Timing of the leak!
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CCE - A welcome change in Indian Education
In a rush of 100 day achievement, our Union Home Minister, Kapil Sibal had mooted his team to come out with some revolutionary measures. The result is, abolishing the Board Exams for X standard for CBSE schools. At the outset, the exams are not abolished but made optional. There will be exams and there are changes in the exams. I welcome this change. At the least, someone had initiated the long pending changes. Changes brings with it challenges and challenges forces one to make attempts and I am hopeful of something good churning out of this exercise. Before making a comment on the proposed changes that will effect from 2011, I would like to brief the limitations in the present system and the proposed changes in the new system. The limitations in the present examination system are: Students are evaluated on the basis of marks and not by their ability: It is a better known fact students’ intelligence levels are decided by their memory power and not by the knowledge they had gained. It ...
Karma is one of the widely known Eastern Mystical concepts by the West. Simply put, Karma is a process of Cause and Effect. If you do X, Y will happen. It is about experience and fulfillment of purpose. Karma is not about punishment. The idea that we are punished for sins is, perhaps, a man-made form of social control. In Spirit, there is nothing called absolute right or wrong or Good or Bad. Who are we to decide what is good and what is bad. The great Tamil Poet Subramania Bharati told, nalladu teeyadu naamariyom annai, nalladai naatuga teeyadai oottuga (we are unaware of what is good and bad so, feed me good ones and drive away from me the bad ones). What is good to you might be bad to others. Ahimsa is good but if a lion practiced it how can it survive? We cannot decide what is good and bad as we do not have a universal scale to measure it. The first step in dealing with karma is awareness and acknowledgement of it. Are there any themes that seem to recur throughout our life? Nothi...