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Map shows etymology of China's provinces and major cities. I found this super interesting. Source: buff.ly/2tp3xgH
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My parents were married for 55 years. One morning, my mom was going downstairs to make dad breakfast, she had a heart attack and fell. My father picked her up as best he could and almost dragged her into the truck. At full speed , without respecting traffic lights, he drove her to the hospital.
When he arrived, unfortunately she was no longer with us.
During the funeral, my father did not speak; his gaze was lost. He hardly cried.
That night, his children joined him. In an atmosphere of pain and nostalgia, we remembered beautiful anecdotes and he asked my brother, a theologian, to tell him where Mom would be at that moment. My brother began to talk about life after death, and guesses as to how and where she would be.
My father listened carefully. Suddenly he asked us to take him to the cemetery.
Dad!" we replied, "it's 11 at night, we can't go to the cemetery right now!"
He raised his voice, and with a glazed look he said:
"Don't argue with me, please don't argue with the man who just lost his wife of 55 years."
There was a moment of respectful silence, we didn't argue anymore. We went to the cemetery, we asked the night watchman for permission. With a flashlight we reached the tomb. My father caressed her, prayed and told his children, who watched the scene moved:
"It was 55 years... you know? No one can talk about true love if they have no idea what it's like to share life with a woman."
He paused and wiped his face. "She and I, we were together in that crisis. I changed jobs ..." he continued. "We packed up when we sold the house and moved out of town. We shared the joy of seeing our children finish their careers, we mourned the departure of loved ones side by side, we prayed together in the waiting room of some hospitals, we support each other in pain, we hug each Christmas, and we forgive our mistakes... Children, now it's gone, and I'm happy, do you know why?
Because she left before me. She didn't have to go through the agony and pain of burying me, of being left alone after my departure. I will be the one to go through that, and I thank God. I love her so much that I wouldn't have liked her to suffer..."
When my father finished speaking, my brothers and I had tears streaming down our faces. We hugged him, and he comforted us, "It's okay, we can go home, it's been a good day."
That night I understood what true love is; It is far from romanticism, it does not have much to do with eroticism, or with sex, rather it is linked to work, to complement, to care and, above all, to the true love that two really committed people profess ".
Peace in your hearts
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गँजहों के आराध्य, व्यंग्य सम्राट, कालजयी राग दरबारी के रचयिता श्रीयुत श्रीलाल शुक्ल को भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि।
कुछ घटनाएं जीवन में बस एक बार ही होती हैं। राग दरबारी जैसी रचना भी बस एक बार ही लिखी जाती है।
गंज था, है और रहेगा।
वैद्यजी थे, हैं और रहेंगे।
शुक्लजी थे, हैं और रहेंगे।
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Good one by Dr.Pushpa Dixit.
Got this on a WhatsApp group.
Excellent.
Sinister plot to make Hindus feel docile and make them shrink into a shell forever.
Be non-confrontationalist and resign from questioning anything.
Let me not bother about all these happenings. Let me focus on my inner journey alone. Let me withdraw from worldly affairs etc.
All these attitudes are prevalent because of distorted interpretations of this kind!
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Charlie Plumb reveals how a Navy fighter pilot survived 2,103 days in the Hanoi Hilton by changing one single word in his own head:
He was tortured, isolated, and lied to for six straight years, and the ten lines below are the actual tools he used to come out the other side stronger instead of broken:
1. Overconfidence gets you shot down.
Before his 75th mission, Plumb believed nothing in the sky could touch him. That belief ended in about ninety seconds.
I flew the skies of Vietnam thinking they didn’t have a missile big enough to shoot down Charlie Plumb.
Pride is usually the first thing adversity burns off. He had to lose all of his before he found out what actually worked.
2. A code only matters when it costs you something.
Interrogated and in pain almost immediately after capture, he leaned on four words he had memorized years earlier.
"Code of Conduct, Article 2: I will never surrender of my own free will." I felt very guilty about that. I felt very ashamed.
A code you only follow when it's easy isn't a code. It's a preference.
3. Connection keeps people alive longer than information does.
Tapping messages through prison walls looked like intelligence work. It was actually something simpler.
The importance of the communication wasn't the thought we were passing around it was the validation of another human being.
What kept men sane in that camp wasn't the content of the message. It was proof somebody still saw them as human.
4. Leadership can rewrite the label on your situation.
Stripped of rank, freedom, and control, the prisoners had every right to see themselves as victims. Their leadership refused to let them.
Even in the prison camp, when all was gone, our leadership said, "We are not victims here. We are warriors here. We will pursue this war to our last dying breath."
The circumstances didn't change that day. The language they used to describe themselves did, and that changed everything after it.
5. The real prison is between your ears.
An eight by eight foot cell sounds like the worst of it. Plumb says the walls weren't the hard part.
I learned that the prison was not the eight feet between the walls. It was eight inches between my ears.
Most people are carrying a cell nobody built for them. They built it themselves, and they're the only ones who can unlock it.
6. Resentment punishes the one holding it.
Months into captivity, bitter and furious at his captors, Plumb got a message tapped through the wall from a fellow prisoner.
Lieutenant Bob Shumaker tapped to me this quote, he said, you know, Charlie, acid does more harm in the vessel it's stored than on the subject it's poured.
He realized the hatred he was carrying wasn't touching the men torturing him. It was only eating him.
7. Survive the next five minutes, not the next five years.
During torture sessions, thinking about the full six years ahead would have crushed anyone instantly. So he didn't think about six years.
I'm still alive. I'm still breathing, I'm still thinking, I'm still in control. If it doesn't get any worse than this, I'll be alright.
He broke an impossible stretch of time into the only unit a human being can actually carry: right now.
8. Trauma can build you instead of breaking you.
Plumb doesn't talk about his captivity as something he merely endured. He talks about it as something that changed his shape for the better.
I'm the poster boy for the new term. It's called PTG. Post-Traumatic growth. The whole idea that you can go through a traumatic experience and come out better, you can grow from it. And that's basically my message.
Surviving something isn't the ceiling. Growing from it is.
9. Freedom resets the whole scoreboard.
He came home to find his life had changed in ways he never expected while he was gone. He chose a different math anyway.
I thought, how can I be unhappy? I've just been released from prison. 24/7 I didn't know if I'd be alive and today I'm free, you can't rain on my parade.
Compared against the worst days, an ordinary free morning looks like a gift most people never learn to notice.
10. Say thank you to the person who packed your parachute.
Years after his release, a stranger approached Plumb in a restaurant and explained how he recognized him.
"I packed your parachute," the man replied.
Plumb realized he had walked past that sailor on deck dozens of times without a word. Today he says, "I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'good morning.'" That's why for the past 40 years, whenever Plumb speaks to audiences, he says to them, "know who packed your parachute, and say thank you."
Plumb's whole story runs on one idea Marines understand instinctively: agency doesn't disappear when your circumstances do. He didn't get to choose the cell, the torture, or the six years. He got to choose the code he followed inside it, the language he used to describe himself, and who he decided to thank once he made it out. That's the same math behind every comeback that actually sticks. You don't get to pick what adversity hands you. You get to pick what you build with it, and whether you remember the people who packed your parachute along the way.
Source video: youtube.com/watch?v=2XgwpDna…
I write one story like this every week for veterans and anyone rebuilding. Get it here:
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A veteran, a dog, a mission.
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Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly, and she became the heart of his life.
When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument.
Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, the youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal.
Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter.
To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence.
He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition.
That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence.
Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her.
After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life.
Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care.
We should never be ashamed of the people we love.
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I thought CMRL officials were explaining the Metro project to PM Modi. But the scene was different!
They were Tamil Nadu start-up founders pitching their ideas to the PM during the Metro ride, alongside CM Vijay. 👇🏾
Over 15 founders were on board, with around two minutes each to explain their ventures.
🔹Thazhal, Tirunelveli: Satellite technology to track construction progress, roads, bridges, lakes and mangroves.
🔹Blunav, Chennai: AI-powered airport operations and passenger processing. Its ground operations solution is already in use at Chennai airport.
🔹Grahaa Space: Building Earth-observation nano-satellites for near real-time geospatial video data.
P.C: The Hindu
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@LiveLawIndia @barandbench @BJP4India @rashtrapatibhvn Are some judges above law ? They also need to be treated as per law !!! Why not set an example for those who consider them above law ?
A question for Justice Bhuyan:
is Supreme Court still practicing these tenets? A lot of morality lectures being given by upbeat Constitutional law experts. That he was just “defending the Constitution”. A full court resolution is Constitutional? Despite the Code of Conduct, why are political statements being made by a sitting judge on a sub judice issue?
RESTATEMENT OF VALUES OF JUDICIAL LIFE
[As adopted by Full Court Meeting of the Supreme Court of India on 7th May, 1997]
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पुलिस सेवा में अड़तीस साल से ज़्यादा गुज़ारने के बाद मैंने अपने कैरियर में बहुत सारे केस ऐसे देखे हैं, जब महिलाओं ने खुद सामने आकर बड़े प्रतिष्ठित लोगों के खिलाफ बलात्कार के संगीन आरोप लगाए। और जब उनकी इनक्वायरी की गई तो वो तमाम झूठे पाए गए।
पिछली बार जब जंतर-मंतर पर उपद्रवियों ने हुड़दंग किया, तब भी इन्होंने रोना रोया कि पुलिस ने ज्यादती की है, पैलेट गन चला दी, ज़्यादा फोर्स इस्तेमाल की है। भई, पहले ये तो बताओ कि जब पुलिस ने तुम्हें वार्निंग के लिए बैरिकेड लगाए थे, उस बैरिकेड पर क्यों नहीं रुके?
उसके बाद तुम पर पानी की बौछार मारी गई, तब भी नहीं रुके। उसके बाद आँसू गैस का ऑप्शन था, तब भी नहीं रुके। और उसके बाद जब आखिरी बैरिकेड पर आ गए तो तुम्हें पार्लियामेंट के अंदर कैसे घुसने दिया जा सकता है?
और इस बार तो पुलिस के पास हाथों में डंडे तक नहीं थे। जब पुलिस बैरिकेड लगाकर तुम्हें रोक रही है तो तुम क्यों नहीं रुक रहे? पुलिस के कहने से? तुम्हें लाउडस्पीकरों से अनाउंस किया जा रहा है कि रुक जाओ, रुक जाओ।
आप लोग जबरदस्ती आकर पुलिस वालों के मुँह में माइक दे रहे हैं कि बोलो, बोलो, बोलो, ताकि उसे मिसयूज कर सको। अब इतनी भीड़ के अंदर क्या कोई सोच सकता है? इतने बड़े IPS रैंक का अधिकारी किसी महिला को मॉलेस्ट कर देगा?
भई, जब तुम खुद ही आकर पुलिस से टकराओगे और पुलिस के हाथ में डंडे तक नहीं हैं, तो फिर पुलिस के पास क्या ऑप्शन है? फिर तो लात मारने का ऑप्शन बाकी रह गया है। और तो कोई चारा है नहीं।
इसलिए जनता को ग्राउंड रियलिटी और पुलिस की ड्यूटी और रियलिटी के बारे में पता होना चाहिए। और इस तरह के झूठे आरोप पुलिस का मनोबल, ये सब डेमोरलाइज करने के लिए हैं।
लेकिन हम तमाम पुलिस के रिटायर्ड अधिकारी, किसी भी हालत में इन देश विरोधी ताकतों को कामयाब नहीं होने देंगे और फोर्स का मनोबल किसी भी रूप में कम नहीं होने देंगे।
इसके लिए चाहे हमें जो करना पड़ेगा, हम विधिसम्मत तरीके से बिल्कुल करेंगे।
और हम सब तमाम रिटायर्ड अधिकारी ACP विवेक भगत के साथ खड़े हैं। दिल्ली पुलिस के साथ खड़े हैं। पैरामिलिट्री फोर्सेज के साथ खड़े हैं।
Rajender Pathania
Retired ACP, Delhi Police
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The man who advises the Government of India on science made a discovery that sounds impossible.
Flow water over a bundle of carbon nanotubes, and electricity comes out.
No magnets. No turbine. Nothing moving except the liquid.
Physicists call it the Sood effect.
He is Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
He was born in Gwalior in 1951 and studied physics at Panjab University in Chandigarh. He did not go abroad for his degrees, and he did not go to an IIT.
In 1973, a year after his master's, he joined the Reactor Research Centre at Kalpakkam, later the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, as a scientific officer. He stayed there for fifteen years.
He did his PhD at IISc in 1982 while still working at Kalpakkam. He spent two years at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. IISc offered him a faculty position only in 1988, and made him a full professor in 1994.
The discovery came in 2003, in a paper in Science with his student Shankar Ghosh.
Generating electricity normally means pushing electrons through metal, usually by spinning something. Sood's group showed that simply flowing a liquid along bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes produced a measurable voltage in the direction of the flow, at speeds ranging from brisk down to almost imperceptible. They later found the same thing with gases flowing over solids, including semiconductors.
One obvious use is a pacemaker powered by the blood already moving past it.
Alongside this he worked on Raman spectroscopy of fullerenes and nanotubes under extreme pressure, on topological insulators, and on soft matter. He has published more than 450 papers, holds patents, and has guided over 50 PhD students.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 2015, received the Padma Shri, led both of India's major science academies, and served as Secretary-General of the World Academy of Sciences. The appointment to his current post came in April 2022.
He spent fifteen years as a scientific officer at Kalpakkam before any university would hire him.
He now advises the Prime Minister on what India should do to build its scientific and technological future.
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Oh really? Teesta Setalvad was about to be arrested. She ran to the Supreme Court. A two judge bench heard her the same day. Verdict was split. News reached Chief Justice. He stepped out of a dance concert and ordered a three judge bench. Bench sat at 10 pm and stayed her arrest.
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𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗔’𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 : 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗪𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗?
Private sector reservation will DESTROY India’s economic engine.
Compromising INDIA'S private sector means compromising INDIA'S future. Team Bharat will aggressively oppose any move toward caste quotas in private jobs.
We will NOT allow merit to be sacrificed for vote bank politics.
@OGTeamBharat @FactswithDinesh @Nidhzee @nachiket1982 @neha_laldas @AbhinayWithYou @Shankyram2
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25 centuries ago, on a rubbish heap outside Rājagaha, a newborn was left in a basket to die.
In those days, abandoned infants rarely survived the dogs and the crows.
But a young prince named Abhaya, passing by, saw that the child was still moving.
"Is he alive?"
"He lives, my lord."
"Then he shall be called Jīvaka." The one who lives.
He would learn medicine from a world famous physician in Takṣaśilā, 1,500+ KMs away across rivers, forests and bandit country. He left without even telling his foster father. He walked.
There he studied for 7 years. Then came the final exam.
"Take a spade. Search a yojana in every direction around Takṣaśilā. Bring me any plant that is not medicinal."
Jīvaka dug through meadows, riverbanks and rocky hills. He came back with an empty basket.
"Master, I could not find a single plant that was useless."
The teacher declared him finished.
It was a test of vision.
Back in Rājagaha, a wealthy merchant had suffered a headache for few years. Every healer had given up.
Jīvaka made him an odd request: could he lie on his right side for 7 months, then on his left for 7 months, then on his back for 7 more?
The merchant agreed.
So Jīvaka bound him to the couch, cut the scalp, opened the suture of the skull, and drew out two living creatures. He showed them to the astonished crowd, sealed the wound, sewed the skin and applied ointment.
After just 7 days, the patient cried out that he could not go on.
Then Jīvaka confessed. He had always known recovery would take 3x seven days. He had named an impossible stretch of time so the man would hold perfectly still long enough to live.
Modern readers can only guess what those creatures were: worms, or something else. But the Pāli text itself describes a skull being opened and the patient surviving.
Then came a summons from the feared King Pajjota of Ujjenī, sick with jaundice. The only cure was ghee, which the king loathed so much that he would kill anyone who made him swallow it.
So Jīvaka cooked the ghee with medicines until it looked, smelled and tasted like a bitter, astringent decoction. The king drank it. Then Jīvaka, knowing what would come when the king found out, escaped the city on the king's own swift she-elephant, Bhaddavatikā.
The king recovered. His rage cooled, and he sent gifts.
Jīvaka became physician to King Bimbisāra and to the Buddha and his monks. In gratitude, he gave them his own mango grove, Jīvakambavana.
Today, in Rājgīr, Bihār, you can still walk among the ruins identified as that grove, below the hill of Gijjhakūṭa. The stones are worn and the grass grows through them. Most visitors never know whose land they stand on.
The child the crows might have claimed became the doctor of kings and the healer of the Buddha.
And the lesson he carried out of Takṣaśilā is the one that stays with me: he searched every hill and field around a whole city and found no plant that was useless.
So here is the question his story leaves behind: if a man can search every hill around a city and find nothing without a purpose, what are we walking past every day? 🙏
P.S. These episodes come from the Pāli Vinaya (Mahāvagga VIII), a Buddhist monastic text compiled long after the events, so history and legend are interwoven. The text does not name Jīvaka's teacher. The name Ātreya comes from later tradition. The skull operation is a story in the text.
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@CMRekhaGuptaFC @AmitShah @narendramodi @RShivshankar राजधानी दिल्ली की यह दुर्दशा हो गयी है और हमें पता नहीं कौनसे विकसित भारत की तस्वीर दिखाई जा रही है ?
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Asian games is still on, but to all our sportspersons who missed the podium at / had a chance to improve the height of their podium standium...
Let me tell you about one of my absolute favorite tennis players of all time: Goran Ivanišević.
By the summer of 2001, Goran was a forgotten story.
In the 1990s, he had been the ultimate tragic hero of grass court tennis, reaching 3 Wimbledon finals (1992, 1994, 1998) and losing all 3 in heartbreaking, soul-crushing fashion.
By 2001, his left shoulder was severely damaged, and his world ranking had collapsed to 125, far too low for direct entry into the tournament.
The organizers, out of sheer respect for a former star whose career looked virtually over, handed him a Wildcard just to let him play.
Nobody expected a run. But playing through a wrecked shoulder that was already slated for surgery, running on pure adrenaline and sheer stubborn refusal to bow out quietly, Goran started ripping aces like a man possessed.
He knocked out former World No. 1 Carlos Moyá, a young Andy Roddick, Greg Rusedski,, US Open champion Marat Safin, and then defeated home favorite Tim Henman in a chaotic, rain delayed three day semifinal.
On an electric "People’s Monday" final, the unseeded wildcard walked onto Centre Court to face Pat Rafter.
What followed was 3 hours and 2 minutes of absolute, raw human emotion. Serving for the title at 8-7 in the 5th set, the weight of three lost finals nearly crushed him.
The nerves were plain as day, he double faulted on his 1st two match points, and Rafter saved a 3rd with a brilliant lob. Goran stood on the court praying to the sky, fighting back tears before stepping up for a 4th attempt.
And then, Rafter’s return hit the net.
Goran collapsed onto the grass, sobbing. Ranked 125 in the world, he became the only wildcard in history to win the Men’s Singles title at Wimbledon. Aha here is the fun, in fact, the only wildcard to win a men’s singles major, not only Wimbledon.
Setbacks do not mean the story is over, they just set the stage for the comeback.
You all will be back. And when you all are, it is going to be glorious. 🙏🙏
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समझ से परे बिल्कुल नहीं है बल्कि सबको सब स्पष्ट जानकारी है किंतु साफ़-२ सार्वजनिक रूप से कहने में संकोच होता है? क़ानून तोड़ने वालों का एक ही इलाज है वो सर्वमान्य है … बस लागू करने की हिम्मत चाहिये तभी उसका लाभ मिलता है ।योगी जी ने इसको पूरी सच्चाई व सक्रियता से पूरा किया है🙏🏻
मजहबी दादागिरी एक बार फ़िर उज्जैन में देखने को मिली है. सिंहस्थ के लिए मार्ग चौड़ीकरण होना है. शाही इमाम और प्रशासन के बीच सहमति भी बन गई कि शाही मस्जिद के एक हिस्से को तोड़ा जाएगा. लेकिन फिर भी पथराव? इससे पहले सिंहस्थ के मार्ग चौड़ीकरण के लिए मुख्यमंत्री मोहन यादव अपने पैतृक घर को खुद गिराने पहुंचे थे. खड़े हनुमान जी की प्रतिमा को आगे या पीछे हटाया जाएगा, ये बात प्रशासन साफ कर चुका है, लेकिन पत्थर चलने को अपना अधिकार मानने वाली ये उन्मादी भीड़ हर बार क्यों देखने को मिलती है? ये समझ से परे है.
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I've been listening to and following @BarbaraOneillAU. That's crazy, and I'm not surprised she was arrested. She talks about the elephant in the room, especially health and holistic approaches. Why was she arrested? I believe it was for advocating a holistic approach. This is what happens when someone challenges the medical system, especially the pharmaceutical system.
I might dive into this topic and host a Space sometime. I'm passionate about holistic approaches to health care.
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I am disturbed to see Prof. Suryanarayana Doola being vilified over the recent controversy at IIT Bombay. I know Surya personally. He is one of the finest faculty members I have known in the IIT system, and a gentleman of the highest integrity. Whatever concerns have been raised should be examined fairly. A public campaign against an individual serves no one.
With over 25 years of experience at IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, here is my take on the entire controversy and also a solution, which I believe we must look into.
The problems we are seeing are all primarily because of the one size fits all approach in IITs.
With students coming through an intensive coaching culture, and classrooms bringing together students whose JEE Advanced ranks range from single digits to five digits (in the same class -for example CSE in IIT Delhi), we now have highly heterogeneous classrooms across the IIT system. Language also further adds to the challenge.
The question to ask therefore is, with such heterogeneity, can we expect every student to learn at the same pace?
There is nothing wrong with opening the doors of our best institutions to students from different backgrounds. The question is whether we have addressed this heterogeneity in our teaching-learning methods.
A faculty member cannot pitch every class at several levels at once. Move too slowly, and some students lose interest. Move too quickly, and others are left behind. In my classes, I have also seen students with excellent JEE Adv ranks struggle. Coaching had prepared them to solve familiar types of questions quickly. Many are lost when they see a question which they haven't solved before.
This is not a difficulty confined to any admission category. The move from coaching to independent learning can be hard for anyone.
Here is a solution.
I feel we should consider moving our B.Tech programmes to five years in IITs. Those who meet the credit requirements could complete it in four years, or perhaps three and a half. Others could spread out their courses over five years and receive more academic help, including recorded lectures, online material and support with language where needed. The pace would be decided by performance within the IIT, not by a student’s admission category or entrance rank.
Calling it a five year programme for everyone has a psychological advantage. Students who need more time would simply be following the programme as designed, while those who are ready could complete it sooner. No one would be singled out for taking a fifth year.
We must uphold academic standards. We must also recognise that students do not all arrive at the same point, or learn at the same pace. Giving them the time and support to meet those standards is a responsibility of the system.
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