The COVID silver lining for air quality in Indian cities — As COVID ravages economies around the world, India is no exception. However, there is a silver lining in all of this. Due to the nationwide curfews, decrease in industrial activity, and an overall reduction in human outdoor traffic, Air Quality in India has improved significantly over the last 4–5 months. …

Drawing on 13 years of personal experience — I have been married for 5 years now. And been in a relationship for 13. During more than a decade of togetherness, my partner and I have seen most there is to see. We’ve lived together and on opposite coasts of the nation. Fought, broke up, made amends. Hurt the…

How an invisible virus crippled the world economy — We’ve all known for some time that 2020 would be a bad year for the world economy. Ever since the global spread of COVID19, estimates for the global GDP in 2020 haven been revised downwards and continue to do so. Morgan Stanley, in Dec 2019, expected the world GDP to…

And why it should be reversed at the earliest — Cannabis is banned in India because it, like almost every nation, is subject to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which was an offshoot of the US outlook on the use of any form of cannabis. It can all be traced back to the derangement of one single man. This…

Universities, teachers, students, and parents alike need to embrace the shift — MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) are the future of education. There are many inherent advantages an open online course has over the standard educational pedagogy that has been the norm for years now. Scalability: In the conventional set-up, if you want to increase the number of students in a class…

A case for undoing decades of the Nehru clan’s revisionist history — The National Film Awards are India’s highest recognition in the field of cinema. Having started in 1954, they truly celebrate the diversity of Indian film-making by recognizing mainstream Bollywood along with our many flourishing regional movie industries. Among the various accolades it bestows upon actors, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers, etc…

How Leftist Historians, Professors, and Journalists tried to lead the nation astray on the Ayodhya verdict but failed. — As India witnesses the bhumi pujan for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, let’s revisit the decades of attempts to obfuscate the truth by people who were supposed to uphold it instead.

But its efficacy would depend on timely and proper implementation — India just updated its Education Policy after three and a half decades. And the changes proposed sound amazing on paper. The current Education system leaves a lot to be desired, including, but not limited to: What is being taught: Everything. Without any thought about its relevance to the job industry…

You are just scared that you won’t succeed spectacularly — Fear of failure is so ingrained in the psyche of people today that there is a formal term for the fear of failing — Atychiphobia. But most of the time, what people perceive to be “fear of failure”, is nothing more than the subconscious apprehension of finding out that you…