"Future of STI: Impacts on Education, Skills, and Work" is theme of National Science Day 2021
National Science Day 2021 to mark the discovery of Raman Effect by Nobel Laurete Sir CV Raman, is being observed with the theme "Future...
Red-wattled lapwing bird: A micro-film, short note, poem and visual symbol
Short note The red-wattled lapwing - Vanellus indicus wader in the family Charadriidae - is a ground bird that is incapable of perching....
India celebrates Sant Ravidas Jayanti with gaiety and devotion
India is celebrating Sant Ravidas Jayanti on February 27 in the year 2021. He is deemed as a prominent mystic poet-saint and social...
Using hot tamarind beverage for health benefits
Tamarind or Imali (Hindi name) is reported to be an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory fruit having helpful polyphenols in it. If taken...
Health benefits of apple cider vinegar
Apple cider is vinegar - a sort of very mild wine - made by fermenting apple juice twice and is available in most grocery shops. Drinking...
Collection of pollen & nectar from flowers as food and conversion to honey: Micro-video & short note
From flowers such as bottle brush and powder puff (watch micro video), honey bees collect pollen and nectar for two useful functions as...
Wind chimes and advantages of soft chance music
Wind chimes - a soft sounding visual and ornamental percussion instrument - has a great significance in spirituality, therapy, Vaastu and...
ABCs of herding behaviour
Herding and flocking are collective behaviour that animals exhibit as a social behaviour and protection against threats. Since sheep and...
Pre-wedding shoots become professionally scripted, location based and technology driven
Pre-wedding shooting and video-making has become a trend in Rajasthan and event managers have become available with forts, palaces,...
Chand Baori in Dausa: Basic information and collage of images
I happened to visit Chand Baori in Dausa for the second time in the last week of February 2021. Earlier, I had visited it 25 years ago...
Teachers can easily learn to create micro-videos for use for both on-line and off-line teaching
With mobile camera becoming handy and on-line learning being the new norm, teachers are needed to use micro-videos as short instructional...
Using smart phone with micro videos & mini-poems for dysgraphics: A research lesson example
Children with learning disability of dysgraphia are basically visual-auditory learners since they cannot write. It is advisable that they...
ABCs of feminist pedagogy
ABC VERSE ON FEMINIST PEDAGOGY A: Assumption is that knowledge is socially constructed with skills and knowledge flowing into and out of...
World Thinking Day-2021 observed with theme "Stand Together for Peace"
World Thinking Day-2021 was observed on the 22nd February by social groups, educators, psychologists, youth groups and social groups such...
Schools are needed to teach initially in mother language before transition to standard language
The editorial in Times of India (Feb 22, 2021), a day after the observance the International Mother Language Day, highlighted the UNESCO...
Learn to Kalash as pious festival symbol to welcome deity
Here is a micro video that shows how to draw Kalash or Ghat as pious festival symbol to welcome deity.
Learn to draw symbol of a rose variety beginning with heart shape
Here is a self-explanatory short video by this blogger that teaches step by step, as successive drawing, how to draw the visual symbol of...
Need for treating signing and gesturing as first language for normal pre-schoolers and deaf children
As we celebrate the International Mother Language Day (February 21, 2021), the need for treating signing and gesturing as the first...
Needed is support for multilingualism & use of mother tongues for early education in India
The UN proclaimed and UNESCO-coordinated "International Mother Language Day" is being observed on February 21 since 2000 to emphasize...














