Opinion

Mohammad Muslim The fact that the high dropout rates exist in the secondary level schools is indicative of how this is precisely the age when a girl’s educational path begins to differ dramatically from that of boys’ in terms…

S Ahmad India 's supercomputing journey has evolved from PARAM 8000 in the early 1990s to a national ecosystem under the National Supercomputing Mission ( NSM ) launched in 2015. With 40 supercomputers delivering 68 PF ( petaflops…

Shaikh Muhammad Safdar Ali Bahadur II (1835–1873), son of Nawab Zulfikar Ali of Banda, was a direct descendant of the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I and his Muslim wife, Mastani.       In 1849, Ali Bahadur II inherited the state…

Tamanna Hazarika Each of them showed leadership, courage, and strong commitment to resisting British control. Their courage and sacrifice expand our view of the uprising beyond military accounts and remind us that resistance to…

Mohammad Hanief “A shawl cannot be preserved merely by protecting an object kept in a museum or displayed in an exhibition. Its living tradition survives only when the knowledge, techniques and dignity of the artisan are…

Tamanna Hazarika “Even though she had been removed from power twice by her own husbands, she showed great determination and strength by returning each time and ruling again.” The Maldives, a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean,…

Usuf Mir “Raja was convinced that the people were devoted only to his tune, while the King, too, was becoming convinced that the people had begun to dance to his tune rather than the Raja’s.” Long ago, there lived an old man in a…

S Ahmad On 1 October 2026, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) completes one hundred years. Its institutional journey began on 1 October 1926, when India’s first Public Service Commission was constituted - an advisory body…

B L Verma The resolve of a Viksit Bharat will be fulfilled only when every senior citizen has the opportunity to live with respect, security and dignity, and every new generation has the opportunity to learn from the experiences…

 Swami Devendra Brahmachari Gandhi’s non-violence was neither cowardice nor passive acceptance of injustice. It was the strength to stand firmly with truth and resist injustice without hatred or violence. For Gandhi, the…