Hold the hand of Silence
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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Be Sensible, Say Merci Beaucoup
Wear your mask, keep your distance, be Sensible
Ne l’oublions pas (Lest we forget)
All was ablaze, bizarre the scenes
Why India's Covid battle is making the rich-poor gap starker
Obviously, when the gap between availability and requirement of facilities is so huge, there would be a tendency among the rich to buy them at any cost, whereas others like politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, judges, journalists, etc are going to ‘buy’ the same facilities by peddling their influence
I Wonder
Is it wiser to remain the fool that you are
Take Heed, O Lord, Thou Art Yourself in Danger
Things, O Things, all cluttered around
In stay-at-home time, a low-cost air-conditioning system that needs no electricity
In these times of the COVID-19 pandemic when the air pollution and temperatures in the cities are increasing and more and more people and families are forced to stay inside their homes during the lockdown, they need to have a comfortable stay, especially in hot summer months
Time, the Resident Infidel
What is Time, I often wonder
Academic life facing the brunt of the pandemic
The ongoing second wave of coronavirus has hit India with much greater fury than before. It’s a nightmare come to reality with the number of cases soaring to over 400,000 dail
The Dance of Democracy, When it’s Ugly
People, like those who like true Democracy
Tagore the universal man: A tribute from Trinidad
Tagore the universal man had conceived of a world where man would be integral to nature and where cosmogony would find moorings in the full soul force, a world where cultures would talk, integrate and assimilate and where the creative impulse of man would unfold and seek fulfillment in merging with infinite consciousness
Dame Fortune is a Fickle Mistress
Do not pluck flowers from my garden
Conquest
Let’s look at the world from
Streaming Thoughts
The hand of fortune is more effective than the arm
Random Thoughts
When you take the paths, dark
