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Welcome to my blog. I share my views on issues related to K-12 Education (and sometimes, on general non-political issues) in this blog. I hope that you find it interesting.

31 October 2017

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Koti Deepotsavam's programme of this evening, as I view it, includes the recital of Hanumaan Chaaleesaa  (40 verses of Hanumaanjee in pr...

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Past week passed on with a good note as far as Indian sports is concerned with laurels won by our hockey team and by Kidambi Srikanth (in ba...
29 October 2017

Koti Dheepotsavam

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As I write this post, I have the joy of listening to a brief speech by my favourite spiritual speaker Shree Chaganti Koteshwara Rao at the K...

Edible embroidery

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As someone used to delicious, non-spicy, hygienic vegetarian eatables since childhood, I tried to order a few snacks online recently. Alth...
25 October 2017

Indian Classical Music: End of one chapter

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Demise of the 88 years old legendary Hindustani classical singer Smt. Girija Devi last night marks the end of one chapter in the history of ...

3rd language learning in K-12 schools

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This morning I viewed a news report that Kannada is going to be made compulsory in all K-12 schools in Karnataka and that private schools ar...
23 October 2017

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A few weeks back, an inspector from the crime branch of a police station near my residence called me to say that he was asked to follow up a...

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Yesterday one of my neighbours, a midlle aged guy, requested me as to whether I could teach him spoken English in my spare time. (There had ...
22 October 2017

Wealthy businessman turned very humble devotee

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It was a nice treat for my eyes, ears and the mind to view a dramatised version of Shree Purandara Daasaa (a wealthy businessman who became ...

The Story of God

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All documentary enthusiasts would place a lot of importance to channels such as National Geographic. I think that this channel takes viewers...
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Guruprasad Panamalai
Chennai, 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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