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According to ITM’s Article on Unlearning;   We live in a “symptom society” in which we want the fastest and easiest solution to relieve us of pain. The first response is usually aimed at treating the symptom and often takes the form of drugs. It usually appears to resolve the issue. Or does it? The flaw in this process is twofold: 1. Even if the symptom is successfully eradicated, the root cause/issue remains unsolved and often undiagnosed. 2. The second line of defence becomes weak and under-researched because it is seen as irrelevant. In Education, we treat the symptom (eg, poor behavior, low grades, disengagement in lessons, low employment after school) then measure how good we are at this (exam results improvement, attendance, English and maths progress…) without looking at the cause of the problem. If we were more accountable for our school drop out rates, the level of anxiety and depression in teenagers and the chronic lack of independent thought, I think we would

Preparing for competitive exams requires a lot of grit, focus, and persistence. Whether that be in guided study or self-study, our environment has a great impact on our productivity. I will particularly lay stress on the environment required for self-study. A self-study environment must be a perfect blend of care and comfort and self-discipline and routine. A student must have the required facilities which provide him enough comfort to focus on his/her study and not be disturbed by distractions of physical inconvenience and discomfort. He must have his/her study space which is undisturbed and personalized. He mustn’t have the burden of judgment or pressure there. Along with these conducive elements, he/she must also have a self-created routine that works best for him, an independent system of self-check and a progress chart made specially by him for his use only. He must also make sure he has interaction with his peers for healthy comparison and discussions. He must have the necessa

Until the Soviet Union’s fall on December 25. 1991, India’s foreign, strategic and economic policies were predicated on what the USA and the Soviet Union did. Despite its non-aligned status, India was closer to the Soviet Union in the matters relating to trade, defence and food. Moreover, India was interested only in strengthening its strategic position vis-à-vis Pakistan in South Asia, for which it had to engage with the USA and Europe. gurmarg educare However, things changed rapidly with the Soviet Union’s fall and the rise of China as the new global power. The strategic context in the Asia-Pacific region evolved to the extent that the competition between China and India has intensified in the fields of trade and security. Clearly, the decline of the US influence in the region is opening up a strategic gap that China intends to fill, much to the alarm of smaller South East Asian countries. Thanks to the rise of the Asian Tiger Economies (Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong

In 1983, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka joined hands to establish South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). In 2007, Afghanistan too joined it. Although it raised the possibilities of SAARC rivalling ASEAN and the European Union as an economic powerhouse, it remained essentially obsessed with terrorism, which created fissures in the organization because of India-Pakistan discord on this issue. gurmarg educare The first SAARC meeting took place in Dhaka in 1985. Despite numerous summits since then, it has failed to attain the objective of economic cooperation. Numerous agreements have been signed and institutional mechanisms established under SAARC, but they have not been adequately implemented. The most disappointing has been the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) which came into effect in 2006, but has not been able to boost the intra-regional trade beyond the five percent level. Sadly, while the SAARC nations comprise 23 % of

The term, ‘Civil Society’ comprises non-¬governmental private organizations, associations and institutions, including groups—essentially economic, social, cultural, moral and other such associations. It works outside the state structure and belongs to the realm of autonomous associations and groups formed by individuals in their capacity as private citizens. Civil society performs important duties of checks and balances in democracies. It strives to influence the government and hold it accountable vis-à-vis individual rights. Its activities include, among other things, health, environment and economic rights. gurmarg educare In India, the civil society has been quite vibrant and has been fighting human rights violations like the rampant human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of children and women, thanks to the powerful legal tool in the form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which has become an important instrument of social change.  There have been other notable successes to