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To fix India’s education system, we need good action plans not policies

India is too diverse to consider a single mandate by way of education policy for the entire country.

Pulwama shows alienated youth who don’t fear death are the biggest challenge in J&K

The alienation of the post-1990 generation is a result of nearly three decades of violence in Jammu and Kashmir.

Indian Air Force is showing the country how to go the biofuel way

The total import substitution based on IAF consumption of biofuels alone could reach Rs 25,000 crore by 2024.

After Sajjan Kumar conviction, everyone has become an expert on Sikh trauma

Any half-baked attempt at telling Sikhs that we have been ‘gifted’ justice is just another insulting consolation.

Why is YouTube buzzing with a movie on Kanshiram?

With Digital Dalit asserting herself politically, Kanshiram finds an audience.

Ashoka University did what famed Delhi University could not – stand by its teachers

Ashoka University showed extraordinary courage to do something as ordinary as supporting the autonomy of teachers.

China’s shadow banking may be a lot bigger than India’s, but India’s is too big to fail

The Indian government can’t afford to see the industry stumble.

Narendra Modi losing 2019 is now a real possibility

It’s the economy, stupid.

A little humility from the Communist Party will serve China well

By taking all the credit for the country’s stunning economic rise, the Communist Party is threatening its continued prosperity.

Gandhi does not need statues and Ghana does not need advice on what to do with them

If devotion’s soft petals have been laid on Gandhi’s statues, so have antagonism’s sharp points.

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.