International Literacy Day: Integrating Technology and Literacy
M Ahmad The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts is termed as literacy. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society. A […]
Education: The most powerful weapon
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit 8th September is celebrated as International Literacy day. In 1966, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed this day as International Literacy Day, sometimes called World Literacy Day. The intention was to remind people all over the world that the ability to read and write should not be taken […]
Tackling boredom
K S S Pillai A friend asked me the other day, “Why do couples in the West go for a divorce on the flimsiest of grounds while we are stuck with the same life partner till death?” He had just read a joke where a man thought the woman he saw at a function was […]
India’s economy is unstoppable
Anurag Singh Thakur It may be coincidental, but it is nonetheless of profound satisfaction for every Indian that India has surpassed Britain to emerge as the world’s fifth largest economy in the 75th year of its independence from British colonial rule. This achievement also comes at a time when Britain is struggling to shore up […]
Teacher’s ordeal
Syed Tajamul Hussain Waking up with the message popped up on the screen, reading ‘’ Happy Teacher’s Day ‘’, a teacher stroke a struggling smile that smells not so productive and positive. Spreads the pile of books while doing of what we called it lesson planning for whom the teacher has to deliver in actual […]
Leveraging Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY to help transgenders
Dr. R S Sharma To drive Universal Health Coverage (UHC), inclusivity is as essential to the core of a public healthcare systemas transparency is to governance. These endeavours for public health in India were bolstered when the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) was launched on 23rd September, 2018 by our Hon’ble […]
Iraq-Kurdistan Oil Tussle
Asad Mirza There are reports that international oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the US to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq’s central government and the Kurd Autonomous Regionor Kurdistan regional government (KRG), according to a letter seen by Reuters. Over the years Kurdistan had been supplying oil to Turkey and in […]
The status and responsibilities of a teacher
Aubaid Akhoon “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding “(William Arthur Ward) The teaching profession is simply a profession that creates all other professions. Of all the relationships in the world, the most sacred is considered to be that of a teacher […]
Search for home and literature
Kanchan Basu ‘Kumbha Mela’ of Indian Literature was celebrated for three days in Shimla Hills on June, 2022 organized by ‘Sahitya Akademi.’ At the moment there is no Ananta Murti, no Mahasweta Devi, no Ayappa Panikkar, no Sunil Gangopadhyay, and no Girish Karnad in Indian Literature. But they stand lit in the corridors of Shimla’s […]
Dr Radhakrishnan: Messenger of Indian Philosophy
Er. Prabhat Kishore India has rich philosophical heritage since thousands years. Although western philosophy represents a particular thought, but it places itself above all. The eastern philosophy and particularly Indian philosophy have a union of several thoughts – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam and many others; which makes it more rich, acceptable and strong. Dr. […]
