Creating awareness on Wildlife
Rakesh Kumar Sharma World Wildlife Day is celebrated every year on 3rd March across the world to create awareness among people and to highlight the importance of wildlife and the measures required for its protection.…
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World Wildlife Day: Cliches Abound?
Col Satish Singh Lalotra ‘The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will’. —Theodore Rosevelt. What an excellent quote from the late US president who had the sagacity decades back then…
A prelude to the destruction of the Middle East
Israeli-American attack on Iran Asad Mirza asad.mirza.nd@gmail.com The latest attacks by Iran and Israel on each other heralds a horrific and decisive phase in the verbal duel between the two. It is no longer just…
RBI’s New Proposed Framework for Fair Lending Practices
Restoring Dignity in Debt Recovery Maj (Retd) Ashok K Razdan The Government of the day has been emphasising the importance of starting own ventures / start-ups by setting up schemes like Start-up, India Seed Fund…
Railways in Kashmir: Development, But at what cost and priority?
Asrar Khan The Government’s proposal to extend railway lines deeper into the Kashmir Valley has sparked debate across the region. Surveys are reportedly underway for new rail links connecting major tourist and border destinations within…
The Haryana Model: Leadership, Governance and Sustainable Growth
Dr Raj Nehru In the ancient treatise Arthashastra, sage Kautilya (Chanakya) declared: “In the happiness of his subjects lies the king’s happiness; in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that…
The Purna-kumbha at the Doorway
Lalit Gupta lalitguptajammu@gmail.com With my mother’s passing in 1984, I lost not only her sandalwood-scented presence; convivial, self-assured, light on her toes, her eyes forever caressing, but an entire universe that had quietly revolved around…
Jonathan Livingston Seagull-A Story
A Book That I Read Suman K Sharma s2m2nr@gmail.com Tastefully brought out, Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a book out of the ordinary. It is a novella about a flock of seabirds, and a…
From Raman to Robotics – Charting India’s AI Impact
Jagjeet Singh Bhadwal jagjeet2210@gmail.com 28Scientific Temper: The Architecture of Democratic Progress Scientific temper is more than academic proficiency; it is a civic ethic. It demands scepticism without cynicism, inquiry without prejudice, and reasoning anchored in…
Why Women Drift Away from Science
Biju Dharmapalan bijudharmapalan@gmail.com In school classrooms, girls often do well in science-sometimes exceptionally well. They score high, answer confidently, and speak about careers in medicine, research, or environmental science with genuine enthusiasm. Yet as the…