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Welcome to my blog. In this blog, I share my views mainly on issues related to Hinduism and K-12 Education. Sometimes I write on political issues related to human welfare and socio-economic development. I hope that you find my blog interesting. Thanks.

28 August 2013

Shree Krisnna Janmaashtami

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Today is a very auspicious day for Hindus. This is the day (at around midnight) when Lord Shree Mahaa Vishnu took avataar as Shree Krishna ...
25 August 2013

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Today there were two TV programs which I found interesting. The first one was about African restaurants in Australia; it contained a lot of...
12 August 2013

World of contrasts

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Today we seem to live in a world of significant contrasts. This morning two very contrasting news reports caught my attention: one  was how...
07 August 2013

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Since this morning, I have been seeing ads at many places in my blog posts, though I never worked on my blog to add ads.  (When using IE in...
03 August 2013

School mapping

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Whether it is `No Child Left Behind' in the U.S. or `Child Friendly Schools' Policy in many countries of the world, national govern...

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Though most K-12 teachers and school principals know the problems associated with running schools effectively, they cannot do any thing abo...
28 July 2013

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It was nice to hear from two of my best friends in the past week. These two gentlemen are a generation apart by age and worked with me in d...
26 July 2013

Science in a social context: Speeding train and centripetal force

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Educationists all over the world agree that basic education is important to all people. It is reflected in K-12 school systems that include...
11 July 2013

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I share a viewpoint shared by most people in our country (India): Though we have law and order rules and regulations on paper, in reality o...
30 June 2013

History TV18 and The Eagles

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On past Friday and Saturday, History TV18 telecast a 2 episodes show on ` The Eagles ', one of the most famous rock music bands of the ...
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Guruprasad Panamalai
Kumbakonam , Tamilnadu, India
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.
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