No Longer a Philosophical Conundrum!
My grandson, in his 12th grade philosophy class, is given the following type of discussion assignments:
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Finding A Long-lost Colleague!
Thanks to Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan (VLS), I was able to locate and talk to my SAC-ISRO colleague Dr KS Rao, a Microwave Remote Sensing specialist, yesterday after a gap of 35 years!
The Meaning of Life!
" Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. ” When you reread a book much later in life, it gives you newer insights; because you start seeing the world a little differently, as you get older.
My First Online Class!
Just as many parents, students, and teachers had faced their first online class with some sort of stress and anxiety, today it is my turn! I have been provided with written instructions on keeping Two Plain sheets of paper, One Pen, a Quiet room without distractions, and to ensure that I charge the laptop prior to the online meeting! The whole thing came about because I had volunteered myself as a guinea pig for a medical study. To be precise, I have elected to be a participant in the Tata Longitudinal study: "Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding mechanisms for early diagnosis and treatment" , being carried out at Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The TATA Longitudinal study of Aging (TLSA) is a long-term, ongoing aging cohort study of residents of the city of Bangalore, India. The study began in 2015 with the aim of recruiting 1000 elderly subjects from Bangalore and follow them up periodically for several years. Alzheimer's disease is th...
Are we ready to face a hybrid-warfare?
It looks like the fierce confrontation at the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) is nothing but a distraction to hide the real warfare that is going on behind the scenes.
Education in the Vedic Civilization of India
The ancient India had several universities , many of them devoted to higher learning, which attracted scholars and students from as far away as China, Persia, and Greece . India's Vedic civilization had given great prominence to education in the society. The two most famous ancient Indian universities, and also the oldest ones in the world, are Takshashila and Nalanda .
Rise of Right-wing Globally!
It is not just in India that the right wing has swept the nation. Other countries where this has happened are Brazil, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Russia, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Japan, Philippines...