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15 year old girl

Amazing girls

12 Year old girl asking for consent classes

Saajan Kumar you are finally in PRISON

in Jail

Hispanic Heritage Food Fest Oct 2018

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Asma

asma jehangir

Fatima

RIP

Psychological abuse and gas lighting

Gas lighting

Neil Tyson

Another powerful man is called out for sextual harrasment

Malala wins a prize from Harvard

Welldone Malala

Austerity

Mere absetension is not austerity, true austerity is control of the mind. We have to take wholesome and moral information through our senses. Austerity is strength not weakness. The Mind has 4 functions- 1. Manas-deliberative and thus oscilates between certainty and doubt, restlessness and anxiety. 2. Budhi-determinate faculty and is based on the nature of certainty. It is an important tool for a seeker and it helps us rouse ourselves from slumber and dormancy and assert our power. 3. Chita- is the storehouse of memories and impressions. 4. Ahankara- the feelings of Ii. We need to have one pointedness of mind and senses. Tapas is the way to go. The goal of a student is to concentrate and be free of distractions. Youth is a time of strife and unbridled senses and untrained mind. Eyes are open but mind is asleep. 3 parts- body, mind and spirit According to Vivekananda- concentration is the core of education. Concentration and detachment. Collection of facts is not education, but an a

global implant scam

Scary that India has so many faulty medical devices . Doctors reported that they are spending a lot of time taking out breast implants that malfunctioned..Serious stuff

Climate Change in 7 charts with great definitions

Climate change in 7 charts Save our planet before it is too late. Change of diet is the number one important factor..go vegetarian and eat local.

Personalized learning

Interesting article on the future of personalized learning. It is defined in two ways, one is to put students in front of a computer and the other one is to base the curriculum on projects. I think collaborative learning projects are the way to go.

RIP Fatmida Riaz

RIP Fatmida Riaz

Learning Ally

Reading fluency and cognitive load

rocks

John Oliver

becoming

lovely to listen to Michelle O

no answers

Depressed millenials

1984 Anti-Sikh riots we will never forgot the carnage

1984

me too hits india in a big way- Priya, Tushita, Pallavi

Brave women rise up Pallavi Gogoi respect

Middle School chronicles

Middle School is a dress rehersal for life

Super Powers of a teacher!

Why I became a teacher Invsible and Super Powers!

Martina on Serena

I agree with Martina!

protesting arrests of activists

Arundhati Roy and Aruna Roy . You cannot run a country on fear..Gauri Lankesh

print vs digital

Maryanne Wolf interview

govt schools

Govt schools can improve with strong ngo's

Japanese for too many books

too many books

climate fears

Climate change

and then you resent the manager

Mental work

AR

Arundhati Roy

Elon Musk going off the rails

Elon Musk needs to know that there are other ways of doing things

War on our children

Scary article on the link between psychology and Silicon Valley gammers
Honesty and integrity in Business

Qutab Minar

In the shadow of Khushwant

Dr.

What a great healer

The new face of France

This is for France looks like

What a coach!

Meditation helped the boys in the cave The boys are safe!

Thailand's soccer team

We are all praying for your safe return from the cave. The British team was great.

crazyness

Stop cutting Delhi's trees

Our RI

Lovely video of RI

diversity in high school

Powerful speech at Hunter High School

In Trump's America

So sad

India's bravest journalists in the frontline of attacks

Rana Ayub

one test does not determine intelligence

Univ. of Chicago goes test optional

hyper nationalism

Priyanka Chopra

Shillong clashes

What's behind the Shillong clashes

Atishi Marlena

Delhi government schools shine

peace maybe possible if there are more initiatives like this!

https://scroll.in/article/880165/remembering-a-shared-past-two-universities-in-india-and-pakistan-offered-a-joint-history-course

Heartfelt letter

RIST

wish it were different

Sad demise of a community club

Happy

Sure ways to be happy

dead in Afghanistan

Afghan photo journalist

adjust kar lo

The plight of the Indian woman

The plight of the Bakherwals

Rape crisis

No country for women and children

Patriarchy

Patriarchy

Kathua

Sickneded over the Kathua and unrao rape cases

our body is our home

Home is whee the body is

crack the system

go ahead millenials

causes of asthma

too many male trees in urban areas

Rote Learning

in India

Reading Comprehension

Daniel Willingham

Asma Jahangir telling truth to power

RIP

Kunal Kamra is great!

The idea of deliberate practice

deliberate practice

The School for Happiness

Happiness School

RIP Asma Jahangir

RIP Amsa Jahangir

Amazing women newscasters

My generation When the world was simpler and we just had doordarshan!

culture of courage

Nandita Das