tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29460332.post3823015741150107670..comments2023-06-25T15:00:05.413+05:30Comments on Things that make me go hmm...: Total Eclipse of ReasonShefali Tripathi Mehtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07204020464647696703noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29460332.post-45437941558611997932009-12-25T13:44:56.077+05:302009-12-25T13:44:56.077+05:30admirable thoughts.
probably something related---...admirable thoughts.<br /><br />probably something related--- an old thought refreshed:<br />http://shreevarma.homestead.com/columns1c.htmlTHINKOPOTAMUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296033681698372256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29460332.post-36928375033833336452009-07-27T09:51:41.551+05:302009-07-27T09:51:41.551+05:30usually i don't go for morning walks but on 22...usually i don't go for morning walks but on 22nd i specially went out to watch the eclipse but of course i couldn't due to clouds but surely all the regular walkers were missing and then we call those people illiterate who took their children for healing in holy mud.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16621007972545525279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29460332.post-23043993081955897602009-07-23T11:56:50.295+05:302009-07-23T11:56:50.295+05:30Wow Shefali, Wow Slightly Bald
It is sad that many...Wow Shefali, Wow Slightly Bald<br />It is sad that many schools missed this great teaching learning opportunity. They could have showed children the eclipse and discussed the science (may be lectures by physicists) + geography + history of eclipses (when was the last, when would be the next, why after so long) + rituals (how, why) + how different cultures view this great celestial event and plausible reasons...Vandana Hunmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15427185279224123970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29460332.post-34917606225259612272009-07-22T11:36:49.479+05:302009-07-22T11:36:49.479+05:30Ah, I was wondering why the Yoga club did not turn...Ah, I was wondering why the Yoga club did not turn up for practice today! The penny just dropped.<br /><br />For all our pretensions to being "educated" and "enlightened", we continue to wallow in centuries old "Aisa kehtey hai" tradition.<br /><br />"Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the<br /> dreary desert sand of dead habit;<br />Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought<br /> and action--<br />Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."Slightly Baldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07976965457210907089noreply@blogger.com