The Ramayan Series: Part 2
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राम को वनवास हो जाने पर कौशल्या भरत पर आरोप लगाती हैं कि तुने अपने भाई को वनवास भेजने और अयोध्या का राज हथियाने की सजिश की। इस पर भरत उस काल में निषिद्ध कर्मों का वर्णन यह कहते हुए…
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US Hegemony and its Perils
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Read more: US Hegemony and its PerilsThis was the title of a public document that was put up on the official Chinese foreign affairs website on 23th February, 2023. In the bluntness with which it lays out its case, this document is almost a challenge to…
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Child-centred education
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Read more: Child-centred educationYou may be surprised that child-centred education is what the national policy documents on education advocate. Take a look at the following inspirational quotes from the National Curricular Framework (NCF), 2005, document. The fact that the government recommendations do not…
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Why we homeschooled our children
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Read more: Why we homeschooled our childrenI was thinking about it recently and jotted down some reasons that may have been at the back of our minds when we decided to homeschool our children. Reason 1: I learnt a lot of complicated real-life engineering in the…
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Sanaatan aur samayik
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Read more: Sanaatan aur samayikभारत में न्याय और सत्य की समझ और पश्चिम से आई आधुनिकता में न्याय और सत्य की समझ में बड़ा भेद है। और चूंकि हम सभी पढ़े-लिखों पर आधुनिक शिक्षा का चश्मा कमोबेश चढ़ा हुआ है इसलिए यह भेद जब…
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Covering the earth with leather
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Read more: Covering the earth with leather“Bodhicharyavatara composed in the 8th century C.E. by Shantideva is one of the most celebrated text of Mahayana Buddhism… In this masterpiece, the author, who belonged to the Madhyamika school of Nagarjuna, describes in detail the conduct of a Bodhisattva.”–…
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Joyless education
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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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