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 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.
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.
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.
26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his aides being handed down a collective imprisonment of over 10 years in terror-financing cases is being viewed as yet another farcical exercise conducted by Pakistan to fool the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which has retained the deep state on its grey list since 2018
Prairies, Steppes, Savannahs all
Black as coal is a nice expression
When months and years don’t count anymore
Almost a year has gone since COVID-19 came into our life. It has created havoc in our personal, social, and economic spheres and it will take quite some time for us to recover from its effects
The 12th Counter Terrorism Dialogue between the European Union (EU) and India was held virtually on 19th November 2020
Que Sera Sera, whatever will be
The essential requirement of democracy anywhere in the world is that it should be the government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people
Dreams are what I mostly sell
November 14 is the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister and one of the main architects of Independent India
In his Republic TV, Arnab Goswami has been strongly pointing out several, what he thinks as, irregularities or doubtful intentions by the Government of Maharashtra on a number of issues in recent times
India should follow a policy of three Cs as a mantra with its relations China – compete, cooperate and confront, said former Indian Army chief General Shankar Roychoudhury
Assessing morale and will to fight (adversary and own) is crucial to the science and art of war (Warcraft)
Does the Heart have eyes
Noting that it was the most “inappropriate time” for the European Union (EU) to hold the EU-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue keeping in view the violent anti-French and anti-European demonstrations in that country, the Europe India Chamber of Commerce (EICC), a Brussels-based non-profit organisation, has said that holding such dialogues are a “perfect example” of how some of EU’s policies have “boomeranged.”
