The Nange Paon Satyagraha is a social movement which culminated from a social commitment. Mr. Rajesh Singh Sisodia (a child right activist) on12th March 1999, pledged to remain barefoot in order to reflect the situation of barefoot children on one hand and to sensitize government, political parties, N.G.Os and other stakeholders towards deplorable plight of [...]
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Nange Paon Satyagraha
Published by August 17th, 2008 in Activism, Children and Human Rights. 0 CommentsUtbtkids at Saffrontree reviews the book, Flotsam, by David Weisner:
Flotsam is a story in which a boy finds an underwater camera in a beach, washed ashore by the waves. The boy is not able to find the owners of the camera and decides to develop the pictures from the film in the camera. When he [...]
Magesh finds it disturbing that the American Academy of Paediatrics has recommended cholesterol drugs for dealing with obesity in children:
Childhood obesity is rising at alarming levels in India and strong efforts needs be done to address this issue without causing long term health hazards to the children. Schools should consider having something like the health [...]
Jabberwock reacts to the controversy in Kerala over a textbook accused of “injecting atheist values” into the unsullied minds of school children.
The idea might instinctively make many people uncomfortable, but think about this: though most of us associate the term “child abuse” with sexual abuse or violence, it basically applies to any situation where [...]
Interesting posts on education
Published by June 10th, 2008 in Blogging, Business, Children, Education, Policy, Poverty and Regulation. 1 CommentIn a curious response to my post, Ravikiran Rao points to an earlier post that draws an analogy between blogs and educational institutions. In particular, it should be easy for people to start educational institutions — just as it is easy for people to start blogs. You have heard about the death of set-up costs, [...]
The bee story
Published by June 9th, 2008 in Children, Education, Indiaspora and Personal. 0 CommentsSmitha tells us about her tryst with the Spelling Bee, and what she sees in the contest:
I won our county spelling bee in the 6th grade (”pagoda”, ironically, considering that I went on to spend two years of my life in Japan), losing narrowly in the district bee on “pacificism,” more commonly known as “pacifism”–the [...]
‘Murder, sex, lust, adultery..’
Published by June 1st, 2008 in Children, Media, Society and Women. 0 CommentsSaurav reflecting on the media’s performance after Aarushi’s death says all it seems to care about is murder with this ‘irresistible mix of sex , lust, adultery’:
But what about the WHATs
What if the father did not kill the girl or the servant?
What if he never had an affair with another women?
What if he is really [...]
Aarushi and Scarlett
Published by May 26th, 2008 in Children, Justice, Media and Society. 0 Commentssur notes gets the whole story: Aarushi’s murder places ‘our wholesome, comfortable middle class values…under threat’.
its a peverse game thats playing out in front of us. the press and the police. investigations? no time for that. give us your theory, your suspects now now now. and lets put into place basic outrage in the [...]
Neha Vishwanathan responds to the story of 14 year old Aarushi’s murder at the hands of her father, and the media reports that followed.
‘If the death of a child didn’t make me so sad, these messages may have baffled me even more. For some reason or the other, there’s this grand assumption that childhood in [...]
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