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Weaving Values Into Teaching: The VITAL Approach

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.

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TBI Travel: Kerala – The Waterways Less Traveled

January 4, 2013 1 Comment

The backwaters in Kerala are much more than a tourist attraction. They are also the lifeline of people in the region – their only means of connection with the outside world, and with each other! While admiring their beauty, Gangadharan is privy to the important role they play in people’s lives, while getting a chance [...]

Thoufeek Zakariya – The Indian Muslim Who Is An Expert In Hebrew-Arabic Calligraphy

January 2, 2013 No Comment

Down in the heart of “God’s Own Country,” as the Indian state of Kerala is affectionately known, an Indian Muslim calligrapher is using his skills in the art of the ink flourishes to bridge Jewish and Muslim communities. Thoufeek Zakriya is an Indian Muslim from the city of Cochin who does calligraphy in a number [...]

Protected: TBI Travel: 51 Off Beat Destinations in India – Part 4 (South)

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TBI Travel: Discovering the magic of Nila

April 5, 2012 No Comment

The Better India has chosen April as the Travel Month. As the summer holidays approach, parents and children all over India start making plans to visit some place they have never been to before. In our posts, you will learn of places very few know of and some places that many know of, but all [...]

Interview: Mr. D. Dhanuraj, Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

May 15, 2011 No Comment

Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) is a Kochi-based think tank which undertakes economic, social and political research. Their main areas of focus are Governance, Education, Health, Law, Livelihood, and Urban Reforms. CPPR has carried out research projects and published policy papers for government bodies, private institutions, and academic institutions. Their work has had a [...]

Palliative Care Initiatives in Kerala

May 6, 2011 1 Comment

The power of healing does not lie in just prescribing drugs and medical treatment. What it essentially requires is caring for the patients. Palliative care is a specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients. It includes care of the patient and family, pain and symptom management, disease-modifying treatments, [...]

Grassroots Innovation: Multi-Utility Fuel Efficient Stove

February 28, 2011 2 Comments

The National Innovation Foundation (NIF), India, was established on Feb 28th 2000 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The main goal of NIF is to provide institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations and help their transition to self supporting activities. NIF has been supporting and incubating a [...]

Braille Without Borders: IISE

March 15, 2010 3 Comments

In the midst of the backwaters of Kerala, when you visit IISE (International Institute Of Social Entrepreneurship) you are sure that it is a perfect setting anyone could have imagined for an institute like that. Far from rat race of the cities, situated in Kochivelli, IISE campus is a perfect amalgamation of modernization, simplicity and [...]

Cooking stove that saves lives

April 22, 2009 3 Comments

A cooking stove that not only cooks faster, saves fuel but also reduces harmful emissions by 80%. This is the promise of the stoves manufactured by Envirofit India Pvt. Ltd, part of the Shell Group. And they have already found 50,000 takers in the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Eliminating [...]