Sadgati, Padma Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao, 83 (10 July 1942 – 13 July 2025). Actor – villain, supporting actor, character actor. A career spanning 50 years, with 750+ films in Telugu mostly.
Sadgati, Padma Bhushan B Saroja Devi, 87 (7 January 1938 – 14 July 2025). Actress in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi films. Over seven decades, with 200+ films. 100 of them before she reached 30. Main lead actress in 161 films. She also received the Life Time Achievement Award of Government of India from the President of India. Also received Life Time Achievements from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan instituted “Padma Bhushan B. Saroja Devi National Award”, a lifetime achievement award to honour artists in the field of performing arts, annually.
Youth skills. A wide range of abilities, including foundational – literacy, numeracy, basic cognitive; transferable/life – communication, problem-solving, teamwork, emotional intelligence, adaptability-resilience, leadership; digital; specific technical or vocational skills, entrepreneurship related; green – sustainability, growth, inclusion, and future ready. Can we equip them, can we take them to realize what they need, and facilitate them to acquire them? Can we give ‘meta-fishing’ skills, along with fish, fishing?
Welcome back. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to live and work aboard the Space Station, 18-day space mission. Shubhanshu returns via landing in the Pacific Ocean. Shubhanshu is the second Indian in space. After Rakesh Sharma.
Do we need to sit in benches or chairs in rows in a classroom? MXN matrix with facing teacher. Can it be circular, semi-circular or U-shaped, with no second row, with each one seeing all, all the time. Can India go the way of circle class rooms? Is it already going? Can it serve the agenda of collaboration, working together, learning together, teamwork, etc.? At least there would be no backbenchers. It increases teacher’s engagement with the most. More eye contact, more involvement, more interactions. Can we at least start with pre-primary, primary, and secondary classes. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, who else? Can all participants see the Board, TV, Screen et al? Do we need alternative class paraphernalia for this to happen? Will the size of the class become a limitation? Do teachers need training in teaching these classes? Participatory learning classes. Participant first classes. Do we need changes in the way we assess, we grade, in these classes? Testing attendance, participation, diligence, work, tasks and assignments, application of learning-knowledge-tools-skills. In any case, Ring is the way. Can all participants, including the facilitators, be in the ring(s)? Constantly changing, evolving, developing rings.
Can we have the gurukulam system of learning, mentoring finetuned with the emerging new education-learning technologies? Integrated with rings. In village local schools, tuition centres; ashram schools; gurukula vidyalayas; Kasturba schools; navodaya schools; coaching centres; KG to PG centres and so on. Can we take this to graduate, post-graduate centres? Into Institutes of excellence, academies, deemed to be Universities. Into Universities. And beyond. Can we take this into education courses? Can we nurture, facilitate them? Can we have more of them?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. For today and tomorrow, NextGen. In N? jnaanaarthiyoga for 7L.