Thoughts and emotion channel into stories, poetry or essays. For a lull in your day, do stop by to read a piece or mull over some quotes.
Lock is opened by hand – good Mind is opened by intellect Song is opened by melody – joyful Home is opened by a woman(wife). Plantain leaf2 is wiped clean by hand – mind’s Home is wiped clean by truth Hunting is done by arrow – love’s Fortress is won by words. Breath is fastened by mind – the Body is protected by this deed, Rice is consumed by mouth – heart’s Courage is consumed from mother.Continue reading “Bharathiyar Poem – Ammakannu Song”
The Story Handwriting Book is designed to encourage children to write in short sentences. There are ten pages of guided handwriting practice.
One side of the book contains illustrations from the folktale, The Fox and the Crow, while the other side contains five rows of corresponding text. The first row shows the model sentence with solid lines. The next two rows are made up of dotted lines that students can trace over for easy writing. The last two rows are empty where children can write on their own.
While volunteering at a local chapter of the HOC (Housing Opportunities Commission), I created these tutorials for adult students. Before creating the learning/teaching material, I asked the Program Coordinator for guidance. She simply said that I should create the sessions with my mother in mind.
That’s just what I did. These sessions are designed for those who have no knowledge about working on a PC and have trouble using the mouse/keyboard. There are simple exercises and even a pop quiz to keep these sessions lively.
I am posting these files in hopes that it would help someone trying to understand the basics of the PC. These sessions are designed primarily for teaching. Yet, it could also be used to self-learning.
Tutorials are based on Windows 2007, sessions created in early 2011. Some minor adjustments might be needed for the current version.
There are two .zip files to download. Here are the details.
Continue reading “Computer Basics Tutorial – Free Download”
(Original poem by Bharaithyar)
How many crores1 of joy You fashioned!
Our Lord! O, Lord! O, Lord!
Spirit with matter – You melded
To forge the Five Elements,
Creating Heaven and Earth,
All those worlds, a treasure of colors –
A profusion of resplendent beauty.
Blissfulness is a state You created,
Where the awakened soul is fully realized,
Piety is a state You created –
Our Supreme! O, Supreme! O, Supreme!
1 – One crore is equal to ten million units.
Continue reading “Bharathiyar Poem Translation – Prayer to God”(Original poem by Bharaithyar)
1. The heart cannot endure
Dwelling upon fickle minded humans,
Who live in deathly trepidation –
There is nothing in this world that doesn’t frighten them;
‘Wily ghosts’, they claim,
‘Dwells on this tree, lives in that pond,
‘Sleeps on the roof’s crest,’ – distress themselves,
In rumination, frighten themselves. (The heart…)
Continue reading “Bharathiyar Poem Translation- The Heart cannot Endure”
Michelangelo, creation — sun, moon and stars, source: WikimediaScience and religion are on a collision course again in this pandemic, with news about God’s faithful congregating for worship and defying lockdown orders. While not all the religious are blind in their faith, a vociferous minority seem to believe that God will protect them from the virus because he is bigger than the virus. There can be no doubt that God is bigger than the Covid-19, because He created the novel Coronavirus just like He created us. Hence, it is logical to assume that the Creator is bigger than the creation.
It is all over the news how Bill Gates predicted the current pandemic some years ago. The man is not an epidemiologist or a doctor, but one of his many charities focuses on pandemics. Therefore, he has become a Nostradamus for predicting this pandemic and the ones in the future.
I wonder if he foresaw how the Trump presidency would turn the greatest democracy on earth into a banana republic, because the federal government’s efficiency does play a critical role in controlling the epidemic.
Continue reading “Bill Gates — The Nostradamus of Pandemics”
Anathema – much despised, accursed
Today, I read a news headline about how the world has been brought to a standstill by COVID-19. This type of news headline is not uncommon in times of great calamities, where planet Earth and human beings are used interchangeably, as if these words are synonymous, as if we are the world.
I find myself using these terms interchangeably and bite my tongue as I realize my ignorance stemming from the arrogance of being human, because as grand is the human ego, we are not the world. We are just one species on this magnificently intricate planet and as such we belong to the Earth. The Earth does not belong to us.
Therefore, the world has not come to a standstill because of the novel strain of the Coronavirus, humanity has come to a standstill which is actually a good thing for Mother Earth and our sibling creatures on this planet. Continue reading “Ramblings on a Word – Anathema”
I like what I like and I don’t have to like anything else,
Dictate the designers of social media.
If I like only what I like and if I don’t have to like anything else,
Then I don’t have to know anything else that I don’t like.
If I don’t have to know anything I don’t like,
Then what does truth or reality matter?
I grew up in small communities, where everything was within walking distance, where most faces were familiar even if they were unacquainted. Moving from one such small town to the neighboring Chennai city was a new, unexpected experience.
To go from an idyllic life to the noise, the traffic, the crowd and the sheer size of the city took a little getting used to. One curious scene that held my attention were the public buses during the morning rush hour.
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