To,Our Captain CoolWho finishes off in styleMahendra Singh Dhoni Always a class apartMan who hits the ball straight into our heartWith hopes of millionsHe stood tall with all of our aspirationsWith a charming smileThis man always ran an extra mileWhenever we lost, he took all the blameAlways kept the spirit of the gameStarted his journey…
The entire history of war journalism is one of the journalists attempting to gain access to events in order to serve the public interest. The ability of reporters to follow unfolding events has a history as long as war journalism itself.
As a generation affected and afflicted by a global pandemic, global warming has been wiped from public consciousness as a source of concern and corrective action but our ignorance in lieu of the pandemic should not be mistaken as a lapse in the grave issue of climate change. The temperature is rising, the snow is…
The beginning of the Beginning By the early 19th century, the Afghan empire was under threat from the Persians in the west and the Sikh Empire in the east. In the Anglo-Afghan Wars (three conflicts-1839–42; 1878–80; 1919) Great Britain, from its base in India, sought to extend its control over neighbouring Afghanistan (rich in resources)…
Afghanistan has been a centre for warlordism since the 12th Century, sometimes for the tribal Pashtun community, or the Moghul raiders, and as recently as the 1990s for the Taliban.
“I did not have a good life in Pakistan and now I’m back in Afghanistan. All I wish for is a small home and the chance for my children to get an education. If they can go to school this will be the biggest accomplishment of my life.” – Mustafa’s words, who was trying…
In India, a new brand of politics featuring ‘hate, hubris, and Hindutva’ has embarked to facilitate ‘social debacle’ by engineering religious strife by blatantly appropriating majoritarian principles.
Our names are precious to us more than anything else. When a child walks down the hallways of a school for the first time and takes the first step to the classroom, the first question which the teacher asks is “what is your name?
Lies are a hindrance to justice and pose a challenge to democracies all across the globe. Given the link between power and lies, especially in a multiparty system like India, does the solution lie in post-democratic ways of handling power?
September 5th pays tributes to the contributions of the teachers. It is the birth anniversary of renowned educator Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was a scholar, former President of India, and above all a transformational teacher. He rose above celebrations of his own birthday to celebrate the teachers and gave credit to their efforts all over…
For life was nothing to her
But the one that gifted her
With infinite choices to
Bring the hag out of her.
But she chose to succeed
Than to surrender!
This personal essay walks a lane inwards with three great educationists. The vision of the three men provokes an understanding of what is wrong with prevailing schooling practices. Education involves a search within. In this exploratory quest the three educational philosophers Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rabindranath Tagore and Avijit Pathak have walked the road less traveled. Walking…
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