The look in your eyes is no surprise,
The fear I see is meant to be
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.
Indian Students, Techies Look Eastward as Ties with East/Southeast Asia Grow
Ties between India and East and Southeast Asia are bound to strengthen, given the growing synergies in strategic areas such as defence, critical technology and higher education. It is important for Indian students, professionals, and skilled workers to harness educational and work opportunities in that region that is open to receiving Indian students and techies. This is especially important given that countries in the Anglosphere, not just the US but also Canada and to an extent Australia, are adopting increasingly insular immigration policies and tightening student and work visa regulations.
Empty Classrooms, Crowded Reading Rooms and a Growing Educational Concern
Across Kashmir, the image of crowded reading rooms alongside empty classrooms should compel us to reflect on the direction our education system is taking. Reading rooms may help students prepare for examinations, but schools and colleges prepare them for life.
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Befriend your Fears
To An Old Friendship
I think I knew who lived here once
And, I think, I knew him well,
Twilight
Twilight, that time between sunset and nightfall
When Orange, nay Red, is the colour of the sky,
How Arty is the World of Artificial Intelligence,( AI )
Is AI the way forward, or
Out there to destroy Humanity,
Blue Moon
O waning moon, where do you go?
Why are you not on constant show?
Milestones
Milestones are milestones, mere distance recorders
How you travelled and journeyed unknown,
Time, the Vagabond
Each grain of Sand does a message carry
Stagnation’s ruin, do not tarry,
A Lost World
Never has the world so lost its way
As it has, alas, so sadly today,
Desire
O how immortal is the soul,
And how fatal is desire,
If This Valley In Which I Wander
If this valley in which I wander,
And the hills surrounding it,
Pandora’s Box
If the box was full of Evil
Why was it gifted at all?
A Missive (Not a Missile) for Peace, Mr. President
Certainly, do what you think you must
To keep your country ‘first’
My Life
When I look back at the years gone by
I do so with a gentle smile
The Cycle of Life
The ferocity of the good ol’ sun
The serenity of the moon,
My Name Is Pretty Winter
Why do you look at me disconsolately,
When warmth is all I provide?
