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Barkha Dutt's unquiet land

http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/narendra-modi-is-a-pm-in-pursuit-of-a-personal-legacy-barkha-dutt/story-yV6uIaOkwO0Q5xNfoyoofK.html

Great News about Bihar!

http://www.ndtv.com/elections/video/live-tv

Protest by writers

Writers Howl

the impeccable Vikram Seth

sanity

all for eating beef!!!

hatred and murder in Dadri

Victoria and Albert Museum

Fabric of India

Talvar- a great movie release the parents now!

Amazing movie

mitali

holy cow

Annie gives it those ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=24&v=A8kdVMxoJ9w

John Dayal needs to be protected now

From Hindutva trolls

Sleep, time, play, genuine interests

Student success

Valerie Straus

Outrageous schedule for 8th grade

The Pompous

Aatish Taseer

Delhi College of Art

Sad state of affairs

parenting

Letting go

Sunrise: Country changing

Sunrise: Country changing : Concern

less jobs

The Gujarat Model

self obit by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks

Parenthood

Best show ever!!

ADHD

Dale Archer on NPR

life and death

Mohsin Hamid in the guardian

Cornell West

Cornell West

Amazon.com

Where not to work

Proof - Math school

school for the gifted in math

Social inclusion

no blame meetings

'I am not god, I am Radhe Maa’ - The Hindu

'I am not god, I am Radhe Maa’ - The Hindu

home births

I can't believe there are no midwifes in India?

perils of multitasking

do not do multiple things at the same time

‘I Don’t Believe There Are Only Two Genders. I See Gender As A Spectrum And I’m Somewhere On It.’ | Saba Naqvi | Aug 24,2015

‘I Don’t Believe There Are Only Two Genders. I See Gender As A Spectrum And I’m Somewhere On It.’ | Saba Naqvi | Aug 24,2015

strong women of India

ma tujhe salaam

how to help students with exec functioning

exec functioning

how to teach blm

black lives matter

emotional intelligence

Daniel Goldman in the NYT's

inspiring quotes by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

Building grit

Praising girls for the process rather than limited smarts.

Uttarakhand

ghost villages of Uttrakhund

friends

friendly indifference!

Emergency darkest period?

Emergency

IAS topper

Ira Singhal

more on inside out

emotions

Khan Market

Khan Market

Math anxiety!

http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/nerves-and-numbers/article7361382.ece?homepage=true

Frightening scenario of Higher Education in India..

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/we-dont-want-no-education/article7358632.ece

David Remnick

10 Days in America so Seminal

2 good things in the US today Gay Marriage legalized and Obama's rendition of Amazing Grace..

Gay Marriage Obama's speech

Poetry

disengaging from darkness

Shan Foods!

touching eid add

Moral and Kind

How to raise moral and kind children

working moms

good news for guilt ridden working moms

Indian women and their lack of rights

Visakha Desai

Obama and race in America

sad

autism and older parents and teenage parents

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/10/413205921/more-evidence-that-parents-ages-could-influence-autism-riskA

green spaces

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/15/why-green-spaces-are-good-for-your-kids-brain/

India's poverty

Harsh Mander

the lost art of photography

from bbc

turd miners

John Stewart on news

new movie to see

Margerita with a straw

eye contact

kid make eye contact

the new open office

it may not be all good

a must read

The Moral Bucket

a poem by Meena Cariappa what a great find!

JUNGLE JUSTICE A court was being held by the judge Grizzly Bear The wolf, the fox, the cheetah were there. The prisoner, a woodcutter, trembled with fear A strong case against him was filed by the deer As the jury of leopards came and sat on one side "Stand up!" said he judge, "You're bout to be tried You enter our jungle when you please And day after day you cut off our trees Our home and shelter you take away Soon our children will not have a single place to play! Have you ever stopped to think how we feel? When you come to our jungle to plunder and to steal How would you like it if we did the same? Broke down your homes and set them aflame?" At last the woodcutter spoke, his voice full of shame "I have just understood how much I am to blame I have only been thinking of myself all along And without meaning to have done you great wrong I don't just want to beg forgiveness of everyone But want to find out how to undo what I've done To make amends if

religion discriminates against women

Jimmy Carter

bakshi detective on the loose

byomkesh

nh-10

the women of nh 10

not the only way forward-stem

stem education

depression

brave dipika padukone

living in fear

Women

by AR

Vinod Mehta obit

less burn out

the need for flextime

daily stone

Stone

Microaggressions

Microaggressions

at NY independent schools

Unpacking white privilege

oliver Sacks

From the NYT

medium David Carr

david carr's online course

Chitralekha

interviewed by Sunil Sethi

Teesta Setalvad

From Scroll

on Charlie Hebdo

Mahmood Mamdani

Piaget

stages of cognitive development

Speaking power to satrical truth

Great article in yesterday's Hindu.

keep the kids at school

finally some sense

The Muslims in Europe

Juan Cole

from the New Yorker

a balanced analysis of the Charlie Hebdo killings and it's larger implications.

by Pico Iyer

clean your mind and your palette.

Je suis Charlie

The pen is mightier than the sword