POEM: The chaotic phase!
By: Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi You are nowhere, but I’m still looking at those ways, Where you once told me that only love eternally stays Where are you, where is love and where are those days? I see nothing you left me in a haze that too in my chaotic phase! Whenever I see loving birds […]
Evolution of Public Relation
By: Er. Prabhat Kishore Public relation is the management function which evaluates public attitude, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or an organisation with the public interest and executes a programme of action to learn public understanding and acceptance. According to Edward Barney’s, “Public relation councellor directs, advices upon and supervises activities of […]
Sundays in the past
By: K S S Pillai According to the Bible, Sunday was the day of rest even for God after He got tired of creating this world. His followers, though supposed to observe it as the Lord’s Day of worship and rest, are forced to use it for many more activities now. Though it would be […]
Urban 20: Creating collaborative cities for a galvanised global order
By: Hardeep Singh Puri The inaugural event of the Urban 20 Engagement Group was held in Ahmedabad on 9-10 February 2023.Urban 20, or U20, is among the most influential city-level diplomacy initiatives held annually. Receiving participation from Mayors and designated ‘City Sherpas’ from the G20 cohort, the deliberations at U20 inform G20 negotiations and are […]
Letter to the Editor
Respected Sir, It is high time for New Delhi to act as a good Samaritan by negotiating a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Although India has frequently abstained itself from casting a vote in the United Nations General Assembly and in the United Nations Security Council against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been […]
Global Science for Global Well-being
By: M Ahmad Science is the greatest collective endeavor. It contributes to ensuring a longer and healthier life, monitors our health, provides medicine to cure our diseases, alleviates aches and pains, helps us to provide water for our basic needs – including our food, provides energy and makes life more fun, including sports, music, entertainment […]
Global indignation over Saudi development plans
By: Asad Mirza Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) announced the launch of the New Murabba Development Company, last week. The new company will oversee developing a new downtown area spread over 19 sq. km. in capital Riyadh Authorities claim that plans have been created keeping sustainability and environment in mind. The project […]
Mother Tongue: The building blocks of education
By: Dharmendra Pradhan India is a multilingual country with a plethora of languages spoken in its different parts. Besides twenty-two languages in the eighth schedule of the Constitution and ninety-nine other languages spoken by more than ten thousand speakers, there are many other languages and mother tongues which are spoken in smaller linguistic communities. It […]
Rote Learning
By: Mohammad Nadeem Rote Learning is a conventional learning procedure that is solely based on the memorization of information based on repetitions. Best examples of rote learning are multiplication tables and spelling words. The ’80s or 90’s born people now can remember how they used to recall tables and word spellings. Rote learning is commonly […]
Understanding right to dignity in Islam
By: Umer Riyaz Human dignity is recognition that human beings possess a special value intrinsic to their humanity and as such are worthy of respect. It unfolds that a person is inherently and by nature venerable and honorable. None has the right to humiliate, insult and diminish the respect of any human being irrespective of […]
