Aasif Shah's Blog

Can academic governance incorporate them with all seriousness is a million dollar question. The globalization has caused intense competition which in turn has caused reformations in every sector. The corporate world bargains for the best human resource and the academic world endeavors to produce best brains to survive in the demand supply chain. A sound and stable educational policy to ensure students and societal progression is imperative to drive innovation for a sustainable development. We do not debate education the way we debate internet, roads and electricity. The ten suggestions laid down may bring back hope for a better tomorrow. Here are these: 1. Rethink about the Deferment of Examinations: There are thousands of students registered with IGNOU for UG and PG courses and they complete their degrees well on time. The IGNOU students in Kashmir have no choice but to appear in examinations no matter how bad circumstances are on the ground. The story is otherwise with our c...

The corona catastrophe has taken us back to 14th century when the Black Death, the most notorious pandemic devastated Europe and wiped out one half of its population.  If history is to be believed, it was mammals such as mice and rats that caused the deadly pandemic in Central Asia and that eventually arrived Europe through Italy. The tragic tale does not end here. The human civilization has witnessed series of deadliest pandemics from Antonine Pandemic in the 2nd century to Swine Pandemic in 21st century leaving millions of people dead. COVID-19 is the latest series of Pandemics that has sent shivers across the world. The greatest paradox is that it united the contradictory world but divided people at large. It does not see if I am king or a slave, believer or atheist, white or black. It is unseen yet powerful, living yet unseen, far yet close. It is an untold story of everything from Science to God, Medicine to Economics, and Culture to Religion. The Wuhan born pandemi...