“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic countries had witnessed how politics had established as the common ground where the policies are made with enviable citizen involvement. Often people are proud about the changes their elected governments are bringing forward and even spend their value time watching on air how policy makers decide and arrive at those future directions. Having said that, we also often see a consciously unconscious bias which is driven based on the majority elected members affinity towards different political dogmas. In few countries, the dogmas doesn’t limit to polity but also religion and color too. The art of critical thinking in humans is a dying one with the advent of AI. Though we value the inputs and respect the wealth of knowledge that AI could bring to our fingertips, it is no substitute for human mind in the ...
The 5am club existed in 1990s and most of the students during those days who were trying to make it big in life coming from an aspiring lower and middle class, were all members of it. The day starts with mom’s shouting to the young ones to start their day with studies. In some houses, it was the dad’s who led the wake up call routine due to the obvious fear that the kids had in dads. Most kid grew up with strong religious upbringing which did allow to respect all religions and of course value and practice their own. The 5am club was supposed to be the secret sect of people who were going to be successful in life come 2000s and beyond. This was kind of unsaid understanding and motivation these little ones derived from that was life changing. Laxman had woken up after incessant shouting by his mom. He was destined to become the top scorer in the upcoming class 10 board exams in his village government school. Laxman had earlier shown great promise in class 9 a...