What is a Broad-Based Education?

Here I am giving you a story which  had read in Shiv Khera's book, You Can Win . I liked it, so sharing it with you. Some animals in a forest decided to start a school. The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog , a rabbit & a mentally retarded eel. A board was formed and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would be part of the curriculum in order to give a broad based education.  All animals were required to take all subjects. The bird was...

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The reasons behind AAP’s astonishing forward march

Here I am giving some points which I think has helped AAP to get such outstanding success and more than that, attention of all India in the very first election which other new parties (except Telgu Desam of N.T.Rama Rao) in history of India could not able to fetch.So here are the reasons: Joseph Gobble’s method: If you repeat a lie often enough, people will eventually believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. In this case...

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A Father Prayer by General Douglas MacArthur

Build me a son, O Lord,  who will be strong enough to know when he is weak,  and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid;  one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,  and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone  will not be where his backbone should be;  a son who will know Thee….Lead him,  I pray,  not in the path of ease and comfort,  but under the...

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My loving nest - Chalisgaon

Chalisgaon...My town. I am compelled to write this blog because I am tired of people asking me the same question over and over again. "Isn't the name of your town weird?". First of all I want to clear that it is a town, not a village. As most of you ask me that, "gaon means you live in a village?" So here is the story of how the name Chalisgaon came into existence: So folks, once upon a time, there was a king. He had a huge empire and he was...

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Book review: My Country, My Life

Few days ago during holidays, I have completed reading a very nice book named My Country My Life, an auto-biography of Mr. Lal Krishna Advani. It is not just auto-biography but the complete political history of India after independence. To read this book, it is not necessary that you are a follower of Mr. Advani or in unison with the agenda of BJP. Today, there are very few leaders who are active in politics in all those years after independence...

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Freedom of Speech and Expression

Freedom of Speech and Expression “Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties.” -John Milton. The freedom of expression is regarded s the first condition of liberty. But now-a-days questions are raised that is the freedom of speech absolute? Or there are some conditions when one’s freedom of expression is restricted? The many cases like Shalin Dhada case, Aseem Trivedi case throw a harsh light on India’s new Information Technology Act that governs electronic speech. Freedom of speech...

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