For the last nineteen years ever since Narendra Modi first became chief minister of Gujarat and later on Prime Minister of India, he has been receiving bouquets and brickbats from a cross-section of countrymen
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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Usha Rao-Monari appointed UN Under-Secretary-General
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Keep The Spirits Soaring
There’s a mountain within me that I climb everyday
Why Me ?
When fortune does not smile upon us
Heaven and Hell Must Be Very Close
Never been there so really can’t say
Will the BJP be able to capture West Bengal?
The battle for Bengal has begun
How long will India keep depending on US social media apps?
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When It’s Time To Say Goodbye
To Memories we cling
How Easily Is The Fabric of Life Torn Asunder
In the splendour of Night
Public support is fickle: BJP should reach out to the farmers
Cricket has been described as a game of uncertainties and surprises, but it should be noted that the same is true of politics
Chasing Mirages
Why are we chasing mirages always
Kashmir local polls: Traditional parties look for scapegoats for defeat
Failing to win even one of the nine district chairpersons and vice chairpersons posts for which elections have now been completed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), valley-based traditional ruling parties, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have begun to level allegations of horse-trading
The Drama of Life
The Ferris Wheel goes round and round
Inferior
Thank you to, my friends, all
