21st Century Citizenship, February 2020: India
Last year, we took our February fingertipsĀ to the United Kingdom; this year's travelogue landed us inĀ India, the world's largest democracy, struggling with challenges that eerily mirror our own...
Last year, we took our February fingertipsĀ to the United Kingdom; this year's travelogue landed us inĀ India, the world's largest democracy, struggling with challenges that eerily mirror our own...
In arguably the most spiritual of nations, India's most popular spirituality website, Speaking Tree, may be a window into the soul of the world's greatest democracy...
She left Tufts University at the age of 20 to start a non-profit to educate underprivileged children in her birthplace of Mumbai. But she was just getting started...
The Indian village of Sadhan has been proving for years that Hindus and Muslims can literally live together in peace...
Frank recounts Martin Luther King's visit to India in the Hindustan Times, and what King and Gandhi still have to say to us today...
In The American Bazaar, Frank explains why India needs to be a secular democracy, with equal opportunity and social mobility for all...
In the South Asia Monitor, Frank tracks the history of US-India relations, using head of state meetings as a through-line, and traverses the path illuminated to make a prediction about the future...
In the Hindustan Times, Frank lays out the importance of truly engaging in the 'diaspora diplomacy' the Indian government prides itself on, which includes meeting with critics of its policies...
Four pioneering middle school educators who became the first nationally recognized civic engagement champions are inspiration and models for us all....
The greatest gap between civic engagement and the capacity to inculcate it as a way of living occurs during the middle school years. A new competition, soon to be nationwide, aims to close it...