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Khurshid Chacha, I Won’t Ever Forget You

Yoginder Sikand introduces you to the renowned scholar Khurshid Kaimkhani. Chacha, as he was fondly called, lived an extraordinary life and strived hard to work for the betterment of the lower caste Hindus and Muslims in Pakistan. Having been forced to leave his village in Rajasthan, Khurshid Chacha travelled extensively and even penned a book about his home town. Read on to know more about him and the inspirational life he lived.

April 21, 2013 / No Comment / Read More

TBI Offbeat Travel: Living in a Small Hamlet in Remote Arunachal Pradesh

March 22, 2013 No Comment

Yoginder Sikand takes you on a daring trip to a remote part of the remote state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is not for the faint-hearted or the luxury-seeker. You will not be observing exotic wildlife or grandiose architecture. But if you are a daring adventurer who can rough it, want to experience a unique sense of oneness with nature and have a deep love for primitive cultures and tribal traditions, you will not find a more perfect place than this!

Weaving Values Into Teaching: The VITAL Approach

February 8, 2013 No Comment

It seems to be a widely-shared lament that with the rapid spread of modern education, time-honoured values are quickly disappearing from our personal and collective lives. This may not be a mere coincidence because modern education focuses mainly on the cognitive or intellectual development of children, paying relatively little attention to nurturing their affective or emotional intelligence. VITAL is an initiative that aims at making value education an integral part of a student’s life, with an interesting model for teachers to adopt.

VSET “Living Values Movement”: Value Education – The Non-Preachy Way

December 10, 2012 1 Comment

Perceiving a void in value education at mainstream schools with conventional teaching methodologies, VSET is spearheading what it calls the “Living Values Movement”, a programme that aims to help children inculcate and imbibe positive values in a fun and non-authoritarian manner. Modern ‘mainstream’ education is faced with a major crisis of meaning. Although it may [...]

TBI Specials: Asha Niketan – Hope In The Form Of Love

October 11, 2012 No Comment

Yoginder Sikand visits Asha Niketan in Bangalore – a home for the mentally challenged that is much more than an institution, being structured like a family unit where the members share love, joys and emotions with each other. He also meets Paul, the person who has held them together for more than twenty-five years, and has immense faith in his ‘family’.