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A gardener's diary. In my ancestral house, we had a small but beautiful garden in the backyard. It had coconut trees, plantain trees, vegetable plants like brinjal, tomato, and ladies' fingers and flower plants also. We,siblings, owned each one of them for its care. My grandpa told the importance of this backyard garden and how humans should conceive, imbibe their attributes, and grow like them. Coconut trees. Are always treated as the eldest son of the family. In Tamil, we call Thennam Pillai. Coconut trees have a long life, although takes time to grow but once grown the yield can easily cater generations to come. Banana tree. Completely consumed by humans .fruits,stem, leaf,flower etc. For more info, pl find links in the comments. The purpose of growing at the backyard, not only to absorbs its nutritional qualities but also to emphasize that every living being born with a purpose.  At the back end our mind we should remember and water this aspect regularly. My gr...

Bounce back. My old house needed painting and civil work. I was enquiring my neighbor and they suggested the name of a known person who was working as a caretaker in the adjacent compound. His wife was working as a house help in our house for quite a long time. Somehow we got his son's contact. After the inquiry, his son told me that my father is doing painting jobs now. Earlier he was addicted to alcohol. Nowadays he is doing civil and painting works. I am also supporting my family by doing tinkering work. The next day, the caretaker  met us and said  I can undertake this civil and painting work.  Also, he added, in between, I lost my track and never saved money for my children. Now I wanted to work, earn, and save money. He showed us the photos of his painting work. The way he presented himself, instead of pleading and gaining sympathy, made us engage him for this work. We had a second thought about his bad habits and once he revealed his inner urge to contribute...

Airport new food trends. Today I saw a news item about the menu in our domestic airports served during this COVID. My memory gone  back to my village days. Two south Indian items. Rasam and Curd rice. Both are must in any south Indian food. Both take less time to prepare but provides instant energy. The preparation differs state to state, district to district, town to town, home to home. My mother used to tell me the rasam prepared by her mother is different from what the in-laws family follows. A lot of variants, mixers, combinations are available. It is served hot always and goes with papad, dry vegetable smoothly and can be consumed like soup. Today we use more ingredients, garlic, pepper, ginger, cumin seeds to increase our immunity. Then comes curd rice. In our childhood, we used to eat the rice soaked in water a day before and morning it will added with curd,  along pickle called vadumangai (small mango ).In my school life, I was throughout a  frontbenc...

Back Log Grooming Human always wants to excel in their own preferred, interested areas once exposed. Not all their aspirations are fulfilled but remain in their subconscious mind. Wish to share about three such areas thought of. During the age of 12, want to pursue music but could not afford to buy an instrument that I was practicing. During my 10h std, I wanted to join NCC and was rejected as I was very short , lean. During my college life, wanted to express things by writing or through public speaking. Due to commitments of Job, social responsibilities was not able to pursue the above  in full potential. The past three months, a blessing in disguise, utilized this golden opportunity to meet my earlier life goals and aspirations. The subconscious mind allowed me to groom myself, that is Music (Vocal Singing), physical fitness (yoga postures and breathing ) and story writing (LI Short stories ) Everyone had dreams but could not pursue Everyone attempted their best. Agre...

Adi Thallupadi - Deep Discounts -70% This Tamil month called Aadi, starting from 16th July to 17 th August very famous for two reasons for Tamilians. Aadi Perukku commonly known as the Aadi monsoon festival. The festival pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. For the blessing of mankind with peace, prosperity, and happiness, nature worship in the form of Amman (Mother Goddess )deities are organized to shower Nature’s bountiful grace on human beings. The second one Adi thallupadi. Deep discounts are offered by retailers of Tamilnadu, an annual end of season sale kind of. This was started one of the textile retail showrooms in midtown and the same spread like fire across  Jewellery, consumer durables, etc. Normally one can witness heavy rush during this whole month but due to this pandemic, the business was totally affected and the retail giants came up with innovative methods. Using online video, customers can choose the sarees,churidhars, and other dress items...

Traditional school plus Homeschool The Current online model of teaching  forced everyone to revisit the homeschooling. Also this is an ideal time  to debate ,discuss and arrive at a consensus for betterment of the young,vibrant student community . Screen time of the students became prominent nowadays more than teaching the course  content itself . Pl go through the news item appeared in newspaper daily . That means the effective way of teaching in a classroom kind of experience ,a long way to go during this pandemic. Now if the coaching time by teachers reduces, then parents will have to shell more time and energy . Almost take the role equal to the classroom teachers . This almost fall in line with the home schooling concept of education . Sharing two articles on the same . One shares the  experience and other one  pros and cons . After going through the both news items,my take Traditional school Issue . Justification to syllabus by teachers may not...

Varun.Sweet little kid. Let us invoke the learner in us. Let us learn from everywhere. A small story. In my apartment floor, there are 6 flats., that consists of families speaking different languages. Telugu Kannada Bengali Badaga (one of the languages of Nilagiri hills belt) Tamil -2 families. A cute 2+ age, a little boy named  Varun of one of the Telugu speaking family visits all of us daily. He identifies the small things and repeats what we say. Suppose we ask him, show us the Buddha statue in Tamil and he understands and take us there. He may be playing and running inside  around for 15 minutes  or so, interacts with us in Tamil sometimes .we are also recollecting our Hyderabad days and try our little Telugu also. Similarly, he moves to all the other flats almost equally and in particular,  he spends most of the time with little elder children  of a Kannada speaking family . Varun's father told us that he sometimes uses some typical words pi...