The Narendra Modi-led government's tough stand against foreign interference in India's domestic affairs forced Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mellow his rhetoric and support to the ongoing farmers' agitation
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 Bedouin
'Midst the might of desert sands
Recollections of Gwalior Mountain Battery
In early 1952, my 22 Mountain Regiment was out for field firing in Nowshera (near Rajaori in J&K), where we were joined by the Gwalior Mountain Battery
Colonel Gill @100: Unique service record of a soldier-sailor-airman
Colonel Prithipal Singh Gill (retd) - who turned 100 on Friday (December 11) - is a celebrated Indian military veteran with a unique service profile
Students in India to take carbon-neutrality pledge to commemorate Paris Agreement
On the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Dec 12, students from leading Indian educational institutes will take a pledge to go carbon neutral at a virtual event
Humility Is Indeed Divine
The goblet bows and also bends
When The Curtain Falls
How long before you’re a dot on a page
The Will to Succeed
Let the will to succeed take you to heights anew,
All You Own are Your Words
All you own are your words, Ashok
The Magic of Music
Rock ‘n Roll or Twist away
The unhealthy ordinance of 'Love Jihad'
The 'Love Jihad Ordinance' is antithetical in letter and spirit to an empowered, integrated nation constituted in 1947
O, Mother
I cried like a child
Alone, But Connected
Not superior nor inferior
Renunciation
Is that the answer to life’s puzzle
The Ballad of the Sea
The voice I heard came from the seas
