What are our retreats about?
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(The following is collected together from messages written by Pawanji on a WhatsApp group) In the retreats that SIDH has been organising over the recent past, we have tried to invite only those who in our opinion are more or…
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Learning to learn – Part 2
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Read more: Learning to learn – Part 2Part 1 of this post talks about the first of the two books on ‘Learning to learn’. Here are some excerpts from the second book, ‘Learning to learn – Ideas on implementation’. Excerpt 1: The Annual Status of Education Report…
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North and South
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Read more: North and SouthMy wife and I prefer to travel sleeper class and not in the AC coaches on the many 12+ hour train journeys we do. We have a simple rule – when we travel anywhere in South India, we buy sleeper…
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Announcing a two week break
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Read more: Announcing a two week breakThe first post on this blog was written on 23rd November 2020, just over three years ago. The blog has 158 posts that broadly cover the areas of education and modernity. The next post here will appear on 25th December…
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Why China Survived Its Dark Ages
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Read more: Why China Survived Its Dark AgesIn his last week’s blog post, John Michael Greer talked about the reasons for China’s culture continuing more or less intact after repeated collapses, while so many other civilizations rose, fell, and vanished. I thought that the insights in the…
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Satya Anirvachaniya Hai
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Read more: Satya Anirvachaniya Hai(To a question on WhatsApp about stark contradictions in what Osho says, for example that Krishna is great in one talk and Krishna is no good in another, Pawanji responded in the following manner. I thought it needed to be…
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Under-evaluation and Over-evaluation
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Read more: Under-evaluation and Over-evaluationThere is a wonderful short story by Anton Chekhov called ‘Overdoing it’. Here is an extract. . . . It was dusk by the time the cart drove out of the station. On the surveyor’s right hand stretched a dark,…
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Keeping Our Cities Clean
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Read more: Keeping Our Cities CleanMy daughter stays on the first floor of an independent house in Bangalore. When she first moved into this house she tried to figure out how to get her garbage disposed. The landlady downstairs has her daily help take the…
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Sangoshthi on Bharatiyata at Kaneri Math
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Read more: Sangoshthi on Bharatiyata at Kaneri Mathजीविका आश्रम, इन्द्राना, मध्यप्रदेश व सिद्ध, मसूरी, उत्तराखण्ड के संयुक्त तत्वाधान में दिनांक 2 से 5 नवम्बर, 2023 को कणेरी मठ्ठ, कोल्हापुर, महाराष्ट्र में एक संगोष्ठी आयोजित हुई। संगोष्ठी में देश के विभिन्न प्रान्तों से 7 संस्थानों से जुड़े लगभग…
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On Toxic Relationships
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Read more: On Toxic RelationshipsI was talking to a friend about his toxic relationship with an elderly relative and thought that the controversial insight that came up is worth recording in a post here. Friend: I talked to my old aunt last night and…
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On Pointless Jobs
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Read more: On Pointless JobsIn August, 2013, the American anthropologist David Graeber wrote a tentative essay about the pointlessness of most modern jobs. The essay, that went viral, was later expanded into a book published in 2018, ‘Bullshit Jobs – A Theory’. The book…
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Livelihood Vs Life
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Read more: Livelihood Vs LifeThere is a story that when the British wanted the weavers of Bengal to produce more cloth, the first response of the weavers was to refuse. The British who had assumed that more money would be an incentive to produce…
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