The Development Addiction
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My 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Illuminations Workshop
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Read more: The Illuminations WorkshopThe Illuminations workshop organized by SIDH was held between 2nd and 6th November 2022, at the Songtsen Library in Dehradun. This was the first time we were trying a workshop of this kind and we were not sure about how…
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Livelihoods Vs Vyakti-Nirmaan
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Read more: Livelihoods Vs Vyakti-NirmaanIf we look at our modern educational journey all the way from nursery to a PhD, it looks like what is not outright wasteful is all focused on preparing us to earn a livelihood. I was talking to a Sanskrit…
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The impact of schooling
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Read more: The impact of schoolingAs part of the videos that I have been creating for the Asli Shiksha YouTube channel, I did an interview with two of my three children and something that I consider important emerged from that exercise. When people find out…
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Modern Traditional Schools?
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Read more: Modern Traditional Schools?I recently read, and started thinking about, A.K. Saran’s proposition that, today, we cannot be practising Hindus because Hinduism is inextricably linked to a Hindu samaaj* and today there is no functioning Hindu samaaj left. I got to thinking about…
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Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind
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Read more: Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of MankindThis is a book by Professor A.K. Saran based on a lecture he gave in 1981 at Takamori, a small village in Japan, to assembled religious and spiritual leaders from all over the world. Professor Saran’s lecture was very well…
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The Illuminations Workshop
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Read more: The Illuminations Workshop‘Illuminations’ is the name of a book by Professor A.K. Saran, a critic of modernity and one of the great scholars of modern India. The byline of the book ‘A School for the Regeneration of Man’s Experience, Imagination and Intellectual…
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