‘No reason why INDIA can’t win the next Bihar assembly elections, even if...
Days after LS results, parties in Bihar are already preparing for 2025 assembly polls. State party CPI-ML has returned to Parliament after 35 years with two MPs in the 18th Lok Sabha. In a stunning...
View ArticleExamine our exam-nation
India’s centralised exam system is losing credibility by the day. As GOI, which sacked NTA’s chief, is struggling to restore a semblance of order, it’s time to ask a different, more fundamental set of...
View ArticleFix it, GOI: The future of India’s young depends on govt thinking creatively...
Misery piles on for our young examinees. Last Wednesday, education ministry cancelled UGC-NET exam, conducted a day earlier, fearing a paper leak. On Saturday, it postponed NEET-PG exam scheduled for...
View ArticleDecentralising India exams
India’s education system is currently navigating a turbulent phase marked by significant challenges in exam administration, particularly highlighted by recent controversies surrounding the National...
View ArticleOur house of the people: New voices, new challenges
The 18th Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament) just started, and it’s already super interesting! Here’s what’s happening: Team Work: The new members of parliament (MPs) took their oaths on the first day. Some...
View ArticleThe battery race: India’s exciting energy adventure!
Hey there! Let’s talk about something really cool that’s happening in India right now. It’s all about batteries, but not the kind you put in your toys. These are super important batteries that could...
View ArticleHow NEET was designed to fail
The NEET 2024 paper leak has brought the focus back on the demand to scrap a nation-wide single entrance test. There are several very good reasons for scrapping a single entrance test and letting...
View ArticleIt’s people’s house
As MPs took oath on Day One of the 18th Lok Sabha, three incidents stood out as an indication to what can be expected in the days ahead. Opposition’s protest against temporary speaker and Congress’s...
View ArticleLithium & more: Syncing mining and battery tech R&D crucial to India’s...
In mixed progress for India’s battery tech ecosystem, Chhattisgarh’s Korba district has seen one block of lithium move to the auctions stage and another block showing promising deposits of the mineral....
View ArticleExes with benefits: Putting children first is the love story after divorce
A new and tender love story is doing the rounds. This one is made up of exes. Once a marriage heads for divorce courts, a husband and wife are simply called Tom and Jerry. While...
View ArticleNavigating Uncertain Times With Ontological Leadership
By Yogi Balkrishna Amid today’s tumultuous and rapidly changing world, the idea and spirit of leadership need a profound transformation. Conventional leadership models, once effective, are now proving...
View ArticleThe white & wrong Of UK’s Rishism
No British politician of a party seen to be losing has got it like Sunak. But this racism has worked subtly, through dog whistle or sneer. Britain may have moved forward on race question but...
View ArticleThe Ghostly Prank – a short story
Rahul sat in the back of an Ola cab, the driver Ravi looking at him expectantly. “Good afternoon, sir. May I have the OTP, please?” Ravi asked cheerfully. Rahul glanced up from his phone with...
View ArticleIndia’s potential to become the largest provider of skilled workforce to the...
Introduction With over 65% of its youth in the working age group, India has an advantage of a demographic dividend unlike any other country in the world. However, the full benefits of this dividend can...
View ArticleKhela hobe na: Mamata tore into her own govt because she knows voters can...
It’s unusual for a CM to upbraid the party organisation, top to bottom, sparing no one. That three-time Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee held forth for a record 70 minutes, critiquing municipalities on upkeep...
View ArticleMeditation Could Be An Antidote To Drugs
by Osho If a person is addicted to drugs, the problem is not the drugs; the problem is why he is addicted to drugs – because life gives no joy, life is so empty, so...
View ArticleWarring. Worrying Bibi
Netanyahu now setting his sights on Hezbollah is bad for West Asia. He has severely hurt Brand Israel Netanyahu continues to play with Israeli lives. After announcing the “intense phase” of the Israeli...
View Article‘No EVM can be hacked. An embedded programme fused on the processor can’t be...
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is the developer of EVMs in India. Its former R&D director Col (retd) HS Shankarled the team that produced the first 1.5L units used in 1990. EVM credibility has...
View ArticleAre we worthy citizens?
The oath-taking ceremony and the slogans that followed have made me question the fact- if we still identify ourselves as One nation, one identity of being an Indian first. So many MPs chanted regional...
View ArticleThe rise of the citizen scientist!
How Citizen Science is Democratizing Research? Citizen science – the once niche realm of butterfly enthusiasts and birdwatchers – is undergoing a revolution. Today, armed with smartphones and laptops,...
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