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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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ಕುಕ್ಕುಟ ಸಂಜೀವಿನಿ ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಕೋಳಿ ಸಾಕಾಣಿಕೆ ಶೆಡ್‌ಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಖಾತ್ರಿ ಯೋಜನೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಯಾದಗಿರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದರ ಲಾಭ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸ್ವ ಸಹಾಯ ಸಂಘಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶೆಡ್ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು 28 ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. #RDPR #ruraldevelopment #MGNREGA #jobcards #karnataka

rdprgok's tweet image. ಕುಕ್ಕುಟ ಸಂಜೀವಿನಿ ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಕೋಳಿ ಸಾಕಾಣಿಕೆ ಶೆಡ್‌ಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಖಾತ್ರಿ ಯೋಜನೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಯಾದಗಿರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದರ ಲಾಭ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸ್ವ ಸಹಾಯ ಸಂಘಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶೆಡ್ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು 28 ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

#RDPR #ruraldevelopment #MGNREGA #jobcards #karnataka
rdprgok's tweet image. ಕುಕ್ಕುಟ ಸಂಜೀವಿನಿ ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಕೋಳಿ ಸಾಕಾಣಿಕೆ ಶೆಡ್‌ಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಖಾತ್ರಿ ಯೋಜನೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಯಾದಗಿರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದರ ಲಾಭ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸ್ವ ಸಹಾಯ ಸಂಘಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶೆಡ್ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು 28 ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

#RDPR #ruraldevelopment #MGNREGA #jobcards #karnataka
rdprgok's tweet image. ಕುಕ್ಕುಟ ಸಂಜೀವಿನಿ ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಕೋಳಿ ಸಾಕಾಣಿಕೆ ಶೆಡ್‌ಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಖಾತ್ರಿ ಯೋಜನೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಯಾದಗಿರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದರ ಲಾಭ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸ್ವ ಸಹಾಯ ಸಂಘಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶೆಡ್ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು 28 ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

#RDPR #ruraldevelopment #MGNREGA #jobcards #karnataka

Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta reposted

Thanks a lot @readingkafka for your words of appreciation. S Kaladhar, a govt school teacher from Shidleghatta, inspired his students to run a wall magazine #Shamanthi (2010-2017). The children's drawings and poems are from that collection; also a 4-vol forthcoming BGVS book.

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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Silver image of a Buddha from Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, c. 700-800 CE, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.

vicitracitta's tweet image. Silver image of a Buddha from Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, c. 700-800 CE, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.
vicitracitta's tweet image. Silver image of a Buddha from Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, c. 700-800 CE, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.

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Twin Buddhist sites of Piprahwa, and Ganwaria, 6th Cen BCE onwards, Dist. Siddharthnagar, UP, India. Both these sites, protected by ASI have remains of a stupa (Piprahwā), from where the casket containing a portion of ashes of Lord Buddha were discovered) and several viharas.…

builthistories's tweet image. Twin Buddhist sites of Piprahwa, and Ganwaria, 6th Cen BCE onwards, Dist. Siddharthnagar, UP, India. Both these sites, protected by ASI have remains of a stupa (Piprahwā), from where the casket containing a portion of ashes of Lord Buddha were discovered) and several viharas.…
builthistories's tweet image. Twin Buddhist sites of Piprahwa, and Ganwaria, 6th Cen BCE onwards, Dist. Siddharthnagar, UP, India. Both these sites, protected by ASI have remains of a stupa (Piprahwā), from where the casket containing a portion of ashes of Lord Buddha were discovered) and several viharas.…
builthistories's tweet image. Twin Buddhist sites of Piprahwa, and Ganwaria, 6th Cen BCE onwards, Dist. Siddharthnagar, UP, India. Both these sites, protected by ASI have remains of a stupa (Piprahwā), from where the casket containing a portion of ashes of Lord Buddha were discovered) and several viharas.…
builthistories's tweet image. Twin Buddhist sites of Piprahwa, and Ganwaria, 6th Cen BCE onwards, Dist. Siddharthnagar, UP, India. Both these sites, protected by ASI have remains of a stupa (Piprahwā), from where the casket containing a portion of ashes of Lord Buddha were discovered) and several viharas.…

On devices being disruptive and impacting learning in classrooms. To be clear, it’s not the devices themselves, but the browsing & social media. Note-taking on laptops without internet actually helps kids with learning difficulties. Regressive to deny them accommodations.


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"[Miles] Hewstone touched, bullied and made unwanted sexual advances to multiple female students and junior academics working under him during his 18 years at Oxford... ...Hewstone now works at UPES, a private university in northern India." bloomberg.com/news/features/…


This is tragic. Kids need to be talked to and counselled, not terrified.


Kids’ love for stories and pictures is real. #kidsinlibraries 🌷🌿📚🕊️

readingkafka's tweet image. Kids’ love for stories and pictures is real. 

#kidsinlibraries 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. Kids’ love for stories and pictures is real. 

#kidsinlibraries 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. Kids’ love for stories and pictures is real. 

#kidsinlibraries 🌷🌿📚🕊️
readingkafka's tweet image. Kids’ love for stories and pictures is real. 

#kidsinlibraries 🌷🌿📚🕊️

Why science excluded women. “The idea that science is masculine is astonishingly old.” uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/why_scien…


The definition of student engagement: attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion. Kids around a storybook in the rural public library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️#kidsinlibraries

readingkafka's tweet image. The definition of student engagement: attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion. 

Kids around a storybook in the rural public library. 🌷🌿📚🕊️#kidsinlibraries

The rural public library at Rajanakunte.

ಯಲಹಂಕ ತಾ. ರಾಜಾನುಕುಂಟೆ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತಿ ಅರಿವು ಕೇಂದ್ರವು ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಾತ್ಮಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ತಯಾರಿ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ 24×7 ತೆರೆದಿದ್ದು, ಅಧ್ಯಯನಕ್ಕೆ ಪೂರಕವಾದ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳು& ವಾತಾವರಣವನ್ನು ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿರುವುದು ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಗೆ ಸಹಕಾರಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. youtu.be/mi9qwhqCMh4 @PriyankKharge

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Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta reposted

Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

ahistoryinart's tweet image. Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

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ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, ಮಧುಗಿರಿ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನ ದಬ್ಬೇಘಟ್ಟ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತಿಯ ಡಿ.ಆರ್.‌ ಸುರೇಶ್‌ ಅವರು ಅರಿವು ಕೇಂದ್ರದ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆದು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಹುದ್ದೆಗೆ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೃತ್ಪೂರ್ವಕ ಅಭಿನಂದನೆಗಳು. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಯುವಜನತೆಗೆ ಕಲಿಕಾ ತಾಣವಾಗಿ ಹೊರಹೊಮ್ಮುತ್ತಿರುವ ಅರಿವು ಕೇಂದ್ರಗಳು. @PriyankKharge @CommrPR


Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta reposted

Why don’t women do *insert job that was legally barred to them until the 1970s, requires early and highly specific gate-kept training, and is dominated by a famously misogynistic masculine culture rife with sexual harassment and abuse*


“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” - Apollinaire. Family moments in Karnataka’s rural public libraries: parents, family members, siblings, with kids. Learning is a fun journey. Travel together. 🌷🌿📚🕊️ #ruralpubliclibraries

readingkafka's tweet image. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” - Apollinaire. 

Family moments in Karnataka’s rural public libraries: parents, family members, siblings, with kids. Learning is a fun journey. Travel together. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
#ruralpubliclibraries
readingkafka's tweet image. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” - Apollinaire. 

Family moments in Karnataka’s rural public libraries: parents, family members, siblings, with kids. Learning is a fun journey. Travel together. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
#ruralpubliclibraries
readingkafka's tweet image. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” - Apollinaire. 

Family moments in Karnataka’s rural public libraries: parents, family members, siblings, with kids. Learning is a fun journey. Travel together. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
#ruralpubliclibraries
readingkafka's tweet image. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” - Apollinaire. 

Family moments in Karnataka’s rural public libraries: parents, family members, siblings, with kids. Learning is a fun journey. Travel together. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
#ruralpubliclibraries

#Readingnow this sweet little book by Esther David. Love the illustrations too.

readingkafka's tweet image. #Readingnow this sweet little book by Esther David. Love the illustrations too.

Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta reposted

'A Farm in Burgundy.' William Rothenstein set off on a tour of France in the early summer of 1906 after receiving a letter from Rainer Maria Rilke, Rodin's assistant inviting him to visit and assess the bust he was making of George Bernard Shaw at his house in Meudon near Paris.

ahistoryinart's tweet image. 'A Farm in Burgundy.' William Rothenstein set off on a tour of France in the early summer of 1906 after receiving a letter from Rainer Maria Rilke, Rodin's assistant inviting him to visit and assess the bust he was making of George Bernard Shaw at his house in Meudon near Paris.

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