Health is a precious asset. The World Health Organization identifies health as a state of total physical, mental, and social well-being, rather than simply the absence of disease. It also claims that there can be no true physical health without mental health. A person with good mental health is aware of their abilities, can cope with life’s normal stresses, can[Read More…]
The contagious Covid-19 has stimulated an irremediable health crisis and has increased the burden of mental illness among students. The deadly virus has wreaked unprecedented havoc on millions of lives, pushing many of them to an untimely demise. As the country fights against the virus, the suicide has emerged as the second-leading cause of non-coronavirus deaths in India as revealed[Read More…]
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year. It is the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adapted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The document is made available therewith in more than 500 languages and is the most translated document in the world. ‘Recover better – stand up for human rights’ is the[Read More…]
Children’s Day or Bal Diwas in India is celebrated every year on Nov. 14th, six days before the rest of the world, on the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. This year marks Nehru’s 131st birth anniversary. Children’s day, originally, was celebrated on Nov. 20th as Universal Children’s Day by the United Nations. India also[Read More…]
Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to make fruitful changes in our society. India is a democratic country bearing enriched legitimacy in educational traditions. The people of this country have always been blessed with the educational ideals and thoughts of its great sons like Chanakya, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghosh, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Maulana[Read More…]
Youths and children, the most demographic dividend of any country, are equally important for the society specifically as well as for the nation-building in general. They are the impregnable pillars of any country’s social integration and economic growth. Education is treated as best mode of shaping these young populations towards their holistic development, thereon the destiny of any nation depends[Read More…]
The global Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented change in all walks of life. It has clutched different sectors and overthrown people around the world to a new social and economic crisis. Education is one of them, due to the pandemic around 1.52 billion students stranded at home and over 60.2 million teachers remain out of schools (UN Secretary-General, 2020,[Read More…]
Education is the most powerful weapon to produce desirable changes in our society, and in order to drive the nation towards greater accomplishments, it is important to furnish quality education to all of its citizens. The education system in India is one of the world’s largest sectors and after Independence, the country has passed through many reforms right from 10+2+3[Read More…]
In the midst of isolation crisis, when all educational institutions have been stirred to online teaching and up-scaled teachers’ digital skills through school-based training interventions, few states like Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh had placed a restriction on online classes for primary school-going children. Online learning, no doubt is by far the most compelling alternative in the times of Covid-19[Read More…]
Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 – Monetising that which sustains life 
Channi is dishonest and Kejriwal an honest man? 
Urgent Need to Raise Budget Allocations for Health Sector 
Thank Goodness Ilan Pappe is no Longer Alone on the Barricades 
Booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine: To give or not to give? 
CPSE disinvestment- Valuation approach flawed, Imprudent to ignore R&D effort in CPSEs at the cost of self-reliance 
The Ukraine Riddle & the War of Words 
Neoliberalism, Stress, and Sex 
A Very Long War – From Vietnam to Afghanistan with Detours Along the Way 
Palestine: Between a Rising Tide and Apartheid – Environmental Justice 
Subhash Chandra Bose: Memoirs of the North East India 
Ethnocracy invading India’s democracy 
Identifying Six Most Urgent Priorities of India in Exceptionally Difficult and Uncertain Times 
When Virtual Reality is the Actual Reality 
One Billion Dollars Per Day—This is what the top 10 billionaires of USA have been adding to their wealth in pandemic times 
Auguries of Ruin 
The Lamp – Lit For What? 
Red is the new alert for Prime Minister? 
How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online 
Dominance by Billionaires Leads India’s Highway to Record Levels of Inequality 
Obituary: Eminent Computer Scientist-Teacher Prof M. Radhakrishna 
Humanity at “Doom’s Doorstep” Says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 
Economics With A Human Face—Young Writer Makes A Mark With His First Book 
Morocco Drives a War in Western Sahara for Its Phosphates 
Setback to India’s Covid Genome Sequencing Efforts- 5 Labs Shut- A cause for concern 
Song of the Himalayas 
First Amendment to the Indian Constitution: Is Nehru a hero or a villain? 
Unshackle the youth to realize a Republic 
Punjab Election and the farmers 
A United Voice For A Referendum For Eelam Tamils 
Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame – Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary? 
77 And The Drums Of War 
Blinken delays US response to Russia 
“Havana Syndrome” – CIA Rules Out Foreign Power Involvement 
Hate is normal in India today, thanks to social media Rapidly growing economic inequalities in India 
After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy? 
The Smearing of Emma Watson 
Reckless pursuit of linking rivers can result in ecological havoc 
Erdogan Triumphs as Putin Stabs His Best Ally in the Back 
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