Author: charukesi

I know I can always look to Calvin for the right perspective !

With blogs, class doesn’t have to end when the bell rings – taking school home, and enjoying it too…. Learning on a blog… is much easier…. and so much more fun… The teacher also says that she found that those who were quiet in class usually came alive online – on the net, anyone, just… Continue reading No more homework – only blogging

Can media sources please please start acting in a slightly responsible manner and stop ‘live, never-before-never-again footage, from the scene of action’ telecasts I realise that in this age of 24 hour news-channels (too many channels, too less news), ‘exclusives’ rule. Be there first – or be TRPless. But this is too high a price… Continue reading Copycat hangings

Been toying all day with my blog template…. With a dead-line staring in the face, it is only natural that I want to do everything else possible…. Tasks I have been putting off for ages now suddenly beckon to me with irresistable magic. And the mind suddenly wants to explore and learn new things… Ref.… Continue reading Deadline woes

Here’s a man who truly walks the talk, atleast with respect to his commitment to the cause of elementary education in India. The Azim Premji Foundation itself has a bunch of extrememly enthusiastic and committed people working for this cause. And every time I have spoken to a member of the team, I have come… Continue reading Azim Premji on education

Came across a very interesting website today, India Resource Centre. And while browsing the site, also found this study India: A Media Analysis As a strong advocate and enthusiast of alternative research methodologies (anything but the F-technique – Focus Groups, you dirty minds), this research fascinates me for the neat use of content analysis. Like… Continue reading ‘India : A Media Analysis’

From my window – the bars are the price I pay for staying in this urban concrete jungle. But such an evening more than makes up for it… Been working all day today (something I have got so unused to), so too tired to blog thoughts. So blogging this view from my window instead. How… Continue reading Window With A View

This RIL-owned petrol pump has been around for more than seven months, but the Reliance sign still takes the Indian driver by surprise. It certainly took me by surprise, a Reliance petrol pump on the Chennai – Bangalore highway. Telecom, energy, finance, poly-products, petrochem – is there any key / infrastructure indistry Reliance is not… Continue reading India Inc. a reality?

After all that effusive praise, to cut to the chase now. The landslides. The TOI quoted experienced civil engineers: nowadays, engineers do things in haste. But is it just that – faulty engineering? What else do you expect if we go on cutting down trees this way, said a friend recently while talking about this.… Continue reading It’s the time to ‘chipko’

Well, that was easier than I imagined…. Uploading pictures on my blog, that is. Something I have always imagined to be hi-tech and rocket-sciencish. This picture was from our drive on the Mumbai – Pune expressway one rainy day in July. It was a lovely day for such a drive (considering I was not the… Continue reading On the expressway