‘Love jihad’ as a term itself is an oxymoron
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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Randomness
A gallery of words and meanings
Should India revise its electoral system to give voters right to reject?
An interesting case has been filed in the Supreme Court (SC) of India
Statement by Indian External Affairs Minister at the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting
At the outset, I congratulate Your Excellency Mr. Dinesh Gunawardena on your election as Chairperson of today's Meeting
Will CPEC add to Pakistan's growing challenges?
Political stability is the necessary ingredient for every country for weaving societal Integration. It is a prerequisite condition for economic development and establishing the supremacy of the law in the state
On the Road to Nowhere
Don’t play with Trees
Statement by India's External Affairs Minister at the 9th Ministerial Conference of Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process (HoA-IP) on Afghanistan in Dushanbe
We meet at a momentous time, not just for the people of Afghanistan but also for our wider region
Citizens’ Appeal for of Myanmar’s People against Repression by the Military: Demand for Government of Nepal to Act
We undersigned citizens of Nepal are proud of the Myanmar people’s valorous stand for democracy, appalled by the murderous suppression by the Tatmadaw military, and distressed by the lack of adequate response from the governments of South Asia and globally
Joint Statement issued on the occasion of the visit of Prime Minister of India to Bangladesh
At the invitation of Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, H.E. Shri Narendra Modi, paid a State Visit to Bangladesh from 26 to 27 March 2021 to join the celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of the Independence of Bangladesh, the Birth Centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Bangladesh
UN resolution against Sri Lanka partisan and unfair
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva has thought it fit to pass a resolution by majority vote against Sri Lanka for what the resolution termed as a human rights violation
Kolkata-Dhaka Dialogue as Modi visits Bangladesh
H.P. Ghosh Research Centre, a unit of Bandhan-Konnagar, hosted the Kolkata-Dhaka Dialogue, with the support of India's Ministry of External Affairs
Kolkata's storm in a coffee cup
The Indian Coffee House in Kolkata’s College Street has been a favourite haunt for the student community and intellectuals for ages
India needs to give Economic Survey its rightful place
The Economic Survey is the flagship annual document which we all look forward to. In the recent past, it has lived up to the expectation of being an indispensable guide on performance, challenges and prospects of the Indian economy
Green, Brown, and the Autumn Leaves
Unlike flowers that have a name
Touched by light – a conjecture on how gravity and human thought maybe related
In late 1977, I was walking through a thick pine-grove in Gainesville, Florida, the USA when suddenly a thought came out of the blue that gravity and human thought may be related
