
The Candle of Hope and Faith
The Candle that carries Hope throughout the nights, dark
The Inclement, English, Weather
Inclement is a funny word
'Save 100 lives, you are a nurse'
May 12 is celebrated globally as International Nurses Day and recalls the pioneering contribution of Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910), who is considered to be the founder of modern nursing
The Shipwrecked Men at Sea
We dare not go ashore lest, perchance, we get into a snare
The Fairies and I, ( a tete-a-tete )
Willows swaying by the riverside
Desiderata II
The aching heart needs some love
The Pandemic and Us
Let’s cut the mournful numbers out
Corny is the World of Men
You may not always as you desire, succeed
Adieu K.R. Gouri, 'Iron Lady' of Kerala and inspiration to women leaders
Gouri Amma had a mind of her own and always lived life on her own terms which did not go down well with the patriarchal society in Kerala
The Virtues of A Rose Elude most Thorns, sadly
Enmity and Jealousy both see Virtue as a thorn
