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India's education crisis
6 Dec 2018 4:38 PM GMTIndia needs to dramatically increase the quality and accessibility of higher education to match economic growth and emerge as a global leader
Getting together India and Australia
19 Nov 2018 3:14 PM GMTModern times have yet to see a strong bilateral and strategic engagement between New Delhi and Canberra as both countries remain hostage to their...
India's employability quotient
12 July 2018 5:01 PM GMTWith significant technological strides, we must realign our education system to create more employable citizens
Are we running out of time?
10 Jun 2018 4:57 PM GMTA nation’s future is forged by its education system. A defunct system will usher in a dismal future. India’s education system needs urgent rewiring.
Strategising Maldives
5 March 2018 3:13 PM GMTThe idyllic Maldives faces a serious constitutional crisis and there are no indications that President Abdullah Yameen will be willing to soften his...
India needs to tread the innovation path to progress
27 Aug 2016 9:47 PM GMTInnovation worries us. At one level, many perceive it as a threat to their jobs and, in fact, to their way of thinking and behaving. It challenges...
Resolving India’s education crisis
18 Aug 2016 10:56 PM GMTA recent report tabled in parliament that over 100,000 schools in India have just one teacher is an alarming wake-up call for the government and all...
Game changer for India-Australia ties
12 July 2016 12:05 AM GMTThe platform for a transformational change in bilateral relations was laid when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia in November 2014....
Cameron has left Europe and the world floundering
30 Jun 2016 9:39 PM GMTBritish Prime Minister David Cameron's exit speech, with his quivering lower lip, won praise from some in the social media. Very quickly, however,...
Budget 2016 and people’s aspirations
16 March 2016 9:14 PM GMTEver since the then Finance Minister Shan Mukhan Chitty presented India’s first Budget in 1947, the event has been eagerly awaited as the first...
Style must accompany substance
27 Oct 2015 9:31 PM GMTIt is extraordinary how quickly we believe smart slogans. Advertising and marketing are based precisely on the ability to win subscribers and getting...
Making the crash work in your favour
28 Aug 2015 9:58 PM GMTThe devaluation of the Chinese yuan, coupled with anxieties about Beijing’s ability to revive the flagging economy, tasted first blood with a massive...