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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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 »
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 4
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged dyslexia, learning disability, reading difficulty, coding and decoding letters, phoneme, grapheme, phonetic way, whole word approach, figure-ground perception on January 17, 2008 | Comments Off
We will continue with the identification features of Learning Disability in Children. Many of these features may be present in a child below the age of 8 as part of their developmental phase. There are developmental norms in various domains of child development and children differ in their pace of attaining these norms. If they persist [...]
Usher in 2008 with some food for thought!
Posted in education, empowering, food for thought, greetings, life's dilemmas, people, philosophy, psychology, society, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged food for thought, His Holiness Sri Dalai Lama, make a difference in life, paradoxes of our times, value erosion on December 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My dearest readers,
My heartiest greetings to all of you for the New Year 2008!
May we all be lead from insensitivity to sensitivity; self-centredness to other-centredness; ignorance to wisdom!
Here are some sentences from the spiritual guru His Holiness Sri Dalai Lama upon the Paradoxes of Our Times. Even if you have read it elsewhere before , I [...]
Choking games – a dangerous fad!
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, food for thought, from TOI, habits n addictions, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, people, psychology, spreading awareness, suicide prevention, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged children, choking games, dangerous games, Internet games, suicides on December 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
This morning while i was going through the Times of India news paper, the news item that shocked me was about a recent death of a boy that was thought to be a suicide and now the parents have come out with the information that it was not a case of suicide, but an accidental [...]
Monday Morning Blues
Posted in people, tit bits, tagged , Monday Morning Blues, people on December 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Why do people develop Monday Morning Blues? Could we all postpone it by a day or two if we named Monday as Tuesday and Tuesday as Wednesday and then Wednesday as Monday? Isn’t that a great Idea, Sethji?!
Please let me know if all of you agree. It is another matter that people then [...]
Fear – biological or behaviour based?
Posted in adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, genetic engineering, life skills, our mind, personality, psychology, research, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged cats and rats, fear, fearlessness, genetic modification, innate trait, internal enemies, soul modification on December 16, 2007 | 11 Comments »
People have a variety of fears. Some fear darkness, some fear animals, some others fear loss of face, some people fear death of self or death of loved ones and other so many. Some even have irrational, inexplicable fears of such high intensity that can upset the quality of their everyday life. Such intense, irrational [...]
Does our heart store memories???
Posted in food for thought, personality, psychology, research, science, spreading awareness, tit bits, tagged donor-recepient of heart, heart, heart transplantation, memories, personality changes, personality traits on December 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
How often do we all exclaim,”deep down, my heart knows it!”, “my heart keeps thinking of you!”, “my heart rules my head!” etc. Could our hearts really think? Could our hearts be storing our memories??
Yes, each cell in our body has memory. It is called cellular memory. It is not just our neurons and neural [...]
Fate vs Free will
Posted in adding dimensions, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged fate, free will, karma, sri sri sri chandrashekhara bharathi swamiji of sringer on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“There is only a thin dividing line between the attitude of escapism and acceptance”
it made me wonder how so many of us take the easy route of saying that something is “my karma and hence I have to bear it”, instead of putting sincere effort to alleviate the difficult situation! Whenever we feel lazy to [...]
8 facts about me – i am tagged :( :)
Posted in adding dimensions, food for thought, philosophy, tagged, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged facts s(h)elf, introspection, self awareness, tagged on December 11, 2007 | 8 Comments »
arvind has tagged me. i did not know what was tagging and he explained that it is like a game and i now need to state 8 facts about me. which of the 8 ones out of soooooooo many shall i write here?? well, this is sort of ’self awareness’ test for me! let me [...]
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