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Living in the past-tense!

Living in the past-tense!

By: Suhail Ahmad  The world has progressed a lot and societies have undergone tremendous changes. So much so that the Europe that was once barbaric and orthodox becomes the torch bearer of modern education and concepts like democracy. The world has changed in the recent past and several concepts which were an accepted norm are […]

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Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and proliferation

Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and proliferation

By Jatin Desai Nuclear bomb is a sensitive thing. Nuclear bombs are the weapons of mass destruction. The US used nuclear bombs first and last time by targeting Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The world was shocked. Japan and its friends surrendered. The world has moved ahead since 1945. On the one hand […]

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A helping hand for Indian universities

A helping hand for Indian universities

Leadership in philanthropy is central to enabling an institutional vision for higher education

C. Raj Kumar The future of Indian universities (public and private) will significantly depend upon our ability to harness the possibility of individual, institutional and corporate philanthropy for the purposes of higher education. A major legal and policy reform to promote some form of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) was initiated through the Companies Act, […]

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Convince the student first

Convince the student first

Regulatory change won’t persuade students that they’re getting a better education

By: Raghavan Srinivasan Last year, when my son graduated, he told me that he wanted to do a postgraduate course in International Security from Sciences Po in Paris. Till then, I had heard of neither the course nor the institution, but he rattled off facts: Sciences Po was one of France’s handful of Grandes Écoles, […]

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What is shaping up the thinking of Youth in Kashmir

What is shaping up the thinking of Youth in Kashmir

Just a few decades ago, the mainstream media organisations enjoyed the status of being the only and the most authentic and reliable sources of information. With the introduction of social media platforms, very recently, the popular media culture underwent a drastic change and the introduction of user friendly applications diversified the field of news which […]

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The Making of a Moral Hero:‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’

The Making of a Moral Hero:‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’

By: Charlayne Hunter-Gault When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, dozens of journalists and television camera crews from all over the world descended on South Africa and made their way to the dusty street outside his Soweto home. I was among them. We shared the same goal: to get Mandela to give […]

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WHAT AILS OUR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION?

WHAT AILS OUR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION?

Mushtaq Hurra A healthy seedbed can ensure a healthy crop as it supplies the saplings to be planted in a field. If the seedbed is weak and disease stricken, the future of the fields is sure to be unhealthy. Elementary educational system is like the seedbed of a nation which produces the individuals to be […]

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An afternoon in Havana

An afternoon in Havana

A hunt for Cuban art becomes a reminder of a fast disappearing world, invokes the connection between individuals and the journeys countries take.

By: Sanjay Verma We were in beautiful Havana on Friday, June 22, for President Ram Nath Kovind’s state visit. This was after the successful first-two legs of the tour in Athens, Greece and Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. President Kovind was the first Indian head of state to visit Suriname and Cuba. On Friday, after […]

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‘Dissent’ the real Freedom

‘Dissent’ the real Freedom

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion- David Eisenhower

By: Shabeer Rather, Peerzada Umer Promoting the world view that doesn’t allow the citizens, including students, to protest against the government policies, question what the teachers teach, to do critical analysis of what our religious leaders or political leaders tell or want us to follow is seriously inclining us towards slavery. Throughout the history, dissent […]

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Dirty sands of time: Review of ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ by Feroz Rather

Dirty sands of time: Review of ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ by Feroz Rather

Underneath the violence, the festering heart of Kashmiri society

By: Adil Bhat Fiction has the power to transform our perceptions about peoples and places. Feroz Rather’s The Night of Broken Glass is such a book; it hits you right in the gut. The author peeks into the dark, festering heart of Kashmiri society, while dramatising the spectacle of military violence. Recurring characters interconnect the […]

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