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Friday 28 February 2020
“ नारी ”
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Tribute to all Women...
Sunday 23 February 2020
Reflections - 20 lesson learned from 2019
- Check ten times before ever doubting someone.
- The reputation and trust of a thousand years may be determined and destroyed by the conduct of one hour.
- If you think you know everything about something, you are misinformed.
- Cold words and cold looks cause much more pain than cold nights and cold food.
- Chasing abundance and prosperity triumphs chasing wealth and short term pursuits.
- We learn less from our happiness and more from our pain. Pain always adds perspective. Reflecting on life when in pain, adds more meaning to it.
- Even good swimmers drown. Monkeys fall from their own trees. It's completely okay to fail in things you are good at.
- Silent seas never made the best sailors.
- If you ask, you will feel shame for one minute, if you do not, you will feel shame all your life.
- One kind word can warm someone's day.
- The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- Obsession is always bad. Whether it is for someone or something.
- If you think about it, decide it. If you have decided, do not think about it.
- Diet is a refection of who you are. Eat like a rock-star. Self care is very important.
- Some days even being able to get yourself out of bed is a big thing. Compliment yourself on those days.
- Dennis Kimbro once said: “If you’re the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.”
- Smile more. Sometimes it's easier to act yourself to feel than feel yourself to act.
- Regrets are heavy. Try having them less.
- There is more to life than retiring rich.
- Anything is as deep, as difficult, as enriching, as fun, as loving, as beautiful as you see it to be. It's all in the mindset. The lens of mind can change your viewpoint. Always.
As last year approached us to an end, I wish you all the best, cheers and lot of good spirit for ongoing new year. I have always believed in learning from everyone's experiences and would love to know about things you learnt last year. Cheers to a happy 2020!
Perception- Small is Big
The start of the 2020 brought back the cheerful and optimistic time of making resolutions. We are programmed to set big goals, not achieve them completely, feel guilty for less than planned self-improvement and then wait for a new Monday, new month or a new year to set even bigger goals.
I believe that it is not the big things that make an impact, it's the little ones.
For most of us, small treats underlie the big punishments. Snoozing alarm by 20 min to skip the run plan which you so deliberately planned never hurts one time, but if done fifty times - it makes you unfit. Cheating on being sugar-free by eating a chocolate once, can double your workout time for your next day.
A way to change the way we behave is to make these small failures big. My dad suggested paying him 500 bucks every time I skipped my run. I'm pretty sure that if I lose 500 bucks every time I skipped my run, I'd only do it once in a week perhaps (gulp). The other thing which can be done is to have high awareness about each individual action and do constant course corrections by monitoring our performance - apps which monitor your eating habits, productivity apps for ensuring capped social media time and others.
We under emphasize how small things can make a big impact. Well, here are a few for starters:
1. Eating a chocolate after meal can double your normal workout time.
2. However, saving 10 minutes from lunch and spending it on reading can get you places.
3. Taking out ten minutes from social media and learning 5 new words or knowing about 5 new ideas can add roughly 1800 words or 1800 new ideas to your perspective at year end.
Small is actually big. Start small.
Perfectly imperfect,
Ujjwal
Thursday 21 November 2019
Right to Education in India
According to the 7th All India Education Survey, 2002, less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school and a little over one-third of all children who enrol in the 1st grade reach the 8th grade. In spite of various efforts being made to change the education scenario in India, at least 35 million children aged 6 – 14 years still do not attend school and 53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate.
86th Amendment Act, Article 21(A) made Right to Primary Education part of the Right to Freedom. Education was not a fundamental right in India until it was made a fundamental right in the 86th amendment to the Constitution.
The right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 is an endeavour to directly benefit all the children in the 6-14 years age group who are not enrolled in schools. There are millions of children who are still deprived of their rights. It is important for children and their families from economically backward and marginalised areas to become aware of the Right to Education (RTE).
Enshrined in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Right to Education has been recognised as a basic human right.
In one of his speeches, Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India stated that "We are committed to ensuring that all children, irrespective of gender and social category, have access to education. An education that enables them to acquire the skills, knowledge, values and attitudes necessary to become responsible and active citizens of India."
Even after so many years of attaining independence, people continue to be slaves of their own primitive mindsets and somehow feudal social structure. Children need to become aware of their fundamental rights. As it is rightly said, the future of a nation is its youth. The youth can be empowered only if it’s educated. Right to Education (RTE) is certainly the way forward.
The government is doing its bit but as responsible citizens of this country, it is also our duty to ensure that every individual in the country can access his/her rights. Various non-profit organisations are also working to ensure that people have access to quality education. Ghar_Aangan Orphanage is one such organisation that is running programmes to support the education of the most disadvantaged children of India in different ways like we map out-of-school children and ensure their enrolment into formal schools in age-appropriate classes, in classrooms, we encourage and help children to undertake learning activities in groups and in metro cities, we operate our own learning centres where children coming from the socially-excluded communities are provided learning and/or after-school support.
By donating to charities like Ghar_Aangan Orphanage, you can make a long-term impact.