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Boosting confidence
Choosing our careers is perhaps the toughest decision we have to make during our lives. The problem is we have to make this critical choice at a time when we are hardly equipped to do so. According to statistics, less than 20 per cent of us know what we would like to do with our careers by the age of 16. The rest of us land up making choices that are not necessarily right for us, leading to so many …
Girl Power
All children are vulnerable. But street children or urchins are much more gullible to the struggles that life throws at them. And it’s a double whammy if these children are girls. Twenty-two such girls live in Divya Prabha (DP), a home for street children located in Vartak Nagar, Thane. The girls are students of a TMC School at Shastri Nagar. What’s inspiring is that in spite of the lack of fortune, many of these girls do well in their academics …
Against all odds
So often we hear about people who surpass our expectations and beat what appear to us as the most difficult of challenges. They serve to remind us that the human mind is capable of doing anything at all. Take the examples of Mrugank Vaidya and Vivek Venkatesh, Std X students from Thane, who have managed to surprise many with their performance in the board exams. Mrugank cannot see. He lost his eyesight when he was barely two months old, while …
Have a Summer Blast
As the mercury rises in the summer, excitement of students begins to surge too. After toiling monotonously for a whole year attending classes, going for tuitions, struggling with homework and finally cramming for exams, students look forward to this time of year, never mind the sweltering heat. Granted, summer vacations are a great time to catch up with all those exciting activities that you have been dying to indulge in but were simply impossible to take up during the academic …
Theory versus Practice
There is an interesting anecdote about James Watt. One day, when he was still young, he happened to observe a kettle boiling on the hearth and started to fiddle around by holding a spoon over its spout, opening the kettle and shutting it, gauging the pressure and so on. When his aunt saw him “fooling around”, she scolded him for “idleness” and told him to go out and do something more productive. His "idleness" soon led to the development of …
Each One Reach One
Losing a loved one is perhaps the most challenging of all tests that life offers. At such times it is comforting to know that even though our physical existence is a time-bound phenomenon, the mysterious and unseen energy called life is beyond the grip of time. In that sense, each one of us is immortal. One such immortal soul is Archit Chitre, a compassionate and visionary young boy, whose physical existence came to an end on 18 April 2000 when, …
A Pat on the Back
Fame is a fickle friend, it is said. But we think it is also partial. Each year around this time, various NGOs and other organisations felicitate SSC and HSC toppers from the city. The students who are recognised for their academic brilliance often hail from mainstream schools, both private and public, while we often conveniently forget the students that belong to the underprivileged or poorer sections of the society. These students may not score in the high 90s, but if …
Get that extra edge!
As the new academic year begins, most students get busy with their school, homework and tuition classes. While academic pursuits are important, the role of extracurricular activities in the life of students cannot be over-emphasised. Students who participate in non-academic pursuits develop an all-round personality, which holds them in good stead in their later life, both in their careers and their personal lives. Experts concur that it is important that students expose themselves to as many different career options …
Not just TV by the Bay
During school days, the pressure of the academic year leaves little scope for children to pursue anything substantial outside their curriculum. But it is a known fact that when too much emphasis is placed on a narrow set of academic tasks, children fail to develop life skills. In such a situation, the only time left for children to engage in non-academic activities is the summer vacation. Yet, most parents complain that their little ones do little other than watch TV. …
Why not get an MBA?
NAINA Lal Kidwai, vice-chairman and managing director of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India Pvt Ltd and Deputy CEO of HSBC Bank in India, was named one of the 50 most powerful women in the world by ‘Fortune’ magazine in 2003. The only other Indian woman who figures in this elite list is Lalita Gupte, Joint Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, ICICI Ltd. Both these women represent an emerging breed of top women managers in India. And one of …