Religion — A Private Affair or Political Spectacle?

The general idea is that when you become a journalist, you start making informed opinions or statements, but at a recently concluded workshop for the fraternity I realized that it isn’t always true. A more daunting phenomenon makes its…

Economic Inequality is Not Evil

By Luis Miranda

Peace, Liberty, and Gandhi

As we celebrate Gandhi Jayanti, it is worth our while to revisit the man and his ideas.

Gandhi exemplified certain virtues that lie at the heart of liberalism — virtues of peace, toleration, freedom and liberty, and skepticism of state power. Below are…

What Ails Our Higher Education?

I recently completed my graduation from a state funded engineering college. In the past couple months since I’ve started working; I’ve come to get some sense of how inadequate my training in college really was. (a sentiment, I am sure, shared by many engineering students —…

Introducing NEP on Wheels: Day One-Mathura!

New Education Policy is being formed after 23 long years. India revised its education policy back in 1992. Now the not-so-new government has taken up Education Policy on their agenda and have started consultations across the country, both offline and…

NEP on Wheels: Day Five and some Reflections

I started on the last day of my journey on the 5th of October. I left Kanpur at around 6 in the morning to be able to reach Lucknow by 12:30 where I had to attend a conference on Education organized by STIR.

Yet Another Constitution, or the Vision for A New Nepal?

By Sarita Sapkota

Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic in the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007. This was right after the decade long Maoist uprising (1996–2006) which led to the fall of a…