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Sports injury, facial reconstructive surgery, near-total loss of vision in one eye... seven months later, the 16yo ran his second 10k today. Teenagers will teenage! 🌷🌱 #resilience

readingkafka's tweet image. Sports injury, facial reconstructive surgery, near-total loss of vision in one eye... seven months later, the 16yo ran his second 10k today. Teenagers will teenage! 🌷🌱 #resilience

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Poetry Comics Month, Day 29 Happy holiday reading!

grantdraws's tweet image. Poetry Comics Month, Day 29

Happy holiday reading!

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ಅರಿವು ಅರಿವು ಎನುತಿಪ್ಪಿರಿ, ಅರಿವು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವೆ? ಹಿಂದಣ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯ ನೋಡಿ ಕಂಡಲ್ಲದೆ ನಿಂದ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯನರಿಯಬಾರದು. ಮುಂದಣ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯುಳಿದಲ್ಲದೆ, ಒಂದು ಪಾದ ನೆಲೆಗೊಳ್ಳದು. ನೆಲನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂದು ಮುಗಿಲೊಳಗೆ ಮಿಂಚಿದಲ್ಲದೆ ತಾನಾಗಬಾರದು. ಗುಹೇಶ್ವರನೆಂಬುದು ಬರಿದೆ ಬಹುದೆ ಹೇಳಿರೆ? ಅರಿವು ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಭೂತಕಾಲದ ಅನುಭವ, ವರ್ತಮಾನದ…


Stunning poem by a child published in BGVS’s Teacher magazine this month. 🌿

readingkafka's tweet image. Stunning poem by a child published in BGVS’s Teacher magazine this month. 🌿

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass. #publiclibrariesforall

readingkafka's tweet image. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass. 

#publiclibrariesforall

“If you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.” – Cicero. Image: Woman reader at the rural public library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. “If you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.” – Cicero. 

Image: Woman reader at the rural public library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” - E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web. Images: Kids playing outside the village library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” - E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web. 

Images: Kids playing outside the village library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” - E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web. 

Images: Kids playing outside the village library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” - E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web. 

Images: Kids playing outside the village library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

Delighted to attend the Annual Day celebrations at National Public School, Yeshwanthpur today as Chief Guest. I reminded the students of the words of John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. Delighted to attend the Annual Day celebrations at National Public School, Yeshwanthpur today as Chief Guest. I reminded the students of the words of John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” 🌷🌿📚🕊️

“Every child is an artist.” - Picasso. Postcards from a rural public library in Sindhanur Taluk, Raichur. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. “Every child is an artist.” - Picasso. 

Postcards from a rural public library in Sindhanur Taluk, Raichur. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. “Every child is an artist.” - Picasso. 

Postcards from a rural public library in Sindhanur Taluk, Raichur. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. “Every child is an artist.” - Picasso. 

Postcards from a rural public library in Sindhanur Taluk, Raichur. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. “Every child is an artist.” - Picasso. 

Postcards from a rural public library in Sindhanur Taluk, Raichur. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

A year-long Constitution literacy program Arivu Yatre was launched yesterday across Karnataka’s rural public libraries. As community learning spaces, libraries can deepen people’s understanding of their rights, entitlements, and responsibilities. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. A year-long Constitution literacy program Arivu Yatre was launched yesterday across Karnataka’s rural public libraries. As community learning spaces, libraries can deepen people’s understanding of their rights, entitlements, and responsibilities. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. A year-long Constitution literacy program Arivu Yatre was launched yesterday across Karnataka’s rural public libraries. As community learning spaces, libraries can deepen people’s understanding of their rights, entitlements, and responsibilities. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. A year-long Constitution literacy program Arivu Yatre was launched yesterday across Karnataka’s rural public libraries. As community learning spaces, libraries can deepen people’s understanding of their rights, entitlements, and responsibilities. 🌷🌿📚🕊️

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Delighted to be part of this process with the RDPR Dept of GoK in the Arivu Yatre campaign across 6,000 libraries in K'Taka launched today by @PriyankKharge @readingkafka Looking forward to this collaboration between govt & CSOs on constitutional literacy & much much more.

rajendran_naray's tweet image. Delighted to be part of this process with the RDPR Dept of GoK in the Arivu Yatre campaign across 6,000 libraries in K'Taka launched today by @PriyankKharge  @readingkafka Looking forward to this collaboration between govt & CSOs on constitutional literacy & much much more.

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Dear students: Service doesn't just look good on your resume. It builds your character. 62 studies, 11k students: service learning enhances leadership skills, civic engagement, self-confidence, motivation, and grades. Community service should be part of every child's education.

AdamMGrant's tweet image. Dear students: Service doesn't just look good on your resume. It builds your character.

62 studies, 11k students: service learning enhances leadership skills, civic engagement, self-confidence, motivation, and grades.

Community service should be part of every child's education.

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Wooden figure of a standing Buddha, c. 500-800 CE, Mekong Delta region (Cambodia/ Vietnam), Musée Guimet. On display in the Beyond India section of the British Museum’s Ancient India exhibition.

vicitracitta's tweet image. Wooden figure of a standing Buddha, c. 500-800 CE, Mekong Delta region (Cambodia/ Vietnam), Musée Guimet. On display in the Beyond India section of the British Museum’s Ancient India exhibition.
vicitracitta's tweet image. Wooden figure of a standing Buddha, c. 500-800 CE, Mekong Delta region (Cambodia/ Vietnam), Musée Guimet. On display in the Beyond India section of the British Museum’s Ancient India exhibition.

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A mother-in-law’s letter asking her son-in-law to send her daughter home for childbirth with the assurance that she will pay for donkey transport, early 3rd century CE, Egypt, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford. On display in the ongoing Treasured exhibition.

vicitracitta's tweet image. A mother-in-law’s letter asking her son-in-law to send her daughter home for childbirth with the assurance that she will pay for donkey transport, early 3rd century CE, Egypt, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford. On display in the ongoing Treasured exhibition.

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Young man builds a stadium model entirely from old cardboard.

BiancoDavinci's tweet image. Young man builds a stadium model entirely from old cardboard.

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