04 January 2025

Immigrants and cultural fusion

As far as I know, every country has many local communities with their own dialects. For instance, Hindi, Telugu, etc. in India, Dzonkha, Charshokpa in Bhutan, Amharic, Tigrinyaa etc. in Ethiopia, and Hausa, Yoruba etc. in Nigeria.

Each of these communities strive hard to preserve it's own culture and traditions. 

This evening cna TV Channel telecast an interesting  on how Ainu community works hard to preserve It's culture and traditions. I tried to provide a link to the documentary but couldn't access it. 

As a professuonal who worked in Africa as well as Cambodia (based in Phnom Penh), I found one such documentary featuring Nigerian community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Let me share the interesting documentary here.


03 January 2025

BBC Travel Show

I have been viewing BBC's Travel Show right from the time they began airing the episodes. But unfortunately, quality of the Show seems to have drastically reduced over the years. This afternoon (in India) it was about Antarctic. It was exactly the same that was aired a few months ago. I just don't understand why BBC can't air episodes featuring different destinations? Except on episode on The Bahamas aired last year, there has never been any episode about West Indies. Even the episode on The Bahamas was limited to deep sea diving and related issues and not about people and places in The Bahamas.

I tried to provide a link to today's episode but found that it doesn't work outside the UK. Another form of discrimination?

In the meantime, my Wi-Fi stopped connecting and I had to use my mobile internet provided by Reliance Industries. 

I think that our communication technology systems are abused by incompetent professionals.

01 January 2025

2025

Today marks the dawn of another year 2025 in the English calender. 

Although, we Indians follow our own religious calender for our religious works, we are used to following the English calender for birthdays (although this is not perfectly correct). 

As part of the global community, let us welcome 2025.


Jai Shree Lakshmi Naaraayanaa🙏.

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.