Sankaranarayanan Vaidyanathan - Instablogs
Jan 6 2009
Every one knows that America is a nation where the major religion is Christianity, but they are not fanatics unlike the christians in India because they are basically materialistic and not spiritualistic. This materialistic nature in them has made them...
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Jan 6 2009
English teachers in colleges especially arts colleges were a happy lot as they enjoy lecturing on topics in English literature to their hearts content. This euphoria was short lived as CLT (Communicative language teaching )came. Here the teacher becomes...
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Jan 2 2009
Every department in every college or University frames a syllabus for different subjects and the teachers see to it that the syllabus is covered before the on set of examinations. But none bothers to find out whether what is found in the syllabus...
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Jan 1 2009
There was a time when husbands were considered Gods by their wives(pati dev)and they were acting as the mouth piece of their lords. The wives were so devoted that they had no views or opinions of their own and all they prayed for was their...
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Dec 29 2008
The teachers in schools are paid to do their jobs sincerely and their sincerity or insincerity go unnoticed especially between standards one and nine as many schools and our government believe in mass promotions.The trouble starts in standard ten...
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Dec 23 2008
When President Bush went to Iraq he was greeted with a shoe by an Iraqi journalist.From that time onwards the shoe which was throne on Bush became famous and many orders are coming for ‘Bush shoes’Any brain wave from any of the politicians
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Dec 23 2008
The other day when I was viewing a T.V programme on student teacher relation ship one of the students expressed the view that it is the job of the teacher to teach and he should not ask questions as he is paid for that.I feel this view would be there in...
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Dec 16 2008
26/11 has seen the rise of terrorism in India and our response was measured, effective and some what soft. All of us have felt that enough is enough and we must put an end to it. We have burned candles, played cricket, and even removed the...
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Dec 5 2008
It seems from papers that our foreign policy is decided by the lame duck President George Bush and our spineless P.M. has become a puppet in his hands. The Secretary of State,Ms Rice paid a visit to Islamabad and had asked the President to cooperate...
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Nov 29 2008
I saw a line in the paper which said ‘P.M talks tough’ and when I wanted to know the toughness of the tough talk the news item simply said ‘All the terrorists are from Pakistan’ and Pakistan has already told the P.M that...
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