The Wind-Up Presidency: Insert Praise, Watch Democracy Clap
There is a comforting myth about strongmen: that they are driven by ideology, vision, or at least a coherent plan. Donald Trump ruined that myth. His...
Dream beyond becoming a doctor or engineer alone
Dream beyond becoming a doctor or engineer alone
July 14, 2021
When Survival gets Pivotal than Productivity.
When Survival gets Pivotal than Productivity.
January 26, 2023
Cocoon of protective bliss.
Cocoon of protective bliss.
November 11, 2022
To Love Yourself
To Love Yourself
January 23, 2022
Pretty/Ugly
Pretty/Ugly
January 13, 2022
WHAT PROMPTS THE YOUTH OF TODAY TO MOVE TO OTHER COUNTRIES?
WHAT PROMPTS THE YOUTH OF TODAY TO MOVE TO OTHER COUNTRIES?
January 11, 2022
THE WHEEL OF TIME
THE WHEEL OF TIME
January 5, 2022
Reflection: After Life Almost Let me go.
There is a moment—rare, quiet, and terrifying—when life stops negotiating with you. No warnings.No countdown.Just a sudden realization that everything you assumed was permanent is, in...
India’s Long Climb to Fourth: Growth, Grit, and the Arithmetic of Endurance
India’s rise to become the world’s fourth-largest economy is less a moment of triumph than a moment of reckoning. It signals that India has crossed a...
Sapere Aude, Again: A New Year, a Quieter Kind of Courage.
Every year, humanity performs the same small, strange ritual.We gather the bruises of twelve months, tie them neatly with a ribbon called hope, and announce—often with...
Global MBA Compass
By: Emdi Iyer. Global MBA Compass is a country-by-country series designed to help students navigate one of the most important academic and career decisions of their...
Annus Inquietus, Redux: A World Distracted, an India Becoming and The Year Gone By….
The year that has just taken its bow from the stage of history did not so much end as exhaust itself. Like a verbose dinner guest...
Teacher Training in Transition: Are We Preparing Educators for NEP Classrooms?
India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promises nothing short of a paradigm shift—from rote learning to conceptual understanding, from rigid curricula to flexibility, and from exam-centric...
Geoeconomics and AI Governance: Power in the Age of Algorithms.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a neutral technology story. It has become a core arena of geoeconomic competition, where rules, standards, and compute capacity shape power...
The Aravallis – When a Billion-Year-Old Mountain Range Is Reduced to a Measurement.
Long before cities rose and borders were drawn, the Aravalli range stood quietly across the subcontinent. Older than the Himalayas, older than most life forms as...
Geoeconomics of Supply Chains and Critical Minerals: Power Beneath the Ground.
In the 21st century, global power is no longer determined only by oil fields, shipping lanes, or military alliances. It increasingly rests on something less visible...
Five Years of NEP 2020: What Changed in Classrooms—and What Stayed on Paper.
When the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was unveiled, it carried the weight of history and hope. It was the first comprehensive education policy of the...
Strategic Depth, Shallow Trust: How Pakistan Lost the Taliban—and Washington and Beijing Lost the Plot.
If foreign policy came with a warranty, Pakistan would be filing a claim. After decades of cultivating influence in Afghanistan, Islamabad has discovered that the Taliban,...
‘Dhurandhar’: The Spy Flick That’s Robbing Pakistan’s Establishment of REM Sleep.
In South Asia, cinema has always been the fastest way to trigger a diplomatic mood swing. One week, actors are exchanging cross-border compliments; the next, nationalists...
GITA FOR LIFE
A Journey from Confusion to Clarity Weekly Youth Column By Dr. Anita Kumari. In today’s fast-moving world, young minds face unprecedented pressure—academic stress, career uncertainty, emotional...
From Chalkboards to Start-ups: Reimagining Commerce Education with Real-World Learning
By: Emdi Iyer India today stands at a decisive moment in its educational transformation. As the global landscape moves rapidly toward innovation-led, skill-based, and application-oriented learning,...
CBSE’s Competency Revolution: A Turning Point—or a New Layer of Inequality?
The Central Board of Secondary Education’s recent decision to redesign the assessment structure by making 50 percent of board examination questions competency-based from 2026 onward marks...
The Rupee’s Not So Glamorous Slide
The Rupee recently crashed past the psychological barrier of ₹90 per US dollar — something many thought would belong only in dystopian scripts or angry WhatsApp...
From Silence to Orbit — How ISRO Changed the Rules of the Cosmic Game
Shreya, Tiger Reporter, theinditimes.com For decades, the global narrative of space exploration was comfortably dominated by a handful of wealthy nations — the United States, Russia,...
Zelensky and the Endless Season: A Presidency That Began as Comedy and Became a Cliffhanger
There was a time, not long ago, when Volodymyr Zelensky’s most dangerous performance involved slipping on a banana peel on national television. Back then, his greatest...
The Pendulum Presidency — Swinging with Trump
If history ever needs a mascot for unpredictability, scientists need look no further than Donald J. Trump — the political world’s most energetic pendulum. Never in...
The India–US Trade Deal – A Timeless Saga
If diplomacy were a sport, the ongoing India–United States trade negotiations would surely qualify as the world’s longest test match—complete with rain delays, strategic pauses, and...
Travelogue to the Moon — Year 2035 Edition
By: Aadya, Cub Correspondent, theinditimes.com By 2035, humanity stood at the edge of a new era. Climate alarms echoed across continents, self-driving electric cities replaced chaotic...
Halal – One Certification Many Questions
Welcome, ladies, gentlemen, and those still waiting for their KYC verification—today we gather not to discuss global warming, education reform. No. We are here to talk...
A Letter To The Nation by Mahatma Gandhi From Heaven
Upon witnessing the UK–India Free Trade Agreement negotiations My dear brothers and sisters of India, I greet you from a place where there are no tariffs,...
1. My Life With a Cow
MOO…’VE OVER Weekly Column: By Our Very Confused Columnist. Let me introduce you to the most influential creature in my life—not a mentor, not a celebrity,...
The First Loan – Part 1 of The Jobra Village Story.
The sun was dipping behind the rice fields of Jobra village, turning the sky a soft orange, when The Professor walked down the dusty path, his...
The King and the Tariff Tower
Once upon a time, in the prosperous kingdom of Amerigo, there lived a king named Donald the Deal-Maker, famous for three things: his golden hair, his...
THE FLOWING ETERNITY
By : Geetha, Pune. Sitting by the beachside, watching the couples walking hand in hand, the little children playing in the sand building castles, the balloon...
Game Based Learning – A Powerful Tool In The Teaching Arsenal
Game-based learning (GBL) has emerged as a powerful tool in the teaching arsenal, offering several key benefits that enhance the learning experience. Here’s why applying games...
Empowering thinking in schools.
BY: DR. ANILKUMAR B. To make use of the learning is to apply the learning, the last step of cognitive transfer. This assumes that the understanding...
The Classroom Alchemist
AUTHOR: Nandini Malhotra, Principal Universal Academy, Tarn Taran & Author of The Classroom Alchemist. One shouldn’t opt to be a teacher unless and until one is ready...
Principal Ki Kursi
The crayon drawing captioned “Principal’s chair dissolved as my eyes watered. A decade and more has elapsed since then. I have led many schools across India...
SHOLAY-A FILM THAT COULD BE MADE ONLY ONCE
Ramesh Sippy had made a name for himself as a director with films like “Andaaz” and “Seeta Aur Geeta”, but was enamored by the idea of...
I am a firm believer that you make your own luck
I am one of the few living beings who have the ability to see four primary colours. That is why I am called a tetrachromat. Do...
Failure is temporary but giving up is permanent.
Former Chairperson of IIM Bangalore. Managing director of Biocon, a biotechnology company. Othmer gold medalist in 2014. One of top 50 women in business according to...
“I met Sir C V Raman when I was 11 years old”
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, also more popularly known as C N R Rao is currently the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister...
The Problem with “Happy New Year” — and What to Say Instead.
By: Mr. Muralidharan Narayanaswamy. We are extraordinarily generous people—at least with wishes. We hand them out like visiting cards: All the best! Good luck! Hope everything...
POWER of MIND.
By: Ms. Vipin Sharma “Training the Mind is the Essence of Education. So Master the Mind and Master the World “said Swami Chinmayanandajee True Education will...
Trump, Venezuela and the Limits of Pressure
The relationship between Venezuela and Donald Trump has always been less about Venezuela itself and more about how power, pressure, and spectacle are used in American...
Why the Taliban Government Is Here to Stay.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan is often described as temporary, brittle, or destined to collapse under the weight of isolation and economic failure. Yet nearly four...
The Republic Between Ballots and Barricades – How Bangladesh’s transition risks trading authoritarian stability for democratic disorder
Bangladesh is living through a moment that looks, from afar, like a political transition—but feels, from within, like a reckoning postponed too long and unleashed too...
