Bhutan and its people

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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The more you prune the Vine you own

Salutes To The Women of India and the World

Rise, O Ladies and show us the way

The Need for A National Lockdown

Now, Now, Now

Keep India’s morale high in this hour of crisis

What the governments need today from the politicians, critics and media are not destructive criticism, but constructive suggestions with an attitude of cooperation and support

The Call of the Wilds

Nothing brings me nearer to Thee

Don’t Just Dream, Live Them too

Let’s get drunk on Happiness

One God, let’s not test His Patience

Waheguru, Dieu, Allah, Prabhu

Failure of leadership in India

There is hardly any mechanism of self-correction or mid-course correction since the people who can give alternative advice have been filtered out from the decision-making process

The Leaf, Charmed By The Waves

The leaf that does, forever, float

No Greater Balm For The Soul

The gentle sounds of running water

Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Emergency COVID-19 Assistance for India

Reflecting the United States’ solidarity with India as it battles a new wave of COVID-19 cases, the United States is delivering supplies worth more than $100 million in the coming days to provide urgent relief to our partners in India

Time And Tide

When Time seems to hang a bit

Unfair criticism of prime minister is weakening India's fight

Modi knows that a large section of the Indian population stands by him as he tackles this grave crisis, though some opposition parties, pledged critics and sections of the media want to paint a different picture

Asian Americans must fight for their rightful place in America

Like many Americans, I reacted to the recent murders of six Asian Americans in Atlanta with horror

Don’t Speak, Just Smile

Don’t speak, just smile!