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From earth to earth, living by the cycle of life
As the Gauri-Ganesha festival season draws to a close, Harini Nagendra highlights how our orientation — as individuals, communities, and indeed as a society — toward nature, water, and worship has changed.
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Teaching and learning using authentic assessment
Shilpi Banerjee and Ronita Sharma, in Teacher, discuss key principles in designing and using authentic assessments.
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Book Review: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind
Mike Brearley’s Turning Over the Pebbles is the story of 81 years where cricket has played a wonderful part and yet is only a part, writes S Giridhar, in the Hindu BusinessLine.
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The promise of Gruha Lakshmi: Challenges of an ambitious scheme
What is the scope of social protection programmes? Are they transformative? While Gruha Lakshmi should be acknowledged for its scope, there are some lessons as well, writes Anshul Rai Sharma in Citizen Matters.
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Leadership Quality: ನಾಯಕನಾದವನು ತನ್ನ ದೌರ್ಬಲ್ಯವನ್ನು ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊಂಡಾಗ ಚಮತ್ಕಾರವನ್ನೇ ಮಾಡಬಲ್ಲ; ಆದರೆ ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮನಸ್ಸಿರಬೇಕಷ್ಟೆ
ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ತಾನ್ ಟೈಮ್ಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ‘ಒಬ್ಬ ಉತ್ತಮ ನಾಯಕನಾಗಲು ಏನು ಬೇಕು’ ಎನ್ನುವ ಕುತೂಹಲ ಭರಿತ ವಿಚಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಮಂಡಿಸುವ ಲೇಖನವನ್ನು ಸುಧೀಶ್ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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Learning Standards set specific aims for each aspect of schooling
Anurag Behar, in Mint, explores Learning Standards (LS) and how the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education is built around these, knitting all its elements together to form the whole.
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A Hot and Angry Earth
Climate change is not just global warming. It is a new era of extremes. The floods that Kerala witnessed in 2021, and which Greece faced last week, are not aberrations, but a sign of things to come, writes Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald.
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What Government Expenditure Tells Us About Official Attitudes Towards Women’s Safety
The several initiatives introduced by the Indian government for women’s safety have not received adequate importance in terms of budgetary allocations and administrative implementation, writes Mampi Bose, in The Wire.
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Whether in a cabaret song, romantic number or bhajan, Asha Bhosle brings a depth of feeling uniquely her own
K Sridhar, in The Wire, celebrates the colossal body of work that Asha Bhosle — the most recorded musician ever — has created over the years, as she turns 90 and crosses another milestone in her life.
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The CAG’s Mizoram Audit Report leads to numerous questions, some on its own processes
In its latest report – which remained finalised but out of the public domain for almost six months – there are massive, unexplainable shifts in values and a lack of nuance in presenting data, writes Himanshu Upadhyaya, in The Wire.
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Jakkur Lake Management: Fostering Community Action for Ecological Restoration
Anshul Rai Sharma, in India Water Portal, highlights the journey of Jakkur Lake — among the biggest man-made lakes in Bengaluru — towards sustainable urbanism.
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The Tall Members of Village Republics
Sital Kumar, in Point of View, through a photo-essay, highlights the centrality of frontier trees to village life and village institutions.
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The NCF will raise standards of school education in the country
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) offers a broad canvas that could take schooling beyond the narrow confines of rigid curricula, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
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Traditional Weavers of Guledgudda
Alaka S and Jhelum Mukherjee, in Point of View, present snapshots of the 400-year-old Ilkal saree weavers and explore why the younger generation of weavers are giving up weaving and migrating to the cities.
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Constructive Conversations for Conflict Resolution
Artful conversations have the potential to convert conflicts into positive forces of change, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in The Pioneer.
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India’s Scheduled Caste list must be religion-neutral. Muslims, Christians are also Dalit
Dalit Muslims and Christians have been mobilising to be duly added to the SC list. This is a fit case for the Supreme Court to exercise the power of judicial review, writes Khalid Anis Ansari in ThePrint.
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What is the Health and Education Cess being spent on?
Since FY 2018 – 19, citizens have dutifully paid the Cess, but the government has let the money remain within the Consolidated Fund of India, in the absence of a special purpose fund (Reserve Fund), writes Himanshu Upadhyaya, in The Wire.
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Bengaluru’s daily waste production soared from 200 to 6,000 tonnes between 2000 and 2020
If the current government wants to account for the future of urbanisation in the city, it must create a robust municipal infrastructure that prioritises proper drainage and waste management, writes Anshul Rai Sharma, in Citizen Matters.
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Bengaluru needs nature-based solutions as well, not just tech-focused ones
Focus on home-grown solutions, pay attention to ecological wisdom, and keep communities at the centre while building a different imagination when it comes to conservation, says Harini Nagendra, as reported by The Hindu.
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‘Sandras’ were water bodies, book recalls
The non-fiction work by Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli, expected to be released in September 2023, takes a look at the history of Bengaluru’s lakes and tanks
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How correct is our correction?
Jwairia Saleem, in Teacher Plus, explores how teachers can make checking students’ work a fruitful exercise that supports student learning, builds trust and creates positive classroom dynamics.
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Rajasthan’s Killer Sandstone Mines
Seema Sharma, in The India Forum, highlights the situation of mine workers in Rajasthan, perhaps the most vulnerable among manual workers in India’s unorganised sector.
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Plastic Earth
India is the second-largest generator of plastic waste, second only to the US. Plastic is cheap and convenient, but ultimately, we pay a steep price for this convenience. Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald, explores the way out.
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Going beyond the board
The Karnataka government’s move to change the Pre-University (PU) exam pattern for the academic year 2023 – 24 signifies a shift towards a more comprehensive assessment of student abilities, writes Shilpi Banerjee, in Deccan Herald.
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A few good actions may actually be enough to improve education
Dedication and coordination can deliver what’s needed to raise the quality of schooling at low cost, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
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‘उद्योग 5.0’ की सामाजिक उद्देश्य की ओर मुड़ती राह
उद्योग जगत अपने सामाजिक उद्देश्य के प्रति सजग और सक्रिय हो रहा है। सुधीश वेंकटेश, प्रभात खबर में लिखते है कि हम औद्योगिक क्रांति के पांचवें दौर में दाखिल हो रहे हैं, जिसकी जरूरतों के मुताबिक हमें खुद को ढालना है।
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Bridge the glaring gaps in learning
Merely axing portions of existing syllabi in the name of content rationalisation and reduction of students’ workload will not help. We need other constructive solutions to enable students to regain their lost learning, writes Anshu Saluja, in Deccan Herald.
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Drying out fast: Laundry work in Fort Kochi
The arrival of mechanised laundromats has put the future of the members of the Vannan community — who do the laundry work in Fort Kochi, Kerala — at risk, reports Vibha Satish, in People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI).
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K’taka model has long way to go
For the guarantees to become the basis for a substantive welfare-centric ‘Karnataka model development’, much more is needed than what the budget has proposed, writes Narayana A, in The Times of India.
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Sylhet Referendum Anniversary: A time to remember partition wasn’t only about a Hindu-Muslim binary
Focusing on the Hindu-Muslim binary deflects attention from the smaller histories, often more complicated, that played out in micro-contexts in the run-up to independence, write Malini Bhattacharjee and P C Venkatraman, in The Wire.