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There are teachers and teachers. Teachers who can, and do, teach well and those who cannot teach at all. I fall in the latter category. And it isn’t the first time that I have admitted it. For when it comes to teaching I have ‘dysteachia’. My teaching abilities can well be termed unorthodox, in the
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The other day news filtered in through the social media about a professor in Guntur who was awarded for best handwriting. Now, it is not the sort of thing which would have an effect on me but it did and thanks to the enterprising administrator of my school WhatsApp group. He posted the news and
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While most of Chandrayaan’s successful manoeuvre, to land the Vikram probe on the moon, is known to all, there is a top secret conversation, revealed by an not-wanting-to-be-named source, that happened just before the landing, which the ISRO will in no way deny or accept happened.f A few seconds before the landing Vikram had lured
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It is the Zero shadow day today. At least those in Bengaluru will ‘witness’ these zero shadows. The sun remains directly overhead, and no shadows will be formed on the earth’s surface. This means that the sun reaches its highest point in the sky which results in the reduction of the length of the shadow
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The other day I ran into a friend after a long time. During our chat he suddenly noticed my hair and asked “looks different , have you coloured it,?” Before I could reply the conversation topic changed and I never got to explain my hair dye saga. It all started when I offered myself up
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“And if you are not able to prove it, You will buy me a diamond necklace,” my wife threw down the ultimate gauntlet. And therein, my dear friends, lies a tale, a tale of lost and found. It all started when I could not find my favourite T-shirt. Even the most diligent search proved elusive
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(Names have been changed to protect the identity of certain people considering their celebrity status!). One of the things one learns early in school is forging friendship and teamwork. And at times the best friendship is forged in adversity. It was sometime in early ’71 and I had just joined a new school in Mumbai
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Prying eyes, that’s what I called him and it was not an effort to protect his identity either. A new job in a new town, I was yet to find a permanent place for myself so all my correspondence, be it from my family or friends, was addressed to me at my office. And every
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One of my long-running social experiments on non-verbal, non-physical telepathic communications just got a fillip when I literally ran into a good looking-lady the other day at the airport. I was in a hurry to reach home and she was in a hurry to catch a flight. We were walking towards each other and to leave
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How long a time frame is acceptable to prove a hypothesis? Can the experiment last for decades or even longer? Especially so when the experiment has been an accidental one. I was forced to rethink the postulate when I came across a book left by a previous passenger on the seat pocket of a flight
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