Time eats up the world!
How true the Upanishadic statement is! Well, I do not have to certify it as the Truth. I am only happy that the Truth of the statement has dawned upon me! I am humbled by the statement. We all have to live this day as if Tomorrow does not exist for [...]
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Kaalo Jagath Bhakshakaha
Posted in Love, Ultimate Truth, dropping identities, empowering, food for thought, greetings, life's dilemmas, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tagged dropping identities, ego nurturing, egolessness, the Ultimate Truth, TIME, whiling away time on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This Valentine’s Day, Love All !
Posted in Love, adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, greetings, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adjustments and compromises, commitment, commitment phobia, common interests, connotations, emotional closeness, emotional drifting, everlasting love, greetings, infatuation, intimacy, limitless and unconditional, Love, marriage, passion, physical attraction, proximity, roses, sharing and caring, spiritual, valentine's day, youth on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
February 14th is an exciting day for young and old lovers alike. It can be a day of celebration of love. Love of all hues and colours, with all its grandness and simplicity. It gives me great pleasure to greet you all on the occasion of Valentine’s Day and say that I Love You All [...]
High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!
Posted in fashion, food for thought, life's dilemmas, people, psychology, research, science, sexuality, society, thoughts and emotions, women, youth, tagged breaking bones, fall, fashion, high heeled shoes, Italian scientists, junk research, pelvic muscles, podiatrists, research, sex appeal, sexuality, walking with high-heeled soes, women-libido on February 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, bangalore Edition, dated 7th Feb 08, found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!
They have found out that wearing high heeled shoes can boost a [...]
Do not drink and drive!
Posted in MotorAccidents, disability, food for thought, youth, tagged limb loss, motor accidents, spare parts, speed kills on February 7, 2008 | Comments Off
Please see my “view n review” page. Thanks.
New pic has replaced the one on adoption that was there earlier.
BELCHING COWS & GREEN HOUSE GAS
Posted in diseases, environment, food for thought, from TOI, pets, research, society, tagged belching, cows, europe, grass eating, greenhouse effect, mad cow disease, research funding, sweden research on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following is the letter to the TOI editor that mr vidyaranya bellur emailed, but unfortunately the letter was highly edited and published on 28/01/08. since he had emailed a copy to me, i thought of publishing it here unedited so that it might interest my readers and they may write their comments on this:
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Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 7
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged alignment, dysgraphia, dyslexia, punctualtion and capitalization difficulty, spatial ability, teacher's insensitivity, writing difficulties on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Continuing the writing difficultiesthat many children with LD face, they have poor handwriting as their finer muscle controls are bad in the initial stages and by the time they gain control over the finger muscles, the pattern would have been set and children demotivated enough by all the insults that they keep hearing that they [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 6
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, day dreaming in class, dominance of the brain, dyslexia, fine motor skill, left and right hemisphere of the brain, left handedness, reading difficulties, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »
In my last post I was discussing the various forms of Visual and Auditory perceptual difficulties that many children with LD face. And the link provided by Mr. John Heyas in his comment to Post 5 threw much more light upon visual perceptual difficulties. Here we may recall how the little fellow Ishaan Awasthi in [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 5
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, reading difficulties, short term visual and auditory memory, visual and auditory closure, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In my last post I had written about the various difficulties that children with LD face while reading. Most of these difficulties occur because of visual and auditory perceptual problems. Let me explain.
Children will have normal vision, normal hearing ability, but may have difficulty in:
visual and auditory discrimination – they may be unable to discriminate between similar [...]
