Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 October 2024

Breaking the yoke of ignorance!

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Benzaiten, Japanese equivalent to the diety Saraswati. Saraswati Pooja used to be a vital feature in our household in childhood. The highlig...
Saturday, 17 August 2024

Not so quite neat!

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Anjaamai (Fearlessness, அஞ்சாமை, Tamil; 2024) Direction: S P Subburaman I thought having private tutoring was only confined to school childr...
Friday, 27 October 2023

Hindus fight back!

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Oh, My God! 2, OMG 2 (Hindi; 2023) Written and Directed by Amit Rai. In 1893, Chicago decided to celebrate Columbus' 400th anniversary o...
Thursday, 15 October 2020

The slippery slope of success

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Serious Men (Hindi; 2020) Article 26 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free education to all, at least in the elementary...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Just do it, whatever!

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In the late 1970s, as my future laid bare before me, I found no time in anything but my books. I looked  at watching movies as three hours o...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Honour among thieves

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Bad Education (2019) They used to say that education was the only left to us to come out of the rut that we were stuck. At least that is ...
Tuesday, 16 June 2020

One life, a hundred desires!

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Hindi Medium (2017) The apparent difference in outlook in spirituality between the Western and Eastern philosophy is quite visible. The fo...
Saturday, 15 February 2020

Unfinished work on Earth?

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) You grow up focussing on all the unsavoury traits in the elders around you and promise yoursel...
Tuesday, 12 March 2019

STPM: The last choice for non-bumiputras, the middle class

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STPM: The last choice for non-bumiputras, the middle class STPM: The last choice for non-bumiputras, the middle-class & the poor, and...