A way of reading TIME What is a Calendar? It is not very surprising to recall the names of January, February, March, April and so on, when asked about the different months in a year. For most of the world population a Calendar represents the natural units of timekeeping. For our convenience and universal understanding,…
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Hybrid Education- Are we ready for the new change!
The dawn of the 21st century marked the transition from traditional books to e-books, from libraries to e-libraries, and from print media to e-media, signaling the beginning of an era of virtual learning. The initiative to make education accessible to students in remote areas, where physical education is impeded by insufficient infrastructure, hastened the move…
Are we loosing our Life in Living?
Food, water, air, shelter and garment are the basic necessities to survive, which by default can be borrowed from our nature. It is only the lust for materialistic comfort powered by man’s greed, which compels it to end up in a vicious cycle of production and consumption. We grow up learning how to earn in…
“Education for all”- A Myth or Reality
Once a prominent medieval Jewish philosopher, Maimonides while emphasising the need for education said-“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”. So, according to him, Education is that training which enables anyone to survive with sufficiency and self-content. India…
Biased media is a real threat to Indian democracy
Media as a form of communication evolved overtime as a result of continuous demand for awareness and socialization through the era of renaissance, reformation and enlightenment. Invention of printing press gave rise to some of the first form of mass communication that enabled the propagation of humanist and later revolutionary ideas among the common masses….
Neglect of Primary Health Care and Education in India: reasons for its backwardness
Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Russoue, Locke, Kautilya and many more have ever since the beginning of their ‘Theories of state’, emphasized upon the importance of education in maintaining stability and ensuring prosperous growth of a state. Education has always been a medium to assimilate and update the new generation about the developing changes that keep…
Wisdom Finds Truth
Truth is like that non absolute treasure at the core of eternity which is enshrouded with various layers of perception and is hunted by everyone in order to end up in peace. It is more like a multifaceted limbo that can be perceived by either realising actual facts, accepting a general notion even if it’s…
Acceptance and Improvement- Two keys to success
Life is all about learning and exploring, amide which we are supposed to manoeuvre through our decisions to travel steadily until we reach our end. However, it is eventually the outcome of our choices that we make every moment, which shapes the trajectory of our life ahead. Notably, a new born child is nothing more…
Mob Violence- The Reflection of Failure
Mob violence is one of those dreaded form of societal damage to trust and security, caused either due to demand for a public trial or motivation for the sake of ideological domination. In both of these cases, our law and order is at the brim of trial for its legitimacy and efficiency. Moreover, mob lynching…
Race- The struggle for equality
Colour and society “I can’t Breathe…!” George Floyd, (victim of custodial death in Minnesota,USA) The signing of the historic Civil Rights Act in 1964 was seen as a new sunrise that was suppose to be the end of Racial discrimination on the surface of America, but seldom did they know that their dark past of…
Critical Thoughts 