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God Is An Algorithm

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"It all starts with believing in our destiny that whatever has been done is good for us and whatever has not been done is still better ." Whenever I look upon my current life compared to my past it always seems better. I won't say everyone to start comparing their past with present because you may have gain some and may have lost the other but rather state that, gratitude considerably leads to happiness and contentment. My friend jokes about my behaviour of  connecting the dots in everything. Yeah, I won't deny my habit to see patterns in things, people, and life too. But ain't it true, that practicing gratitude removes down a thousand kilo burden upon our lives?  Yesterday, I was looking at a cat in my garden and wondering that this cat could have been my boyfriend at some point of life in the my birth cycle. Now don't ask me why only boyfriend?.. I have an inbuilt romanticism...girls generally have it!  At the same time, I was thankful to be born as a human

E-learning: Can it ever replace classrooms?

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                                   I t is said that we humans have innate ability to learn. An efficient learning is said when learning inculcates all three factors namely accuracy, speed and retention. Accuracy defines how accurately do learners remember speed defines how soon do learners remembers and retention defines how long do learners remember. Effective learning should also involve all the domains of learning that is cognitive, psychomotor and affective. Cognitive includes thinking, reading ,reasoning ; psychomotor aspect includes performing a procedure and affective domain complexes of emotions. Talking about E-learning whose demand and popularity, is on rise! Oxford Dictionary defines E- learning as " learning conducted via electronic media, typically on the internet." There are several advantages of E-learning. Firstly, it is 'self-paced learning, the student can learn at fast pace or repeat videos, animation upon his own understanding with good internet conne

First crush

I  still remember the glimpses with my first crush. We were in same class and section and 'auto-rickshaw' mates too. Going back to class 8th, we weren't friends or even close to it. We were 'enemies' in literal sense. When we were near each other, most of the time he was teasing me and I used to comeback with insulting replies. And while I was insulting him in fit of anger and flames he always used to mumb afterwards but never stopped teasing in the first place. And I always used to say one dialogue to him: Tang mat adaya kar! (Mind your business) I still remember when I was new in school in class 5th he challenged me to do a dance step in morning assembly, I don't know why I remembered this minute detail but I tried to do it at that moment. His teasing was a never ending saga be it in auto or in school. And in the class, when he used to say a single word to tease I would burst upon him in anger and the whole class would have be looking at us as a silent s