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<![endif]--><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sovereignty, Diplomacy
and Democracy</span></u></b>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
"Nation," as different from a state, is a composite
element.solidarity, additionally multitude. Can discretion, customarily saw as
the process by which sovereign states manage one another, oblige the investment
of masses— A fundamental component </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">what's more
normal for discretion is its representativeness, which thoughtfully is an
exceptionally muddled issue. It is not simple to clarify how an individual, on
the other hand thing, can "remain for" somebody, or something,
else—or to realize what, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">precisely, the
substance being re-exhibited<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is. In
discretion, representation, however an idea infrequently broke down, is
central. As Paul Sharp, scholastic understudy of the subject has expressed,
strategy "is based upon the idea of representation".</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The very first
function” of a diplomatic mission, as listed in the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations (1961), is declared to be, as it historically had been:
“Representing the sending State in the receiving State.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Previously, it
was the sovereign who was spoken to by discretionary mission were all that much
his individual emissaries. Today, kingdoms are uncommon, and
"imperial" consulates, as well, are few: the today envelops assorted
types of states. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a republic,
for example, the United States of America, discretion is accepted to be
"popularity based".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Public
Diplomacy," an idea that Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacybegin with,
may even be comprehended to get from the hypothesis of mainstream sway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In broad
daylight tact, even normal nationals accept they can authentically partake. In
the strategy of any country, regardless of its type of government, it is, in
the last investigation, the person who takes part, whether in an offcial limit
or totally unocially. Particularly when interest is not formally approved, it
may not be clear whose investment or arrangement is being spoken to.
Incompletely in view of this general issue, the United States Congress in 1799
passed the Logan Act, which made it illicit for any subject, without approval,
to take part in a transaction whose object was to in the activity of a remote
government identifying with a debate with the United States. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the idea of
power is famously hard to characterize. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is part of
the way on the grounds that it is not by any means an unitary idea, at the same
time, really, a heap of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">privileges and
forces practiced in different utilitarian zones. Sway regularly is considered
in regional terms, as "the nature of having autonomous power over a
geographic region." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Its achieve,
nonetheless, can stretch out far past a state's limits. "Compelling
sway" can be extraterritorial, even forcefully so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Helms-Burton
Act—formally, the Cuban Freedom and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of
1996—is so seen by numerous non-U.s. governments and firms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Multinational
organizations, when thought to be so rich and compelling as to have the
capacity to hold sway "at bay,"have ended up progressively subject to
sovereign controls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Singular
nationals, as well, are liable to a state's in squence when abroad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">their visas can
be repealed. they may be removed.they may even be brought home to do military
administration. What's more they can oppose those control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As I see it,
sovereignty today is, essentially,self-ownership and self-command.This broader
idea still applies to states—polities that are independent. It can also be
applied to individual persons—not only to kings or to presidents, but,
arguably, to all persons having a strong sense of self-possession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Permanet
members of “the international community,” as that notion is generally
understood today, still are the states—nearly all of them being members of the
United Nations Organization. According to Article 2 of the UN Charter, “</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Organization
is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The preamble of
that document, it should be remembered, begins “WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED
NATIONS". International society is thus a popular concept. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Diplomacy, such
as sovereignty, can be defined in consistent with the Vienna Meeting with
Diplomatic Relations (VCDR), by itself a product of agreement drawn up simply
by reps regarding says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In line with the
VCDR’s preamble, the “States Parties” saying yes into it recognition in which
“peoples of most nations” through early instances possess acknowledged “the
standing regarding diplomatic real estate agents. ”Thus presently there is
certainly any conceptual distinctness—and any requirement of conventional
treatment—that tends to make any diplomat distinctive from a regular traveller,
speculator, or perhaps different kind of emissary. Diplomats carry along with
independently power, and still have worker rights in addition to immunities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These are
derived to some extent through the idea of sovereignty, on the thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in which
ambassadors are “personal representatives” of their sovereigns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just how
“organized” can diplomacy actually ought to be? Is usually a founding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">act—formal
“establishment”—necessary? Need to presently there be ministries regarding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">foreign
extramarital liasons (MFAs)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can certain
different departments in addition to agencies regarding federal government
execute “diplomacy”? Will even citizens, solely outside federal, achieve this,
in the event that his or her hobbies, reasons, in addition to procedures are
“diplomatic” within identity? Can it be not really the topic make any
difference, plus the kind of politics agreement, in which determines whether
it's “diplomacy” which is being conducted?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Particularly
within a democracy and a democratizing planet, the normal citizen includes a
considerably better opportunity to employ right within worldwide trade in
addition to policy talk. In the us thinking about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“citizen
diplomacy” seemed to be explicitly acknowledged, in addition to in this way
also legitimized, simply by the one and only President Dwight D. Eisenhower. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the White
House Conference with Homeowner Diplomacy held with Sept 11, 1956, Eisenhower
anouced program in which, whenever in the future privatized, evolved into
Visitors to People International.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fundamental
purpose of citizen diplomacy, like that of government-sponsored public
diplomacy, may not be so different from the fifth and last-listed “function” of
a diplomatic mission as outlined in the VCDR,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">namely:
“Promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving
State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientic relations.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The target of
citizen diplomacy however, is not the “states” of other countries but their
“peoples.” It is a direct society-to-society interaction. In contrast with
state-initiated public diplomacy, which also can involve engagement with
foreign publics, its focus is on the role of the individual—the sovereign
Self—acting and communicating abroad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The link between
citizen diplomacy and global democracy, as already noted, is implied by the
theory of liberalism, which emphasizes the individual’s freedom from artificial
restraint—whether on physical movement,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">commercial
enterprise, or intellectual and artistic expression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The very idea of
interstate boundaries, necessary though they may be for numerous functional
purposes, is itself theoretically questionable from a pure liberal perspective.
Boundaries can be morally transgressed by assertive citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The National
Council for International Visitors in Washington makes the
democratic-diplomatic link explicit. In “a vibrant democracy” the individual
has the right and even a duty to shape foreign relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is may be
especially the case when individuals belong to professional and other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">far-ung
communities and thus have a “cosmopolitan” outlook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Democracy, by
denition, is rule by the people, demosIn Europe today, with the European Union
seeking to make policy for the populations of now twenty-eight member states,
the problem is complicated by a “democratic decit”—the widespread perception
that the EU institutions, the directly elected European Parliament included,
are not suciently representative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The question of
the existence of a European demos is a profound one. Even advocates of
“cosmopolitan democracy,” such</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as Daniele
Archibugi, acknowledge that the concept’s relevance depends on the existence
ofof individuals who consider themselves as belonging to a single society.
However, as Archibugi points out, peoples sense their solidarity in different,
specific ways—“as ethnic groups,members of religious movements, and even as
fans of a football team.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soon everyone on
Earth will be connected.” So predict EricSchmidt, executive chairman of Google,
and Jared Cohen, a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, in The New
Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.They argue that
citizens, as individuals and presumably as a massed citizenry, will have more
power than</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">at any other
time in history.What will be the consequences for the State,</span></div>
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state-conducted diplomacy? “</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The near
monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded,” wrote
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in 2006. His
focus then was on the challenge posed for “the 190-plus states” by “a larger
number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely)
independent actors” that range from corporations to NGOs, from terrorist groups
to drug cartels, and from regional and global institutions to banks and private</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-54667563611314827262012-06-17T23:59:00.000-07:002012-06-17T23:59:07.076-07:00Fathers are Phenomenal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Rajeevan's Father</b></div>
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A thousand full moon you have seen though,<br />Father, you are still that naughty child.</div>
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Just now, I saw you toddling in the veranda<br />But you disappeared, and come back<br />Bleeding from the Knee or ankle.</div>
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Does the ghost of that old tractor<br />We sold as scrap possesses you? </div>
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<b>Kaithapram's FATHER:</b> Listen: <a href="http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CGEQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4gk9qGx7N00&ei=CNDeT_7SIYTtrQf3kaHRDQ&usg=AFQjCNFbjzcel6ZhxXrAjz-ubof6-Mdvjg&sig2=LJt-bFPhUg_a6diwjkCqig" style="background-color: white;">Sooryanaay Thazhuki സൂര്യനായ് തഴുകിയുറക്കമുണര്ത്തുമെന്</a><br />
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<b>Prem's Father: </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And that is the final lesson my father taught me. A lesson I learnt on March 17, 1997, when I lay prostrate before his corpse, my eyes blinded with tears. Lying there, I was conscious of just one thought: I loved him. I owed whatever I was to him. And I never had the grace, the courage, the heart, to tell him so.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/blogs/thewatercooler/father-son-20100621-074416-157.html">Read the whole</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ഒരിക്കലും കൂടെക്കൂട്ടാനാവില്ല,</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">അപ്പനെ, നീലച്ചിത്രം കാണാന്.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ഏതാണ്ടെല്ലാക്കാര്യത്തിനും</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ഓരോ പഴങ്കഥകളുണ്ടാവും </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">കെട്ടിയെഴുന്നെള്ളിക്കാന്.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">കൈ വിടര്ത്തിക്കാണിച്ചിട്ടത്രേം </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">വലിപ്പമുള്ള ത്രേസ്യച്ചേടത്തിയെ </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">വലയിട്ടു പിടിച്ചത്,</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">എന്നിട്ട് കടാപ്പുറത്ത്</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">മണലില് പൊതിഞ്ഞെടുത്ത്</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ജീവനോടെ വേവിച്ചത്.<br />വയറു നിറഞ്ഞു തിരികെ<br />പോകാന് നേരം കടലെടുത്ത്<br />കൈയും പല്ലും തൊടാതിടം നോക്കി<br />പുതച്ചേച്ചും പോകാന് നേരം<br />ഒരു തിമിംഗലമായി വന്ന്<br />ത്രേസ്യാച്ചേച്ചി അപ്പനെ<br />ഒന്നായങ്ങു വിഴുങ്ങിയത്.<br />അപ്പന് നീലക്കടല് കാണാന്<br />പലവട്ടം പോയിരുന്നിരിക്കും.<br />അന്നൊക്കെ അപ്പന്റെ വയറ്റില്ക്കിടന്ന്<br />എത്ര കരഞ്ഞിട്ടുള്ളതാ.<br />.<br />ഏതാണ്ടെല്ലാക്കാര്യത്തിനും<br />മുടിഞ്ഞ ഓരോ സംശയം തന്നെ.<br />ഒരു മകനു തീര്ക്കാവുന്ന<br />സംശയങ്ങള്ക്കും<br />ഒരു പരിധിയുണ്ടെന്നു<br />അപ്പന് ഇനിയെന്നവും<br />ഒന്നു പഠിച്ചെടുക്കുന്നത്?<br />കുഴിമാടത്തീ ചെന്നിട്ടോ<br />എന്ന പരിഹാസവും അപ്പന്<br />തമാശയായി<br />എടുത്തുകാണും. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">അപ്പനാരാ മോന്.</span> </div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-12801199331144507122012-05-07T02:27:00.000-07:002012-05-07T02:29:03.305-07:00A voyage in the Dehna desert of the South West Saudi Arabia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our seven-member crew had hallucinatory experiences—mirages, psychedelic illusions of pools, lakes and puddles—in the Barak al Wadi region of the Dehna desert in the South Western KSA.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">‘Mallu Singh’ goes to the people with the singular fame of being shot almost exclusively in Punjab. 47 days in Punjab supplemented with eight days of flashback scenes shot in Ottappalam completes the film. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Kottayam Kunjachan, the endearing rascal pioneered it; now it is Tessa the bold and aspiring nurse. The slang and the spirit of Kottayam sets the ambience for '22, Female, Kottayam'.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">When Tessa on screen says 'despite anything, am I not a nurse from Kottayam?' (onnumallaelum njaanoru Kottayathukaari nurse allaedaa!)</span>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-48525551410397869042012-05-07T01:56:00.003-07:002012-05-07T01:57:26.266-07:00Oh! My Nephew Wrote these . . .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news/review--22--female--kottayam.html">22 Female Kottayam: review on Yahoo India Movies</a><br />
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<a href="http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news/kerala-feasts-on-punjabi-landscapes.html">Mallu Singh: review on Yahoo India Movies</a><br />
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<a href="http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/blogs/traveler/islands-seas-faded-watercolour-085742749.html">Muzafers Desert Voyages Part 1</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-49609860522463908902012-03-15T06:28:00.000-07:002015-08-12T07:19:10.726-07:00When i smelt of water, lo! The eagle’s nest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had been travelling through the Barak Alwadi (the desert between Al Khurge and Wadi de Wasir) region of the Dehna desert in the South Western KSA. It was during this drive that we had hallucinatory experiences—the deep gulf of mirages, the phenomenon that gives psychedelic illusions of pools, lakes and puddles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The words of O.V. Vijayan, (the great wordsmith of Malayalam and a great myth-maker) haunted me with a passion: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Vayoone Kangaan Kajjo?” (See the air, can you?” <b><i>Legend of the Legend—Ithihaasathinte Ithihaasam</i></b>) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Watersnakes of the mirage beckoned us” Vijayan had written in <b><i>“Legends of Khasaakh” (Khasaakhinte Ithihaasam</i></b>). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Our seven member crew was trapped by this phenomenon called ‘<b><i>Mirage’</i></b> in English, ‘<b><i>Suraab’</i></b> in Arabic and ‘<b><i>Mareechika</i>’</b> in Malayalam. These tantalizing illusions of wetness begin dampening the desert wilderness when the sun showers his rays with intensity. In a way, it is the eyeshade of the deserts; the gospel of the presence of water, and of thirst; the illusion of Yes and No. Mirage is the desert’s nostalgic journey back into its past. From the deep unconscious, the desert is pouring forth its memories of being a sea once long ago. These were the thoughts that haunted the mind in that tired sleep after those frantic chasings of non-existent waters. Moistening memories of past, vapour-laden sighs, shades of proximal water. Imagination chases the mirage beyond all limits. Those days of pursuing an entity, fully aware of its nonexistence, instilled in me a feeling—a feeling of becoming more of a man. Those incarnations of hope repeated themselves many a time. That nonexistent entity etched the tyre-marks of the highs and lows of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How many men and animals driven by thirst would have been led astray by this very mirage. Some of those tortured spirits might have reached the oases. Oases unbelievably pregnant with pure water. Nothing else prompted the desert travellers of yore to address the oasis as God, the Be-All and the End-All. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The interplay of sunlight and hot air spreads on to the wide canvass of the desert, the illusory picture of undulating water. This phenomenon becomes more appealing at noontime, and disappears just before sundown. This is the manner in which we can see air with naked eyes, in the form of water. In sultry summers, miniatures of this phenomenon can be seen on the sandy banks of rivers and on the beaches. But since the riverbanks and beaches do not have the infinite vastness of deserts, these local mirages cannot betray us completely. At first it seems as if vapours are rising. Staring for some more time, it transforms into mild waves of water. In the deserts also this is the basic phenomenon, but on a gigantic scale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Throat endures the thirst; eyes transform it into water; and mind takes some consolation. “Come on, step ahead” is the message that every mirage conveys in the desert. ‘The substance of your search IS there; but you have to persevere and hold on till the end’ it seems to exhort. No other metaphor could more powerfully teach the distances and the agonies of the journey of life. Thus the mirage is an excellent text and manual during the travels and sojourns in the desert. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There is no end to the number of actors and actresses thrown up by the sunlight falling across trees in the desert vastness. This was a great lesson learned in this trip. All learners and teachers of the theatre should come and see what light does on these desert trees, the multiple roles that these trees play in the drama of the mirage. The drama closes by the fag end of the evening. The trees then don the looks as if it were not them that staged all those shows a while ago. They pretend to be mere trees, and nothing else. They reminded of the great Kathakali artistes of Kerala who, having undone all the costumes and facial paste-ups after the stunning performance of a whole night, wait at the bus stop for the first bus of the day like any other simple ordinary man. The trees say we are just trees. The air says I am just air. The sun shyly says I am just some light, and he withdraws from the hours-long drama of illusions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After long wanderings in the inner forests and the inner seas of the deserts, having realized that all these are part of some great make-believe theatre, a humble smile lights up in the innermost self when you see this drama again—a smile that betrays a deeper cognition of the real essence of this life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The eagle’s nest found when chasing the mirage reminded me of some bird nests found in the deep forests during some early expeditions into the wilds of India. However, it was one real thing among that profusion of illusions. On the way we saw many burrows of desert lizards; but could not see any lizards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All this while, mirages had been cheating the camera also. They crouched in the frames as islands and seas and lakes and trunks of elephantine waves. When we enlarged the photos on computer screen, they had the strokes and dots of a painting in watercolour. When enlarged into greater details, water receded from the paintings, leaving behind just a watercolour. It is not easy to differentiate whether it is the eyes of the camera or the human eyes that are hoodwinked. The photo frames have some moisture left, ready to be wiped with fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">W</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">e kept our route far from human habitations and highways—as far as possible. We had enough preparations too. We had marked Dehna and Barak Al Wadi on Google Earth (2002 update) and transferred it onto the GPS (Global Positioning System) attached to our caravan. The GPS guided our tour. Six years had wrought some changes to what was marked on Google Earth; but those were not bad enough to mislead our route. Some desert tracks (routes carved by the frequent travels of people) have formed here and there. We had a reserve of woollen clothing since it was the beginning of winter. We had two tents, large reserves of drinking water and food. The only major issue was fuelling the car. Almost all desert villages have petrol pumps, and that allayed our concern. We had ropes to retrieve the car if it got buried into sand, and shovels to remove sand. In addition to the GPS we had a good map; and two of our fellows are good map readers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All these are detailed here because the sight of a mobile tower in a small wayside village roused tragic memories of two boys from Kerala who dried up in the desert without a drop of water to sustain them. One of our fellow travellers was among those who went to reclaim their bodies. That tragedy was in 2001. The two men had gone to erect mobile phone towers. Because they hoped to finish the work and return soon, they did not take much water with them. But unfortunately their vehicle got enmeshed in the sand. They were not using a four wheel drive vehicle, which is most necessary for desert rides. They did not have any satellite phone or GPS. It was so lonely a place that nobody ever came to their help. Doubtless they must have craved for a gulp of water. After long days of search the corpses were found. One was leaning on to a lonely tree. The other was found about 500 metres away. In the scorching heat the dead bodies had dried up and wrinkled. After this tragedy, it was made compulsory for the companies to provide GPS and other amenities to those labourers who go installing towers that link the remote desert villages with the mobile phone network. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bedouins are a curious folk who find route in their own ways. A few years back, one aged Bedouin was straying in the city. But he did not ask anybody about the way. One might presume that he was asking the road itself to show him his destination. He was talking to himself and after a while walked into a building. His face betrayed a special joy in finding the way by himself. Not only in the desert, even in the metros, the Bedouins find their ways in their own curious fashion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had travelled the 110 km from Riyadh to Al Khurge before driving into the desert. At the very first turn into the desert the spectre of civilization vanished into thin air. Before long we saw a small tower of stones. Every passerby placing one a stone upon the pile, it had grown over the height of a normal man. It might be the message of somebody passing by; some kind of a signal or message telling newcomers to go along. It reminded something else also—signs pop before you when you are searching for the way. Not knowing the route is only an excuse for avoiding travels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Before new technologies were in place Bedouins identified directions and routes by looking at the colour and design of sand dunes. When mirages tried to betray, they fixed eyes on the sand. If water is near, the sand will have white colouration. In regions with heavy winds, sands will be thin and light. In places which abound in reptiles, sand will have a specific smells—such were the wisdom handed eown the generations of Bedouins. Many texts vouch that for the Bedouins sand served as a compass. They can easily identify the footprints of a stranger. They know if vehicles with outsiders have entered their village. Even today they retain this wisdom. It is no wonder that they live beyond 100 years of age. They never crave for the city. We found one such Bedouin in this trip. Adeeb, nearing his 90’s. While he was travelling across the sand dunes his vehicle overturned. Three days he survived in the fortress of sands, with wounds all over. Third day he was found and taken to the hospital. Death is final, death is truth; but it is a reality that has to be confirmed—Adeeb’s story reminded. Adeeb, however, forbade us from photographing him. It was Rajendran, a Malayali from Kollam, who took us to Adeeb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Even in that remote desert village having no connections with modern life, a Malayali lives and works. Rajendran is the chief moving force of this little Bedouin village. He runs a workshop, petrol pump and grocery shop. Thus he is known to everybody in the village; and dear to all too. However, for them it is not easy to pronounce Ra-jen-dran. So they call him ‘Andhra’. He gets paid decently for the work done. None of the trickeries and deceptions of cities have crept in. Life is comfortable, he is happy. He goes home once in two years. Once in a month he goes to the market and brings things for sale. He is happier than being in Riyadh. He has become a part of the village. He has none of those complaints often raised by people working in remote villages of Saudi Arabia. He is all smiles, always. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Chase of mirages exhausts us by the end of the day. Tents should be put in place before sundown. Otherwise rest and sleep will be spoiled. We cannot afford to miss the sun that descends the fissure carved into the desert. It is an extraordinary sunset, uncommon too. But we have to fix the tent before the light is gone. For that we should hunt out a place safe from snakes and scorpions. (Applying kerosene is the first aid for scorpion sting). Again, the place should have sufficient supply of firewood to burn campfire. And it should be away from desert tracks along which vehicles may ply at odd times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During the day we collect branches found on the way. Mostly branches fell from brambles, but at times logs left out by other travellers (cutting down wood in the deserts is punishable). We tie them together on to the extra carrier. Sometimes amidst the journey the knot will loosen and the faggots fall down. By the time we recognize this all the pieces would have been lost in the desert. Again we collect whatever is seen on the road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As it was the beginning of winter heavy cold creeps in by dusk. The cold intensifies through night and reaches the lowest degree in the small hours between two and four, and gradually picks up when night transforms into day. Every night during our journey, cold zeroed up to 2<sup>o</sup> Celsius. After the completion of the journey we had reports that it had even slid down to minus values. The campfire is not only for preparing food; it also serves to counter the heavy cold. Food for the day is roti and some fruits including dried dates. At night we have roasted maize or boiled tapioca along with some bread/roti and fruits. Rice and meat need more firewood to cook. The desert travellers’ menu contains only items that need little fire. That alone is possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Eagerly watching the setting sun, picking up faggot and setting up the tent progressed together. And then it is moon smiling all over. If there is any shortage of firewood, the search continues in the moonlight. Torches and head torches are also used. Never did we run short of firewood. The hearth was never short of fodder because brambles had shed lot of twigs and branches on to the sand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All our nights were spent in enchanting places amidst fortresses of sand dunes where a balmy breeze sang lullaby. Lonely places where no one would come. At one place occasionally vehicles trundled along the desert track, perhaps to the nearby villages. The vehicles cutting through the silence of solitude brought to mind the drone of air planes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How far is the city! Mobile phones networks are available only rarely. Satellite phones refused to become active. Thus for many days we could not know what was happening in the outside world, the world of civilizations. Absolute nomads. Only a little water—just enough to drink, to cook and for essential toilet needs—can be carried on such trips. So there was no question of bathing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The cold was getting bitter. Soles were numb due to low blood circulation. Numbness seized the tip of the nose also. The woollen clothes and campfire can resist the cold only to some extend. Despite this benumbing cold we would walk on the dunes in the charming moonlight. At times its highs and lows are threatening. Huge sand dunes that cast their shadows on the moonlight stood like the towers of citadels in the Arabian tales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Driving through the sides of dunes is one adventure. It is a jugglery from one hillside to the other. The first such drive amidst the hills will freeze your heart, and then it begins to thump with exhilaration. The frills of the sand dunes are shining in the moonlight. By midnight the shine is most glossy. Dunes are having a royal bath in the golden moonshine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lying before the tent looking up at the sky, eyes captured the stars in all their glory. A huge ceiling adorned with an unending array of stars. Some stars swim across rivers and go out to feasts. Some are swinging in the wind. Some live in joint families; some have atomic families; and some others are just alone. Some of them are into a brawl, it seems. The sky and the stars together bear a corner of the huge flag of this universe. The proud stars are bordered by the sky. Where would be the boundary of the sky? Numerous questions about the mysteries of universe set fire to the pyrotechnics of imagination. ‘Shed all your fancies and doubts and questions; just stare at our beauty and enjoy’, commanded the winking stars, and I continued staring at the gorgeous sky. How many such nights in the deserts are behind the astronomy of the Arabians! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During our trip, the moon was young. It grew almost to three-fourth. Only on the day after we wound up the trip, did we know that the moon can be seen in bigger size and greater glory on December 13. Had we know it earlier, we could have extended the journey for one more day. The full moon would have raised a canopy of beauty above us. We felt jealous when listening to some friends who had spent that night in the desert. The moon won’t be coming out in such glory in the near future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sunset in the Dehna desert. Photo by Muhammed Sajid</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bitter cold is biting into the bones. It has riven the whole armoury of woollen jackets, monkey caps that cover the ears and the neck, woollen gloves, socks and inner jackets and is penetrating deeper into the bones. Sleep sits heavy on the eyes. On the first day all the seven of us slept in a single tent. One who lay across was blessed with the stamping of all others. So from the next day onwards we used both the tents. The joint family broke into two atomic families. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I crept into the sleeping-bag, pulled the zip and gave in to sleep. The nose was kept outside the bag. One who had not cared to poke out his nose told us that he felt as if he were in a burial vault. He felt short of breath. However he opened the zip from inside and breathed. When sleeping in sleeping-bags, one has to take care to leave room for breath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The tents were set in a manner that allows us to see the sunrise. On the first day it was beneath a lonely tree. Snow melted down the tree like buds of jasmine. Sun who had vanished into a fissure in the desert the previous evening, is back and is gently waking up the desert. He apologizes a while for leaving her in darkness for some time and then sets out on his wonted journey. The sunrise and sunset in the desert reminded of the famous paintings of sunrise and sunset. It seems the painters had collected their colours from this desert. At sunrise the temperature was 5 degrees. As light spread, sand dunes began to appear in their characteristic saffron shades. Their wrinkles opened eyes to the light, and imbibed heat into their nerves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We tried to climb up the sand hills inclined at 90<sup>o</sup> and rolled down before half way. Such hills make us fall when climbing down also. But 4-wheel drive cars can climb many such hills. But it is high risk. That demands great spirit of adventure and great care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Small hills with gentle slopes, lying close to the ground looked like naked women lying on their bellies. Those were the figures etched by wind on the vast sandy expanse: figures that represent the moments of joy turned into indolence. Even the minute detail of long hairs flying in the winds is made perfect by the sands being flown from the head-end of these prostrate women carved on sand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In these deserts there are also large open spaces filled with rough sand. They remind the uneven local football grounds of rural Kerala. African deserts abound in such lands. In the Saudi deserts also there are similar landscape—vast open grounds filled with gravelly sand. It was in such places that we had seen the burrows of desert lizards. In some places these gravelly grounds join the Thuvaikh mountain ranges. These mountain ranges are forts made by nature. In some places these gravel grounds dissolve into the beauty of the sand hills. Such meeting places of two contrasting terrains are dear to the reptiles, they say. Some hills of melted stones also adjoin these regions. These are stones in the molten state. Big and small hills bearing such stones stood as symbols of the scorching treatment of nature. They were seen occasionally in this region of the desert. Nature herself has filled the vast emptiness with multiple terrains. Diversity, the first principle of nature, is not violated even in the deserts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">W</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">e passed through four villages amidst the journey. In all the four, the Bedouins had the same question—“Jawaal walla Aramco?” (Are you labourers of mobile companies or are you staff of Aramco, an oil company in the Saudi Arabia). For the interior desert villages, either of these two are the major visitors from the outer world. Saudi government had been implementing a special programme to include remote villages in the mobile network. Aramco staff visit the villages for various surveys. The Bedouins wanted to know who we were, if none of these two categories. They were not satisfied by the answer ‘Muzafireen’ (travellers). ‘What is here for the city people to see’ is their doubt. Once convinced, they extend affectionate welcome. They rush to set up a treat: compel to take tea and to stay with them for a day, they rush to prepare mutton dishes. To our reasoning that staying back would spoil the travel schedule, they scold lovingly and persuade to stay and eat with them on return. Aged people and children alike invited us to eat with them. Bedouins are like that. They feed travellers to the full, even if they are strangers. Then they give mats to take rest. Most of us were reluctant to decline their invitations. But we were forced to decline because we had to think also of the miles we should traverse across the desert. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We went to one village to fill petrol. The pump was closed. A villager asked us to wait. In half an hour he returned with a youngster—an Indian from Uttar Pradesh. He has been in that village for one and a half year now. It is for the first time that he sees somebody from outside the village. Seeing Indians he was greatly surprised and happy. Camels are grazing a little away from where the pump is. He has to look after them also. That is why he had closed down the pump for some time. The villager had taken him from the grazing ground on a vehicle. Overjoyed at seeing a group of Indians, he picked a scoop of sweets from the nearby grocery store. The sweets came handy to him in a moment when he was at a loss how to share his great joy and love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During the journey we saw the corpses of camels in three places. They are left to decay and become one with the sand. At one place we saw a camel that died in labour. The corpse of the baby camel, battered and dried, protruded from the opening of the uterus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The camels we saw splashing the mirage waters were led by one Mr. Ahmed, a native of Sudan. He has come from a place 300 kilometres away, and has to travel another 300 kilometres with these camels. There he settles for some time. He has to move from place to place in search of food for the camels according to the changing seasons and climate. We saw Ahmed at Barak Al Wadi at a mid noon. He was on a camel. When one leads on camel back at the front, all the other camels follow. They never go astray. The camels are trained for this, said Ahmed. Camels obey men without the least resistance. When caught to kill, they say, it bows its head! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had asked Ahmed for camel milk. He told us that camels can be milked only at dawn. A 12-year old boy was following Ahmed on a pick-up. It carried grass for the camels and an iron bucket to fill water. The boy has tamed the desert at this tender age. He had kept the door open and was standing up. Accelerator might have been adjusted to an optimum speed. Since there are no curves, steering wheel also could be put to a fixed position. If a curve came up, he sat down and steered. The two of them were driving a big herd of some six hundred camels. There will be only one male in a herd of camels. If there are more, they will fight each other until one dies, it is said. In stables males are never put together. Such is the male ego working in camels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the desert, domesticated falcons do for men what hunting dogs do in other places. They trace animals like rabbits and lizards; they can fly with these animals too. We had seen Falcons being employed in desert hunts. We had seen centres were they are grown and sold. But we were seeing wild falcons for the first time. When we stopped the car and began to move towards them, the falcons set to fly. Binoculars helped us see them clearly. They were at a little distance that camera could not capture them with details. We got only very long shots of the group scattered on the sand hills. By the time we mounted the tele lenses on to the camera, the falcons flew somewhere into the wastes in the marshlands. The vultures too were gone. It was a great loss to miss the closer view of falcons perching on the upper crest of the sand hills. Perhaps, some day we could go to a settlement of falcons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I had read that falcons in some African deserts are on the verge of extinction because of the wide trap-hunting and poaching of eggs. The eggs are sold to falcon breeding centres. I don’t know if any studies have been conducted on the state of falcons in the Saudi deserts. Anyway, I haven’t read any so far. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dehna desert ended at the Rubul Khali (Empty Quarter) where sand hills rise up like Eiffel Tower. It is one of the entrances to the Rubul Khali. We went up to its threshold and returned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This year there were only small flowers here and there on the shrubs. It was despairing to see, in contrast to what we wanted to see, and what we expected. Such things happen in journeys. Some emptiness, failures, misgivings, vanishings—reminders of this journey of life. There is no way but to cope with them. We left with a resolve to return when the desert blooms again.</span></div>
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Villagers used to call him crazy. But now a growing number call him <b>mashe </b>or teacher. Kaittally Raman Jayan, 46, like the jackfruit tree he campaigns for, maintains a dignified silence whether he is ridiculed or praised.<br />
<div align="left" class="main_block04a">"I don't understand why people neglect the jackfruit tree. It has the capacity to feed the whole family. It is an excellent tree. Like the coconut, the jackfruit too is a Kalpavruksha, a wish-fulfilling tree," says Jayan passionately. "In fact, India should declare jackfruit as our national fruit, just as Bangladesh has done."<br />
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Jayan was born into a poor family in the village of Avittattur, in Kerala's Thrissur district. He was the seventh of nine sons. His father had to feed his big family with his meager earnings as a newspaper vendor. <br />
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The family's food security came from an age-old jackfruit tree in front of their house. "The jack tree wasn't just our saviour," reminisces Jayan. "We had many goats. As a child I was assigned the job of cutting jack leaves to feed our goats. We literally lived under the shade of this jack tree. Just imagine how many quintals of food a single tree gives us so effortlessly."<br />
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Memories of his childhood made Jayan very attached to the jackfruit tree. His hobby in school was to collect sprouted jack seeds and plant them here and there. The plants grew into trees and started yielding fruit. Jayan was filled with wonder. This was an exciting experience for the teenager. Noting his love for the jackfruit tree, people nicknamed him Plav Jayan or Jack Tree Jayan, when he was studying in Class 7. <br />
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Jayan couldn't go to college since his family didn't have the money to finance his higher education. For a while he drifted from one job to another. Finally, he found a good job in the Gulf. <br />
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Jayan spent 11 years in Dubai. He says he had a pretty good job in a supermarket. The money was good. He had luxuries that couldn't be dreamt of in his village. "But a sort of discontent started building inside me. My jack trees were calling me back to my motherland," he says in a rare display of emotion. <br />
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"In fact in my place of work they were offering me a hike in wages. But money is not everything. What is the point of earning money and then coming back home in your twilight years, old and unhealthy." <br />
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When he returned he found people were cutting jack trees for timber, for constructing homes and so on. But nobody was planting new trees. This made Jayan very sad. He decided to rectify the situation.<br />
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The seeds of starting a campaign to plant jack trees began to grow in his mind. His small house in the village of Avittattur is just five km away from Irinjalkuda railway station. Every year, Jayan raises a large jackfruit nursery in front of his house under a thicket of coconut trees.<br />
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He looked for a job which would match his mission. Finally, he decided to distribute products like candles and soaps produced by local Kudumbashree units which are cooperatives run by women.<br />
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He bought himself a tempo with his name, Plav Jayan, inscribed on the front. It fulfills two purposes. He sells Kudumbashree products and alongside he plants jackfruit trees. Apart from soaps and candles, Jayan's yellow tempo carries jack plants, a spade, sickle and a watering can.<br />
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As he drives down streets and lanes Jayan looks out for suitable spots to plant jack trees. If he finds one, he stops his tempo, takes out his spade, digs a pit, plants the jack, erects a fence, waters the plant and then zooms off.<br />
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If his chosen spot is in a school or church, he approaches the authorities for permission to plant. Once he gets the green signal, he plants the jack tree himself. <br />
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"On my subsequent visits, I look up my plants. If a plant shows signs of withering, I water it. If necessary I go to the nearby house and request them for a pot of water."<br />
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Initially some of his plants were uprooted by vagrants. People used to make fun of him. "Our society has a strange inferiority complex about jackfruit. I really don't understand why so many people look down on it. I would be mocked for carrying jack plants. People wanted to know why I didn't plant banana trees instead." <br />
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Seeds and schools : Strangely, Jayan popularizes only seedlings, not grafts. "If you wait for just seven years, this plant will also give you a bountiful yield, no?" he says. Every year, he raises a nursery with a few local varieties like Muttom Varikka, Then Varikka, Thenga Varikka, Tamara Chakka, Neelathama Chakka, Singapore Varikka, Paduvalam Chakka, Pattamuttom and so on.<br />
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Eco-clubs of various schools often invite Jayan. He always takes a few jack plants with him when he accepts an invitation to an eco-club. First, he shows the children a documentary film of his activities.<br />
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"I tell the children, the jack tree is not only for us human beings. It gives food and shelter to birds, squirrels, monkeys and many other animals. It is a habitat for a host of small animals and birds." He then takes the students to the playground and helps them dig pits. The children enjoy planting the seedlings and watering them with their own hands.<br />
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There is an activity called 'cluster study' for high school students in Kerala. Teachers are permitted to choose books which are not part of the syllabus and encourage students to read and discuss those books.<br />
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Jayan wrote a booklet on jackfruit two years ago. He has been adding information to it with each subsequent edition. His book is one of the books selected for Class 8 students. <br />
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JACK VILLAGE: Jayan wants to convert his village Velukkara into a jackfruit paradise. 'One house, one jack tree' is his dream. The village has more than 1,000 houses. About half of them have a jackfruit tree thanks to Jayan. <br />
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"I prefer to plant the seedlings in these homesteads with my own hands. This is not because I mistrust anyone. Just for my own satisfaction," says Jayan.<br />
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Of late, institutions, clubs and groups of people request Jayan to supply them jack plants. They have been organizing meetings to sensitize people about the importance of the jackfruit for local food security. During one such programme, 500 jack plants were planted in the Thrissur Medical College campus. Even the Irinjalkuda police station has grown a herbal garden with a few jack plants.<br />
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Jayan's family of four is slowly getting involved in his mission. Says his wife Smitha, "Initially, I used to feel embarrassed. Now I have realized the importance of what he is doing. All this sacrifice is for the development of the village." Jayan's son, Aditya, studies in Class 7 and his daughter Alamelu, is in Class 3. They help in the nursery and other activities.<br />
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Jayan has been receiving recognition for his selfless work. He has caught the attention of local TV channels and small magazines and he has been honoured at jackfruit festivals. <br />
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Recently, he was awarded the Vanamitra prize by Kerala's forest department. He received a cash award of `25,000. Such recognition has also raised awareness about the importance of the jackfruit.</div><div class="vertical_divider"></div><div class="byline_01">Shree Padre met Jayan and discussed the many virtues of the jackfruit tree and Jayan's passionate mission</div><div class="byline_01">Courtesy: http://civilsocietyonline.com/pages/1109_hof_Jackfruit.html </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-76712585822690694032011-11-11T02:03:00.000-08:002011-11-11T02:24:26.623-08:0020 Painkillers in Your Kitchen; No Medication Pls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.18&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.1&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain
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</i></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Cure a toothache with cloves</b></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Got a toothache and can’t get to the dentist? Gently chewing on a clove can ease tooth pain and gum inflammation for two hours straight, say UCLA researchers. Experts point to a natural compound in cloves called eugenol, a powerful, natural anesthetic. Bonus: Sprinkling a ¼ teaspoon of ground cloves on meals daily may also protect your ticker. Scientists say this simple action helps stabilize blood sugar, plus dampen production of artery-clogging cholesterol in as little as three weeks.</span></span><br />
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="200" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.4&zw" width="150" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Erase earaches with garlic</span></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Painful ear infections drive millions of Americans to doctors’ offices every year. To cure one fast, just place two drops of warm garlic oil into your aching ear twice daily for five days. This simple treatment can clear up ear infections faster than prescription meds, say experts at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Scientists say garlic’s active ingredients (germanium, selenium, and sulfur compounds) are naturally toxic to dozens of different pain-causing bacteria. To whip up your own garlic oil gently simmer three cloves of crushed garlic in a half a cup of extra virgin olive oil for two minutes, strain, then refrigerate for up to two weeks, suggests Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., co-author of the book, <i>Best Choices From The People’s Pharmacy</i>. For an optimal experience, warm this mix slightly before using so the liquid will feel soothing in your ear canal.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/babes_in_blue/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chase away joint and headache pain with cherries</span></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.17&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.5&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20
Pain Cures You Can Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.17&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.5&zw" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Latest studies show that at least one in four women is struggling with arthritis, gout or chronic headaches. If you’re one of them, a daily bowl of cherries could ease your ache, without the stomach upset so often triggered by today’s painkillers, say researchers at East Lansing ’s Michigan State University . Their research reveals that anthocyanins, the compounds that give cherries their brilliant red color, are anti-inflammatories 10 times stronger than ibuprofen and aspirin. “Anthocyanins help shut down the powerful enzymes that kick-start tissue inflammation, so they can prevent, as well as treat, many different kinds of pain,” explains Muraleedharan Nair, Ph.D., professor of food science at Michigan State University . His advice: Enjoy 20 cherries (fresh, frozen or dried) daily, then continue until your pain disappears.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/babes_in_blue/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a><div align="center"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.6&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.6&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You Can
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.19&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.12&zw" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Relax painful muscles with peppermint</span></span><div align="center"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Suffering from tight, sore muscles? Stubborn knots can hang around for months if they aren’t properly treated, says naturopath Mark Stengler, N.D., author of the book, </span><i style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0068cf;">The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies</span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">. His advice: Three times each week, soak in a warm tub scented with 10 drops of peppermint oil. The warm water will relax your muscles, while the peppermint oil will naturally soothe your nerves -- a combo that can ease muscle cramping 25 percent more effectively than over-the-counter painkillers, and cut the frequency of future flare-ups in half, says Stengler.</span></div></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.20&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.13&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="200" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.20&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.13&zw" width="150" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Give your back some TLC with grapes</span></span></h1><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Got an achy back? Grapes could be the ticket to a speedy recovery. Recent studies at Ohio State University suggest eating a heaping cup of grapes daily can relax tight blood vessels, significantly improving blood flow to damaged back tissues (and often within three hours of enjoying the first bowl). That’s great news because your back’s vertebrae and shock-absorbing discs are completely dependent on nearby blood vessels to bring them healing nutrients and oxygen, so improving blood flow is essential for healing damaged back tissue, says Stengler</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Wash away pain injuries with water</span></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.8&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.15&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.8&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.15&zw" width="200" /></a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.10&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.14&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="200" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.10&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.14&zw" width="150" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Whether it’s your feet, your knees or your shoulders that are throbbing, experts at New York ’s Manhattan College , say you could kick-start your recovery in one week just by drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. Why? Experts say water dilutes, and then helps flush out, histamine, a pain-triggering compound produced by injured tissues. “Plus water is a key building block of the cartilage that cushions the ends of your bones, your joints’ lubricating fluid, and the soft discs in your spine,” adds Susan M. Kleiner, Ph.D., author of the book, </span><i><span style="color: #0068cf;">The Good Mood Diet</span></i><span style="color: black;">. “And when these tissues are well-hydrated, they can move and glide over each other without causing pain.” One caveat: Be sure to measure your drinking glasses to find out how large they really are before you start sipping, she says. Today’s juice glasses often hold more than 12 ounces, which means five servings could be enough to meet your daily goal.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></h1><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Heal sinus problems with horseradish</span></span><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Latest studies show sinusitis is the nation’s number one chronic health problem. And this condition doesn’t just spur congestion and facial pain, it also makes sufferers six times </span><i style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">more</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"> likely to feel achy all-over. Horseradish to the rescue! According to German researchers, this eye-watering condiment naturally revs up blood flow to the sinus cavities, helping to open and drain clogged sinuses and heal sinus infections more quickly than decongestant sprays do. The study-recommended dose: One teaspoon twice daily (either on its own, or used as a sandwich or meat topping) until symptoms clear.</span></div></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.9&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.16&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.9&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.16&zw" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Beat bladder infections with blueberries</span></span><div align="center"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.12&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.17&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.12&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.17&zw" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Eating 1 cup of blueberries daily, whether you opt for them fresh, frozen or in juice form, can cut your risk of a urinary tract infection (UTIs) by 60 percent, according to researchers at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. That's because blueberries are loaded with tannins, plant compounds that wrap around problem-causing bacteria in the bladder, so they can’t get a toehold and create an infection, explains Amy Howell, Ph.D. a scientist at Rutgers University .</span></div></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Heal mouth sores with honey</span></span><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Dab painful canker and cold sores with unpasteurized honey four times daily until these skin woes disappear, and they’ll heal 43 percent faster than if you use a prescription cream, say researchers at the Dubai Specialized Medical Center in the United Arab Emirates . Raw honey’s natural enzymes zap inflammation, destroy invading viruses and speed the healing of damaged tissues, say the study authors.</span></div></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Fight breast pain with flax</span></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.15&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.18&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.15&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.18&zw" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In one recent study, adding 3 tablespoons of ground flax to their daily diet eased breast soreness for one in three women within 12 weeks. Scientists credit flax’s phytoestrogens, natural plant compounds that prevent the estrogen spikes that can trigger breast pain. More good news: You don’t have to be a master baker to sneak this healthy seed into your diet. Just sprinkle ground flax on oatmeal, yogurt, applesauce or add it to smoothies and veggie dips.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="200" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.7&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.19&zw" width="150" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Cure migraines with coffee</span></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.14&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.20&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20 Pain Cures You Can
Find in Your Kitchen" border="0" height="150" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=619da87dab&view=att&th=13391cc7a8ec426b&attid=0.14&disp=emb&realattid=98a4aada5f11c092_0.1.20&zw" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Prone to migraines? Try muscling-up your painkiller with a coffee chaser. Whatever over-the-counter pain med you prefer, researchers at the National Headache Foundation say washing it down with a strong 12- ounce cup of coffee will boost the effectiveness of your medication by 40 percent or more. Experts say caffeine stimulates the stomach lining to absorb painkillers more quickly and more effectively.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/enjoythemasti" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Tame leg cramps with tomato juice</b></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">At least one in five people regularly struggle with leg cramps. The culprit? Potassium deficiencies, which occur when this mineral is flushed out by diuretics, caffeinated beverages or heavy perspiration during exercise. But sip 10 ounces of potassium-rich tomato juice daily and you'll not only speed your recovery, you'll reduce your risk of painful cramp flare-ups in as little as 10 days, say UCLA researchers.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-45627752718563717542011-10-19T23:12:00.001-07:002011-11-11T02:05:45.785-08:00Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for Law and Economics (EDLE)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for European Doctorate in Law and Economics<br />
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of January 1, 2012 [...]</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-47430339897891236212011-10-17T21:27:00.001-07:002011-10-18T02:44:06.309-07:00New Media-Jamsheer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Communication is transmitting the information one person to another. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It requires a sender, a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message" title="Message"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">message</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, an intended recipient and a medium. Media (singular medium) are the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_storage_device" title="Data storage device"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">storage</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transmission" title="Data transmission"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">transmission</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> channels or tools used to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording" title="Recording"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">store</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> and deliver </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information" title="Information"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">information</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> or </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data" title="Data"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">data</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. The word <i>medium</i> comes from the Latin word <i>medius</i> (<i>middle</i>). </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">New media<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">New media is give a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_technology" title="Digital technology"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">digital device</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. Another important promise of new media is the "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization" title="Democratization"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">democratization</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">" of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">facebook</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, an online social network site, is an example of new media. It enable the users to publish digital text, images, video, web-links, interactive feedback of users and formation of a participant community of editors and donors for the benefit of non-community reader<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">New media used as a tool for social change. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO_Ministerial_Conference_of_1999_protest_activity" title="WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> was a example in the use of New Media as a tool for social change. The WTO protests used media to organize the original action, communicate with and educate participants, and was used as an alternative media source.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Newspapers today seem to be more about celebrity reporting, complete with entertainment news, film reviews and horoscopes. Needless to say, the serious news audience is migrating online to their favored news Web sites to quench their need for real news. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">New media Vs Conventional media<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media has some advantages rather than conventional media<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">1. Cost of operation<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media is cheaper over conventional media. Anyone can connect to online in free of cost to publish information. Whereas conventional media may need expensive tools to be able to spread some news.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">2. Area of coverage<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media is not limited to publishing or accessing information within local scale, its scope is really wide and boundless. The published information is available in whole the earth. Conventional media like news paper depends upon logistics operation to be able to distribute information. Radio and television also depends on the range of their broadcasting satellite.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">3. Accessibility and Usability<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media is most user friendly and very easy to publishing and sharing information. Accessing information from conventional media is generally one way. Readers, listeners, and viewers are only fed by the information controlled by conventional media operators.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">4. Real time information transmission<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media is the fastest way to convey and receive information globally. It lead ti zero lag and real time transmission. Conventional media may take hours, days or eves weeks to deliver the information to public <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">5. Information modification<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New media provides easiest access to modify information and make it even better. A blogged information is modify in anytime by its publisher. user can instantly add, delete, and change certain parts according to their preferences. In a conventional media, what’s done is done. When a particular damage is incurred, it takes times to rectify the errors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-11221446372770160282011-10-12T23:38:00.000-07:002011-10-12T23:38:06.367-07:00‘We want…’ – a collection of children’s thought on education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Children and youth
are very important stakeholders of the society which we often forget. Sometimes
we create such a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">scenario and setup
at home/school/society that children are forced to withdraw themselves from
taking active participation in decision making processes. There are a number of
organizations and individuals who are working actively for long to address this
issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">In this context,
DRCSC had organized this </span></div>
<a name='more'></a>one day event ‘Aamra Chai’ (We want…) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">on 26th March at Seva Kendra,Kolkata, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">with the
objectives of sharing ideas and experiences of children actively involved in
development process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">In the first half,
there were following sessions by the children <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">1. Village
development plan in Bhaliaghati, West Medinipur with participatory resource
appraisal method<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">2. Village
development plan in Mirzapur, Birbhum with participatory resource appraisal
method<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">3. Biodiversity
register of Fatulyapur, North 24 Parganas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">4. Children as
change agent in Baduria, North 24 Parganas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">5. Children
promoting ecological activity in Julko, West Medinipur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">6. Children
promoting ecological agriculture in Bigha, Bardhaman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">7. Protecting
child rights at Kajla, East Medinipur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">8. Street to school
– experience of a slum child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">9. Main streamed
from brick kiln – experience of a child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">10. Voice of a
youth leader<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">11. Using film in
the classroom – teacher’s experience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">12. An alternative
school – Children’s experience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">13. School garden –
teacher’s experience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">This was followed
by interactive sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">This interview is
taken from a 5 member panel with children which reveals the understanding of
the children on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">aspects of
education at large, followed by a discussion with the audience. The panel discussion
was facilitated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">by Anshuman Das
(Q – here, A is Audience). We tried to keep the dialogue intact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Did you have a
good lunch?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes (a few)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Can’t hear
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A]
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] That’s better.
Now, we have 5 panelists here. They will tell us – what we want in the school,
what we want to study etc. Because, in most cases, we adults decide what YOU
want, we do not consult you. Since this morning, that is what we had been
endeavoring to - listening to you about your work – taking your suggestions –
so that WE can learn something from you. I am Anshuman, which you already know.
My role in this session will be to facilitate the process. Please introduce
yourself and your school or centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] Firdous Ali
Paida from Madartala centre of DRCSC street to school programme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] I am Aparna
Dhara from Lake Gardens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] I am Sania
Sultana from Dakkhin Chatra High School.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] Ador Naiya
from Shikshamitra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Tridib
Bannerjee from Oriental Seminary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] We have
selected you in a manner so that there are representatives from every type of
school. Like, Firdaus, unfortunately, he could not go to school, but he has
been recently taken back to education after a long gap. Tridib is from a
school, which is very famous, Oriental Seminary. Do you know, why it is so?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Tagore studied
here. (Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Right you are,
for how long?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] 3 years?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] 4 years?
(Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I don’t know,
I mean I cannot recall. But I know that he had such an experience that he never
went back to the school !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] But he started
a school himself. (Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Because he
thought that school is necessary (Audience).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] But not this
type of school (Audience).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh! You are
making my job easy. I will come back to you on this. In our panel, there is
Ador who is studying in an alternative school named Shikshamitra. We have heard
about them in the morning session. And she is from a rural school, in a very
beautiful village, called Chatra. She is from a girl’s school near by. Now I
come to the question that she asked. Rabindranath did not like his school. But
do you like your school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes (everyone
nodded).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">C] I have many
friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] and you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] Everyone from
my slum goes to school, I also was going to school. But I had to leave the
school because I had to work for my family. Now I have started going to school
again … I am liking it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">(Silence)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] I like to go
because I learn so many things in the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I will ask you
what you learn from school – but now, let us finish this round.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] I do not like
my school, but I go to school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I don’t
understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] I go because,
I can meet friends, sometimes I like some classes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] And you like
fuchka and alookabli in the school gate in the tiffin break?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I eat chips.
(Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I used to have
icecream at 10 paise! And you did not respond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] I? I like
because Shikshamitra is my school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok fine, so
whether you like it or not, you go to school. All of us go to school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] All children
do not go to school. (Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] You are right.
All children do not go to school. It’s unfortunate that in India, there are
number of children who don’t go to school. And the schools are unfortunate that
they miss those children. But now I will raise the next, question. Those who
are teachers here, don’t beat me up. Sometimes, I feel that do we at all need
to go to school? Those who did not go to school, they are happy enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] But this is
not true. Most of the children who do not go to school, they are working, they
are not happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But will they
be happy if they go to school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] At least they
do not have to do hard work as a child labour. In our area, there are children
who do hazardous work in recycling unit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But that is
illegal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Who cares?
(Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok, let me
frame the question differently. Say, by choice, if someone doesn’t go to
school, is he going to miss something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] He will not be
able to learn many things. History… Geography…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Hmmm… history.
Do you like history?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] No I do not,
I can’t remember so many things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] But it is
important. We need to know about freedom struggle. The great men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I have seen
many great men, whose names are not there in the history books. There was an
icecreamwala, who used to give free icecreams to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] That might
happen in your time, now that will not happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] We were
talking about history. Why do we study lives of great men? Because we want to
learn lessons from them which might help us in our life. Ooops! I responded to
the question. I was only supposed to ask!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] You are right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] What?
Responding to the question?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] No no, you
responded perfectly to why we study great man’s life in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Anyone wants
to add on to why we need to study history?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] All names
written in the history are not necessarily of great men. There are villains
too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Right, but why
do we need to study history?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] I do not find
much point, but sometimes I like the stories. There are many films and story
books on history, I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">like those very
much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Books are so
difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] And very big.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] All books?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] Particularly
History books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So which
subject do you like most? Ador, you are not responding. I want to start from
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] You will
laugh, if I respond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] Because, I
would like to read only those things which I can teach to my children in
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Well said
Ador, see they are laughing .. but they are also clapping. We liked what you
said. You said a very important thing. After that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] I like …. I
like … all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] All?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] You have to,
because, you need to study all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Still, if any
choice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Hmmm… then
biology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] You are trying
to please your biology teacher… because he is here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] No no no… not
like that, I like biology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I will ask you
later, why you like biology. But let us hear her favorite subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Bengali<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] I like … I
like … I will respond later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] I like maths!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Huh! Good. At
least someone likes maths. Why do you like maths?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] Because it is
important to learn maths very well for your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Audience,
please note that, I will come back again to Firdaus’s answer, ‘what is
important for your life’. Can I see hands raised for those who like maths? Woh!
So many!! I liked algebra, but in the initial stage I had problem in grabbing
the concept of algebra. But I had problems with arithmetic. I use to do
arithmetic by applying algebraic formulas . But I liked Geometry very much. You
want say something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] This is same
for me sir. But theorems are sometimes so similar, that I get confused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] But I have
never used those theorems in my life. (A senior person)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Hmmm… now if
there is any maths teacher he will beat me after the programme is finished, you
all have to save us then! From the subject let us discuss about teachers. What
type of teachers you want?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] I want
teachers who have sense of humour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why sense of
humour?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] We are so
afraid of teachers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Why? Do they
beat you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] No no… they
are so grumpy most of the time. They do not listen to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] There are
teachers here, who are listening to you for long, appreciated your work, and
you are saying that they do not listen to you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] They are
different. That’s why they came here. But if we do say something outside the
study, most of them do not listen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] Yes yes, my
request, teachers should not mind, if we pull their legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] How can that
be? You pull their leg and they will leave you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] No, but
sometimes we might laugh in the class, and the teachers never join, they pull
our ears! Most of them are not friendly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Tridib you are
not saying anything? Are you afraid of your teacher? Debashisbabu, do not
listen to what he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] No… teachers
are very important, they teach us, guide us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But some of
your friends sitting just beside you, were saying that teachers are not
friendly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Teachers need
not be very friendly always. If you do something wrong, they have to guide you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] But friends
also can guide us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] No… but I am
saying that we know nothing, so they should guide us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] You know
nothing? That I can not believe. How did you learn walking? How did you learn
eating? To play football? Who taught you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] None, we
learned it on our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] But, there are
many students in the class, who will control them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Police?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Yes, teacher’s
job is to teach and guide, you only have said that. Now you are adding one more
– control. Who would control you and your friends while playing football?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] None.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So, do you
always fight? Don’t you have any rules while playing amongst friends? So if you
can have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">discipline in
football ground, why can’t you have discipline in the class? So do we need a
teacher to control you? I am perhaps putting my thoughts in your mouth !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] But who will
guide?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Do not ask me!
I will not answer. My job is to ask. Ador, will you share something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] Sometimes, we
do not have any teacher in our class. There are instruction card. Sometimes,
teachers gave us instruction in the beginning of the class. We do whatever is
written in the instruction cards. We do call teachers if we need their help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Your school is
a very special school, but I feel the same idea can be followed in the other
schools too. I know Loreto Sealdah used to follow the same principle, I don’t
know what they are doing now. I was trying to draw your attention to another
thing we mentioned earlier. Walking, running, cycling etc, the skills you have
learned on your own - you have learned better, and you never forgot. Ador is
talking about a system which is mostly a self learning system, where you don’t
need a teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] This is not
possible, then who will teach (Audience).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] You yourself.
Teachers will be there to help you. Seems you are not happy, but Ador has
shared a similar system. What is the opinion of other panelists?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] May be it can
be tried out. But if there is a teacher, who is friendly enough, there is no
harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Sometimes, we
read together with friends, I found that very helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Now, let us
discuss another issue. Say you had been given responsibility to design a
school. How will you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] It will be a
big 3 floored building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Do we need a
building for a school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] Building is a
necessary, how do you do classes without building?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] There are
schools, primary centres, ICDS centres who don’t have BIG buildings as you are
suggesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] That is
because they do not HAVE money or resources, they are poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] The oriental
seminary experience was so suffocating for Rabindranath, that later he built a
school, which has no wall, no roof - just under the tree. Or maximum a small
open hut. I studied in that school in Santiniketan. And I am proud of that ‘poor’
school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] But what
happens if there is rain.(Audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh! Don’t ask
me questions, ask them. Have you ever been to Santiniketan? (3~4 hands.) It is
nearby, train travel is not so costly… try some time to be there. What else
will you have in the school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] Computers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] How many?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] That’s all?
Anything else? Air condition?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] No, I need big
windows, so that I can see outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] And fans, we
do not have fan in our school- it is very difficult in summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Do you have
fan in teacher’s room?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I want to have
a school like our school. Big classroom, Less students, colourfull wall. (S)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I like it that
you love your school so much. No one told anything about laboratories, toilets!
Do you have labs in your school? Oh! None of you? Ok. And what do you teach in
your dream school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Bengali,
English, history, geography…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Then how is
your school different from others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Oh, it has to
be different?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] We can do what
ever we feel like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] Then we will
be taught whatever we need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] What do we
need?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] Computers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok, let me
help you. Which school taught you to climb a tree?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">All] No one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Which school
taught you to swim?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] Our school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] No. I am not
talking about any alternative school. Any normal school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">All] None<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So tell me
which school taught you to see a Dictionary? No. I am not talking about any
alternative school or any centre. Which normal school teaches you to see a
Dictionary? Tell me the name of the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">All] None<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. What else?
Which school taught you to do your regular shopping and marketing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Were taught in
our ‘home’ school, our home –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So if we do
not get to learn all these in our school, what else do we learn? This is what
we do everyday. So what do you all think could be taught better in school? What
should be taught in school? Hmm… so everybody is thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] I think we
should study everything in school because you never know what helps us in
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Hmm right…we
do not know when and what helps us. Ok. What else? What do you all think should
be taught in school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] Sir I think a
child who aspires to be a doctor in future knows that he has to study science
properly. Similarly, a child who aspires to be psychologist in future should
also get the opportunity to study a little bit of psychology with the other
science subjects in school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So you are
saying that a little bit of everything should be taught in the school. Ok. What
else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I want to say
that the syllabus in the school should depend upon the desire of the students
as well as the teacher. I am saying this because what the students want to
learn is important, it is not always that all students<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">want to learn the
same things, it varies from student to student, and so the teaching department
should be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">divided
accordingly. It is not such that every child wants to study in the same way;
some are good with games. It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">is not that only
education can change a man’s life. I think it will be best if the teachers sit
with the students, ask<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">them what they
want to study and moreover if the teachers can observe a child and find out the
subject or the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">matter he/she is
interested in and guide him/her accordingly. I think only if a child is trained
in what he/she is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">interested in;
only then quality education will be achieved. (from the audience, a girl of age
16~17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] She is saying
that a child should learn whatever he/she is interested in. If, I like doing
Maths, I will do Maths,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">but if I do not
like it I will not learn it. Yah, some one else is saying something from there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] You are saying
that we would learn whatever we want to, but how will that be possible? If we
do not study<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">properly in
school, what job are we going to get? What are we going to eat? How do we earn
our living? We<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">need to study
maths, science and some other subjects also in order to get a job, earn our
living. (from the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">audience)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Good. He is
raising one question. What do we get to eat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] I want to ask
something to that Didi in the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Yah proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] You said the
children should learn whatever they want to, like if I want to study Maths, I
will study Maths and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">if I want to
study English, I will study English. But if I keep on studying whatever I want
to, then how will I pass?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">How will I be promoted
to the next class? And if I want to study like this, then what is the need of
going to the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">school? We can
study at home. So what do you think should we go to school or sit back home?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Good. 2
questions have come up from here, both of which are very important. But there
is another comment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">from here. Yah,
tell me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I want to say
that when a teacher is teaching something within the class, it would be better
if he matches up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">his teaching with
its practicability, because then only a learning can be made logical, otherwise
not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So now we
can discuss the 2 important questions that have come up from here. One is – he
is saying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">that if we do not
get any degree, what do earn? How do we get a get a job? But my question is do
we really<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">need a degree to
get a job? As far as I know, in India at least 60% people do not have any
degree. So aren’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">they getting
anything to eat? Are they still starving? So this is one question. Another
question is - she is saying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">that if we do not
study in regular school method, we shall not be promoted from one class to the
other. What is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the need to be
promoted? Do you really need to pass? The same question of degree is coming up
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] If we do not
pass, then how do we learn everything? When we are in Class I, we learnt A, B,
C etc and then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">in the next class
we learn something more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Then how does
our school remain different from the others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] But if want to
learn more, we have to go up from one standard to the other. If we restrict
ourselves by learning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">only one thing,
then the other matters will remain unknown to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Hmm true. That
is another question. We will discuss this again in future. Now we will go to
the last question,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">as we have to end
up soon. Many teachers at present, apart from teaching in schools do private
teaching at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">home, although
this is illegal. So now we would like to hear some of the opinions about this
from you. Is it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">necessary or not?
Say whatever you feel like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Is the one who
teaches us in school and the one giving private tuition the same person?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] The same sir
might teach you at home, but I am spending 8 hrs in school and then do I need
to rush for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">private tuitions
after school? Then my question is - what is the need of going to school at all?
We can directly go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">for only private
tuitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Actually some
people say its necessary and some say it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] No. you talk
about yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">T] Yes. I am
talking about myself also. Let’s say, in my class, when a specific topic is
taught, I may not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">understand it,
but whenever a teacher starts asking if we understood it or not, I say yes.
This is mostly because I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">feel ashamed to
say that I did not understand whatever she has taught, which my friends did. So
back home, if I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">go for private
tuitions, only then I am able to learn the topic well. It is only then taking
private tuitions make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">sense, because we
are taking private tuitions only to understand a matter well, which we could
not understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">in school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] I think when
something is taught in the class, we need to follow that well, and then if we
revise it once more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">when we are back
home, then we do not need to take any tuitions for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But let me ask
you one question. Tell me if a teacher is teaching something in the class, is
it the responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">of the child to
understand it, or the teacher should make him understand? Whose responsibility
is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] If Sir is
teaching something, the students should also try to grab according to their
capacity and revise it again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AD] Both of them
bear the same responsibility. Teacher should make the effort of teaching
properly, but the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">students’
responsibility is also to pay attention and try to understand fully what the
teacher is teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. Anyone
else want to say something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">S] Even I would
say that in a class, it is the teacher’s responsibility to make us understand
everything, and we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">should also ask
the teacher again and again if we do not understand anything. But what happens
within a class,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">generally, is
that, if we do not understand anything and ask the teacher, then most of the
time teacher says we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">are not listening
properly, we are not studying and so our guardians will be called. But if we
don’t understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">anything, it is
not our fault, and if the teacher constantly tells us that we are not studying,
we are going no where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">(gollay jachho),
so then we stop asking anything in class and go to a private teacher for
learning the subject<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">AN] I want to say
something. The school where I have studied, i.e. the Sikshamitra School, is a
bit different from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">others. We have 5
children in our class, now actually we are 3 of us. Here if something is taught
in class, the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">teacher asks if
we have understood the subject or not. Initially we were scared, but if we tell
her that we did not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">understand what
she was teaching, she would say “why didn’t you ask me before? If you do not
understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">anything, then
always ask me, otherwise you will not be able to go beyond this.” Moreover
whatever is taught in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">class, if we go
through that once again when we are back home, then our job will be done. We
also do the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">homework that is
given to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] You want to
say something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">F] I want to say
that we, the poor children, are trying very hard to go to school and study. It
is not always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">possible for us
to go for any private tuitions as most of the time we have to strive for money.
So it is our duty to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">work hard and try
to learn everything that is taught in school and practice at home. But if at we
fail to understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">anything, we have
to ask about it again and again for understanding the matter well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Does anyone
else want to say something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes I want to
say something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] For now we are
going to take one question from here and one from there. And no more questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Two of my
younger brothers are sitting there. I want to ask them one question. You are
saying that you don’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">need private
tuition. But I want to ask you that when you reach the Graduation level, don’t
you think that even if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">you attend
regular classes, private tuitions would be needed to upgrade yourself? In
junior classes homework<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">and revising
might help, but when you at a higher level, private tuitions become very
important for better results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] They haven’t
reached that stage. So there is no point asking this question to them. Can we
reserve this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">question for
future? Yes. One more question. This would be the last one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] In some
schools, there are small numbers of students, but in some others, the student
pressure is too high. It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">is very difficult
for the teacher to attend individual student and solve their problems. But
there the role of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">student is very
important. If any student thinks that he knows everything – he doesn’t go to
the class teacher. He<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">goes to private
tuition to know more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Well, the
logic is not very clear to me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I don’t know
about the current situation, but I can say about our time. I have passed my
college and university<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">long before. I
never had to take any tuition in my college days. Consciously or unconsciously,
during our time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">we did not need
any tuition for doing our studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] While in
college we take up the subject we want to. Why would you have to take tuition
for the subject you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">love, you will
anyways study it on your own. Moreover the friends are there for notes and idea
exchange and the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">understanding
capability of a student also increases by the time he/she is in college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I think we can
stop the panel discussion here if anyone else does not have anything else to
say or suggest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I was
listening till now that many children were saying that they can not remember
everything that is taught to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">them in class.
Actually studying in school is not supposed to be like this. If one gets the
opportunity to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">practically what
has been taught to him, then the student will not forget anything and this will
come to his help<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">some day or the
other. I can say this from my own experience. I have learnt many new things in
life while<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">working. If we do
not get anything to work out, then we can not even learn for e.g.
Simplification. Teachers go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">through a long
process teaching this and the children at times find out the simplest method of
understanding it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Naturally most
children find it difficult to understand and use simplification in the long
run. So we need to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">practise
everything that we learn theoretically. The problem is that – a syllabus and a
time frame has been given<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">to us, and we are
forced to learn everything within that time. 15-18 years is the time period.
This is supposed to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">be the learning
time and rest of the life is to work that out. We have to come across these
bindings. The things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">that we gather
within 18 years of age might help us in future for acquiring a job, but that
can never be called as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">a true learning.
(from the audience.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So let us stop
the session here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Sir, I was
raising my hand since long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. Then put
your point forward in the next session. We are stopping this session here. Just
one thing to say;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">we do not go to
school for learning. We go to school for passing from one standard to the
other, from Class – VI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">to Class VII,
Class VII – Class VIII. Actually this is my personal view, but I truly think
that that we don’t go to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">school for
learning anything new, we study in Class VI because we have to give the final
exam of Class VI and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">move to Class
VII. Anyways thanks to all of you who had participated in this session. Some
one please come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">from the audience
and handover the prize to the participants. So now that we have spoken so much
about what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">we want and what
we don’t, I would like to request Malini to come over here and reach to some
conclusions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">through
discussion about today’s topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Last session by
Malini Mukherjee (Q), the answer is mostly from the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] I am Malini.
And Shahjahan, to talk in front of so many people, its not only your knees but
my knees shake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">too. Even I get
scared. Here many of you have come and said a lot of good things. I was
noticing those who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">came up here.
They were so good in whatever they said, that I got more scared. I was thinking
all through that I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">can not speak as
good as you, and moreover you can say that I am linguistically challenged. So
from now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">onwards I will
speak to you sometimes in English and sometimes in Bengali. Ok, so now tell me
who all have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">not spoken till
now, the ones who did not get the opportunity to speak, like me. Raise your
hands. All of you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">have spoken? You
didn’t? Ok, so from now on we’ll speak. We will discuss everything’ like what
you like, what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">you don’t, what
you had written in the chart paper at the back, what you all want etc. But
first of all we’ll do one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">thing. We will
fight verbally. Tell me who all can fight well? I can fight really well. I
heard some of you are doing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">resource mapping
and to do that you all are having discussions with the Panchayet members also.
Somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the Panchayet
members are vehemently opposing this idea of resource mapping; there you have
to fight with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">them in order to
make them accept your planning. So I know that some of you can give a tough
fight today. But<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">today you have to
fight with me. In the morning when I was coming here, I had made up my mind
that I need to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">come to terms
with you all regarding some matters. And that is mostly because I am a teacher.
No, I am not a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">teacher in the
strict sense of the term but, at present, the kind of work that I do has a
direct connection to what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the teachers. So
naturally I can understand what kind of problems a teacher undergoes in order
to teach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">properly. And now
I will tell you about those problems faced by a teacher and you will have to
defend yourself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">and prove, by
fighting, that whatever I am saying is right or wrong. The teachers present
here please raise your<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">hands. The
teachers are on my side. Ok, my first point of fight is that – what is this
learning all about? Some of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">you are doing
kitchen garden, some are drawing village maps, some are finding out local
ecological problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">But tell me one
thing - is there anything of this sort in our govt. or private school text
books? Do we get to know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">from these text
books what a kingfisher eats, what is the food habit of an ant? No. then why do
we learn this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I know we do
not have anything of this sort in our text book. But we should not learn only
the things which are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">there in the text
books, we should learn practical things also. Anything that we learn from
anywhere is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">considered as
real learning. For e.g. a person who goes to school is educated and the one who
haven’t gone to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">school is
illiterate. I beg to differ with this. I think whatever work a person is doing,
he is a master in that, which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">means that the
idea that only bookish knowledge makes one educated, it is not so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. If I am
your school teacher and I agree to teach you all this, even then your parents
would not accept<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">this. They would
start asking – Why aren’t the teachers going by the text books, why no exams
are being taken?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">They would be
angry. What will you do then?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] That is why
the NGOs are needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So a NGO
is needed. But how to convince your parents? The teachers and even the children
would do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">nice things like
Environmental studies, make new chart posters, plant trees etc. but the parents
will not listen to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">this. How do we
convince our parents? Great, I have almost won this fight. Does anyone else
want to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">anything?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] We cannot
convince them today, but we will do that tomorrow for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok fine.
Anyone else wants to say something. Someone who haven’t spoken till now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes Mam. I
think we need some time to convince our parents. For them, whatever we are
studying, and we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">will achieve is
important. They want us to get a good job from whatever we study. But in the
mean time we need<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">to understand
from our teachers what our ultimate objective is? We know that this kind of
activity would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">definitely bring
some benefits to us. But first of all, we ourselves have to understand that,
and it is only then that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">we can convince
our parents. And then they will also acknowledge our hard work or our interest
in this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But who will
make a synthesis between a teacher and a parents’ mode of thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] We can make
them understand through awareness programmes like drama. This is a very popular
medium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">of awareness; and
in villages the community gets motivated to a large extent by these dramas.
Through drama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">parents can
easily understand what their children want to tell them. And finally they would
allow their children to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">be what they want
to be. And this is how they would make able future citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Able future
citizens. What do you mean by that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Like the one
you are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh. Thank you.
Anything more?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] At first when
I started working with my village based eco group for the protection of our
environment, my<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">parents were not
supportive at all. But gradually when they saw that I loved working in the
group, and something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">positive was
coming out for the village development from the kind of wok that we do, my
parents also started<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">supporting me.
Now they completely like the work that I do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh that’s
really good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] My mother was
a bit clever, whereas my father did not have much intellect. My father used to
force my 12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">year old elder
brother to go to the fields and work with him. But my brother wanted to go to
the school and study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">So father used to
beat and scold him everyday and drag him to work with him. But my mother was
always in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">favour of my
brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So what
happened after that? Did your father understand?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] After repeated
conversations with him, my mother was able to convince my father, and so now my
brother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">can go to school
everyday without any problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So finally
we are able to make our parents understand our needs and wishes. We are able to
work with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the Panchayet
also for the betterment of our village. But what do we do if we have our school
exams at the time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">of doing such
extra curricular activities?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I think the
only solution to this can be – to study in such a school where there is no such
system of education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] But if there
is no exam at all, then how do we measure what we have studied? There has to be
some way out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">for this. What do
you think?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes obviously.
You are right. But measuring our learning does not necessarily mean that we
have to give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">exams. If we
learn something properly and are able to teach that to someone else in a good
way, then that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">proves for sure
that we have actually gathered some quality learning, which we can impart among
others. For<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">e.g. I have been
giving training to other children for the last few years. First I had learnt
something from my<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">school, which I
tried to impart among others. This was my exam; no such written test to test my
knowledge. On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the other hand,
if I had given written exam, passed well, but could not teach that to anyone
else, would that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">have been useful?
I don’t think so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So you are
saying that in order to test one’s knowledge, we do not always need to take
written exam. Ok. We<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">need to
understand the importance of this. Can we have a govt. school teacher here with
us to say a few words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">about this? Are
you a teacher?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] No. I am not a
teacher. But I work with govt. schools and school teachers on a regular basis.
And I think that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the present
problem is that the school teachers as well as the parents do not want to think
differently. They get<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">used to the same
routine and also force the children to follow that same routine in their life.
Like, a teacher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">thinks exam is
the only medium of measuring a child’s knowledge, whereas the parents decide
what their<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">children would be
in future and force the child to follow that. They never think what the child
wants, they never<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">think that a
child can also have a mind of his own and determine his own way of functioning
in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] True. I agree
with you sir. I am really grateful to DRCSC for arranging such a programme
where the children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">are able to raise
their voices and give their opinions. But I personally have seen such schools
where the children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">or the teachers
can never ever think of the kind of work that you have presented today. You all
have done such<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">nice work that I
am overwhelmed. While in schools, I have heard many people say that they do not
have any<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">time for all
this. They often raise the question – Where is the time? And then somewhere in
a workshop I heard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">11<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">about 100
headmasters saying the same thing that they get so less money that even if they
want to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">something like
this, they are not able to do that because of the lack of money. Anshuman said
that as less as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Rs. 30 is also
enough a contribution for making a garden in the school. So I would like to
request DRCSC that in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">future if they
arrange any such programme, to invite more children, govt. school teachers and
other officials who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">do not get the
opportunity to do such work to participate in such a forum. Also the B.Ed
institutions must also be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">linked up with
this, because they are responsible for making new teachers for schools. And
this kind of work that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">you all are doing
for the community is something very rare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">I was going
through the wish list that you all have written in the board at the back. I
have noted some of your<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">wish list which I
will discuss here with you and try to find out a solution. Although some wishes
are out of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">education system,
but I am not at all saying that these are not important. In fact some of these
wishes like – a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">world full of bio
diversity, abolition of dowry system and “say no to child labour and child
marriage” are very<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">important issues
that have come up. There are other wishes like less pollution, no use of
chemical fertilizer etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">But apart from
all this, there is something like – ‘I want to spread the kind of work that I
am doing and let others<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">know about it.’ I
have liked this very much. I will again say that this is not only the
responsibility of DRCSC, but I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">would like to
request every single child here, who is working with any organization or
considers himself to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">socially
conscious, must take the responsibility of sharing these kinds of work with
other schools, children and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">people outside
their working area. Another wish that has come up is that – ‘I want that all
children in my country<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">to go to school
from tomorrow onwards. This is my wish also. ‘I will work as a domestic help,
but after<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">completing my
studies in school,’ and one more wish that has come up – ‘our views/suggestions
should be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">considered.’ I
think this is a very important wish that have come up in conglomeration with
today’s programme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Today’s programme
was all about what “We want?” All of us present here today want that the
children should<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">also work for a
better future, whatever we do, we should also take the suggestions of children.
Today in fact the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">last session was
all about what children want in school. Even I wanted to find out from your
feedback what you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">all want from
your school. As some of you have said, a school might have a building and some
said a school<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">need not have a
building. So it seems almost all of have some thing to say about how his/her
own school would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">be. Here is
another such wish which says that – ‘every district should have a model school.’
I don’t know who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">has written this,
but I think this is very important in today’s condition, although I don’t know
whether it is actually<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">possible or not
in practicality. Here again two have written that such programmes like today’s
should take place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">more and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I have written
that point of a model school. (a senior person (woman) from the audience. )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So can you
please explain here why you have written this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes I will.
Actually according to me the education system then and now have changed a lot.
In our time we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">had ample time to
study with very less scope. But now-a-days, a child has very little time but
has to catch up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">with lots. So our
main focus should be to create a model school where in less time, we can build
up a child with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">a bright future
ahead. And that school should also include some suggestions coming up from the
children for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">betterment. Today
a child whose age is 5years learns many more things than a child of 10 year old
25-30 years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">back. So we have
to keep this in mind when we talk about a model school and formulate it
accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So now I am
taking this opportunity to ask all the children here – Do you all have anything
to say to the ones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">who write our
text books? Something like – “We want this, we want that etc.” Yes – you want
to say something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Actually all
of us are going to school now-a-days, but many of us do not learn anything from
school. If we had<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">actually learnt
anything from school, then not so many would have become terrorists or anti-socials.
What is the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">benefit of such
education which makes us go against the society and harm people like us? I
think somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the problem lies
with the schools also. The schools must have some kind of education based on
humanity, so<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">that when we go
out of schools, we can become “real human.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So you
want to say that the schools should have education based on humanity. Nice
thought. Anything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Our school
premise does not have any trees, so I want my school to plant more trees in
future so that when<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">we teach about
the plants to our children, they can themselves go, touch and feel those things
about plants as a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">part of practical
teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I want my
school to be red in colour and want a games room where we can play carrom in
our leisure time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">School does not
necessarily mean that we would keep on studying all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Ok. So you
want indoor games in school. And what about the outdoor activities?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes. There
should be a playground outside the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Anything more?
It is not necessary that you have to say it now. Today we have discussed a lot
of things and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">much valuable
information have come out of this. Tomorrow do you all have school? Ok . If you
have school<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">tomorrow and you
have to tell one thing to your teacher that you want in your school. What would
it be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I want to tell
sir that I want to go to a good looking school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;">12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] And what do
you mean by a good looking school? What would be the colour of the school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] It would be
red in colour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] And would you
like to plant trees surrounding your school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] What trees?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Rose plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] I would like
to plant those kinds of trees surrounding our school which would grow big and
would be able to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">give us more
oxygen, mostly the fruit trees like mango, guava etc. which have multiple use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Only trees?
Anything more?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] No ma’m. Our
school should have a compost pit within the campus where we can put the
vegetable and fruit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">peals for making
organic compost, which then we can use for the plants. It should also have a
playground and a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">good library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] So who do you
all want to make visit to your school other than the teachers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] Only teachers
and students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh!!!! So you
don’t want anyone else to visit your school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">A] My centre is
very good. It allows everybody to enter the campus. But even then I want one of
my friends, Puja<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Roy to come and
see the kind of school we are studying in. Puja has been sent far away. It is
not always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">possible for her
to come and meet us. I really miss her and want her come back and study with us
(a small<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">child).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Q] Oh!!! Even we
got depressed with what you shared just now. Anyway, I hope your friend comes
back soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">And I also wish
that in the schools, resource persons from every section of the society with
different skills could<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">come up and teach
something new every time. Today I really had a great experience here. We learnt
a lot of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">things from you.
We shall get this documented and send them to you for more feedbacks. I end up
this session<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">by thanking
Service Centre as well you, the children of today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">The report has
been compiled by Education Team and published by DRCSC (www.drcsc.org)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">The
organizations/schools/children present there are partners of Indienhilfe, Save
the Children, DRCSC,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Bichitra
Pathshala, ENRE, Sahay International. The event was supported by NCRI,
Hyderabad.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-55529747408572002992011-10-11T01:45:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:45:20.271-07:00Targeting Dalits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The police action against Dalits in Paramakudi leaves indelible scars on
the psyche of the oppressed people all over Tamil Nadu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">S. Dorairaj</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">/</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frontline/Sep24-Oct07,2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Tamil Nadu Police, in its modern avatar,
reflects a glorious tradition of over a century and a half. It was the only
force to embark on State-sponsored modernisation in the early 1990s which was pioneered
by me during my first tenure as Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996. Seizing the
opportunity, the Tamil Nadu Police transformed itself into a mature and modern
force with a humane face and unique approach to people and problems....”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-70972832202817938462011-10-11T01:44:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:44:33.337-07:00A plea for education: The Tamil documentary ‘Enakku Illaya Kalvi?'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The Tamil documentary ‘Enakku Illaya Kalvi?' powerfully portrays the
state of school education in Tamil Nadu.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
film, produced by the Institute of Human Rights Education (IHRE) and directed
by the writer and orator Bharathi Krishnakumar, stresses the need to liberate
the sector from the stranglehold of commercialisation and also from caste- and
class-based prejudices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-78151612128941794552011-10-11T01:43:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:43:47.505-07:00How green is biofuel?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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say policy makers have overestimated the potential for bioenergy to cut
greenhouse gas emissions. There are concerns that large patches of forest and
grassland will be cleared or burned to grow fuel crops. Another cause for
concern is that growing food crops (displaced by fuel crops) elsewhere will
release carbon into the atmosphere, writes James Kanter</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-69811432596729222482011-10-11T01:42:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:42:42.126-07:00Poverty a Cruel Joke: with planning panel's Rs 32 a day idea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Report / October 10, 2011 / Story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The primary
policy purpose of a well-defined poverty line in India and elsewhere is to be
able to target entitlement programmes properly. The Government of India has
been far from efficient in helping out the poor through welfare programmes over
the years. Now it has found a way keep them out of the statistics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-5051390184534754612011-10-11T01:41:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:41:42.778-07:00Less And Lesser: AP’s BPL criteria is befuddling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>The Planning Commission submission to
India’s highest court that the poor are defined as those who earn Rs 25 or less
a day in rural areas and Rs 32 or less in urban locations would have made for a
good joke if it wasn’t so tragic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-19529145948837098302011-10-11T01:40:00.002-07:002011-10-11T01:40:32.915-07:00Great grain lottery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">India Today</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> / </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/archive"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Archive</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> / </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/section/36/1/nation.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">NATION</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> / </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/Issue?issueId=268"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">October 10, 2011</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> / Story</span></div>
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Kiran Reddy's scheme of offering rice at Re 1 a kilo to the poor win him
popularity as CM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-69899138916124357962011-10-11T01:40:00.000-07:002011-10-11T01:40:05.095-07:00No Look-Wages! A minister vows to root out ‘nokkukooli’--the onlooker wages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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system of wages that headload workers’ unions in Kerala imposed for
loading/unloading goods<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you use outside workers, the
union insists on compensation, ‘nokkukooli’, literally, wages for looking
on. Union might has kept this practice alive for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Labour minister S.B. John has
vowed to root out nokkukooli, starting with Trivandrum.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-23509731919579054182011-10-11T01:38:00.000-07:002011-10-11T01:38:28.599-07:00abject poverty, and not citizens of any country<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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agreement on swapping enclaves brings little cheer to residents of these
nowhere lands</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
enclaves are concentrated mostly in Cooch Behar district of India and Kurigram,
Lalmonihat, Nilphamari and Panchagarh districts of Bangladesh. Thousands have
resided in them for decades in abject poverty, without being recognized as
citizens of either India or Bangladesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327866430820731154.post-37840361727744365172011-10-11T01:36:00.000-07:002011-10-11T01:36:08.954-07:00Turning on itself: UID project being undermined<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Express\04 October 2011</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Right to Information Act has been one of the biggest policy imprints of the
UPA. It rests on the premise that the government and the governed are on the
same side. The government, or parts of it, have attacked the RTI for causing
disruptions and inconveniences, or relaying “frivolous petitions”. Another
instance is the Unique Identification Number, Aadhaar — great expectations were
pinned on the project. However, of late, as the UPA fights for its own
survival, and as various internal skirmishes become visible, the UID project
has been undermined by forces within the government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
robust new law to regulate mining in India is overdue. The proposed Mines and
Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2011 is the central government's
response to a full-blown crisis in the sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Read More:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2509680.ece"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2509680.ece</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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