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Once Upon a Time… The Thumb Ruled

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Imagine your right thumb (have a closer look) gets a blessing and becomes highly intelligent and uses that to become the biggest, the largest, the healthiest, the smartest and so on. It manages to do this again & again… some times by starving little pinky and at other times by threatening the pointer. The growth & progress of the thumb was stupendous and one day it grew larger than its hand. It garnered a lot more power & position in the body due to its sheer weight. It got higher voting rights and even got a Board seat! Brain & Heart were side-lined.  Do you think that the body will suffer if such a thing really happened? You are absolutely right! The pinky & pointer were starving to death. The hand found it increasingly difficult to function. The body got imbalanced & tilted. But thumb had great influence and directed everyone to sacrifice & do their best in such times of great crisis and save the only body they all had. He announced subsidie...

The Missing Link In Education

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The Choice Of Education Let us for a moment imagine your child seeking your help to “Make A Rainbow”. And let me try to guess the outcomes. 60% of you'll may guide him to do a drawing or a craft depicting a rainbow 30% of you'll may guide him to use light prism with the hero of a water bat mirror etc. But what I do hope is there will be some exceptions who may help the child to make a real rainbow, outdoors, with the help of a water jet sprayed towards the sun over a still water body. As a parent myself, the above percentage is a matter of concern about the future of our children. We make thousands of decisions in the hope that it will result in a future for children that is full of truth, beauty, justice and goodness. But one such important choice we have to make is about their education and developing their grey cells through it. The choice of schooling for my son made me reflect on the education I received as a child and observed that not much has chang...