On wisdom
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The following excerpts from two ancient foreign texts talk about wisdom. Excerpt 1: “The man of character lives at home without exercising his mind and performs actions without worry. The notions of right and wrong and the praise and blame…
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A zero waste life – Part 2
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Read more: A zero waste life – Part 2(This is the transcript of a talk given by my wife Kanti in 2018. Part 1 of this post is available here.) Four and a half years ago we shifted to a village in Kerala. This was my in-laws hometown.…
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A zero waste life – Part 1
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Read more: A zero waste life – Part 1(This is the transcript of a talk given by my wife Kanti in 2018. Hope you all like the story she is telling here.) All our friends and relatives have heard our story, usually in parts and in the middle…
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The value of higher education
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Read more: The value of higher educationI am just back from a trip to IIT Kharagpur, the institute where I got my engineering degree 34 years ago. With its 2100 acre tree-filled campus, 40+ departments, 15000 students and 800 faculty members, IIT Kharagpur is the largest…
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School reforms: The way forward
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Read more: School reforms: The way forwardIn these series of posts (part 1 and part 2 here), we have talked about problems with the modern schooling system and have tried to look at the paradigm of modernity inside which the system functions. In this final post…
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School reforms: Systems and Paradigm
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Read more: School reforms: Systems and ParadigmIn last week’s blog post (linked here), we looked at some problems with the current education system and why it seems so difficult to effect any school reform. This week let us zoom out a little and look at the…
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School reforms: The problem statement
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Read more: School reforms: The problem statementWhen well-meaning people start questioning the way current school education works, they run into a fundamental problem. You see, our entire experience of education is from within this deeply flawed system. So when we try to think of making things…
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Sthiti and Gati
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Read more: Sthiti and Gati(The following is the script of the audio-visual component of chapter 8 of the SIDH online course – ‘Understanding Modern Education -An Indic Perspective’) Our experience of reality has two aspects: The stable, unchanging, intrinsic, unseen, intangible, BEING part. We…
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A good education
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Read more: A good educationMy schooling happened in Delhi, where I grew up playing cricket and football with the neighbourhood children and paying minimum attention to academics. After my 12th class, I studied furiously for an year and got through the IIT entrace exam.…
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A costly personal transport vehicle
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Read more: A costly personal transport vehicle(Disclaimer: All the following facts and figures are obtained from the internet, you should do your own internet search to verify the facts.) – A petrol or diesel car (say, a Maruti Swift) uses what is called an Internal Combustion…
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Bharat: A vyay-pradhaan samaaj
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Read more: Bharat: A vyay-pradhaan samaaj(The following are the points covered in the video of Dr Harsh Satya talking about how the paramparik samaaj in India was expenditure-centred. The video is linked below.) Harsh’s teacher at IIIT Hyderabad, Navjyothi Singh, had a sudden insight that…
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Why is Dharampal Ignored?
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Read more: Why is Dharampal Ignored?Question from Pawanji:It seems like the Indian academic world has not opposed Dharampal but has ignored him. What do you think? Rinpocheji’s answer:In this regard, it appears like people have treated Gandhiji and Dharampalji the same way. To be in…
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