Tagged: Education

Civics that Your Kid should Learn 3

Civics that Your Kid should Learn

According to me kids should be taught about their city and civics of their city very early. Unfortunately most of the school syllabus ignores that part of scial science. That is where BalaJanaagraha is trying to bring change. A very close friend of mine Sanjana has co-authored “Me and My City” for school...

Inner peace 12

What do you do v/s where

Wanted to write about this from long time but never got that blogger urge until today. I had noticed this during my sabbatical but then it became much more after I quit. In most of those social meets I get asked “So where are you working now?” It seems for some reason where...

Culture of Continuous Learning 18

Culture of Continuous Learning

I had a conversation with my team mate about the recent buzz word in the market upgrading yourself. The buzz word used by most of the bosses to warn the young generation mostly in connection with recession and pink slip. Both of us were of the opinion that continuous learning (or so called...

Half knowledge is dangerous .. specially if you are a journalist 0

Half knowledge is dangerous .. specially if you are a journalist

I read this article today “No free lunches for me” byline Charles Assisi(Times of India, 31th August 2006).All I can say is Times of India needs better technology writer than him. Half knowledge is too dangerous that is what you can conclude from this article.But heavily dangerous if the person is a reporter...

Dollar one Encyclopedia 0

Dollar one Encyclopedia

Think of wikipedia content available on CD for offline viewing. You will be able to view wikipedia on the road(laptop). You can gift them to schools which doesn’t have internet connection.Wikipedia certainly can replace Encarta/Britannica for students who can not pay hefty amount.We can distribute the CD version for almost $1 (in India)....

Urge Visveswaraiah Technological University to go Open Source 0

Urge Visveswaraiah Technological University to go Open Source

Please log your comments and sign it.We will send the same to VC.Please provide your complete name and other details also. The Vice Chancellor Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum – 590 014 Karnataka State, India Respected Sir, Re: Opening wider software avenues for your students through Free Software. There are thousands of engineering and...