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Read more: Joyless education
“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me… I am verily persuaded that I should…
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Taking the red pill
Read more: Taking the red pillThe red pill and blue pill represent a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the blue pill. The terms…
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The Ramayana Series: Part-1
Read more: The Ramayana Series: Part-1वाल्मीकि जी द्वारा रचित रामायण के बालकाण्डम् के षष्ठ सर्गः में राजा दशरथ की आयोध्या पूरी में रहने वाले नागरिकों की उत्तम स्थिति का वर्णन है। यह बहुत रोचक वर्णन है और हमें भारतीयता की दृष्टि और उसके अन्तर्गत मनुष्य…
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A Vision for the Future Of Bharat
Read more: A Vision for the Future Of Bharat“I think the period from 1750-1947 is largely a dead period in Indian history. This may be an extreme statement. But I think it is true. Ultimately this period should be written off. Nothing was achieved in this period in…
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Advice To Those Stepping-Out (Part 2)
Read more: Advice To Those Stepping-Out (Part 2)(The first part of this post was published last week and is available here…) Let us look at lokeshna and its relationship with individualism. I may be wrong but I am proposing that people who step-out tend to fall into…
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Advice To Those Stepping-Out (Part-1)
Read more: Advice To Those Stepping-Out (Part-1)People, who are sensitive to the happenings around, who are socially and politically aware and who have the courage to take a step to move out of their comfort zone and ‘do something’ to make a difference, face a lot…
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The Development Addiction
Read more: The Development AddictionMy cousin has stayed all his life in Kerala and is a long-term communist sympathiser. The national highway that passes near his house is only two lanes wide. Unfortunately this highway is now part of some larger national scheme and…
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The Importance Of Teachers
Read more: The Importance Of TeachersThere is a difference between knowledge, understanding, experiencing, realizing on the one hand and skill on the other. Knowledge needs to be understood and experienced – realized. Skill needs to be learnt – by doing. Skill falls in the realm…
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The World’s Best Cuisine
Read more: The World’s Best CuisineA friend who lives in the US and grew up in Andhra is a great food-lover. His mother was a very good cook and he grew up eating the large variety of food that makes up coastal Andhra cuisine. As…
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Shiksha and Education
Read more: Shiksha and EducationToday morning a friend read out some poems of Bahinabai Chaudhuri. Bahinabai was a Marathi poet who wrote about the life she experienced in rural Maharashtra. One of her popular poems titled ‘sansaar’ starts with the lines: अरे संसार संसारजसा…
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Shiksha in the Indian tradition – Part 2
Read more: Shiksha in the Indian tradition – Part 2This is the second part of the talks I had with Dr Prabhakar Pandey, a professor at Sanchi University. The first part is available here. The main points made by Dr Pandey are: – The Upanishadic sutra says – ‘sa…
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Shiksha in the Indian tradition – Part 1
Read more: Shiksha in the Indian tradition – Part 1I recently recorded two videos about Shiksha in the Indian tradition and found that it opened up many new perspectives for me. The videos are each almost one hour long and I don’t think many people will go through them.…
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